Answer

Answer
FRASER SIMPSON

5 + 7 ÷ 3 × 9 – 4 = 32

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Suit yourself

Suit yourself
FRASER SIMPSON

The playing card suits in the cells above are placed according to a pattern. What’s the missing symbol?

Answer

Answer
FRASER SIMPSON

Spade. Each suit has a numerical value: diamonds equal one, hearts equal two, spades equal three, and clubs equal four. Or, if you prefer, diamonds equal four, hearts equal three, spades equal two, and clubs equal one. Either way, each row and column adds up to 10, and the missing symbol is a spade.

Animal house

Animal house
MARCEL DANESI

How many pets live in my house if all of them are snakes except two, all are hamsters 
except two, and all are rabbits except two?

Answer

Answer
MARCEL DANESI

Win or lose

Win or lose
DARREN RIGBY

The Reds, the Greys, the Blues, and the Blacks have a round-robin tournament where each team plays the other teams once, for a total of six games. The Blacks won more games 
than the Blues, and the Greys lost more games than the Blues. The Reds tied the Blacks, the only tie in the tournament (a tie counts as neither a win nor a loss). Who won the game of the Reds versus the Blues?

Answer

Answer
DARREN RIGBY

The Reds. The Blacks tied one game, so they won a maximum of two games. They won more than the Blues, so the Blues won a maximum of one game. Since the Greys lost more times than the Blues, the Greys must have lost all three matches. The match that the Blues won must have been against the Greys, so the Blues lost the match against the Reds.

100-word mystery

100-word mystery

Lois and Helen, ­widowed sisters, lived together in the country. Their habits never changed: up at dawn, breakfast, some housework and gardening until lunch. In the afternoon, Helen napped while Lois watched her shows – Helen never watched TV. Then Helen would clean the vegetables for dinner and Lois would cook. In the evening, they’d read before bed. One night before they turned in, a storm knocked out the power. Every­thing was pitch-black, and Lois began to panic. “What should we do?” she cried. Helen just smiled and kept reading. Why did Helen stay calm while her sister did not?

Answer

Answer

Helen was blind.

Jake loves steak; Trish loves fish

Jake loves steak; Trish loves fish
SAMANTHA RIDEOUT

Jacob enjoys steak so much that the probability that he’ll have it for dinner on any given evening is one in three. The favourite dish of his wife, Patricia, is fresh fish. The probability that she’ll have it for dinner on any given evening is one in two. Because Jacob and Patricia always dine together, they’ll never have steak and fish on the same night. On average, how many times in a 30-day month will they be eating either steak or fish?

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