Santa Claus sometimes helps the elves by making some toys. He’s not so fast as the elves, but he can still make 30 toys each hour. In order to keep from getting bored he starts each day by building 50 trains and then switches to building 50 aeroplanes. Then he switches back to trains and […]

Jimbo Gulliver was planning an intergalactic space trip to the planet Lilliputinyweesmallminutania which had a very tiny moon named Tinylittliddybiddy… well never mind what it was called. Here dwelt the smallest people in the universe.In order to give them access to his spaceship doorway, which was 3 metres off the ground, he decided to build

A customer arrives at an apple cider farm with a five-gallon container and asks the farmer to put four gallons of his finest cider into it. Unfortunately, the only measure the farmer has is a three-gallon jug. Can you think of a way that the farmer can measure out exactly four gallons of cider using

I’ve had a very peculiar life. For the first quarter of my life, I played no sports at all. After that, I only played one sport at a time.After the first quarter, I played only baseball for ten years. I got tired of that, so I switched to only playing tennis for nine years. Next,

A word triangle is created by taking a word, putting the first letter on the first line, putting two of the second letter on the next line, three of the third letter on the third line, etc. Given the word TEASER, the word triangle would look like this: TEEAAASSSSEEEEERRRRRR If you begin at the top

In your last adventure, you left a broken-down supply truck in the middle of a desert, near the equator. You and a Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV) have been airlifted to the disabled truck, so you can repair it and bring it back to the camp.Because of recent attacks, the whole area is under a communications

At the local Sunday school meeting, the teacher brought in some puppies. There were 20 more children than puppies. In the corner of the room, within the ant’s nest, there were exactly 10 times as many ants as children. In total, including the teacher, the children, the puppies and the ants, there were 1440 legs

I have 7 bags of marbles. There are 200 marbles in total. Using the clues below, work out how many marbles there are in each bag. Bag 1 + Bag 2 = 57 marblesBag 2 + Bag 3 = 83 marblesBag 3 + Bag 4 = 71 marblesBag 4 + Bag 5 = 43 marblesBag

My local bus company has recently expanded and no longer has enough room for all of its buses. Twelve of their buses have to be stored outside. If they decide to increase their garage space by 40%, this will give them enough room for all of their current buses, plus enough room to store another

A dairy farmer had 54 litres of milk in three churns. He wanted to make sure each churn contained 18 litres.First, he poured 1/4 of the first churn into the second churn. Then he poured 1/2 of the second churn into the third churn. Finally, he poured 1/3 of the third churn into the first

When Skid Mark walked into a shop, he bought a bottle of mineral water, 2 sandwiches and a bag of crisps. This cost him 761QEM.Later on, Exclamation Mark goes into the same shop and buys a sandwich and a bottle of fizzy juice. This cost him 408QEM.Later, Birth Mark goes into the same shop and

Mom bakes a cake. Dad ate 1/6 of the cake. Brother ate 1/5 of what was left. Then sister had 1/4 of the remaining cake. After that the dog ate 1/3 of the remaining cake, and finally another kid ate 1/2 of what was left after the dog had finished. What fraction of the whole

A shop sells apples at $1 each. Each of these apples is wrapped in a special wrapper. You can trade 3 of these wrappers for 1 apple.If you have $15, how many apples can you get altogether? Answer22 apples.Firstly, you can get 15 apples.Trade the wrappers to get 5 more apples.Trade again and you’ll have

Fred had just started work in Hotel Plush and was dealing with a demanding but important guest. “Pour my coffee, boy! I want exactly 200ml coffee to which you will add enough full cream milk to make it 20% milk. Do it correctly and you may go about your other duties; if you get it

Dave, the janitor of an apartment block, notices that the boiler pressure is rising, and will shortly explode.He phones two of the residents, tells them the news, asks them to do the same and phone just two more people, and then get out of the building.Assume that each of the residents is in, and answers