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Amazing“Aha!”Puzzles

IMPROVE YOUR ABILITY TO THINK ‘OUTSIDETHE BOX’ AND BOOST YOUR CREATIVITY!

Lloyd King

PUZZLE WIZARD

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

There are many kind people I’d like to extend my appreciationto for encouraging me in my puzzle writing. First of all, I’despecially like to thank Mum, Hannah, Nan, Mark, Anna and therest of my family for their help, advice and support. In addition,I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my dear Grandfather,Bert, who, though very sadly no longer with us, provided mewith the inspiration to create the various pirate puzzles in thisbook. When I was a child, he would often take great delight inpretending to be Long John Silver. He would grab a broom, turnit upside down to create a makeshift crutch and, then, with ahalf-crazed look in his eyes look at me and roar, “Ahrrrrr, me lad!Ahrrrrr!” He was a lovely chap and a real character and is veryfondly remembered by everyone who knew him. Next I’d like tothank the fantastically creative and friendly members of theVinci Society (www.vincisociety.net), who have put a greatdeal of time and effort into solving these puzzles and also givenme lots of extremely helpful feedback in the process. Finally, I’dlike to thank my friends and fellow puzzle designers Philip Carterand Barry Clarke for arousing my interest in puzzles in the firstplace and, also, for giving me lots of encouragement along theway.

Book design: Lloyd King

Published by Puzzle Wizard throughLulu.com

3131 RDU CenterSuite 210Morrisville NC 27560

USA

Amazing “Aha!” Puzzles © Lloyd King, 2004ISBN: 1-4116-1330-9

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the priorpermission of the publishers and/or author.

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This book is dedicated to my family and friends

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Other Books by Lloyd King

Test Your Creative ThinkingPuzzles for the high IQ

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INTRODUCTION

“Aha!” puzzles have always appealed tome more than any other type of puzzle.There’s just something about them thatstrikes a chord with me. In case you’renot exactly sure what they are, they’rethe ones with those frustratingly‘obvious’ answers. Yes, that’s right. Those ones! When the answer, which is usuallystartling, hits you, you get a sudden flash

of inspiration popularly known as an “Aha!” and it feels verymuch as though you’ve been hit by a bolt of lightning. It’s awonderful, energising feeling and it is this, in part, that makes“Aha!” puzzles so very rewarding and addictive.

Frequently the solution to an “Aha!” puzzle pops into your headunexpectedly while you no longer appear to be consciouslyworking on it. Surprisingly, this is the result of a complex parallelprocess that synthesizes the input from both of the brain’shemispheres. These are the right hemisphere, which is the moreimaginative and intuitive side, and the left hemisphere, which isthe more logical and analytical side. The data is relayedbetween the hemispheres via the corpus callosum, a thickband of more than 200 million nerve fibres.

In many ways “Aha!” puzzles are ideal for stimulating creativitybecause, by appearing impossible, implausible, bizarre orparadoxical in some way, they immediately arouse our curiosity.Also, because you know the answers are usually very simple(well, once you know them!), you feel you really ought to beable to get them. It’s just a matter of when and how . Thesefactors along with the prospect of an “Aha!” and the oftenhumorous nature of the answers awaken our childlike sense ofplayfulness, which is the key to unlocking our creativity. AnotherBIG plus is that no specialist or unusual mathematicalknowledge is needed to solve them, making them much moreaccessible to everyone .

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In designing the puzzles for this book I have tried my best tomake them exciting and intriguing so that they really grab yourattention. Because of this, they will hopefully stimulate yourcreativity and imagination, teach you to think ‘outside the box’,improve your ability to switch easily from one perspective toanother, increase the fluency with which you generate ideas,develop your intuitive powers, make you better at findingunusual associations and patterns and, with any luck, evenmake you laugh a little too. All in all, they should provide yourbrain with a truly comprehensive and mind-altering lateral work-out.

As you make your way through the various mind-warpingchallenges that follow, you’ll encounter all sorts of fun situationsand enchanting characters like Windlestraw the wizard,Cinderspeller the witch and Captain Swishbuckle, theswashbuckling adventurer. To negotiate them successfully, you

really will need to call upon every last drop of your imaginationand creativity and be willing to abandon your existingassumptions so that you are ready for all kinds of tricks, twists,lateral leaps and downright skullduggery too!

The puzzles, which are divided into four categories according totheir approximate level of difficulty, range from ‘Easy Riders’,which are the simplest, to ‘Quantum Leapers’, which will provea challenge to even the most experienced of puzzle solvers.

Well, I really hope you have at least as much fun solving thepuzzles as I did creating them, and that by the end of the bookyou feel as though you’ve learned something worthwhile alongthe way.

Lloyd :o)

Aha! Puzzleswww.ahapuzzles.com

[email protected]

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AHA! RATING

Easy RiderSubtle Side-StepperTough KookyQuantum Leaper

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1. A MAGIC SPELL

What magic word does this wizard say? (6 letters)

2. CAT AND MOUSE

Cinderspeller the witch has six mischievous pet cats calledBroomstick, Drusilla, Kat, Pumpkin, Theresa and Vanessa. Oneday one of these naughty cats catches and eats her petmouse, Hazel. Can you figure out below which cat ate her?

ATE HER

3. SHAKEN AND STIRRED ?

During a drinks party James Bond asks one of his colleagues thefollowing question. Can you correctly replace the asterisk to findout which famous Bond character he is talking to?

“Is neat rum ok, *?”

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4. THE SIX TOWERS

Can you add two lines to complete this sequence of towers?

5. PICTURE IMPERFECT

Here is a picture showing two wigwams nestled amongst sometrees on a Native American Indian reservation. What single thingis missing from the picture?

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6. GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION

Someone has stolen the petty cash from the office safe. Mr.Always, Mr. Now, Mr. Sometimes, Mr. Tomorrow and Mr. Ever areunder suspicion. Who?, what?, when?, how? and where?. Theculprit, guilty by association, is Mr. *. Can you figure out who didit?

7. SITTING ROOM

Take away one of the letters below to leave “a chair”.

HCAIR

8. GUESS WHO

Can you figure out what three-letter male name should replacethe question mark below and also give an approximation ofhow many sweets Samantha ate?

“I ate every one of the sweets my aunt gave me.”

said Samantha. “I guess ? ate 20 sweets in all!”

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9. THE DISAPPEARING PARROT TRICK

Picture ‘A’ shows Polly the parrot in her cage. Where’s Pollygone in picture ‘B’?

A B

Also, see if you can find a fish containing five letters in her cage.

10. THE FOURTH DIMENSION

Albert Einstein is in a room 5ft wide, 6ft long and 8ft high. Inanother way, however, it is ever so slightly less than IIft. Where ishe?

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11. THE SWORD IN THE LAKE

As King Arthur rowed across the lake, the mystical Isle of Avalonwith its castle at one end loomed out of the morning mist.Suddenly, the mist cleared and Arthur could see the legendarysword Excalibur rising up out of the lake. Can you?

12. ANALOGYCan you complete this analogy?

Choose from:

13. CAR CHASE

Can you unscramble the following letters to find a familiar two-word noun?

MOI CHEVROLET

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14. THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Move one line to leave both sides of this equation equal.

15. THE ODD COUPLE

Which two of these seven groups of letters are the ‘odd’ onesout?

16. LEAN AND MEAN

What is the next number in this series?

76, 77, 78, 79, 20, 27,?

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17. A CHANGE OF DIRECTION

This arrow is pointing from south to north. Move one line andadd another to leave the arrow pointing from east to west.

18. BULLY FOR YOU!

Move one match in this rearing bull to leave a famous NativeAmerican Indian.

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19. ON THE ROCKS

Just add ice to this cocktail to get a popular drink. (4 and 4letters)

20. REVERSE LOGIC

While Tess was stuck in a traffic jam in London recently adouble-decker bus pulled out of a side road just in front of her,turned right and headed in the direction shown. What is theexplanation?

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21. THINK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN

Egyptologist Sandy Tooms is deep inside the Cairo Museum ofAncient Antiquities searching the endless labyrinth of corridorsfor room 210 where some ancient Egyptian artifacts are beingstored. When she eventually finds the room she discovers to herhorror that she has forgotten the password to open the securitydoor. Unbeknown to her, however, the very appropriate eleven-letter password is, in a manner of speaking, right in front of her.

Can figure out what it is?

22. THE UNDERDOG

Move one of the letters below to a new position in the row tocreate a type of dog.

D G O

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23. YAKETY-YAK

This ‘yak’ has been created using matches. Can you take awaysix matches to leave a yak going in the opposite direction?

24. TAKE A BREAKCan you replace each * in the following sentence in an almostidentical way so that it makes perfect sense?

