Brain Teasers and Puzzles

Puzzle 233

Can you fill the thermometers with mercury, such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in each row and column contain mercury?

Mercury always starts filling from the bottom of a thermometer, and not every thermometer has to contain mercury.

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Puzzle 234

What are the next two numbers in this sequence:

14 · 91 · 62 · 53 · 64 · 96 · ? · ?

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Puzzle 235

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
cl--h co--h di-r- -rea- in-e- -ok-r -a-or -ua-l re-e- -to-e s-am- ya--t -eb-a

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Puzzle 236

This year, Farmer Stone's harvest of apples was quite significant.

He decided to donate some apples to the local community, 1,672 people in all.

Every person aged 50 or more received 16 apples, and every person under 50 received 96 apples.

Only ³⁄₄ of the over 50s collected their apples, and only ¹⁄₈ of the under 50s collected theirs.

How many apples did the farmer give away?

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