May Puzzles

banner-best-android-puzzle-applistThere are seven new Picture Puzzles and twenty “Mixed Bag” Questions at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE. You might like to use the Mixed Bag Questions as practice for the Tenth Annual Vic Skeptics Trivia Extravaganza on May 19. (See the EVENTS PAGE for further details)

To mark the NHMRC’s recent demolition of Homeopathy as a serious medical system, this month’s
MAY 2014 Skeptical Crossword
has Homeopathy as its theme.It’s necessarily a smaller crossword than usual – but it still comes with both “straight” and cryptic clues.

To stretch your brain just that bit more, try the
MAY 2014 Logic & Maths Puzzles

ENJOY!

May 2014 Logic & Maths Puzzles – Solutions

1. 18
2. 3 Apples
3. Shape (c)
4. a. 58 cubes b. 18 cubes
5. Card c
6. 4 tonnes
7. Behind him / backwards
8. Typing / Keyboard skills (The Spanish equivalent of “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”)
9. a. Paul b. Striped c. Paul d. Plain
10. The US gallon is only four-fifths the volume of the English gallon

“Mixed Bag” May 2014 – Answers

1. (a) Trepidation, (b) Paroxysm, (c)Excruciating

2. 364

3. Tiger Woods

4. Gran Turismo or Grand Touring

5. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia

6. Lt. Columbo

7. Rose Red

8. Gotham City

9. Paternal, parental

10. Garth

HARDER:

11. A Bank gave him $88 million by mistake

12. Ralph Lauren

13. (a) Ouida
(b) from her own childish pronunciation of her given name “Louise”

14. Mountains

15. A synthetic / man made element / element 116

16. Walter and John Huston (Treasure of Sierra Madre)

17. Boxing (World Heavyweight)

18. Youngest ever AFL/VFL

19. Republic of the Seychelles

20. 8 lengths