Can you place a different 4-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words? drift[----]wind home[----]bench foot[----]mother court[----]stick moth[----]roomquarter[----]ground space[----]yard wild[----]span your[----]less back[----]fighter
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case
During the recent BrainBashers Football Competition, 5 teams were competing.
Each team played each other just once, with 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.
However, the rain damaged the final scoresheet, and this is all that could be read of the final points after all of the matches:
Rugby 6
Grimsby 5
Hereford 4
Lichfield 2
Reading ?
Can you work out how many points Reading ended the season with?
Reasoning
There were 5 teams in the league, and every team played every other, so there were a total of 10 games played:
Rugby vs Grimsby
Rugby vs Hereford
Rugby vs Lichfield
Rugby vs Reading
Grimsby vs Hereford
Grimsby vs Lichfield
Grimsby vs Reading
Hereford vs Lichfield
Hereford vs Reading
Lichfield vs Reading
We know that 2 points were allocated for each game played. Which means that there were a total of 20 points over the 10 games.
Since the given results add to 17, the remaining 3 points belong to Reading.
