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A Flight of Fancy
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Chris Maslanka's warm-up puzzles
- Here's a cryptic crossword clue:
Get the gen on how aeroplanes can fly (2,9)
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- And now a riddle:
What sort of biscuits can fly?
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Don Manley
- Here's another crossword clue:
What a gremlin could be with regard to flying (6)
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- Don has a new radio with 6 preset buttons on it, each set to a
particular radio station. When he presses a button, up comes the
name of the station on a digital display. When he presses button 1
he gets a station called O4RADI, when he presses button 5 he gets a
jazz station called IO4RAD. Which button must he press to get Radio
4?
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Victor Bryant
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If you were to rearrange all the numbers
into alphabetical order, eight is first. Where in the list does
EIGHTY come?
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You have an old 2-volume Oxford Shorter
Dictionary, which has a bookworm in it. The bookworm has just
consumed the number eight and is heading in the direction of the
page with the entry NINE on it. What is the next whole number it
encounters?
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William Hartston
- Following on from the previous puzzle, I have a bookworm too, but
this one spells out words with its slime trail. But it can only move
in straight lines and it writes in block capitals - the word FIVE
takes 10 little trips, ELEVEN takes 19. Which number uses only
straight line segments to spell it out in block capitals and the
number of straight line segments needed is the number itself?
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Panel Beater submitted by John Yeadon
- You are given a stack of coins and I tell you how many of them are
heads upwards. Then I blindfold you and your job is to put the coins
into 2 stacks each having the same number of heads up. How do you do
it?
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Listeners' Puzzle by Chris Maslanka
- I happen to know that there is on the plane a master of disguises.
He started out on this journey as a man with a man's name, but a
little later circumstance compelled him to assume a woman's
identity. He was able, with a small alteration to the first letter
of his name, as written in his passport, to give himself a woman's
name. He then received orders to revert to being a man again.
Unfortunately the ink was indelible. Undaunted he added a letter to
the name and it became a man's name again. What might his/hers/his
name have been?
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