Puzzle 1
My trustworthy (?!) BrainBashers word processor is playing its silly tricks again.
This time, it has replaced all of the consonants with random ones.
I can at least be thankful that it has left the vowels (AEIOU) untouched.
Can you find all of the animals?
fahjec
qsaxe
eep
zoth
epessawx
feyuv
zowqud
pol
Puzzle 2
Below are five phrases that have been altered. Rearrange the words so that when they are read aloud they will sound very similar to the required phrase. For example "Ducks Sits Hound Fa Mill Ear" = "Does it sound familiar".
crows dose my off wind
cab chalk clicks fizz lie lye ox soft
a crowed fall jest lobe Rick oath yell
beef four heap luck Yule
dud rough wharf whorls
Puzzle Copyright © Carl Ginnow. Used with permission.
Puzzle 3
After a recent marathon, the following was noted.
Alex finished after Frankie.
Drew finished after Hayden.
Frankie finished after Billie.
Hayden finished before Alex.
Billie finished after Hayden.
Billie finished before Alex.
Frankie finished before Drew.
Alex finished before Drew.
Who finished where?
Puzzle 4
Cake Theftall logic puzzles
During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try to identify who stole the prize cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:
Alex: it wasn't Emery
it was Billie
Billie: it wasn't Charlie
it wasn't Emery
Charlie: it was Emery
it wasn't Alex
Dale: it was Charlie
it was Billie
Emery: it was Dale
it wasn't Alex
It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?