Reasoning
The clock now shows 10:12am, so we know that 10 x 60 + 12 = 612 clock minutes have passed.
Since the clock is losing 6 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will show 54 minutes.
So, 612 ÷ 54 ≈ 11.33 real hours have passed.
This equals 680 minutes, which is 11 hours and 20 minutes = 11:20am.
The clock stopped 2 hours ago, therefore the time must now be 1:20pm.
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Puzzle 2
As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
This is a very old puzzle, and appeared in a manuscript dated around 1730. It is thought to refer to a town in Cornwall, UK.
If we were to count everyone and everything, including all of the kits, cats, sacks and wives, we would have:
Me = 1
Man = 1
Wifes = 7
Sacks = 7 x 7 = 49
Cats = 7 x 7 x 7 = 343
Kits = 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 = 2401
Total = 1 + 1 + 7 + 49 + 343 + 2401 = 2,802.
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Puzzle 3
The infamous BrainBashers encyclopedia has been suffering from its usual problems again.
Below is a printout of reptiles and amphibians, but they have lost every other letter.
Can you replace the missing letters? -r-g-o-t-i-e-n-k--e-t-i-a-d-r-c-d-l--a-a-a-d-r-u-t-e-k-n-a-l-g-t-r
Reasoning
These are the initial letters of the puzzle itself: This is a very special sequence and is complete
* but what is the missing letter
Therefore, B is missing.
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