skip to main content


Random Puzzles 


?

Puzzle 109 


I have a bottle and a straw which cost me 60 pence. The bottle cost 10 pence more than the straw. What does each item cost?

workings answer print

?

Puzzle 110 


Can you fill the thermometers with mercury, such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in each row and column contain mercury?

Mercury always starts filling from the bottom of a thermometer, and not every thermometer has to contain mercury.

Puzzle Copyright © Johan de Ruiter

workings hint answer print

??

Puzzle 111 


Can you find a three-digit number such that when you reverse the numbers you get a larger number and the product of these two numbers is 224455?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

workings answer print

??

Puzzle 112 


Chess Tournamentall logic puzzles

The results of a recent Chess tournament between five close rivals is described below:

Dale finished before Alex.
Emery finished after Bailey.
Alex finished before Chris.
Emery finished after Dale.
Bailey finished before Alex.
Dale finished after Bailey.
Chris finished before Emery.
Who finished where?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

workings hint answer print