PUZZLE CLUB

MIND OLYMPICS

This is Maslanka's third collection of puzzles, first published by the Guardian during the Olympics Week in August 1992. The 50 original puzzles with hints and explanations were designed to exercise the five different parts of the brain responsible for verbal, numerical, logical, spatial and perceptual skills. The competition was described as the most successful competition of its kind the Guardian had ever run and proved irresistible to puzzle fans.

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"What lifts Maslanka's books into a different category from any other books in their genre is the quality of imagination that is alive on every page. The book is attractive and well-produced. The graphics are explicit. The illustrations fit, and are fun." 
Evening Standard

Examples

1. Father O'Bubblegum's new design for a stained glass window consists of four small circles on the background of a large circle. The colours of glass to be used are as marked. St Rubberduculus, who is watching all this from across the nave, knows that the smaller circles have diameters half that of the larger circle and hence each of them has a quarter of the area of the large circle. He also knows that a total of 1,000 square centimetres of blue glass is needed.  How much red glass will be needed?

2. Ivor Gett has Ivor Gotten what contest he's taking part in next. He remembers only that it has half as many events in it as it has letters in his name.
   Can you help him?

The Puzzle Club
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