Reasoning
The initial letters of the words spell BREAM, a fish. The other sentences all spell birds. SWAN = Sam wanted another newt. EAGLE = Every artistic giraffe likes elephants. * BREAM = Badgers rapidly excavate a mound. WREN = Wild rabbits enjoy nature. DUCK = Dale understood cute kittens. CRANE = Casual restless aardvarks need exercise.
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Puzzle 199
During the recent BrainBashers Football Competition, 5 teams were competing.
Each team played each other just once, with 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.
However, the rain damaged the final scoresheet, and this is all that could be read of the final points after all of the matches:
Rugby 6
Grimsby 5
Hereford 4
Lichfield 2
Reading ?
Can you work out how many points Reading ended the season with?
Reasoning
There were 5 teams in the league, and every team played every other, so there were a total of 10 games played:
Rugby vs Grimsby
Rugby vs Hereford
Rugby vs Lichfield
Rugby vs Reading
Grimsby vs Hereford
Grimsby vs Lichfield
Grimsby vs Reading
Hereford vs Lichfield
Hereford vs Reading
Lichfield vs Reading
We know that 2 points were allocated for each game played. Which means that there were a total of 20 points over the 10 games.
Since the given results add to 17, the remaining 3 points belong to Reading.
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Puzzle 200
I was having trouble sleeping last night and I tossed and turned well into the night.
Our local town hall has a clock which strikes on the hour and also strikes just once on the half hour.
During one of my more awake moments I heard the clock strike once, but I could not tell what time it was.
Half an hour later it struck once again, but I still could not tell what time it was.
Finally, half an hour later it struck once again and I knew what the time was.