EVERY YEAR AT E*I IN THE FRENCH ALPSAND THE F*I THE MORE FUN I HAVE!

25. GO FULL CIRCLE

Can you fill in the rest of the letters?

ABCDE = HOMEBCDE = FORETELLCDE = P???

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26. WITNESS

Cinderspeller is in an especially bad mood today. Somescoundrel has stolen her brand new crystal ball. “Oh!” she cries,“You can’t trust anyone these days!” She suspects that one ofher five henchmen, Bill, Charlie, Len, Pete or Ron, has taken it,but she has no proof. Fortunately for her, Broomstick, her loyalblack cat, witnessed the theft and can therefore tell her whothe culprit is.

Can you figure out what the thief is called ?

27. THERE BE A SEA MONSTER HERE!

When swashbuckling adventurer Captain Swishbuckle hadsuccessfully navigated his way around the seven seas from eastto west, he saw a terrifying sea monster. Can you figure outwhat type of sea monster it was?

DCIUCQCSTCNCACICG

The thief is

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28. BOUGHT TWO BOOK

Anna absolutely loves to shop as well as to read, so when shecame across two copies of her favourite novel on sale for onlyninety cents each in a second-hand bookshop, she just had tobuy them. Can you figure out the title of this famous novel fromher bill, which is shown below? (5, 3 and 11 letters)

29. BUBBLE CAR

Take away three of the four shapes below to leave a sort of car.

30. SCIENTIFIC FIGURE

Fill in the missing letters to leave a well-known scientific figure.

??S??U?? ?E?? ?? ?E??E?? ??N???R??E (1543 – 1816)

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31. LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

Can you decode this letter in compressed Morse code, whichbegins with a dash and is followed by three dots?

Conversion Table

32. MEN OF LETTERS

Which letter should replace the question mark below: J, K, L, Mor N?

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33. ANIMAL MAGIC

What animal containing five letters can you create byrearranging one of the four letters below?

34. TEMPERATURE READING

Is this mug of coffee warm, lukewarm or cool and how do youknow?

35. THE HAPPENING

Which letter should replace the question mark below: L, M, N, Oor P?

N 1 M 1 H ?

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36. A DRINKING PROBLEM

A cowboy walks into a saloon bar and asks for half a pint ofbeer. What type of horse does he want and of what colour?

37. IT’S A KIND OF MAGIC

Have you always secretly thought of yourself as a bit of amagician? Well, here’s your chance to prove it! ‘All’ you haveto do is remove an ace from a deck to leave a bouquet. It

might seem impossible, but see if you can you do it.

38. GET A LIFT

Rearrange one letter to leave the word lift going from left toright.

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39. HOVER CRAFT

Outside the castle Windlestraw the wizard was honing hispsychokinetic powers ready for the upcoming Magic Olympics.Velvet, his black cat, looked on in wonderment.

“You’re bound to win, Windy!” she enthused, “I bet there’s notanother wizard in the entire kingdom that can make fifteencubes levitate.”“Ahem!” said Windlestraw, clearing his throat. “If you look a littlecloser, Velvet, you’ll see that there are, in fact, sixteen cubes.”Puzzled, Velvet carefully counted the cubes again, but shecould still see only fifteen.

Can you see the sixteenth cube?

40. EQUATION

Move one letter or symbol in this equation so that both sides are

equal.

X+X=O

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41. ANIMAL FARMER

Lucy asked a farmer about buying one of his baby animals tokeep as a pet. His reply, less five vowels, was as given below. Ifyou can correctly figure out what he said, you should then beable to figure out his name. What is his name?

T H P G L T S S L D

42. STAR-CROSSED

Fill in the missing letters to leave a kind of star containing eightletters that may be read in a clockwise or a counter-clockwisedirection, but not both.

43. CHANGEOVER

April goes into a shop in London that sells Native AmericanIndian products with £500. She spends £499 and 20p and leavesthe store with _ / _ _ _ _ _ _. What does she buy?

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44. COUNTER-FIT

Rearrange one of the 24 lettered counters below to leave atotal of 25 counters.

45. CLOCKWISE

An apprentice clock repairer is given the task of taking apart aclock and putting it back together again. Unfortunately, heforgets to put the hour and minute hands back on and oneother essential thing. Can you figure out what that is?

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46 THE EQUALISER

Move one digit below to leave both sides of this equationequal.

47. CLIFFHANGER

This year the owl has very wisely decided to go to sea in abeautiful luxury liner, while the pussycat has chosen to staybehind on dry land and wave goodbye from a nearby cliff topbecause, being a cat, she doesn’t like water all that much. Shelooks sad because the ship is sailing perilously close to the rockyshore and she doesn’t know what to do to warn it. Quickly now!Take away six straight lines from the pussycat to avert a

potential cat-astrophe!

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48. LION TAMING

While driving along in his van, the zookeeper of Puzzleville Zoospots an escaped male lion walking along a street. Can youhelp him catch the lion by taking away two lines to make itabout the same size as a mouse and, therefore, much easierand safer to capture?

49. WORDIE

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (4 and 8letters)

W O R KS E E S A W S

50. ?????????

Can you see what completes this sequence?

???5???2?, 1?1?, ??3???4??, 3??2???, ?6?5

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51. THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

Late one evening, while Robbie McTavish and his friends weresitting around exchanging stories in their local pub, he showedthem this sketch he had made of a strange looking beast hehad recently seen. When he told them what he thought it washis friends were a little sceptical. Do you know what he saw? (3,4, 4 and 7 letters)

52. KICKSELF

What do the following groups of letters have in common?

AEROQAR

ANIH AYNE AOMATPYG AYBI

ECNAR

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53. GHOST BRAINBUSTER!

On a recent visit to Haggis Castle, one of Scotland’s mosthaunted buildings, psychic investigator Spooky Hunter snappedthis amazing photograph, in which a ghostly figure can beclearly seen hovering on the right side of the picture. As if thatwasn’t incredible enough, when Spooky later studied thepicture he noticed that there was another ghostly being hiddenin the picture. Use your sixth sense to see if you can find it.

54. SUNDOWN

Logically, which 3 letters should be underlined in the bottomrow?

SUN M V E M J S U N PSUN B N L F K P N W XSUN T G P J U W F L CSUN P N W F A Y B L RSUN F O S K M E C T H

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55. SHEEP DIP

This is the conceptual artist Damien Picasso’s latest work, a hugetank with glass sides containing four fish suspended informaldehyde. Hidden somewhere in the tank is a femalesheep. Can you find it?

56. PLAIN SAILING

Can you work out the logic behind this equation?

57. NINE

Take away three lines below so that it still says 9.

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58. DON’T OVERSTEP THE MARK

Which phrase comes next in this sequence?

Choose from:

a) HOW OBVIOUSb) THIS IS THE ANSWER

c) I HAVE SOLVED ITd) I KNOW THE SOLUTION

e) THIS WAS FAR TOO EASY

59. MATCH PLAY

Rearrange these seven matchsticks to form a single squareshape. None of them may overlap or be broken.

DA VINCIEINSTEIN

ALPHA WAVE ARCHIMEDESLATERAL LEAP

?

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60. GOLDFISH

Professor Bunsen-Bernard loves goldfish and even keeps three ofthem in his laboratory, where they live in a glass chemistry flask,supported by a tripod. At the moment they are all facing toyour left. Can you take away eight of the short lines that makeup the three goldfish to leave another fish looking to your left?

61. THIS WILL DRIVE YOU DOTTY

While playing the board game Monotony, Tina the teenagergets bored and decides to examine one of the dice. While thesum of the number of spots on opposite faces is 7, as you wouldexpect, the face opposite the one she is looking at with 4 spotson it has only 2 spots on it. Can you think why this might be?

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62. TOP SECRET

In which case are the top secrets below: upper or lower?

63. THE PHANTOM MENACEWhen at night this clock appears to say thirteen o’clock all theghosts and ghouls come out to play and wreak havoc atSpooky Mansion. At what time is that?

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64. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

What number should replace the question mark below?

65. BUBBLE, BUBBLE, LOVE AND ?

Windlestraw has a number of magic potions that are shownbubbling away in flasks below. If flask B contains love potion,what kind of potion does flask D contain?

A B C D E F G H I

66. MAKING A SPLASH

Poor Professor Bunsen-Bernard has accidentally knocked over atest-tube of corrosive fluid that has splashed over the piece ofpaper on which he has written this letter sequence. The result isthat three of the letters have been completely obliterated. Canyou work out what the letters were?

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67. PURPLEBEARD’S TREASURE

In 1534 the infamous buccaneer Captain Purplebeard buriedsome treasure on the tropical island of Seaport at one of sixlocations: H, K, M, S, T and X. At which of these locations was thetreasure buried and why is the year 1534 and only that yearespecially significant?

68. LETTER QUEST

Which lettered shape should replace the question mark: 1, 2, 3,4 or 5?

Choose from:

1 2 3 4 5

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72. MISS-DIRECTION

What word should replace the question mark?

73. QUESTION TIME

If the answer is BOTXFS, the question is? (8 letters)

74. WATER INTO WINE

Below is a glass containing water, represented here by the letterW. Can you perform a minor miracle by moving one line toleave wine?

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75. THE RIDDLE IN THE STONE

Sir Percival was riding his trusty steed Snort through the Forest ofRiddles when he came across a babbling brook, beside whichstood a large boulder with some cryptic instructions and fourlarge letters engraved on it.

He dismounted, looked at the inscription for a moment, andthen said excitedly: “Ooh! I see!” Delighted to have solved theriddle, he jumped back on Snort and continued on his waysinging that ‘well-known’ medieval song Oh Early Light .

Can you solve the riddle? (3, 4 and 5 letters)

76. THEY’LL BE BACK!

Can you fill in the missing 4-letter term?

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77. AN INSIDE JOB

Turn the two dials until they are in the correct positions and thensay the magic words to unlock the safe.

78. SPANISH TREASURE

Rich Pickins the pirate has a treasure chest containing fiveidentical old silver Spanish coins. Below is an overhead viewshowing the open chest. What kind of coins does it contain?

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79. OUT OF AFRICA

What letter should go in place of the question mark?

80. NO END IN SIGHT

Can you place a letter in the end shape to leave somethingthat is made of sugar?

81. FINISHING TOUCH

One of the letters below is unfinished. Without changing the 4given letters in any way, can you complete that letter?

A I T H

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82. LIGHTS OUT

Below are four cars with four smashed headlights. Can youfigure out the culprit’s first name?

83. THE PIE-EYED PIRATE

Jolly Roger the pirate is especially jolly at the moment. He has just returned from a sea raid with a chest laden with goldennuggets and, to celebrate, he has decided to splash out on twopies at the local tavern. As you can see, he already has his eyeon one of them! However, he may soon become a very iratepirate when he learns the truth about his ill-gotten gains. Whatare the nuggets really made of? (4 and 6 letters)

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84. TAKE IT AWAY!

Take away one line to leave both sides of this equation equal.

85. BIG MISTAKE!

Can you see the mistake below? (4 letters)

86. CRYPTIC

Can you solve this cryptic?

Hidden in these lines for all to seeAre seven letters concealed by me.

First ask yourself why this is so oddEach one contained like a pea in a pod.

Next sit yourself down and sip some teaAnd let your keen eye meander playfully.Then see the answer jump out on elastic

And have the pleasure of solving this cryptic!

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87. DOWNTOWN

What is the name of the famous city below?

88. AHA!

Which option completes this word series?

GUESSSOUNDCARATTREAT

?

Choose from:

ASKED GLARE MATCH SPACE WHALE A B C D E

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89. CROSSBONES ISLAND

This small isle is known as Crossbones Island because its outlineresembles the two crossed thighbones found on the traditionalpirate flag, the Jolly Roger. All you have to do is move fromsquare to square in any direction to discover what item of jewellery is buried there. (1, 6, 2 and 6 letters)

90. SHAPE SHIFTER

Move one line to turn this square into a cone.

91. IN-SIGHT!

What word is invisible below?

E S B _ _ _ L V N

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92. HEADS AND TAILS

If you correctly add the two missing match heads below, youwill be left with a famous waterway. Do you know what it iscalled?

93. PICTURE PUZZLEWhat three-letter word does this picture represent?

94. SLEIGHT OF HAND

Two magicians get into a lift on different floors of an apartmentblock, press the same button and get out on the eighth floor.The question is “Why do the two magicians go to the eighthfloor?” The answer is “Because they both pressed a ***** 8.”What is the missing word?

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95. AHARRRRR!

The other day I was sitting in my local tavern The Spyglass , whichoverlooks the sea, when in sailed my old friend the pirateCaptain Conan Drum. “Well, shiver me barnacles!” he roaredon seeing me. He too is a bit of a puzzle addict and so, after joining me for a glass of grog and telling me about his latestexploits on the high seas, he couldn’t resist showing me his latestconundrum.

He reached into one of his jacket pockets and produced sevengleaming gold doubloons, which he then proceeded toarrange on the table in front of me exactly as shown below.“Now, me lad.” he said with a mischievous look in his eyes. “I’llwager you’ll not be able to solve this one. Take away two coinsfrom this here arrangement to leave five coins across and threecoins going down.”

It was clear the wily old sea dog still had one or two tricks left uphis sleeve, as I couldn’t for the life of me see how it could bedone. Can you see through his skullduggery and solve it?

96. GOING THROUGH A PHRASE

Can you find the familiar phrase below? (6, 7, 1, 2, 3 and 8)

ROUGH FATE

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97. OUT WITH THE OLD

Here are three rickety old houses. Can you rearrange the lasttwo houses so that they all become new?

98. TIME PLEASE!

Exactly what time does this one-handed alarm clock say? (4, 1and 5 letters)

100. CLOSE ENCOUNTER

Can you find the intruder? Which letter does not belong in thefollowing sentence?

jet faced yeti in blinding UFO

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101. MATCHMAKING

Below are eleven headless matches. Add two more headlessmatches to leave a total of fourteen.

102. ROUND TRIP

What is the next word in this sequence?

OPAQUETOPAZ

CHROME RIG

CODED BY POETS

HAT?

Choose from:

ANGLE, DREAMT, HEROIC, OWES, RESONATED.

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103. ANALOGY

What word completes this analogy?

SMALL CREATURES is to GOBLIN as

SCREAM A RESULT is to ?

104. TRICK OR TREAT?

Trick, an apprentice wizard, liked nothing more than to inventpuzzles in his spare time and his best friend Bo, a knight’s page,really enjoyed trying to solve them.

“Hey, Bo,” said Trick one sunny afternoon as the two of themwere sitting in the castle courtyard twiddling their thumbs. “Imade up a puzzle especially for you last night.” He handed Boa piece of thin paper with some digits on one side. “Wow,thanks, Trick!” said Bo excitedly, quickly grabbing it from him.“OK.” continued Trick, “Now, all you have to do is turn the pieceof paper upside down to discover what the King might one daysay to you.” Without pausing to think, Bo immediately turned thepiece of paper around and began staring at the invertednumber intently, but it didn’t seem to say anything at all. Atleast, nothing that made any sense. Then, just as he was aboutto give up, he had an “Aha!” and, seeing the light, could seethe phrase as clear as day. “Trick, you devil, you!” he saidlaughing. “I wish!”

Can you see what the phrase is?

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105. FILLING IN THE BLANKS

What is the missing word?

ONE OVER SIX MINUS FIFTEEN = DIMSEIGHT ADDED TO SEVENTY TWO = _ _ _ _

106. THE MISSING TIARA

What a disaster! On the very morning of the annual palace ballsomeone has stolen Princess Carolina’s tiara. She is very

distraught and adamant that, without it, she will not beattending the ball. Hurriedly, the King summons InspectorGumshoe to help find the missing tiara. When Gumshoe arrives,he immediately suspects five dodgy looking members of thepalace staff. They are Betty, Kenny, Percy, Terry and Wendy. Buthe can find no proof. Then just one hour before the ball is due tostart Gumshoe receives this anonymous note:

Understandably, he is completely baffled by it. Can you figure

out who stole the tiara in time so that the princess shall go to theball?

107. THE CHIPS ARE DOWN

What word is missing from this well-known rhyme?

10, 20, 30, 4.50, 60, 70 ?.

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108. FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Can you decode this well-known rhyme? Each symbolrepresents a letter.

109. THE GHOST PIRATE

In the Cornish seaside town of Looe is an old tavern called Davy Jones’s Locker , where there is an old wooden sea chest. Locallegend has it that it once belonged to an infamous pirate and

that, should anyone ever dare to remove six small identicalitems of jewellery from it, the ghost of this fearsome buccaneerwill appear and cut them to ribbons!

Are you brave enough to figure out who the owner of this chestsupposedly was and what the items of jewellery are?

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110. MAGIC SHAPE

All morning Windlestraw had been teaching Trick how to makevarious objects levitate. “Well done, my boy!” said Windlestrawproudly, for his protégé had just succeeded in making elevenpens levitate.

