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  • During the recent Puzzlefry school sports day, four girls were competing in the 400 meters hurdles. Official figures mysteriously went missing just after the event, however, various spectators could remember the following information. Josie was never suspected though!

    1. Jane won and wore red.
    2. The girl wearing number 1 came third.
    3. Julie beat the girl in yellow, but wasn’t wearing number 2.
    4. Only one girl finished in the same position as the number she wore, but she didn’t wear red.
    5. Jackie beat the girl wearing number 3 and Josie wore yellow.
    6. The girl in green wore number 2.
    7. A spectator remembered one girl wore blue, but couldn’t remember anything else about her.

    Can you determine the positions the girls finished in, along with the numbers and colors they wore?

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  • I traveled from London to Glasgow last week at 60 miles per hour, I had filled my petrol tank just before I left, so it was full with 25 gallons.

    Unfortunately, my petrol tank sprang a leak immediately and I only managed to drive 300 miles before I ran out of petrol.

    My car does 30 miles per gallon, how fast was I losing petrol through the hole?

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  • What 5 digit number am I thinking of.

    It has two prime digits.

    Digit 3 is the highest digit.
    Digit 2 is lowest digit.
    Digit 1 is higher than the sum of digits 4 and 5.
    Digit 5 is half of digit 4.
    Digit 1 is one smaller than digit 3.
    Digit 5 is between digit 2 and digit 1
    There are no duplicates and the digit 0 does not appear.

    Do not forget that 1 is not prime.

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  • One day,
    One of a pair of identical twins celebrated their first birthday.

    Two days later,
    The other twin celebrated their birthday.

    The twins were born within 5 minutes of each other – so how can this be explained?

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  • A traveller, on his way to Mexico City, reaches a road junction, where he can turn left or right. He knows that only one of the two roads leads to Mexico City, but unfortunately, he does not know which one. Fortunately, he sees two friends standing at the road junction, and he decides to ask them for directions.

    The traveller knows that one of the two friends always tells the truth and the other one always lies. Unfortunately, he does not know which one always tells the truth and which one always lies.

    How can the traveller find out the way to Mexico City by asking just one question to one of the two brothers?

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  • A man takes a basketball and throws it as hard as he can. There is nothing in front, behind, or on either side of him, and yet, the ball comes back and hits him square in the face. How can this be?

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  • You are driving a bus. At the first stop, you pick up 12 monkeys and 18 gorillas. At the second stop a giraffe and two tigers get on the bus and sit in the back. At the third stop, a zebra and pig get on and sit in the back next to the giraffe and tigers. At the last stop, an orangutan, a parrot and 27 alligators get on the bus. Then, they go to the zoo.

    Now, how old is the bus driver?

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  • The recent Puzzle fry annual marathon has just taken place. The judges have given up keeping a track of who won, as the results go missing each year. Using the following spectators’ notes, can you determine who finished where?

    • Terry Tipton finished after Lisa Limperton and Betty Brent, but before Michael Miller.
    • Paul Peterson finished before David Dartford and Lisa Limperton.
    • Simone Stevens finished after Paul Peterson and before Jane Jacks and Helen Hall.
    • Kenny Kirkpatrick finished after Paul Peterson, Michael Miller and Terry Tipton.
    • Lisa Limperton finished after Betty Brent and David Dartford, but before Jane Jacks and Michael Miller.
    • Michael Miller finished after Simone Stevens and Betty Brent.
    • Betty Brent finished before Jane Jacks, Michael Miller and Paul Peterson.
    • David Dartford finished before Kenny Kirkpatrick and Terry Tipton, but after Simone Stevens.
    • Jane Jacks finished before Kenny Kirkpatrick, Terry Tipton and Michael Miller, but after Paul Peterson and David Dartford.
    • Helen Hall finished before Michael Miller but after Lisa Limperton, Jane Jacks and Terry Tipton.

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  • Five men, whose names are Bob Edison, Tom Stevenson, Marty Brown, Jim Davis, and John Alberts were being questioned by the police for a crime committed in their local golf house.

    Other detectives have already investigated, they have questioned the suspects, the witnesses, and people who know the suspects and they have collected physical evidence from the crime scene. They have collected the following 14 clues, but have not been able to solve the crime. Therefore, they have called in the world’s greatest detective: YOU, who must now examine the clues and solve the crime for them and find the culprit.

    No two suspects have the same hair colour, weight, height, wife’s first name, or colour shoes.
    The suspect who has red hair weighs 140 pounds.
    Bob Edison is 5 feet 3 inches tall.
    The culprit has a wife named Mary.
    The suspect who weighs 150 pounds is not the one who is 5 feet 9 inches tall.
    The suspect who has a wife named Pam is not the one who has blonde hair.
    Jim Davis was wearing orange shoes.
    John Alberts has black hair.
    The suspect who has a wife named Betty weighs 200 pounds.
    Tom Stevenson weighs 210 pounds.
    The suspect who weighs 200 pounds has no hair.
    The suspect who has a wife named Cathy weighs 140 pounds.
    Marty Brown has brown hair.
    The suspect who has black hair has a wife named Mary.
    The suspect who has no hair is not the one who was wearing orange shoes.

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