Puzzle 1
The BrainBashers golf world tour is well underway and Fred is planning the journey to each location.
Unfortunately, the BrainBashers atlas is playing up again and has worked out the mileage incorrectly, as shown below.
Birmingham 47,000
Oslo 18,000
Chicago 32,000
Manhattan 42,000
According to the system, how many miles is it to Sydney?
Puzzle 2
Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7-letter words. Each word begins with the central V and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?
| R | E | T | N | R | E | N |
| I | P | M | A | G | I | Y |
| I | L | A | A | A | C | C |
| L | N | A | V | A | C | N |
| A | R | A | A | A | C | A |
| H | N | U | R | I | O | U |
| S | I | L | T | E | D | S |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be clicked.
Puzzle 3
This BrainBashers safe has a rather unusual control panel.
In order to open the safe, you have to press every single square once only, in the correct sequence, ending on the square marked E.
Each square indicates which square to press next, for example, 2U means move up 2 squares and 3R means move right 3 squares.
Can you determine which square you must start with?
| 6D | 6D | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1D |
| 2D | 1D | 1U | 2L | 1R | 2D | 2L |
| 2U | 4R | 1U | 3R | 2D | 5L | 2L |
| 1R | 3U | 1U | 2D | E | 2D | 3L |
| 3U | 1L | 1U | 2L | 2D | 2L | 1L |
| 1R | 3R | 1U | 3U | 2U | 1D | 2U |
| 1U | 2R | 1U | 5U | 2L | 1R | 2U |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the safe buttons cannot be clicked.
Puzzle 4
You can imagine an arrow in flight, toward a target. For the arrow to reach the target, the arrow must first travel half of the overall distance from the starting point to the target. Next, the arrow must travel half of the remaining distance.
For example, if the starting distance was 10m, the arrow first travels 5m, then 2.5m.
If you extend this concept further, you can imagine the resulting distances getting smaller and smaller. Will the arrow ever reach the target?