Puzzle 1
Greenjack Round #3 - Logic Puzzles
You find yourself playing a game with your friend.
It is played with a deck of only 16 cards, divided into 4 suits:
Red, Blue, Orange, and Green.
There are four cards in each suit:
Ace, King, Queen, and Jack.
All Aces outrank all Kings, which outrank all Queens, which outrank all Jacks – except for the Green Jack, which outranks every other card.
If two cards have the same face value, then Red outranks Blue, which outranks Orange, which outranks Green, again except for the Green Jack, which outranks everything.
Here's how the game is played: you are dealt one card face up, and your friend is dealt one card face down. Your friend then makes some true statements, and you have to work out who has the higher card, you or your friend. It's that simple!
Round 3:
You are dealt the Red Queen and your friend makes three statements:
My card could lose to a Blue card.
Knowing this, if I am more likely to have an Ace or a King than a Queen or a Jack, then I have an Orange card. Otherwise, I don't.
Given all of the information you now know, if I am more likely to have a Jack than an Ace, then I actually have a King. Otherwise, I don't.
Who has the higher card, you or your friend?
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Puzzle 2
The infamous BrainBashers encyclopedia has been suffering from its usual problems again.
Below is a printout of reptiles and amphibians, but they have lost every other letter.
Can you replace the missing letters?
-r-g
-o-t-i-e
-n-k-
-e-t
-i-a-d
-r-c-d-l-
-a-a-a-d-r
-u-t-e
-k-n-
a-l-g-t-r
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Puzzle 3
Which one of these sentences is the odd one out?
Sam wanted another newt.
Every artistic giraffe likes elephants.
Badgers rapidly excavate a mound.
Wild rabbits enjoy nature.
Dale understood cute kittens.
Casual restless aardvarks need exercise.
Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone
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Puzzle 4
Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.
These chunks have been mixed up, no chunk is used twice, and all chunks are used.
Can you determine what the 10 words are?
For example: computing = com + put + ing.
rbr ent ard man tor rbo
and ban con erf dst dli
fly spa dra dif hai ght
per all fis ove ush hea
new gon fer wat her duc
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