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Puzzle 1
What can go up a chimney down …
… but can't go down a chimney up?
Puzzle 2
At the equator the radius of the earth is 6,378 km, so its circumference is almost exactly 40,000 km.
Imagine we had a long rope which went around the equator, this would of course be 40,000 km long.
If we now placed 1-metre sticks vertically all the way around and lay the rope on top of these sticks (so the rope would be 1m higher all the way around) how much extra rope would we require?
Puzzle 3
Which name is missing from this sequence:
Richard · ? · Keith · Graham · Kevin · James · Matthew
Choose from:
Simon, Steve, Bob, Frank, Gavin
Puzzle 4
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.
