Puzzle 265
Some months have 30 days, some have 31, but how many have 28 days?
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Puzzle 266
Customer services at BrainBashers headquarters received the following letter recently.
Luckily our top puzzle solvers were able to determine the meaning and help Mrs Middins.
Can you work it out what her problem was?
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Which letters are missing?
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The letter was written on a typewriter which has a problem with the middle row of letters – they print spaces instead. The letter should have read:
Dear Sir,
I recently visited one of your outlets to buy one of your typewriters. However, as you can see I am having a small problem.
The middle row of the keyboard appears to be faulty.
I would be very grateful if you could despatch a replacement by return post. Failing this, could you please send an engineer to resolve this problem as a matter of urgency.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Middins.
Puzzle 267
Below, 10 countries have been broken into chunks of letters.
The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.
Can you determine what the 10 countries are?
ezu itz zil ela bra gi ia
fi pan mba bel and ber zi
nl bo cam ven dia and um
sw bwe mex erl ico ja li
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The countries begin with the letters: B, M, B, J, C, S, Z, V, F, L.
Answers
bel-gi-um = Belgium
mex-ico = Mexico
bra-zil = Brazil
ja-pan = Japan
cam-bo-dia = Cambodia
sw-itz-erl-and = Switzerland
zi-mba-bwe = Zimbabwe
ven-ezu-ela = Venezuela
fi-nl-and = Finland
li-ber-ia = Liberia
Puzzle 268
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed a fault, I did a listing of miles from England to particular countries and here is the result:
Austria 1,800 miles
New Zealand 2,400 miles
Japan 1,200 miles
Brazil 1,400 miles
How far away did it list Argentina as?
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Vowels (AEIOU) and consonants are each worth a different number of miles.
Answer
2,200 miles.
Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 300 miles and consonants are worth 200 miles.
Double-Checking
Argentina has 4 vowels (AEIA = 4 x 300), and 5 consonants (RGNTN = 5 x 200), for a total of 1,200 + 1,000 = 1,200 miles.
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