BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 197

At a recent visit to the reptile house at the local animal sanctuary, I counted a total of 27 heads and 70 feet.

I was counting snakes, lizards, and people and I know that there were exactly twice as many lizards as people.

How many snakes did I count?

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Puzzle 198

Below you will find 15 well-known six-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
---rix ---osy ---few ---oze ---uum ---wth ---nda ---nis ---tem ---pod ---reo ---hom ---gan ---amt ---gen

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Puzzle 199

What comes next in the sequence:

red · orange · yellow · green · blue · indigo · ?

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Puzzle 200

For being well-behaved at the garden fayre, four children were each given two sweets.

Jesse had an orange sweet.
One child who had a red sweet also had a blue one.
No child had two sweets of the same colour.
A child who had a green sweet also had a red one.
Jamie didn't have a red sweet, and Jo had a green one.
Jordan didn't have an orange one, and Jesse had no blue sweets.
Knowing that there were two sweets of each colour, can you tell the colours of the sweets each child had?

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