Puzzle 1
Can you complete the following four 5-letter words?
The missing letters, in order, spell an animal.
--ute
c--el
st--g
car--
Puzzle 2
Farmer Stone is quite an eccentric dairy farmer.
He originally had a total of 54 gallons of milk in three churns, and he wanted to make sure each churn contained 18 gallons of milk.
In order to do this, he did the following:
First, he poured 1/4 of the first churn into the second churn.
He then poured 1/2 of the second churn into the third churn.
Finally, he poured 1/3 of the third churn into the first churn.
How many gallons did each churn contain before Farmer Stone started pouring?
Puzzle 3
Customer services at BrainBashers headquarters received the following letter recently.
Luckily our top puzzle solvers were able to determine the meaning and help Mrs Middins.
Can you work it out what her problem was?
Puzzle 4
I am compiling the BrainBashers world almanac and it now contains quite a few pages. But just how many?
I know that it takes 121 digits to print all of the page numbers in sequence.
So, how many numbered pages does the book have, and how many times does the number 9 appear?