“That’s amazing!” said Bo, unexpectedly bursting into the room.Unfortunately, his sudden arrival broke Trick’s concentration andthe pens tumbled to the floor. Windlestraw frowned.“Oops, sorry.” said Bo sheepishly.“No problem.” said Trick smiling at his friend. “I was gettingpretty tired anyhow.”“Hey!” said Bo perking up again, “That heap of pens suggests amagic shape!”“Yeah?” said Trick somewhat doubtfully.“Yes, really!” replied Bo.“So it does!” said Windlestraw chuckling, “Bo’s absolutely right.”

What magic shape does it suggest?

111. FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT

Take away six letters to leave a familiar phrase. Be warned,though. You’ll need a beady eye to solve it!

ABCDEFGHIJ

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112. TRAFFIC JAM

As you can see, there are two vehicles below shown going tothe left. Can you find a third type of vehicle going to the right?(1 and 7 letters)

113. I WENT NEXT

What should replace the question marks? Clue: I went next.

114. SECRET RENDEZVOUS

Two travellers decide to meet up in Red St around 2am. Inwhich city do they intend to meet?

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115. WOOLLY THINKING

If the letter “U” is missing from the following arrangement ofletters, where exactly does it belong?

A S O

E H

P C S

V B R

X

K .

116. A NEW ADDITION

Add one line to leave both sides of this equation equal.

117. DESIGNER SPACE GEAR

Rearrange one letter below to leave something only anastronaut might wear.

ATSUI

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118 ON TO CAR

At the moment this car is facing you. Can you move just twoshapes to leave it looking to your right?

119. CREATE A CREATURE

Alice was walking through the forest when she came across arather strange-looking creature. If you choose the correct letterfrom one of the two words on either side of the brackets andthen insert it inside the brackets, you’ll be able to read thename of this creature going downwards.

ACT (__) PUNLOG (__) HATDOT (__) FLYRED (__) CATWAG (__) ORBHUG (__) MAPIRK (__) YEN

LEG (__) BOAHEN (__) PALBUG (__) ASKFOX (_) CAR

120. A TALL STOREY

This building, if feet lower, could be one of the tallest buildings inthe world. What is it called?

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121. CIRCULAR REASONING

Can you find the missing letters?

FOE = PERIPHERYDUO = CONCURRENTLYHERO = F???

122. GOLD DIGGERS

Some gold miners wish to dig a hole. If it takes them 10 - 8minutes to dig two holes, how come it takes them 10 - 4 minutesto dig one hole? Also, how many miners are there? Assume theyalways take the same amount of time to dig a hole.

123. CONDUCTOR

By what name is this conductor better known? (9 and 3 letters)

THOR DINGLING

124. LATERAL THINKING PUZZLE

Professor Ed de Bono was in his study deep in lateral thoughtwhen in popped his young son. His son then asked him aquestion to which the preoccupied professor replied: “02417,20. I’m 43895896.” Looking somewhat disappointed, his son thenleft the room. If each digit represents a letter of a familiarphrase, what did the professor say and what is his son’s name?

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125. ONE HUMP OR TWO?

An Arab is on board a new train that takes in the capitals ofBeirut, Amman and Cairo. How many humps does his camelhave?

126. MISSING NUMBERS

What are the three missing numbers?

RAT = 35, 55, 90.IT = 70, 40, 70.

ET = ?, ?, ?.

127. DECODESee if you can decode the following to find out what you are.

Bcr ILOLI ADNET

128. CONTINENTAL DRIFT

A certain creature is taken from a continent and moved to theregion found on the exact opposite side of the Earth. Oncethere, however, it finds itself back in the continent from which ithas just been removed! What is the creature? (3 letters)

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129. CODE WORD

First convert these letters to Morse code and write the resultingsequence of dots and dashes on a piece of paper. Then see ifyou can decode this sequence to find an appropriate eight-letter word.

U E T R E B A IConversion Table

130. LETTER PYRAMID

What is the missing letter?

AA G

P A GO G E T

F A G O RF R A G A L

C A T ? R A G

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131. WORDIE

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (3, 6 and 6letters)

CH BOOTYEST

132. MISSING WORD

What is the missing word?

COME

GOESDOWNUP

MUST?

133. IT’S A GAS!

Which gas is no longer present in this list? (5 letters)

SILICONHELIUM

NEONHYDOGENMERCURYOXYGEN

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134. WORDIE

What word does the following represent? (10 letters)

LMN U

135. HORSING AROUND

In what place will these four horses find themselves when theyface the other way?

136. NOTHING TO IT

Can you figure out the logic behind this equation?

9 – I + 0 = 0

137. IT’S A MIST-ERY

While Windlestraw is taking a nap under his favourite enchantedtree, his two mischievous nephews, Bubble and Trouble, whoare spending their summer holidays with him, creep into themagic cave where he keeps all his magic potions, spell booksand other equipment. Very soon they begin fighting over hismagic wand and accidentally turn themselves into two smallcreatures - all around are thick mists. What type of creatureshave they turned themselves into? (5 letters)

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138. THE PYRAMID TEMPLE

Treasure hunter Nebraska Jones emerges from the dense jungleundergrowth to find himself in front of a large pyramid-shapedtemple. Above the entrance he notices this series of strange-looking symbols. What do they represent?

139. SHORT AND SWEET

What should replace the question marks below?

4n = 10 for suren = ?? ????

140. A STRANGE CONCOCTION

What letter is missing from this weird sequence of letters?

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141. TWISTER

Can you figure out what these weird looking things are?

142. THE F PLANCan you rearrange two of the eleven toothpicks below to leavea capital F?

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143 THE BOTTOM LINE

Which word completes this list?

Choose from:

A B C

D E F

144. UPPER CANINE

What two letters should replace the question marks?

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145. CARD SHARP

Below are 14 cards with some of the letters of the alphabet onthem. Why does the letter K appear on the missing card?

146. WORDIE

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (8, 3, 1, 5, 2and 4 letters)

147. LARD JUMBLE

Can you find an eight-letter word amongst these ten jumbledup letters that describes what the other two letters are?

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148. X MARKS THE TREASURE

One of the Xs on this map indicates where some treasure isburied. What is the treasure and in what country is it found?

149. ABOUT FACE

Can you take away one line from this picture of a spotted dogto leave a picture of a horse?

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150. A LATERAL LEAP

Trick was taking a snapshot of Windlestraw up on top of one ofthe castle battlements where the snow-capped peaks of thenearby Witch Hat Mountains formed the perfect backdrop.

“Hey, Windy!” called out Trick, who was peering at him throughthe camera’s viewfinder. “Could you possibly move just onestep to your right? I’m afraid I can’t quite see the city behindyou.” Looking baffled, Windlestraw gathered up his robe andleaped sideways in a sprightly and comical fashion. “That’sperfect.” said Trick, clicking the shutter button while trying very hard not to laugh!

Look carefully at Trick’s photo of Windlestraw below and see ifyou can discover what he meant.

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151. SOUNDS A LITTLE FISHY

While visiting the Natural History Museum in London you go tosee their incredible life-size model of a Blue Whale and noticethat a letter has fallen off the sign in front of it. How do you fixthe sign and, in so doing, also create a small spiny fishcontaining eleven letters?

152. THE WITCH’S SPELL

From what creature has Cinderspeller created this demoniclooking cat with a forked tail?

153. MISSING LETTERS

The following has ‘LA’ on one side and ‘NY’ on the other. Canyou figure out what it is?

_ _ _ / _ N _ _ E _ / _ _ A _ _ _

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154. WORDIE

What familiar two-word noun does the following represent? (6and 7 letters)

155. CAN YOU CRACK IT?To open a safe door you must turn this pointer either 90 degreesclockwise or 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Be careful, though.If you turn it the wrong way, a security alarm will go off. Whichway should you turn the pointer so that it says open?

156. WORDIE


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157. THE TRUTH WILL OUT

Today is Florence’s birthday, but she doesn’t want anyone toknow just how old she is so there are no candles on her cake.Despite this, see if you can figure out how many candles shouldbe on it, her age as indicated by that number and, lastly, whatshould replace the question mark.

158. COSMIC, MAN!

Can you add the three objects on the right to this space sceneto start a cosmic meltdown? You may place them behind thosealready in the picture.

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159. SAUSAGE DOG

Here is a dachshund, which is a dog with a long body and shortlegs, on a lead. Can you take away 4 lines to leave somethingelse with a lead?

160. WORDIE

What film does the following represent? (1, 4, 4, 1 and 4 letters)

ROOMFU

161. MONSTER DIAMONDS

You discover these four boxes in a cave, guarded by a terrifying

monster, which is sound asleep. Suddenly, it awakes! Quicklynow! Which box contains three large diamonds?

A B C D

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162. HUNTER-KILLER

Which three letters are missing from the following: ETL, HUS, LWO,TEP or YRA?

