BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 13

Three builders are laying a brick wall.

Freddie can lay 1,000 bricks in three hours, Jimmy can lay 1,000 bricks in two hours and Kevin can lay 1,000 bricks in six hours.

How long will it take Freddie, Jimmy, and Kevin to lay 1,000 bricks if they all work together?

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Puzzle 14

Place JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, into the grid. The sequence will snake around, but cannot go diagonally, nor cross itself.

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Puzzle 15

Sports Day – Logic Puzzles

During the recent BrainBashers school sports day, four students were competing in the 400 metres hurdles.

Official figures mysteriously went missing just after the event, however, various spectators could remember the following information.

Alex won and wore red.
The student wearing number 1 came third.
Billie beat the student in yellow, but wasn't wearing number 2.
Only one student finished in the same position as the number they wore, but they didn't wear red.
Emery beat the student wearing number 3, and Glen wore yellow.
The student in green wore number 2.
A spectator remembered that one student wore blue, but couldn't remember anything else about them.
Can you determine the positions the students finished in, along with the numbers and colours they wore?

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Puzzle 16

What comes next in this sequence:

Bucket raisins aardvark igloo north Bradawl ?
Choose from:

drink, zebra, road, alphabet, lion, keyboard

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