Puzzle 1
How much soil is there …
… in a circular hole 2 metres deep and 1 metre across?
Puzzle 2
In the sentence below, the three missing words are anagrams of each other:
When I pressed ? on the scales, it brought a ? to my eye, as a piece of metal stuck in my finger. I didn't ? this as a good experience.
Puzzle 3
During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a Morse code contest took place.
The contest consisted of a Morse code transmission where the spaces between the letters and words were missing.
Can you decipher the sequence and find the well known proverb?
Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Puzzle 4
Painter Pete, our local DIY expert, is renovating the local hospital.
He has to number each of the rooms in the hospital with plastic numbers.
However, he has run out of the number 9.
Unfortunately, he has no spare 6's available, which certainly would have been useful.
How many 9's must Pete buy in order to number all 1,000 rooms?