BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

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?

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Puzzle 2

Can you find a number such that …

… its double is fourteen more than its quarter?

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Puzzle 3

Below, 10 countries have been broken into chunks of letters.

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 10 countries are?
ezu itz zil ela bra gi ia
fi pan mba bel and ber zi
nl bo cam ven dia and um
sw bwe mex erl ico ja li

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Puzzle 4

I am a nine-letter word (123456789).

From 6523 grows a plant.

I 689, I 689, I 689, it's no joke.

751 rhymes with you.

421 rhymes too!

What am I?

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