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Puzzle 5
Here we have a rectangular room, measuring 30 feet by 12 feet, and 12 feet high.
There is a spider in the middle of one of the end walls, 1 foot from the ceiling (A).
There is a fly in the middle of the opposite wall, 1 foot from the floor (B).
What is the shortest distance that the spider must crawl in order to reach the fly?
The Spider and the Fly, The Canterbury Puzzles, Henry Ernest Dudeney.
Puzzle 6
Below you will find 15 well-known six-letter words, with only their endings remaining.
Can you find the words?
---cil
---hid
---nze
---ese
---lug
---som
---uxe
---uum
---arm
---amo
---rby
---ink
---sai
---too
---fen
Puzzle 7
Sports Dayall logic puzzles
During the recent BrainBashers school sports day, four students were competing in the 400 metres hurdles.
Official figures mysteriously went missing just after the event, however, various spectators could remember the following information.
Alex won and wore red.
The student wearing number 1 came third.
Billie beat the student in yellow, but wasn't wearing number 2.
Only one student finished in the same position as the number they wore, but they didn't wear red.
Emery beat the student wearing number 3, and Glen wore yellow.
The student in green wore number 2.
A spectator remembered that one student wore blue, but couldn't remember anything else about them.
Can you determine the positions the students finished in, along with the numbers and colours they wore?
Puzzle 8
Can you make this equation correct by moving exactly one matchstick?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the matchsticks cannot be moved. The matchstick layouts for each digit are:
