Puzzles for December 2016
The DECEMBER 2016 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD is about General Skeptical issues.
New sets of Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” questions, are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
and here’s the DECEMBER 2016 Logic & Maths Problems. Enjoy!
Month: November 2016
December 2016 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. Still One in two or 50%
2. 56
3. 3 pm
4. It would be possible to lose a square manhole cover down the square hole that it covered: not possible with a round one.
5. 26
6. Four and two sevenths: (1 x 2 ÷ 3, 2 x 3 ÷ 4, 3 x 4 ÷ 5, 4 x 5 ÷ 6, 5 x 6 ÷ 7)
7. One dog, one cat, one fish
8. x = 18
9. x = 20
10. x = 4
December 2016 Mixed Bag Questions – Answers
1. Copenhagen
2. Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales
3. B. Where are you going?
4. Gene Autry
5. Princess Margaret of the UK
6. 1% (actually slightly less)
7. Rudyard Kipling
8. Bone Marrow
9. I Wanna Be Your Man
10. Eight; Melbourne, Munich, Montreal, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro
HARDER:
11. Vienna
12. Be born in Antarctica
13. He shot himself practicing quick-drawing against the snowman
14. Voiced Harry Potter when Daniel Radcliffe’s voice broke
15. Airey’s Inlet
16. The other members of Roald Amundsen’s team which first reached the South Pole
17. He was a glover (made gloves)
18. Last person in England to be burnt at the stake (for coining)
19. 14
20. Queen Margarethe II of Denmark
