by Maslanka
illustrated by Linda Benton
First Day’s Events
Monday September 18th, 2000
1. The bushtucker
man has 5 corks to hang off the
brim of his hat. Two
corks are dark and three are light. If he fixes the corks on to his
hat at random one per string what are the chances that the two dark
corks end up next to each other?
2. Over a cool beer you take on the following bar challenge. You are blindfolded in front of a stack of dollars. You are told how many of them are heads up. How can you place all the dollars into two stacks each having the same number of heads up without removing the blindfold? You can’t feel if any given coin is head or tails up.
3. Discover something or someone Australian in each anagram:
HUG AN OPAL
COOL CIDER
SORRY CAKE
4. Gordon Bennet of the Bush Telegraph keeps his tinnies in a refrigerated safe. The combination number is 16 digits long and consists of two 8s separated by 8 digits, two 7s separated by 7 digits, two 6s separated by 6 digits and so on, all the way down to two 1s with one digit between them. Unfortunately he has locked the number in the safe. All he can remember is that it began:
247*************
Help him fill in the missing digits before he passes out.
5. Translate:
umopuns
swnssod
spunod wod
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