September Puzzles

Our Puzzles for September 2013 have been posted.

  • There are the usual seven Picture Puzzles, each of which decodes to a word, phrase, song title, book, or film.
  • The “Mixed Bag” Questions have an added feature. After the usual ten questions, we’ve added twenty “next level” questions. These are, depending on your point of view, interesting, difficult, informative, quirky or totally unfair. A score of one out of twenty could be considered surprisingly good! The Picture Puzzles and Mixed Bag Questions have pride of place on our PUZZLES PAGE.
  • Our Skeptical Crossword is the second of three on the the theme of Logical Fallacies. It can be found HERE. Logical Fallacies Crossword (1) was posted back in July 2012 and can be found HEREWe expect Locial Fallacies Crossword (3) to follow next month.
  • The Logic & Maths Problems can be found HERE

September 2013 “Mixed Bag” Questions – Answers

1. Sleeplessness

2. 100

3. “You Have Won Second Prize in a Beauty Contest”

4. cherries

5. elegy

6. Duke of York

7. Sheep

8. A man-powered aircraft

9. The Merchant of Venice

10. WC Fields

“Next Level”:

11. Fat / swollen due to gout

12. Bird of Paradise

13. Damage from earthquakes

14. She sank herself with her own torpedo

15. The letter J

16. St Paul, Minnesota

17. Compete in 8 Olympic Games

18. Groundhog Day

19. a Cria (pronounced cree-ya)

20. It had a moveable jaw

21. Australian Grand Prix

22. Shane Gould (better known as the only swimmer in history to hold all freestyle world records, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m and the  200m Individual Medley at the same time; winner of three Gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at the 1972 Olympics)

23. The life-saving reel

24. Ohio

25. The Get Smart TV series theme

26. Honduras and El Salvador

27. Speed skating (Munich 1936)

28. The ghost of an American college student who died after a drinking bout

29. Chinese bushranger

30. Connecticut