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Puzzle 5

Clown Of The Year – Logic Puzzles

The four clowns in this puzzle all competed for the much-prized 'Clown of the Year' award recently. There were 30 clowns in total who entered the competition and each had to make the judges laugh.

From the clues below, can you work out each clown's name, the town he or she came from, what place each clown was awarded and the most comical moment of each clown's routine?

The Budsworth clown finished one place lower than Strumpy who is not from Witfield.
The judges roared with laughter as one clown cycled across a tightrope, wobbled, screamed and fell head first into a pool of water. He finished two places below Boo Boo who was not from Witfield.
The clown who finished in 7^th place lost points when her big red nose fell off during her manic routine. This involved being hit with a giant rubber mallet by her assistant who was supposed to hit her on the shoulder but unfortunately had something in his eye at the time and accidentally hit her in the face instead.
Tambo was disappointed when his usually masterful custard pie antics failed to impress the judges sufficiently to secure the award. He was not the clown from Stockville whose final placing was lower than the Shrimpton clown. Clowns   : Boo Boo, Grego, Strumpy, Tambo
Towns    : Budsworth, Shrimpton, Stockville, Witfield
Position : 2^nd, 4^th, 5^th, 7^th
Routine  : Custard Pie, Flower, Rubber Mallet, Unicycle

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Puzzle 6

This year, Farmer Stone's harvest of apples was quite significant.

He decided to donate some of the apples to the local community, 1,672 people in all.

Every person aged 50 or more received 16 apples, and every person under 50 received 96 apples.

Only ³/₄ of the over 50s collected their apples, and only ¹/₈ of the under 50s collected theirs.

How many apples did the farmer give away?

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Puzzle 7

If four kittens can catch four toys in four minutes …

… how many toys can twelve kittens catch in twelve minutes?

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Puzzle 8

Below you can find 8 words that have had their beginnings and endings removed. In each case, the same two letters can be found at the beginning and the end. For example REspiRE.
--qui-- --yli-- --tat-- --gib-- --liv-- --rmi-- --ifi-- --alg--

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