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The Puzzles
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Chris Maslanka's warm-up puzzle
A riddle:
- What sheds tears without an eye,
Renders all visible,
But does not see its own garment,
As it approaches death,
That which cuts off its head revives it?
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Dr Victor Bryant
- I want to weigh some items each of which weighs a whole number of
pounds. All I have is a balance, with 2 scale pans and 3 weights,
which have been chosen so that I can work out the weight of a 1-pound
item, a 2-pound item and so on, consecutively to as high a weight as I
can. What weights should I chose?
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Paul Lamford
Chris's puzzle last week about Sam, Ceri, Beryl and Ruth, prompts me to
ask:-
- What property do the following names have in common?
Gary, Don, Alan, Rita, Eric, Tina and Wanda.
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Panel Beater submitted by Stephen Buxton of Coventry
- Steven's Russian friend has sent him a script of the Russian sitcom
'Why is no one being serfed?' Unfortunately the translation leaves a
lot to be desired, so he needs some help in interpreting it.
A: Hello, tin end of needle Hades bench.
B: Yes, sight organ forest similar to edition
spoon partners.
A: Make tapestry succeeded solidify.
B: Have sheep chicken leg joint heath.
A: Be cognisant that onion.
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Dr Doreen Baxter
- I met a dwarf with ESP. Professor Megadwarf has been carrying out
research in ESP and has found that the natural incidence of ESP in the
dwarf population at large is 10%. However he also found that 40% of
baby dwarves will develop ESP if they are fed on starberries at a
critical stage in their development. The dwarf I met was fed
starberries as a baby. What are the chances that she developed ESP as
a result of eating starberries?
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Listeners' Puzzle by Chris Maslanka
- Don Cappuccino - the "Telephone Don" was presented with a
cake at a select gathering to celebrate him becoming the il capo dei
tutti capi - leader of the families. The cake had the digits from 0 to
9 laid out around the rim of the cake as on a telephone dial except
that the ten digits were equally spaced so that each digit took up a
tenth on the cake. The whole cake was eaten and each of those present
ate a piece of the cake in such a way that the sum of the digits on it
came to the same total. How many people were present and what fraction
of the cake did they each eat?
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