Puzzle 197
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?
Puzzle 198
Hidden in the grid below are three boys names. Starting at any point, trace out the path of a chess knight. The last letter of one name starts the next one. What are the names?
The moves of a knight are:
Puzzle 199
Starting with HATE, change one letter at a time until you have the word LOVE-
Each change leaves the other letters in their original places and must result in a proper word-
What is the minimum number of steps required to achieve this change?
There are four different answers using common words, can you find all four?
hate
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love
Puzzle 200
What is significant about this paragraph:
I once found two tiny ferrets, tired, looking sorry for themselves, covered in dirt. I decided to help the poor critters by putting them in the town zoo's 'ferret rinsing box', then rinsing them off using some tinctured liquid. They soon seemed much more pristine, much brighter, much more cheerful. Within two weeks I set them free, returned into the wild, they seemed very delighted with this. I, of course, enjoyed it very much.