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1. You are visiting a remote sheep station whose owner claims to have taught  a flock of sheep to do maths. He calls it Algebaa. Now, if AB X A = BAA, find BAA.

2. A kangaroo word is a word containing a smaller one of similar meaning ‘in its pouch’.

e.g. BLOssOM or ilLumInaTed

Identify the little roos lurking in the following pouches:

INDOLENT

UNSIGHTLY

INSTRUCTOR

FALSITIES

DECEASED

 

3. Find something Australian in the anagram:

AEROBIC HOTELS

4. How many a) 4-digit numbers b) 5-digit numbers, read the same when turned upside down?

[No initial zeroes. Assume that the digits that still read as digits when viewed upside down are: 0, 1, 6, 8 & 9.]

5. What creature leaps out from behind a tree and challenges you to hand-to-hand fighting?

The entries may be submitted by snail mail on a post card to Sydney Mind Olympics, Didcot Towers, 11 Wilcher Close, East Hagbourne, DIDCOT, OX11 9LU, United Kingdom, or by e-mail to:

SydneyMind@puzzlemaster.co.uk

The closing date is Sunday, October 22nd 2000.

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