Answers
soot + tire = tortoise
most + mare = marmoset
much + pink = chipmunk
area + tent = anteater
leap + then = elephant
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Puzzle 18
Below are 8 Academy Award winners.
The letters of their names have been mixed up and put into alphabetical order.
The brackets contain clues to their names, the first letter and the length of each part of their name. For example, EEIKNNOSTV [K5 S5] = KEVIN STONE.
DEEFIJOORST [J5 F6]
EEELMPRRSTY [M5 S6]
ABEIJLORRSTU [J5 R7]
AABEEHHIKNNPRRTU [K9 H7]
CEEEGGLNOOORY [G6 C7]
ACCHIJKLNNOOS [J4 N9]
BDEEINOORRRT [R6 D2 N4]
AACCEEHIILMN [M7 C5]
Answer
DEEFIJOORST = JODIE FOSTER
EEELMPRRSTY = MERYL STREEP
ABEIJLORRSTU = JULIA ROBERTS
AABEEHHIKNNPRRTU = KATHARINE HEPBURN
CEEEGGLNOOORY = GEORGE CLOONEY
ACCHIJKLNNOOS = JACK NICHOLSON
BDEEINOORRRT = ROBERT DE NIRO
AACCEEHIILMN = MICHAEL CAINE
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Puzzle 19
At a local village gala, the entire population turned up, 500 people.
The event raised £3,000.
Tickets were priced as follows:
£7.48 men
£7.12 women
£0.45 children
Hint
Try fixing the number of children to see what happens.
Answer
92.
With 149 men and 259 women. The best way is to fix the number of children and play around with the numbers of the men and women to see what happens as these are changed. It soon becomes apparent how changing the children changes the answer and 92 is soon found.
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Puzzle 20
Can you create a sentence that contains the word 'and' five times in a row?
Hint
Start by imaging a sign saying 'BrainBashers Puzzles And Illusions'.
Answer
I commissioned an artist to paint a sign for BrainBashers that said 'BrainBashers Puzzles And Illusions', however, they made a terrible mistake.
The gaps between 'Puzzles' and 'And', and 'And' and 'Illusions' weren't the same, so the sign seemed oddly out of balance.
