Puzzle 1
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?
Puzzle 2
Hidden in the grid below are three boys names. Starting at any point, trace out the path of a chess knight. The last letter of one name starts the next one. What are the names?
The moves of a knight are:
Puzzle 3
Take a set of three letters from the left column, and a set of three letters from the right column and merge them together, without changing the order of the letters in each half (matching sets might not be currently on the same row).
Example 1: wmb + oat and oat + wmb both equal wombat.
Example 2: rbt + abi and abi + rbt both equal rabbit.
Can you find the six animals that have been split in half?
cyo aru
wls dne
ear fee
oky ote
rrt jar
agu bve
Puzzle 4
A large freshwater reservoir has two types of drainage system. Small pipes and large pipes.
6 large pipes, on their own, can drain the reservoir in 12 hours.
6 small pipes, on their own, can drain the reservoir in 18 hours.
How long will 6 large pipes and 6 small pipes take to drain the reservoir?