BON CCC SOIR

163. MATCHING PIGS

Here are two pigs facing each other created using matchesand buttons. One of them has six spots. Take away 2 matchesand move 3 buttons to leave 2 identical pigs facing the sameway as each other.

164. CAPITALISE

Rearrange these four shapes to leave two capital Hs.

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165. THINK AHEAD

Mr. Wells’ favourite sequence goes like this. Can you find thelast two missing shapes?

Choose from:

A B C D E

166. SERIES

What four-letter number comes next in this series?

onethirty-two

fifteenforty

seventeensixty-eight

????

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167. OVERTAKING MANOEUVRE

Below are two right-hand drive cars, which are headingtowards you. The car on the left has pulled out of its lane and isovertaking the car on the right. Very soon it will be directly infront of it. Can you move just four shapes so that the car on theleft is in front of the car on the right? Each rectangle, circle, etc.counts as one shape.

168. CANINE CONUNDRUM

This picture of a naughty dog describes a familiar phrase thatsays where he might end up. Where is that? (2, 3, 3 and 5letters)

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169. MISSION TO MARS

While on an exploratory mission to Mars you discover an ancientbuilding with this strange set of symbols above what appears tobe some kind of doorway. To enter the building, you mustdecipher their meaning. Can you figure out what that is?

170. WORD LIST

What word completes the following list?

TURKEYSHACK

ATONEYACHTKNOTS

?

171. MISSING LETTERS

The following normally has two Cs at the front and two at theback. Do you know what it is?

? A ? E ? O ? S ?

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172. COCKTAIL

Below is a diagram of a glass containing a cocktail stick. Canyou move one line to complete the cocktail?

173. HYBRIDA man meets a cross cat. What sort of cat is it? (4 and 3 letters)

174. FALLING ON HARD TIMES

A rambler goes for a walk. He starts out from X and walks to Y.Next he walks from Y to Z and then from Z back to X. At whattimes does he start and finish his walk?

175. PHRASE

What does this say?

TH! S! SAS! LLYTR! CK

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176. NAME AND NUMBER

Three crack shots, Sue, June and another person, fire nine shotsat three targets. Some bullets pass through the targets. Two ofthe shooters’ names and scores are given below. Can youfigure out the third one’s name and score?

SUE = 665 JUNE = 7675 ? = ?

177. WORDIE


xπ r

178. NINE LINES

Move one of the small lines below to a new position in thearrangement to leave nine. There should be no redundant lines.

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179. THE SPY WHO PUZZLED YOU

Secret agent Dublo Waite is dining out to lunch with hissecretary Penny Money in a trendy London restaurant when thewaiter hands him this seemingly unfinished message:

Dublo Waite quickly reads the message, apologises to PennyMoney for having to leave her at such short notice, and thenheads off to meet the informant, who will be wearing a brightred what? (4, 2 and 5 letters)

180. MONKEY PUZZLE

What does this say?

181. ANALOGYWhat two-digit number should replace the question mark?

Dublo Waite, I have some vital information for you. Meetme at Trafalgar Square at 2pm today. You will be able tospot me because I shall be wearing a bright red ..

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182. THE KISS

Can you find the missing circle?

Choose from:

A B C

D E F

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183. IN A WORD

Rearrange one letter to leave a word.

184. JUST A MINUTE

The hour hand, minute hand and second hand of a watch,

indicate that it is exactly 12 o’clock. Exactly sixty seconds laterthe second hand points directly to the very first minute divisionline after the hour one. If the watch is in perfect working order,what is the explanation?

185. CROSSWORDS


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186. WORDIE


Y RPLA A PA T

187. OUT OF SHAPE

Which one of these five shapes is a sort of gentle arc?

188. CUBE

Can you fold this unfolded, six-sided see through cube just fourtimes along four lines to leave a cube?

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189. RIVER CROSSING

This famous river has a number of cities along its course. What isits name?

190. DIGITWhat digit is represented by the question marks below?

2 4 6 7 3 9 0 ? ? ?8 9 5 8 4 9 3 ? 8 65 4 2 0 3 7 3 ? ? ?

9 3 6 7 3 8 6 3 4 ?7 3 2 2 3 2 0 ? ? ?

191. A POINTLESS EXERCISE

Place the same four letters, none of which are adjacent in thealphabet, in the same positions in each of these letter wheels toleave two eight-letter words going either clockwise or counter-clockwise.

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192. SERIES

Which figure comes next in this sequence?

Choose from:

A B C D E

193. SOLVE IT!

Can you find the answer below?

SUN

LIT

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194. PHRASE SEARCH

Start at the square containing the letter ‘T’, as indicated below,and then move from square to square along the connectinglines without changing direction between consecutive squaresto spell out a famous phrase of 3, 4 and 7 letters. You must visitevery square at least once. The first letter of the phrase hasbeen placed in the grid.

195. ODD ONE OUT

Which is the odd one out?

A B C D E F G H

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196. GAMESMANSHIP

Move one of the two digits on the right side of this equation tothe left side to leave both sides equal.

197. ODD ONE OUT


a) amw

b) driakblc) uookd) ku

e) urlwf) laong) ouar

198. WALKABOUT

An Aborigine goes on walkabout in the Australian outback. Hewalks IOºNN and finds a vegetable. He then walks IºNSE andhears a sound. What does he see when he walks IºNW: a koalabear, a drunk, a movie, a shooting star, a toothbrush or a flyingsaucer?

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199. TURN OVER

In the following arrangement of fourteen cards, only two cardsare spades, one of which, the ace, is shown face up. Whichadditional three cards should you turn over to be certain ofleaving at least one other spade showing?

200. LOW-KEY

What letter should replace the question mark in this incompleteset of keys?

201. AROUND THE TABLE

Seven knights - A, B, C, D, E, F and G - were arranged in aparticular order around King Arthur’s Round Table: B faced ?.

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202. BARNSTORMER

A storm is approaching and Merryweather the horse is standingoutside the barn where his stable is. Can you take away oneline and rearrange another to leave him safely in his stableinside the barn?

203. TOAD IN THE WHOLE

A dog made out of matches is lying on a grassy riverbank andits reflection is clearly visible in the river’s waters. Take away twomatches, one arranged horizontally and the other arrangeddiagonally, to leave a toad.

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204. MAKE THE CONNECTION

Can you see how this sequence of numbers is connected to pi?

3, 1, 19, 19, 15.

205. GET THE LO DOWN

Can you complete this 5-letter word? The letters ‘LO’ could besaid to be a synonym of the 5-letter word you are looking for.

? L O ? ?

206. WORDIE


M AL L A

R

D

207. EASY TIGER!

What sounds just like a tiger and occupies areas of coniferousforest extending across much of sub-arctic North America andEurasia? (5 letters)

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208. SIGNS

What letter should replace the question mark?

− H E ÷ M O = E − E ÷ ?

209. AN INSECT

Can you fill in the missing letter to leave an insect?

SEANC?

210. IN A JAM

Jan has just three more ingredients to add to complete thedamson jam. What are they? (3 letters)

211. WORDIE

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (1, 4, 2, 3

and 6 letters)

JACK JOKER DEALS

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212. STATELY HOME

In which very famous stately home would you find thefollowing?

MOATRUINSCAFE

DIET TEAS

213. ANGEL FISHHere is an Angel fish in an aquarium. Believe it or not, there arealso eleven other ‘fishes’ of the same size in the aquarium. Canyou find them?

214. PICTURE ALBUM

Which famous popular music album cannot be seen in thispicture? Each star represents a letter in its title.

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215. PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS

You are at a garden party hosted by the Count and Countessde Vine at Le Chateau Bordeaux. Go on don’t be shy. Eventhough you may not speak French very well, raise a glass andtry to make some kind of chat.

216. WORDIE


MOOR WITHOUT OARS

217. BRAIN TWISTER

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (5 and 7

letters)

TORN BRA ADO

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218. ODD ONE OUT


A B C D E F

219. SERIES

Fill in the rest of the letters to complete this series of words.

_ I _ M _ _ _ S _ L _ _

_ H _I _ T _

_ P _ I _ _ _S _ G _ _

220. EQUATION

Rearrange one letter so that this equation is correct.

T V = S

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221. WORDIE


222. DRIVER

This car is midway between the states of Massachusetts andNew York. What is the famous driver’s last name? (7 letters)

MA NY

223. MISSING LETTER


R E - E M P T

Choose from:

N, O, P, Q, R.

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224. ANAGRAM

Can you rearrange the four i’s below to create an anagram? (7letters)

i i i g r i m

225. ODD ONE OUT

Which row of letters is the odd one out: 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

226. VULGAR FRACTION

How can you add a line like those below to leave an eighthand a ninth?

