Puzzle 1
Why are 2024 UK pound coins worth more than 2023 UK pound coins?
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Because there is 1 more coin!
2,024 = 2,023 + 1.
Puzzle 2
You've been asked to buy the cakes for the school party and you've been given $100 to buy 100 cakes.
Donuts cost 56c, chocolate eclairs cost $2.26 and iced rolls cost 92c.
How can you spend exactly all of the money on the 100 cakes?
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15 donuts, 10 chocolate eclairs and 75 iced rolls.
15 + 10 + 75 = 100 and 15 x 0.56 + 10 x 2.26 + 75 x 0.92 = 100.00.
Puzzle 3
What well known saying is expressed here:
Refrain from enumerating your owned domestic fowl while their hard, porous calcium containers are undamaged.
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Don't count your chickens until they're hatched.
Puzzle 4
Which of the shapes is identical to the first one?
There might be more than one.
Puzzle Copyright © Robert A. Hartmann
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Try to rotate them around in your head, but watch out for mirror images.
