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Puzzle 1 

Greenjack Round #2 – Logic Puzzles

You find yourself playing a game with your friend.

It is played with a deck of only 16 cards, divided into 4 suits:

   Red, Blue, Orange, and Green.

There are four cards in each suit:

   Ace, King, Queen, and Jack.

All Aces outrank all Kings, which outrank all Queens, which outrank all Jacks, except for the Green Jack, which outranks every other card.

If two cards have the same face value, then Red outranks Blue, which outranks Orange, which outranks Green, again except for the Green Jack, which outranks everything.

Here's how the game is played: you are dealt one card face up, and your friend is dealt one card face down. Your friend then makes some true statements, and you have to work out who has the higher card, you or your friend. It's that simple!

Round 2:
You are dealt the Blue King and your friend makes three statements:

My card would beat a Green King.
Knowing this, if my card is more likely to be a Jack than a Queen, then my card is actually a King. Otherwise, it isn't.
Given all of the information you now know, if my card is more likely to beat yours than not, then my card is Red card. Otherwise, it isn't.
Who has the higher card, you or your friend?

Puzzle Copyright © E.J. Shamblen

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Puzzle 2 

Shriekville's Ghosts – Logic Puzzles

Five people were all taking a vacation in Shriekville, unfortunately, all of their vacations were cut short by a terrifying encounter with a resident ghost.

Can you determine the type of accommodation, its name, and the name of the resident ghost?

Archibald stayed at St George's, he was not frightened off by Macabre Malcolm.
The public house was the home of Chilling Charlie, who frequently turned down the thermostat and then let out gruesome shrieks, chilling everyone to the bone.
Lucas or Archibald's vacation was at the castle. Was Terrifying Tony the resident ghost there?
Charlie went to stay with friends, this was in a bungalow, but it did not have the name Briar Hill. He was not terrified by Bloodcurdling Brian, the ghost that left bloodstained footprints behind.
Billy vacationed at a place named Rosedale, which was not a hotel.
Creepy Craig really did scare Gary, as he was settling down to sleep, by scraping his fingernails on the bedroom window, this was not at a hotel, and it wasn't a place named Avalon.
The bed and breakfast accommodation was not High Lodge, which was also not the castle where Macabre Malcolm was resident.

Puzzle Copyright © The Logic Zone

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Puzzle 3 

Which four-letter word can be placed between the two following words to make two new words:
arm[----]stand

In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 4 

Find two words, which are anagrams of each other, that complete this sentence:

While captive in the ?, James ? an entire book.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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