Puzzle 5
Santa's Reindeerall logic puzzles
Santa always leaves plans for his elves to determine the order in which the reindeer will pull his sleigh. This year, for the European leg of his journey, his elves are working to the following schedule, that will form a single line of nine reindeer:
Comet behind Rudolph, Prancer, and Cupid. Blitzen behind Cupid, and in front of Donder, Vixen, and Dancer. Cupid in front of Comet, Blitzen, and Vixen. Donder behind Vixen, Dasher, and Prancer. Rudolph behind Prancer, and in front of Donder, Dancer, and Dasher. Vixen in front of Dancer, and Comet. Dancer behind Donder, Rudolph and, Blitzen. Prancer in front of Cupid, Donder, and Blitzen. Dasher behind Prancer, and in front of Vixen, Dancer and Blitzen. Donder behind Comet, and Cupid. Cupid in front of Rudolph, and Dancer. Vixen behind Rudolph, Prancer, and Dasher.
Can you help the elves work out the order of the reindeer?
Puzzle 6
What is missing from this sequence:
Greenland · New Guinea · Borneo · Madagascar · ? · Sumatra · Honshu
Puzzle 7
Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.
The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.
Can you determine what the 10 words are?
hol rec ant imp fer con
man dif ice pol acq htn
ort myt new air sag duc
dec lig kch ogy ing tan
uit ent gle tal tor ent
Puzzle 8
Yesterday I was asked to buy some stamps.
Stamps, in the land of BrainBashers, are available in 2p, 7p, 10p, 15p and 20p denominations.
For three types of stamp, I was asked to buy five of each.
For the other two types of stamps, I was asked to buy six of each.
Unfortunately, I forgot which I was supposed to buy five of and which to buy six of.
I had been given £3.00, which just happened to be the exact money required, so the shopkeeper was able to work out what stamps I needed.
Which stamps did I buy?