19 Feb 99

Second Series	Presented by Chris Maslanka	Produced by Harry Parker
Programme 5	The Panel David Bodycombe Angela Newing Johnny Ball
Broadcast on 19 February 1999	The Panel David Bodycombe Angela Newing Johnny Ball

Other Programmes in the Second Series:


First Series coming soon!
Puzzle Panel Questions

This was the one with the faintly nautical flavour.

Starter Puzzles

I was launching a ship. But instead of the ship having a name, it bore on its stern the words:

NAME FOR SHIP

There were no other letters to be found. What should I call the ship?

What two universities might you find on a ship?

Johnny Ball’s Puzzle

Strictly speaking this is not a puzzle, but a topological theorem.

Take two maps depicting the same area, and not necessarily to the same scale, and screw one of them into a ball without tearing or cutting it in any way and then place it on the other map which has been laid out flat. If you do this in such a way that the screwed up one is wholly contained within the boundaries of the flat one what are the chances that there will be at least one point on the screwed up map which is exactly above the point that corresponds to exactly the same place but on the flat map?

Angela Newing's Puzzle

A sort of crossword

CLUES	Take hold of Is in debt Employ	Vegetables Otherwise Rest
David Bodycombe's Puzzle A knock at your cabin door reveals a man with two objects on a tray. The first is an invitation to dine at the Captain's table tonight. There is no indication of what sort of do it is to be. Is it formal attire? Or casual? It doesn't say. The second object is a calculator with 731 on its display. What should you wear?
Panel Beater - John O'Byrne o' Dublin (a regular and prolific contributor of puzzles to the programme) What, he asks, is the difference between: Mountaineer climbs mankind's last incredibly interesting incline. My day closed is in immortality. Well?
Chris Maslanka's listeners' puzzle Black Jake made his captives walk the plank unless they answered correctly his piratical puzzle: 'I have doubloons and doubloons only in my doublet. Doubling their number and reversing the order of the two digits in the number you get gives the number I would have if you were to add two more doubloons to the number of doubloons I already have.' How many is that?

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Happy Puzzling!

Please address any suggestions, observations or puzzles of your own to:

maslanka@puzzlemaster.co.uk

Solutions to the above puzzles will appear here in due course