Puzzle 57
I started out on the journey from the forest with a full tank of fuel, 12 gallons exactly.
However, the moment I started out, the fuel tank sprung a leak. I travelled at 50 mph until I ran out of fuel exactly 4 hours later.
I know that the car does 25 miles for each gallon.
How much fuel had I lost through the hole?
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Puzzle 58
A rich aristocrat decided that he would give every man 45 dollars and every woman 60 dollars.
Only one ninth of the men and only one twelfth of the women collected their dues.
Can you tell me how much money the aristocrat spent if there were 3552 people in total?
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Puzzle 59
Can you calculate which word is the odd one out:
giggle, soil, bells, gobble, gosh, boss, hole, blesses, coil
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Puzzle 60
The Miller next took the company aside and showed them nine sacks of flour that were standing as depicted in the sketch.
"Now, hearken, all and some," said he, "while that I do set ye the riddle of the nine sacks of flour.
And mark ye, my lords, that there be single sacks on the outside, pairs next unto them, and three together in the middle thereof.
By Saint Benedict, it doth so happen that if we do but multiply the pair, 28, by the single one, 7, the answer is 196, which is of a truth the number shown by the sacks in the middle.
Yet it be not true that the other pair, 34, when so multiplied by its neighbour, 5, will also make 196.
Wherefore I do beg you, gentle sirs, so to place anew the nine sacks with as little trouble as possible that each pair when thus multiplied by its single neighbour shall make the number in the middle."
As the Miller has stipulated in effect that as few bags as possible shall be moved, there is only one answer to this puzzle, which everybody should be able to solve.
The Miller's Puzzle, The Canterbury Puzzles, Henry Ernest Dudeney.
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