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227. COMPOUND FRACTURE

What chemical compound do these elements make? (6 and 8letters)

Se + O + Md + Ho + Cd + I + Ru + Li

228. WORD SEQUENCE

What nine-letter word comes next in this sequence?

TESTINGMINDS

MIGHTYLOFTY

STRENGTH?????????

229. A LEADING QUESTION

What same letter can be added to each of the following rows

of letters to leave five words going across from left to right?

HO?HAT?HY?

HEN?HERE?

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230. WE HAVE COG-NITION!

Rotate the three cogs and replace the question marks with theletters B, O, O and T to leave an appropriate two-word phraseof ten letters reading across from left to right.

231. EQUATION

Can you complete this equation?

232. IT’S A DRAG

Add only F to leave a creature with wings.

DRAG

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233. THE TOP ROW

Can you type a nine-letter word on this slightly unconventionalkeyboard on the top row that means surrendered? Each keymay be ‘pressed’ any number of times.

234. MATCH BOXES

Below are fifteen paper matches arranged to create six non-square rectangles. Can you take away just one of these papermatches to leave six fewer non-square rectangles?

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235. PERFECT CUBE

Here is an incomplete three-dimensional view of a cube. Canyou rearrange one match to leave a perfect cube?

236. DOCTOR PUZZLE’S EQUATION

Doctor Puzzle is in his lab scribbling equations on a blackboard.Suddenly, Doctor Puzzle squeals, "Z plus Z equals ?!" See if you

can figure out what letter should replace the question mark.

237. MAGIC ROUNDABOUT

Around 100 AD two Arabs reinvented a word associated withmagic. What is that word?

238. INSIDER DEALING

Where in a house might there be room for the letter ‘d’?

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239. ODD ONE OUT


A SireB RailC NacreD WinE Lo

240. WORDIE

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (3, 4, 2, 1, 4and 4 letters)

IN IN IN IN IN

241. ON TRACK

What might a middle or long distance athlete often run withduring a record attempt and yet, conversely, also be unable torun with? (9 letters)

242. MISSING LETTER

What's the missing letter?

a, c, f, g, i, l, p, t, v, z.

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243. YOUR TURN

Can you rearrange these letters to form one word? (8 letters)

AN ENIGMA

244. PEN AND OINK DRAWING

This pig is in a pen with just three sides. Without adding orchanging anything around the pig, can you somehow leave itcompletely penned in?

245. CHARACTER BUILDING

Alice and the Dormouse are sitting at one end of a tea tablesipping endless cups of tea. At the other end is this broken alarmclock, which has only one hand. If the clock’s two rings are attwo and ten o’clock, which Alice in Wonderland characterappears?

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246. WORD SEQUENCE

Can you fill in the two missing letters?

MY, VIEW, MOJO, STUD, ?A?

247. ASSOCIATION

Find the common association between the three things on theleft and then fill in the missing letter on the right.

IOIO, APPLE, 7 SWATS?

248. THE RUIN

By the side of a lake are the ruins of an old castle. See if youcan rearrange just one of the four remaining sections of itssurrounding wall so that the word ‘ruin’ might possibly be readfrom left to right from the opposite side of the lake, but withoutusing a mirror.

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249. PATCHWORK

One day Twitchet the rabbit was feeling especially hungry, sohe broke into a farmer’s vegetable patch and _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _until it was almost coming out of his long floppy ears. The farmerwas less than pleased! What are the two missing words? Clue: 8letters.

250. OQ TEST

Fill in the missing letters to leave a five-letter word reading down.

O Q O O O O O O O = ?O O Q O O O O O O = EO O O O O O O Q O = NO O O O O O Q O O = ?O O O O O Q O O O = ?

251. CAN YOU SPOT IT?

Can you fill in the missing spot?

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252. MISSING LETTER

Can you fill in the missing letter?

253. ODD ONE OUT


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254 THE NAME OF THE GAME

By moving like a chess knight from square to square, see if youcan spell out an eight-letter game. Do not visit a square twice .

255. MATHS PUZZLE

What is the missing boy’s name?

256. LETTER GRID

Can you place the letter Z in the following grid so that every

letter of the alphabet appears only once?

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257. ANALOGY

What three-digit number completes the following?

2 : 1 :: 4935 : ???

258 DISCOVERY

An archaeologist unearths a piece of lime wood from an axethat is more than 100 years old. Can you explain why thisdiscovery might be said to be a bit of an anticlimax?

259. NOW AND THEN

Sally arranges eleven matches on a table in a certain way. Shethen rearranges five of them so that, amazingly, what was oncetwo, is now six. How were they arranged originally?

260. GIVE IT A BREAK!

How can you break a matchstick into three pieces of differentlengths so that the resulting sound is majestic? (5, 1 and 4 letters)

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261. DOTS AND DASHES

Can you complete this series?

262. ODD ONE OUT


A B C D

263. SHIP AHOY!

What single thing is physically impossible in this picture of apirate ship?

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267. WORDIE


AND AND AND DNA

268. LEAPFROG

At the moment this frog is sitting beside a pond. Move onematch and take away another to leave it disappearing fromview.

269. LETTER SEQUENCE

What is the missing letter: B, J, L, P, S or W?

A ? D F G H J K L

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274. MENTAL ACROBATICS

Below are six men, who are acrobats. Take away three straightlines and three circles to leave three famous prudent men.

275. IT’LL COME TO NOTHING

What comes after the number 7 in this sequence?

1 SEQUENCE2 PUZZLER

3 THAT4 WILL5 BUG6 YOU7

276. SYMBOLISM

Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden. If Eve is a little crossover nothing, can you draw what Adam is?

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277. PLANETS

Here are five newly discovered planets observed orbiting adistant star. What is the name of the fifth planet: Andros,Boronia, Calaro, Dulata or Eya?

278. SEQUENCEWhat is the missing letter?

1M2ULAN3E4RIV5R?

279. ANALOGY

What word completes this analogy?

LETTER SPOTTED : DEFLECT :: CENTRE RUINED : ?

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280. GAS

Which one of the following is a gas?

C 5L12 OH25 D18 O 7E14 M5N4

S 9L9C 15 NS 5E4

281. DO YOU DIG IT?

As you can see, Biscuit the clown is wearing a very snazzy suit.His favourite party trick is to change out of it into another suit atthe drop of a hat. What does this other suit look like?

282. NEXT, PLEASE!

What number comes immediately after the following? Hint: Itcontains seventeen digits!

12,215,308,523,345,916

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283. DISAGREE TO AGREE

Can you take away two straight lines to make both sides of thisequation agree ?

CI = 2I

284. MATCH TRICK

Take away eight of the matchsticks below and yet leave one

matchstick behind. There are no hidden matchsticks.

285. TOWER BLOCK

In which city is this tower found?

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286. GOLDEN BLAST

Which pair of letters does not belong in the following?

AI UG US CT

287. THE TEMPLE OF GLOOM

Nebraska Jones finds an empty wooden crate in a chamberdeep inside the crumbling ruins of the Temple of Gloom. Yet

again his dastardly rival, Dacoit, has beaten him to the treasure!Can you figure out which priceless ancient artifact is missingfrom the crate? (3, 3, 2, 3 and 8 letters)

288. WORDIE

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (6, 2, 2, 3and 3 letters)

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289. PAIRING OFF

Which pair of letters are the odd ones out?

N P D Fa b c d e

290. RED FACES

You have a solid figure with flat faces of the same size andshape. Each of its faces is painted either green or red, witheach green one being called 'odd' and each red one beingcalled 'even'. If you redo red on each 'odd', how many redfaces will the resultant figure have?

291. UNDER LOCK AND KEY

You are in a prison cell which has just two access points, awindow and a door that is locked. Can you rearrange thematch and one of the eight toothpicks to enable you toescape?

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292. OH NO!

What should replace the question marks in this series?

40,1O,41,2O,42,2O,43,1O,44,2O,45,1O,46,1O,47,1O,48,1O,49,1O,??,??

293. LADY IN RED

Here is an owl standing beneath the moon and a cluster of sixbrightly shining stars. Can you rearrange the moon, four of thestars and four of the owl’s six L-shaped toes to leave a picture of

a female bird?

294. IT SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED!

What seven-letter word can be seen in the middle of this graffiticovered wall?

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295. CLUB TOGETHER

Which card must you turn over to be certain of leaving just oneclub showing?

296. QUADRI-LATERAL

Sanju rearranged these six quadrilateral shapes to leave threepossible views of three separate cubes with individual sides of just one colour. Every part of the six shapes formed part of thethree cubes formed and none of the six quadrilaterals

overlapped. How did he do it?

297. MATCH TEASE

Can you rearrange two of these eight matches to leave forty?

