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
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
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
1. Nobility
2. Easy on the eye
3. Overseas posting
4. Life Is Too Short
5. Up to no good
6. Cardinal
7. Eminence
New Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” Questions for August 2013 are at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE ;
the Skeptical Crossword this month has “Alt-Med” as a theme and can be found HERE ;
and August’s Logic & Maths Problems are HERE.
Enjoy!
By Mal Vickers,
with assistance from Martin Hadley
Never has any psychic ever passed a rigorous scientific test of their claimed ability. While most skeptics are well aware of this, you’d think the media and society in general knew nothing of it.
Imagine what kind of world it would be if, from tomorrow, psychics really did have the abilities they claim to possess. The prizes from the next lottery would go to a series of psychics, presumably in order of merit. Fairly soon, non-psychics would stop buying tickets and the lotteries would fold. There wouldn’t be much point in casinos, bingo or horse races either.
The world we inhabit isn’t like that. We have lotteries and casinos that make a fortune, despite the presence of many psychics who travel the world flaunting their talents.
This month, (July 2013) Australia will be hosting a visit from prominent, UK based, self-proclaimed psychic Sally Morgan. Sally is scheduled to do View More Another Big Psychic Show Rolls into Town
1. 54 cents
2. Derek
3. 8 pencils, 60 jars
4. a = 3, b = 5, c = 1, d = 7, e = 6, f = 2
5. 134 metres
6. The number 5
7. There are four possible answers: 22, 23, 24 or 25 blocks
8. Each word can be turned into a country by changing one letter; so your three answers should be CHILD (Chile) LAPS (Laos) and TIGER (Niger)
9. a. 2nd b. Tasmania c. Bill d. romance
10. 40
1. (a) Monopoly; (b) Pictionary; (c) Cluedo; (d) Trivial Pursuit; (e) Snakes and Ladders
2. East
3. Portugal
4. Mathematics: A vinculum is the horizontal line used to separate the numerator and denominator in a fraction
5. Verdun was a World War I battle. The others took place during World War II
6. Chromosomes
7. 1975
8. Mickey Mouse
9. Earl Grey
10. Charlie Chaplin
