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Chris Maslanka's warm-up puzzles
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I draw something on a piece of paper and I look at it through a
burning glass, but it is not magnified. What might I have drawn?
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Find two letters which will go in front of LC or ES or DM and the three letters which go after all of those to make three of a kind.
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You may look for questions in an Alchemist's Laboratory, but
answers may also be found there too. Which two answers might they be?
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Rob Eastaway
- You have two pieces of fuse wire and when you set light to the end
of either of the two pieces they take exactly one hour to burn through.
Find a way of using those two pieces of wire to measure exactly
three-quarters of an hour.
The two bits of wire are different lengths and burn at different rates.
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Val Gilbert
- There are four people: Jack Wax, Anne Pitt, Jo Brown and John Carrot.
They get stoned. Following that there are eight people. How did they get stoned and who are the eight people?
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David Bodycombe
- I have a monster who can only say numbers. He’s not terribly erudite, as monsters tend not to be. It asks for certain types of food by grunting a number at me. For example if it wants a vegetable it will grunt number 16 at me, if it wants a bird it grunts number ten and if it wants an insect it grunts number
2. The same logic applies for his drinks. If he wants a hot beverage he grunts number 20.
One day I ask it what it wants to eat and it replies number 21.
Should I worry?
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Panel Beater from R.M Bass in
Cranam, Gloucestershire
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How do you place a fairy light or another small object so that it is at the geometrical centre of a perfectly ordinary, undistorted, inflated round balloon, while still remaining outside it?
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Listeners' Puzzle by Chris Maslanka
- Frankenstein often sends Igor down to the valley to Ye OldeVillage
Bakery, run by Friar Tuckbox. Both the Baron and the Friar know
that the monster cannot help scoffing some of the cakes en route.
The Friar normally writes on the box a little note:
'This box contains so many cakes' whatever 'so many' might be.
On this special occasion Igor eats one third of the cakes and
intelligently doctors the message on the box by adding a single
stroke of the pen. What single stroke of the pen would allow Egor to
disguise the fact that he had scoffed one third of them? And how
many cakes were there to start with?
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