Puzzle 5
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.
I listed five countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Australia 500 miles
Peru 8,000 miles
India 4,500 miles
Scotland 9,500 miles
France ? miles
Can you work out the distance to France?
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Only the first letter is important.
Answer
3,000 miles.
Take the alphabetic position of the first letter, halve, and then multiply by 1000.
You could also multiply by 500 instead.
Double-Checking
F is the 6th letter of the alphabet, halving gives 3, multiplying by 1000 gives 6000.
Puzzle 6
You are running in a marathon and you overtake the person in second place.
What position are you now in?
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If you think that you are now in first place, then think again!
If you overtake the person in second place, you are now in second place yourself!
Puzzle 7
What letter comes next in this sequence:
X L C D ?
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M.
Reasoning
1,000 in Roman numerals.
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500
M = 1,000
Puzzle 8
Some months have 30 days, some have 31, but how many have 28 days?
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