BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 57

During a recent expedition, three intrepid adventurers were left stranded in the middle of the desert with only a crate full of apples.

During the night, Alex woke up and decided to hide some of the apples and hid a third, then promptly fell asleep again.

Billie woke up shortly after and also decided to hide a third of the remaining apples and then also dozed back to sleep.

Finally, Charlie woke up and seeing the others were asleep, took a third of what was left.

Of course, none of the adventurers knew of the other's antics, so, in the morning, they shared the remaining apples, each receiving sixteen. How many apples were in the crate originally?

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Puzzle 58

Can you complete this paragraph using two words that are anagrams of each other?

While driving their car at a reckless speed, the driver was distracted by their dog ?. Luckily, they managed to complete the ? manoeuvre without crashing.

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Puzzle 59

In this sequence of planets, can you work out why they are listed in this order?

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Mars, Mercury, Venus.

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Puzzle 60

This BrainBashers safe has a rather unusual control panel.

In order to open the safe, you have to press every single square once only, in the correct sequence, ending on the square marked E.

Each square indicates which square to press next, for example, 2U means move up 2 squares and 3R means move right 3 squares.

Can you determine which square you must start with?

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the safe buttons cannot be clicked.

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