by Maslanka
illustrated by Linda Benton
Seventh Day’s Events
Tuesday September 26th, 2000
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Find something Australian in the anagram:
HAND CRAYON
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Find as many things Australian as you can in the map of Oz:
Click here to see the map
- A farmer sent his son into a field and told him to count
the number of sheep and ostriches in it. The son, who had just returned from
college, counted all the legs and added the result to the number of heads.
Nevertheless, his father, who knew that he had ostriches and sheep in the
field and nothing else, was able to deduce unambiguously from this grand
total exactly how many sheep and ostriches there were in the field. What is
the greatest number of animals there could have been, and how many sheep and
ostriches does this correspond to?
[Assume each ostrich and sheep had the correct complement of legs and that the boy’s sums were correct.]
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What is the next number in this sequence? Why?
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16 17, *.
- Find an occupation which changes to another occupation when
its first letter is turned upside down:
M*********
W*********
The first letters have already been filled in for you, and each asterisk represents a missing letter.
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:
The closing date is Sunday, October 22nd 2000.
To check rules click here
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