Second Series

Presented by
 Chris Maslanka

Produced by
Harry Parker

Programme 1

The Panel
Professor David Singmaster
Professor Victor Bryant
Johnny Ball

Broadcast on
22 January 1999

Recorded at the Maths Fun Fair at Burnholme Community College, York on October 24^th 1998

Many of the puzzles were provided by the studio audience

First Series coming soon!

Puzzle Panel Questions

1. If I was to say to the panel: 'May I have a drink, alcoholic of course, what would I be eating with it? And do you know any more?'

2. What's special about the number 8?

3. A farmer's wife took 99 eggs to market in 4 baskets. Each basket had an odd number of eggs in it. How?

4. A farmer in the Dales has a herd of chickens and a flock of pigs. He can't tell which is which, but he CAN count heads, of which there are 64, and legs, of which there are 158. How many of each has he?

5. There are 6 eggs in a box. 6 people each take an egg. But there is still one left in the box. How?

6. Silly old Harry caught Annabel having tea one afternoon. How did he scale the heights?

7. Find 2 anagrams of TRIANGLE

8. What is unique about 4?

9. I went to a DIY store to buy the letters to spell out my house number. My number is ONE and the letters cost me £2. So impressed was my neighbour that he too bought letters to spell out his house number which is TWO. These letters, however, cost him £3. Our friend down the road, not wishing to be outdone, bought letters to spell out number ELEVEN, which cost him £5. How much will it cost the man at number TWELVE to buy letters for his front door?

10. Why is A4 paper so called?

11. A friend of mine walked 10 miles to the north, followed by 10 miles to the south. How far was he from where he started out?

12. Didcot town square is exactly square and is paved with identical cubical stones fitted closely together. Due to a miscalculation there were as many stones left over as went into the square. The council decided to make a memorial cube out of the cubelets left over - this cube would have a side one third the side of the square on which it rested. How many stones were used altogether?

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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