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Puzzle 201

Student Accommodation – Logic Puzzles

Alex, Bret, Chris, Derek, Eddie, Fred, Greg, Harold, and John are nine students who live in a three storey building, with three rooms on each floor. A room in the West wing, one in the centre, and one in the East wing. If you look directly at the building, the left side is West and the right side is East. Each student is assigned exactly one room. Can you find where each of their rooms is:

Harold does not live on the bottom floor.
Fred lives directly above John and directly next to Bret (who lives in the West wing).
Eddie lives in the East wing and one floor higher than Fred.
Derek lives directly above Fred.
Greg lives directly above Chris.

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Puzzle 202

10
100
1,000
10,000

Which number comes after 10,000?

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Puzzle 203

Farmer Stone is quite an eccentric dairy farmer.

He originally had a total of 54 gallons of milk in three churns, and he wanted to make sure each churn contained 18 gallons of milk.

In order to do this, he did the following:

First, he poured ¹/₄ of the first churn into the second churn.
He then poured ¹/₂ of the second churn into the third churn.
Finally, he poured ¹/₃ of the third churn into the first churn.
How many gallons did each churn contain before Farmer Stone started pouring?

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Puzzle 204

Gymnastics Gala – Logic Puzzles

During a recent gymnastics gala, four athletes competed in three events, the vault, the beam, and the floor.

Chris came third on the floor.
The athlete who came second in the vault won the beam event.
The athlete who came second on the beam won the floor.
Emery beat Alex in every event.
The athlete who won the vault came second on the floor.
Billie came last in the vault.
Can you determine who finished where in each event?

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