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298. MANY MOONS

As Luke looked up at the clear night sky from the planetOrpheus, he was able to see its six orbiting moons, Aoo, Iruti,Onoo, Tonuo, Tokali and Upidoe. Can you see which one of themoons is inhabited?

299. EQUATION

Rearrange one of the symbols or digits below so that both sidesof this equation are still equal.

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300. ON THE TILES

Below are some square tiles with various shapes in them. Two ofthe tiles are unfinished. Can you complete them by correctlyfilling in the missing shape?

301. DARK HUMOURWhat letter replaces the question mark below: A, B, C, D or E?

AIR,DOOR, A,DATE, BLACK,?

302. GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES

Which number on the last clock should the missing minute handpoint to?

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303. PICTURE PUZZLE

Which one of the following is missing from the table below: M, N,O, P or Q?

304. ADD A LINEAdd a line to leave nine.

305. MISSING NUMBER

What is the missing number: 415, 612, 717, 812 or 915?

DEJA = 121NOSE = 119JUDE = ?

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306. WORDIE

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (2, 4, 3, 2and 5 letters)

THE THREE MUSKE

307. UNKNOWN QUANTITY

All the little folk, who dwell in Amy’s garden, are either TroothFairies, who never tell the truth, or Storytellers, who always tellthe truth.

One summery afternoon, Amy notices a group of little folk sittingunder a shady toadstool at the end of her garden. After gentlyintroducing herself, she asks one of the males in the group howmany of those gathered under the toadstool are Trooth Fairies.He thinks for a moment and then replies, “None”.

Realising that this approach probably won’t get her very far,she asks her good friend Barney the owl, who is sitting in theapple tree nearby and who she knows to be completelytruthful, if he can tell her how many Trooth Fairies there areunder the toadstool. “Oh yes!” he chirps, “There is...”Unfortunately, the number he gives at the end of this three-wordsentence is drowned out by Amy’s dog Cacophony, whosuddenly arrives on the scene barking wildly, causing a verystartled Barney to fly away. As a result, Amy still doesn’t knowthe answer to her question.

Can you figure out how many Trooth Fairies there are under thetoadstool?

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308. NUMBER SEQUENCE

What digit completes this sequence?

?

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310. LOSE HAIR

Can you find a five-letter word amongst these eight jumbled upletters that describes what the other three letters are?

311. SEQUENCE

What comes next?

NFR, DFR, JEY, FFY, MCH, ACL, ?

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312. ATLANTIC CROSSING

It is 11.50am and a Jumbo jet bound for Heathrow airport inLondon has just taken off from John F. Kennedy airport in NewYork. The co-pilot looks at the clock on their instrument paneland says to the pilot: “We’ll be able to see the approximateshape of the British Isles in about 8 minutes.” Baffled, the pilotlooks at him and says: “But that’s impossible!” What does theco-pilot mean?

313. WORDIE

What familiar phrase does the following represent? (3, 3, 2, 3, 6,2, 3 and 3 letters)

a b a b a b

c d c d d

314. SETTING A PRESIDENT

The US president, who is buried in St Ginna. What is his name?

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315. FRACTION

Can you move one line to leave a ninth?

316. TRUTH DETECTOR

A man is shot dead in a New York alley. Shortly after the policearrest a man fitting a witness’s description of the gunman seenfleeing the crime scene. They also recover the murder weapon,a revolver, several blocks away in a trash can. Unfortunately,the fingerprints on its handle are not quite clear enough toidentify the murderer. During the suspect’s interrogation theinterviewing officer asks him if he has ever shot anyone and to

write down his answer. Naturally, he writes ‘no’. Surprisingly, theofficer is then fairly certain that he is not the culprit. How come?

317. UNDERHANDED

Below are two pictures of an actual alarm clock. Given that it ispossible, can you determine which of the two hands the alarmhand is under in diagram ‘B’?

A B

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1. A MAGIC SPELLVOODOO. The wizard’s head, eyes, nose, mouth and hat aremade up of the letters in ‘VOODOO’.

2. CAT AND MOUSE

Theresa. Replace the question mark in ‘? ATE HER’ with the letterS to get ‘S ATE HER’, which is an anagram of ‘THERESA’.

3. SHAKEN AND STIRRED ?He is talking to his famous gadget man “Q”. The completedquestion “Is neat rum ok, Q?” is an anagram of ‘QUESTIONMARK’. This is hinted at in the puzzle’s title ‘SHAKEN AND STIRRED? ’.

4. THE SIX TOWERSAdd the two lines to the second tower from the left to completethe ‘X’ in the inverted letter sequence U, V, W, X, Y that formsthe towers’ roofs.

5. PICTURE IMPERFECTA large club symbol. The picture is made up from the variouselements on a four of clubs playing card.

6. GUILTY BY ASSOCIATIONMr. Ever because ‘ever’ can be placed after ‘who’, ‘what’,‘when’, ‘how’ and ‘where’ to form new words.

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7. SITTING ROOMTake away C to leave ‘H-AIR’ which sounds like “a chair”.

8. GUESS WHOThe missing name is Tim. Samantha said “I guess tim ate 20 sweetsin all!” so she ate approximately 20 sweets.

9. THE DISAPPEARING PARROT TRICKAt the bottom of the cage where there is a polygon (Pollygone). The fish is a perch.

10. THE FOURTH DIMENSIONHe is in a lift. The second character of the word ‘Iift’ is not acomplete ‘I’ and so ‘lift’ is fractionally less than ‘IIft’.

11. THE SWORD IN THE LAKEThe Isle of Avalon forms the top half of a sword lying on its side.

12. ANALOGYJ. The analogy is:

PETER is to PAN as CAPTAIN is to HOOK.13. CAR CHASEMOTOR VEHICLE.

14. THE FRENCH CONNECTION

15. THE ODD COUPLEHÈGT and WEÊLT. Whereas these two groups of letters areanagrams of even numbers, the rest are anagrams of oddnumbers.

16. LEAN AND MEAN

22. The series is ‘16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22’. The ones have beenrotated to look like sevens.

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17. A CHANGE OF DIRECTIONAdd a line to the ‘ N’ to make a ‘W’ and move the vertical lineon the right side of the ‘S’ to the left to make an ‘E’ so that thearrow is then pointing from east to west.

18. BULLY FOR YOU!Move the bull’s back leg to the position shown below to createa sitting bull. “Sitting Bull” was a famous Native American Indianchief.

19. ON THE ROCKSAdd ‘ICE’ to ‘LDOAT’ (the letters in the diagram) and thenrearrange them to get ‘DIET COLA’.

20. REVERSE LOGICThe diagram of the ‘bus’ is really an overhead view showing thebus pulling out in front of Tess. The ‘wheels’ are just for disguise.

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21. THINK LIKE AN EGYPTIANThe password is ‘Tutankhamen’, which sounds like “two-tencome in”.

22. THE UNDERDOG

Place the letter D between the letters G and O to leave ‘GDO’,which represents ‘DinGO’.

23. YAKETY-YAKTake away the six matches to leave the letter K. ‘KAY’ is ‘YAK’going in the opposite direction.

24. TAKE A BREAKReplace each asterisk with ‘ASTERISK’ as follows :

EVERY YEAR AT E ASTER I SK I IN THE FRENCH ALPSAND THE F ASTER I SK I THE MORE FUN I HAVE!

25. GO FULL CIRCLEThe missing letters are O, E and M. Treat the Cs as incompleteOs to get:

ABODE = HOMEBODE = FORETELL

ODE = P OEM

26. WITNESSRon. The question mark is positioned over the cauldron so thethief is “called Ron”.

27. THERE BE A SEA MONSTER HERE!Starting at the letter G, navigate around the 7 Cs (seas) fromright (east) to left (west) to find GIANT SQUID:

D IU Q ST N A I G

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28. BOUGHT TWO BOOKSense and Sensibility (“cents and cents, a bill eighty”).

29. BUBBLE CARTake away the two circles and the rectangle to leave the arc,which is a sort of car.

30. SCIENTIFIC FIGUREABSOLUTE ZERO IN DEGREES CENTIGRADE. 1543 – 1816 = –273,which is absolute zero in degrees centigrade.

31. LETTER OF INTRODUCTIONThe ‘letter’ is the letter B. Decoded, the Morse code reads‘DASH DOT DOT DOT’, i.e. a dash followed by three dots, whichis the letter B.

32. MEN OF LETTERSL. Each figure of a man is constructed from the four letterssurrounding it.

33. ANIMAL MAGIC

A horse.

34. TEMPERATURE READINGCool. The outlines of the fingers and thumb in the diagram spell‘COOL’.

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35. THE HAPPENINGP. Substitute each number ‘1’ in the sequence for ‘ONE’ to spellPHENOMENON going backwards.

