October Puzzles
New Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” Questions are in place on our PUZZLES PAGE.
This month’s CROSSWORD PUZZLE is the third in our series on the Logical Fallacies theme.
And as always, there’s a set of MATHS & LOGIC PROBLEMS
Enjoy!
October 2013 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. 4 tonnes
2. Behind him / backwards
3. The US gallon is only four-fifths the volume of the English gallon
4. a. Paul b. Striped c. Paul d. Plain
5. 17 and 7 years old
6. a. yes b. no c. yes d. yes
7. 7
8. less
9. a. 20 cubes b. 56 cubes
10. – 40 degrees C is the same temperature as – 40 degrees F
October 2013 Mixed Bag – Answers
1. Eleven times
2. Corsica belongs to France; the other three belong to Italy
3. 1978
4. Hands and feet
5. Groucho Marx
6. Africa
7. They are claimed by six different countries
8. Fennel
9. The Avengers
Cathy Gale was played by Honor Blackman
Emma Peel was played by Diana Rigg
10. prosthesis
“Next Level”:
11. London Underground Map
12. 100:1 winners of the Melbourne Cup
13. Vegemite
14. on top of pillars
15. Ytterby
16. Finland
17. Hanged her nephew’s dog for chewing her bible
18. Permanent crease trousers
19. Vegemite (reason: it’s biggest competitor was Marmite)
20. Istanbul
21. Green, Berry and Hill
22. The Pelican
23. smothered to death by gifts of cloaks showered upon him by appreciative citizens
24. dishwasher
25. Oscar Wilde
26. from a lethal combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing
27. Construction / building
28. Ray Barrett
29. John Irving
30. Broke into Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom
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 HERE. We expect Locial Fallacies Crossword (3) to follow next month.
- The Logic & Maths Problems can be found HERE
September 2013 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. Apples 30¢ Bananas 50¢ Cantaloupes $1.20
2. A. The green ball will stop dead. The red ball will fly off to the right at high speed.
3. Cube 1: one rubber band Cube 2: two rubber bands
4. 1, 2 and 3 in any order
5. Four times
6. 21
7. 18
8. 3 apples
9. Shape (c)
10. Card c
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
October 2013 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. Incomparable
2. A loan at last
3. Taking a tern for the verse
4. Continent
5. Drawing a long bow
6. Incapacitate
7. Indelicate
September 2013 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. Nobility
2. Easy on the eye
3. Overseas posting
4. Life Is Too Short
5. Up to no good
6. Cardinal
7. Eminence
