PUZZLES
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A farmer dies, he has three sons, John, Fred, and Rupert. He also has 17 horses.
In his will he leaves the horses to his sons, one half of the total horses to
John, one third of the total horses to Fred, and one ninth of the total horses
to Rupert. The sons are scratching their heads trying to work it out, when up
rides the blacksmith on his horse, the sons tell him of their problem, “
that’s easy” says the blacksmith. How does he do it ?. No chopping
up of horses please.
2. 4. 6. 30. 32, 34, 36. 40. 42. 44. 46. 50. 52. 54. 56. 60. 62. 64. 66. ___ what is the next number in the sequence ?. Not the obvious..
A man is walking through a train tunnel, when he is a quarter of the way into
the tunnel, he looks back, and see’s a train coming. If he runs back to
the beginning of the tunnel, he will get there at same time as the train. If
he runs forward to the far end of the tunnel, he will get there at the same
time as the train. He runs at 10 miles per hour, he doesn’t know how long
the tunnel is, or how far away the train is when he see’s it…. What
is the speed of the train ?.
Day trippers
When some day trippers started off on their annual seaside trip, each minibus
carried exactly the same number of people. Half way there, 10 minibuses broke
down, so each remaining minibus carried one more person.
On the way back, 15 more minibuses broke down, so there were 3 more people in
each minibus than when they started out in the morning.
How many people went to the seaside and in how many minibuses?
100 METERS RACE
Two brothers decide to have a 100 mtr race. The older brother wins the race
by 3 mtrs.
They decide to have another race with the older brother handicapped, so the
older brother starts 3 mtrs. further back. They both run at the same speed as
they did in the first race. Who wins the second race?
FLUID
There are two, 2 litre glasses. One glass contains 1ltr of red fluid, the other
contains 1ltr of yellow fluid. You take 1 large spoonful ( one tenth of a litre
) of fluid out of the red glass, and pour it into the yellow glass. You then
take 1 spoonfull ( one tenth of a litre ) of fluid out of the yellow glass (
which now contains some red fluid ) and pour it into the red glass.
Does the red glass contain more yellow fluid than the yellow glass contains
red fluid, or is it the other way round, or are they the same.
RAFFLE
There was a raffle, where people received different coloured tickets in a sealed
envelope. Those that got a Red ticket won £100. Those that got a Blue
ticket won £75.
There was a total of 1260 winning tickets.
Only a quarter of the Red ticket winners collected their winnings
Only a third of the Blue ticket winners collected their winnings
How much money was paid out.
THE BIRDS AND THE TREES
One evening some crows come to roost in some trees in a field.
The crows spread out, so there are the same amount of birds in each tree.
There are between 200 and 300 birds.
The answer is such, that there can be only 1 possible combination to the answer.
How many trees are there in the field.
PIGGY BANK
A piggy bank contains £20.41. It is made up of four different denominations of coin and the largest denomination is £1. There is the same number of each coin. How many of each coin is there, and what are their denominations.
SQUARE FLOOR
There is a square floor, tiled with square tiles, ( no broken or part tiles
).
A man comes along, lifts all the tiles and stacks them in a pile, he adds 100
square tiles of the same size to the pile, and uses them all to tile another
square floor. How many tiles were used to tile the new floor.
FLIGHT
A pilot travels from one airport to another. If he flies at an average speed
of 300 mph. He arrives at his destination 1 hour early. If he flies at an average
speed of 200 mph. He arrives 1 hour late.
What is the distance of his journey.
What would be his average speed, to arrive on time.