New Puzzles for March and April 2013 can be found at the top of the PUZZLE PAGE. They include a Picture Puzzle, Skeptical Crossword, “Mixed Bag” set and Logic and Maths Puzzles for each month.
All of our previous puzzles are still available!
PUZZLES ARCHIVE 1 (August 2010 to April 2011)
PUZZLES ARCHIVE 2 (May 2011 to October 2011)
PUZZLES ARCHIVE 3 (October 2011 to November 2012)
PUZZLES ARCHIVE 4 (December 2012 to March 2013)
1. About 80 metres. It’s an East-West line through Boundary Islet, Bass Strait. Victoria owns the north and Tasmania owns the south.
2. (a) head; (b)work (c) light (d) box
3. Vancouver
4. 75 million years ago
5. The Pacific Ocean
6. Patrick White
7. The Burke & Wills Expedition
8. The Eyes
9. Paul Keating
10. Scary & Sporty
1. 7
2. 13
3. 34
4. 78
5. 14
6. 4
7. a. 50 pigs b. 20 horses c. 1280 animals
8. a. 28 number x 3 + 1 b. 13 number ÷ 2 + 6 c. 20 (number – 4) x 2
9. Four: (this works if Alice’s sister is married to Alice’s husband’s brother. The mother of both men is Alice’s mother’s sister and married to Alice’s paternal uncle)
10. The 400 litre barrel:
(Customer 1 buys 300 + 360 litres = 660 litres of wine. Customer 2 buys 320 + 380 + 620 = 1320 litres 0f wine. This leaves the 400 litre barrel which must contain beer)
1. Intransigent
2. coffin fit
3. sins forgiven
4. local interest
5. Home sweet home
6. An óme among the gum trees
7. smelting
1. The Sounds of Silence
2. Long Johns
3. Escargot
4. Naughty nineties
5. bellicose
6. titanium
7. The door is ajar
Announcing the upcoming tour by American author and orator, Sean Faircloth.
Sean Faircloth is the Director of Strategy for the Richard Dawkins Foundation and will be presenting in Melbourne at the Spot Basement Theatre at 6:30pm on Tuesday 26 March, 2013.
Reclaiming a Secular Australia is a topic of interest to anyone with a secular view, including many skeptics. The interference of organised religion in schools, health and government will also be addressed.
Sean Faircloth may be known to some readers as the author of ‘Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Rights is harming us all, and what we can do about it!’
Faircloth’s tour is supported by a number of organisations including the Victorian Skeptics, The Rationalist Society of Australia, Council of Australian Humanist Societies, the Progressive Atheists, the Humanist Society of Victoria and the University of Melbourne Secular Society.
On this tour, Faircloth will also be appearing in Sydney and Perth, before heading to New Zealand for further appearances.
The Spot Basement Theatre is in the new Business and Economics building, at 198 Berkeley St, Carlton.
Tickets are $28 for adults or $12 students and healthcare card holders.
For further details of Sean’s tour and other events in Victoria, please visit the website of Rationalist Society of Australia. Tickets for the Spot Basement Theatre event can be purchased here.
