*potting the last red, then pink then commence clearing colours with yellow
*while clearing colours: yellow then green then brown
1. a. Tasmania b. New South Wales c. New South Wales d. South Australia
2. Tanks, Russia
3. Helen
4. The Brady Bunch
5. golf
6. Peter Cottontail
7. slipper
8. Ringo Starr
9. Juneau
10. Coca Cola
HARDER:
11. Turkey
12. Lesotho
13. First powered flight (preceding the Wright Brothers)
14. Blade Runner
15. Resolution
16. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
17. 1872
18. 1950
19. She became the first Miss World
20. Cleveland Ohio
Our OCTOBER 2014 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD is themed Foreseeing the Future
There are ten more OCTOBER 2014 LOGIC & MATHS PUZZLES .
And at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE are seven new Picture Puzzles and a new set of Trivia-type “Mixed Bag” Questions.
Enjoy!
1. FAST and SLOW
2. Door B has the correct sign on it; Door D conceals the prize
3. 5 jars and 16 pencils
4. 7 jars and 45 pencils
5. 13 ways
6. The years quoted are BC, Not AD
7. Eight cubes will have three painted faces; twenty four cubes will have two painted faces; twenty four cubes will have one painted face; eight cubes will have no painted faces
8. Left to right: jack of clubs, jack of diamonds, queen of diamonds.
9. $8.60
10. 20 possible opening moves. (Each pawn may advance either one or two squares; each knight may make two possible opening moves)
1. $188.85
2. Edinburgh, Swansea, Belfast, Birmingham
3. Bullfighting
4. B. dabbles in a subject without taking it seriously
5. Athens
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Realist, Saltier
8. Rodney Dangerfield
9. Penguin Books
10. 1995
HARDER:
11. They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.
12. Abraham Lincoln
13. Carmine Coppola, Best Music (1974)
14. Electric-powered model train
15. Finland
16. Saudi Arabia, Iraq
17. Theodosius I
18. The Marquis de Sade
19. Stan Laurel
20. Rita Hayworth
New sets of both Picture Puzzles and Mixed Bag Questions occupy the top of the PUZZLES PAGE.
SEPTEMBER 2014 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD has Alternative Healing as its theme.
There are also ten new SEPTEMBER 2014 LOGIC & MATHS PUZZLES
ENJOY.
1. Answer: 1 politician
The first inhabitant will deny being a politician whether he is or not.
Therefore, the second inhabitant is not a politician because the first inhabitant did in fact deny being a politician.
If the third inhabitant is not a politician and is truthful, then the first inhabitant is a politician.
If the third inhabitant is a politician and a liar, then the first inhabitant would not be a politician
2. 49 (There was no year zero)
3. Tomorrow
4. 60 guests
5. The red door
6. Bob, Andy, Chris, Debbie, Evan
7. James was born just before Daylight Saving Time ended. John was born just after, the clock having been set back an hour.
8. 2 minutes
9. 3 cats
10. 49 steps
1. Tardis – Tegan Jovanka; Heart of Gold – Trisha McMillan; Red Dwarf – Dave Lister; Enterprise – Geordie La Forge; Millemium Falcon – Chewbacca
2. All anagrams of animals – DOE, GNU, RAM, APE, WOLF
3. Thirteen
4. Off Newport, Rhode Island
5. Quebec
6. Edward VII
7. True (The note is F)
8. Gollum / Smeagol
9. Red
10. Hatreds, threads, trashed
HARDER:
11. They were the only survivors of the wreck of the Loch Ard, a sailing vessel which was wrecked at Mutton bird Island just off the South West Coast of Victoria, Australia in 1878.
12. 1923
13. Eugene Cernan (but we’d accept Jack Schmidt)
14. 1908 and 1912
15. Highest ever scoring fighter pilot – over 300 enemy planes shot down
16. From the value of “pi” after the decimal point. (Probably a pun on “getting a piece of the pie”)
17. 1938
18. High Noon
19. Rainman
20. A rope – indicates the orientation of the twist on its strands
