Puzzle 5
Frankie the Squirrel can find one acorn in 15 minutes and Glenn the Squirrel can find one acorn in 12 minutes. As autumn approaches, they both work all day and all night.
However, Alex the Squirrel is eating their collection! It takes Alex 20 minutes to eat an acorn, and Alex eats all day and all night long (and starts on yesterday's acorns).
How many extra acorns will there be at the end of a 24-hour day?
Puzzle 6
Which number, when written as a word, makes this true:
Cleverly, there are exactly ? E's in this sentence.
Puzzle 7
Alex and Billie Stone have three daughters and each daughter has two brothers.
How many children do Alex and Billie Stone have?
Puzzle 8
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault, I did a listing of miles from England to particular countries and here is the result:
Chile 800 miles
Wales 4,200 miles
France 1,100 miles
Italy 3,400 miles
How far away did it list Scotland as?