36. A DRINKING PROBLEM

The horse is a ‘pinto’ (half a pint o f beer), which has patchymarkings of white and another colour, usually brown or black.

37. IT’S A KIND OF MAGICRemove the letters A, C and E from the phrase ‘A DECK’ in thediagram to leave the letter D, which looks like a bow, and theletter K. “Bow-K” sounds like ‘bouquet’.

38. GET A LIFT

39. HOVER CRAFTThe 16th cube is the number 729 (9x9x9), which is formed by thecubes’ darker sides.

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40. EQUATION

Place the addition sign under the O to form ♀ , the symbol forfemale, to get the equation ‘X X = ♀ ’ with XX being the normalfemale chromosome pattern.

41. ANIMAL FARMERThe farmer said, “THE PIGLET IS SO LD”. Since the missing vowelsare ‘EIEIO’, the farmer must be Old MacDonald.

42. STAR-CROSSEDASTERISK.

43. CHANGEOVER‘A teepee’, which sounds like “80p”, the amount of money sheleaves the shop with.

44. COUNTER-FITThe 25th ‘counter’ is the word ABACUS, created by rotating thecounter with the letter D on it 90° counter-clockwise.

45. CLOCKWISEThe alarm hand.

46. THE EQUALISERPlace the seven underneath the two ones on the right side ofthe equation to create a number four like this:

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47. CLIFFHANGERTake away the six lines that make up the pussycat’s eyes andears to leave a lighthouse radiating light.

48. LION TAMINGTake away the two curved lines forming the van’s wheels to turnit into a letter. The lion then appears to be about the same sizeas a mouse.

49. WORDIE

Work overseas.

W O R KS E E S A W S

50. ?????????????????? . The answer is given in the title! Just add the ninequestion marks to the end of ‘ ?6?5 ’ to get ‘ ?6?5????????? ’ sothat in each group of characters the sum of the digits is equal tothe number of question marks in it.

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51. THE NUMBER OF THE BEASTThe Loch Ness Monster. Robbie’s sketch shows the monster withits reflection in the loch’s waters.

52. KICKSELF

They are countries shown backwards without their first letters.The missing letters are K, I, C, K, S, E, L and F.

AERO(K) ► KOREAQAR(I) ► IRAQ

ANIH(C) ►CHINA AYNE(K) ► KENYA AOMA(S) ►SAMOATPYG(E) ► EGYPT AYBI(L) ► LIBYA

ECNAR(F) ► FRANCE

53. GHOST BRAINBUSTER!‘ENTER’ plus the letter ‘t ’, formed by the shape of the ghost,sounds like “entity”.

54. SUNDOWNS, E and T. The underlined letters in each row can be placedafter SUN to form a new word.

SUN M V E M J S U N P = SUN S SUN B N L F K P N W X = SUN K SUN T G P J U W F L C = SUN G SUN P N W F A Y B L R = SUN NY SUN F O S K M E C T H = SUN SET

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55. SHEEP DIPEach fish is made up of three arrowheads. In the fish in thebottom left corner of the tank they point East, West, East or EWE.

56. PLAIN SAILINGPLANE + T = VENUS.

57. NINETake away three lines to leave the remaining ones indicating 9o’clock.

58. DON’T OVERSTEP THE MARKc. Replace the ‘?’ with ‘QUESTION MARK’ to leave a continuoussequence in which each consecutive row contains one moreletter than the previous one.

59. MATCH PLAY

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60. GOLDFISHTake away the eight lines to leave this front view of a fish lookingto your left.

61. THIS WILL DRIVE YOU DOTTYThe face opposite the one she is looking at is her face and,being a teenager, it, not surprisingly, has 2 spots on it.

62. TOP SECRETUpper. The words ‘TOP SECRET’ are inupper -case letters.

63. THE PHANTOM MENACEAt midnight when the second hand points straight up betweenthe X and II of twelve to make XIII.

64. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX4. Each number equals the number of feet on the bottom of theletters in the preceding word.

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65. BUBBLE, BUBBLE, LOVE AND ?War. The flasks contain the nine planets and their moons.

66. MAKING A SPLASHInsert the letters W, F and U to get ‘HT WOSOFOUR’, which isH2SO4, i.e. sulphuric acid.

67. PURPLEBEARD’S TREASUREX. Rearrange the letters on the map to get the phrase ‘X MARKSTHE SPOT’. The year, 1534, gives the number of letters in eachword in the answer.

68. LETTER QUEST

3. The lettered shapes can be arranged to form:

69. SPACEMAN

Rearrange the letters in ‘STAR’ and ‘TUNA’ around ‘O’ to get‘ASTR-O-NAUT’.

70. TO CATCH A THIEFSUSAN. The capital letters in the puzzle spell out the phrase‘SUSAN STOLE IT’:

71. WHAT’S COOKING?

Mushrooms. Invert each ‘flask’ and add a short curved line toget these two mushrooms:

72. MISS-DIRECTIONSEEN. Each ‘direction’ is a number on a clock face minus thoseletters that are not directions, i.e. N, E, W and S.

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73. QUESTION TIMERVFTUJPO. BOTXFS is obtained by advancing one letter in thealphabet from each letter in ANSWER. Therefore, RVFTUJPO isobtained from QUESTION in the same way.

74. WATER INTO WINEMove one line like this to leave w-in-e:

75. THE RIDDLE IN THE STONEThe Holy Grail. The letters ‘00IC’ can be arranged to form thispicture of The Holy Grail (anagram of ‘Oh Early Light’):

76. THEY’LL BE BACK!The missing word is TERM. The top row equals PAL-IN-DROMEand the bottom row equals TERM-IN-ATORS.

77. AN INSIDE JOBRotate the dials to get the phrase ‘OPEN SESAME’ going across.

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78. SPANISH TREASUREPieces of eight. The ‘coins’ in the treasure chest are reallypieces of the number 8.

79. OUT OF AFRICA

. If you treat each small circle as a letter ‘o’, you will see thateach row of figures is actually an anagram of a word. In the toprow the word is ‘monsoon’, in the middle row it is ‘zoology’ andin the bottom row it is ‘Morocco’.

80. NO END IN SIGHTA sugar cube.

81. FINISHING TOUCHAdd a letter C to leave AITCH.

82. LIGHTS OUTThe undamaged headlights and radiator grills spell ‘TARA’ inMorse code.

T A R A83. THE PIE-EYED PIRATEIron pyrite (eye on pie right).

84. TAKE IT AWAY!Take away the line in the division symbol so that the left side ofthe equation becomes ‘7:30’, which is the time indicated by the

two lines forming the ‘1’ on the right side of the equation.

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85. BIG MISTAKE!If you ignore the spots, you will see that the lines forming thecubes spell ‘BOOB’.

86. CRYPTICThe underlined words below sound like the letters in ‘CRYPTIC’.

Hidden in these lines for all to seeAre seven letters, concealed by me.First ask yourself why this is so odd

Each one contained like the pea in the pod. Next sit yourself down and sip some teaAnd let your keen eye meander playfully.Then see the answer jump out on elastic

And have the pleasure of solving this cryptic!

87. DOWNTOWNChicago.

▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ C H I C A G O

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88. AHA!A. Replace the question mark with ‘ASKED’ and the letter ‘A’given below it to form the word ‘EUREKA’ going down.

GU ESSSO UNDCAR ATTR E AT

AS KEDA

89. CROSSBONES ISLAND‘A STRING OF PEARLS’ can be found by following the island’soutline in a clockwise direction.

90. SHAPE SHIFTERMove one line to the right to leave C1, which spells ‘CONE’:

91. IN-SIGHT!Invisible! If you treat the 3 space lines as letter Is, you’ll be ableto find all the letters in ‘INVISIBLE’.

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92. HEADS AND TAILSAdd the two match heads to the arrangement like this to get‘PANAMA CANAL’ in Morse code:

93. PICTURE PUZZLEOwl. It’s a picture of an owl on its side.

94. SLEIGHT OF HAND

The missing word is digit because ‘pressed a digit 8’ sounds like‘prestidigitate’.

95. AHARRRRR!Take away the two coins on the right end of the row of fivecoins to leave ‘five coins, a cross and three coins going down’. Ifell into his trap and misinterpreted what he was actually askingme to do.

96. GOING THROUGH A PHRASEFAR OUT. Take out the 6th, 7th, 1st, 2nd , 3rd and 8 th letters in thephrase ROUGH FATE.

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97. OUT WITH THE OLDRearrange the last two houses so that the three houses orarrows then point N, E and W like this:

98. TIME PLEASE!Five o’clock. The diagram is constructed from the letters in ‘FIVEO’CLOCK’.

100. CLOSE ENCOUNTERa. The rest are found in the phrase ‘Unidentified Flyi

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