Puzzle 201
If it took …
… Alex, Billie and Charlie exactly 60 minutes to dig a hole …
how long would it take for them …
… to dig half a hole?
Puzzle 202
The other day I was sitting in my local tavern, The Spyglass, which overlooks the sea, when in sailed my old friend the pirate Captain Conan Drum. "Well, shiver me barnacles!" he roared on seeing me. He too is a bit of a puzzle addict and so, after joining me for a glass of milk and telling me about his latest exploits on the high seas, he couldn't resist showing me his latest conundrum.
He reached into one of his jacket pockets and produced seven gleaming £5 coins, which he then proceeded to arrange on the table in front of me exactly as shown below. "Now, me lad." he said, with a mischievous look in his eyes. "I'll wager you'll not be able to solve this one. Take away two coins from this here arrangement to leave five coins across and three coins going down."
It was clear the wily old sea dog still had one or two tricks up his sleeve, as I couldn't for the life of me see how it could be done. Can you see through his skulduggery and solve it?
Puzzle Copyright © Lloyd King
Puzzle 203
This BrainBashers safe has a rather unusual control panel.
In order to open the safe, you have to press every single square once only, in the correct sequence, ending on the square marked E.
Each square indicates which square to press next, for example, 2U means move up 2 squares and 3R means move right 3 squares.
Can you determine which square you must start with?
| 2R | 2R | 4D | 2D | 1R | 2D | E |
| 2R | 1U | 3R | 2D | 1U | 4L | 3L |
| 1U | 1R | 4R | 2D | 1U | 2D | 2U |
| 3U | 5R | 2D | 3L | 1U | 3L | 2U |
| 2D | 2U | 2L | 2L | 1U | 2D | 1D |
| 3U | 2R | 1D | 2R | 1U | 2U | 6L |
| 6R | 3U | 2R | 2L | 1U | 2L | 2U |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the safe buttons cannot be clicked.
Puzzle 204
Can you make this equation correct by moving exactly one matchstick?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the matchsticks cannot be moved. The matchstick layouts for each digit are:
