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A Banquet of Brainteasers
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Chris Maslanka
- The x puzzlists were x to eat as there was x.
Assuming that x stands for the same letter in
the same order, what is x?
If I were the only one to turn up to lunch
what might my name be?
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David Bodycombe
- The last time I went out to lunch was to
visit an old friend from university. Before the meal I walked into his
office and below the clock on the wall there were five
pictures.
The first was of a shopkeeper selling his
goods. The second was of a valley in either England or Wales. The third
was of a boy boiling water. The fourth was a picture of a pop group from
the 60’s or 70’s and the fifth was a picture of a chancellor of the
exchequer from days gone by.
From the pictures I was able to tell which
industry he was in.
What did he do for a living?
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Supplementary puzzle: John O’Byrne
- There is three mistake in this sentence. What
are they?
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John Hiram’s Panel Beater
- The following are disrespectful:
Rome Italy
Cairo Egypt
Tony Blair
Johnny Ball
The following are not
disrespectful:
Paris France
London England
Harold Wilson
David Singmaster
Why?
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Supplementary Puzzle
- What is as rare as a Friday in June?
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David Singmaster
- What is the longest month?
What is the shortest month?
Which was the longest year?
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Panel Beater- John Tilbury
- Assuming that a single generation is around twenty-five years consider
the following:
My grandson who has just been born has two parents born twenty-five
years ago.
He has four grandparents who were born fifty years ago. He has eight
great grandparents who were born seventy-five years ago and so on.
A little back-tracking shows that there would be two raised to the
eightieth power, or one million billion billion people.
However, there is a problem, the entire world population in 1994 was
only 5.7 billion.
Where is the catch?
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*****
Happy Puzzling!
This was the last programme in the Second Series so Chris Maslanka did not set a Listeners' Puzzle.
Please address any suggestions, observations or
puzzles of your own to:
maslanka@puzzlemaster.co.uk
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Solutions to the above puzzles
will appear here in due course
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