Puzzle 5
Which sport is the odd one out:
football · polo · badminton · baseball · golf · tennis · cricket · billiards · rugby
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Think about the items required to play each sport.
Answer
Badminton is the only sport which does not use a ball (it uses a shuttlecock).
Alternative Answers
Polo involves animals as well as humans.
Golf has no standard defined playing area.
Billiards is not played outdoors.
Puzzle 6
Can you complete the following four 5-letter words?
The missing letters, in order, spell an animal.
--ute
c--el
st--g
car--
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The animal begins with the letter F.
Answer
Flamingo.
--ute = fl ute
c--el = cam el
st--g = stin g
car-- = cargo
Puzzle 7
My shirt has 5 buttons, my cardigan has 2 buttons, and my suit jacket has no buttons.
How many buttons do my trousers have?
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It depends on the length of the word.
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2 buttons.
The number of buttons is 10, minus the length of the word.
Puzzle 8
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.
I listed six countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Spain 14,000 miles
Fiji 12,000 miles
Germany 18,000 miles
Brazil 16,000 miles
India 16,000 miles
Iceland --,--- miles
How far away did it list Iceland as?
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Look at the vowels (AEIOU).
Answer
20,000.
Each vowel (AEIOU) is worth 4,000 miles and each consonant is worth 2,000.
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