Puzzle 1
Starting in the bottom left corner and moving either up or right, how many ways are there to get to the top right corner and make a total of 10?
| 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 1 | 3 | 2 |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the numbers cannot be clicked.
Puzzle 2
Again, my BrainBashers thesaurus has let me down again. This time I was after boy's names and it failed to show the vowels.
What were the boy's names?
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kvn
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kth
jrmh
Puzzle 3
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]
Puzzle 4
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?