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Puzzle 201 


Downhill Mountain Bike Raceall logic puzzles

At the recent BrainBashers downhill mountain bike race, four entrants entered the challenging slalom event.

Alex finished in first position.
The entrant wearing number #2 wore red, but Drew didn't wear yellow.
The person in last place wore blue, and Stevie wore number #1.
Glen beat Stevie, and the person who finished in second wore number #3.
The entrant in yellow beat the entrant in green.
Only one of the entrants wore the same number as their final position.
Can you determine who finished where, the number, and colour they each wore?

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Puzzle 202 


I recently went to the shop and purchased 4 items.

Three of the items cost:
$1.50
$3.00
$4.00

There was quite a long queue, and as I was quite bored, I was playing with my pocket calculator while I waited.

Very curiously, the 4 prices added to the same number as I got when I multiplied the 4 prices together.

What was the price of the 4th item?

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Puzzle 203 


A woman had three old coins: a silver dollar, a quarter, and a dime. Each coin was a little battered and had a piece missing. She found that exactly the same fraction had broken away from each coin.

What fraction of each was missing if the value of the remaining bits of coins was now exactly one dollar in total?

For this puzzle it can be assumed that 1/2 a coin is worth 1/2 of its value.

Based on a puzzle by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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Puzzle 204 


Can you find a word that begins with the letter R, and with the addition of the letter A …

… gives another word that sounds the same?

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