by Maslanka
illustrated by Linda Benton
Ninth Day’s Events
Thursday September 28th, 2000
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The Egg of Oz is a pale blue real beaut of an opal a bit like the loose ones you see here, only a paler blue. It’s currently on display behind smash-and-grab-proof glass in the foyer of the Sydney Opera House. When someone went and donged the glass with a gibber all it did was make a pretty pattern. Have a dekko and see if you can spot the Egg of Oz still in there somewhere
- Find something Australian in each of the following anagrams:
AWAKENING PROTESTOR MOOD
TULIPS BADLY PLUCKED
- You have two fuses each of which burns irregularly. (So you can't assume, for example, that at half time half the length of fuse has burnt.) The first takes 22 minutes to burn all the way through, the second takes 8 minutes. Using just these two fuses and a box of matches, how can you arrange to time exactly 9 minutes?
The only way Hugh Jappy-Tyte can keep going between races is to snack on Thunder Chock (or Chunder Rock, as the locals call the stuff).
It comes in an industrial-sized rectangular bar made up of identical squares measuring 125 squares along one edge by 64 along the other. Any break Jappy-Tyte makes has to be along dividing lines only and, whatever the size of the piece, the break has to go all the way across. Only one piece may be broken at a time. What’s the:
i) minimum
ii) maximum
number of breaks he has to make before the whole bar is completely broken up into separate pieces?
- Find a sport which is also the name of a non-sporting occupation.
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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