Black, Red, White
What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?
SOLUTION
The answer is CHARCOAL.
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Puzzle Sum 13
What state does this sum spell?
SOLUTION
WISP + EAR – PEAR + CONVENT – VENT + SINGER + MAN – GERMAN = WISCONSIN
The Pony Puzzle
Print the image below, cut out the six parts of the pony, and then rearrange them so that a picture of a horse (not a pony) appears.
SOLUTION
The horse is formed in the empty space between the pony parts.
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Pierre the Maze Detective in the Last Giant Maze
Help Pierre catch the evil Mr X before he manages to escape from this giant maze. On your way to him, look out for these hidden items:
- 5 hidden stars
- 5 green treasure chests
- 5 red trophies
Mr. X’s sidekick (wearing a striped blue shirt)- 5 elephants
- 1 lion
- 1 shark
- 1 ghost
- a stolen statue’s head
- 10 gold weathercocks
Excerpt from Pierre the Maze Detective: The Search for the Stolen Maze Stone,
published in 2015 by Laurence King Publishing Ltd., London.
SOLUTION
The solution is shown below.
Trolls and Cakes
You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It’s her birthday, and you want to give her the cakes you’ve made.
Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make-believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.
How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arrive at Grandma’s with exactly 2 cakes?
SOLUTION
You leave with 2 cakes. Every time you cross a bridge, you give one of them to a troll, and then get it back. Eventually, you will arrive at your grandma with exactly 2 cakes.
Teardrop Maze
Enter through the tip and find your way to the shine of this teardrop.
SOLUTION
The solution is shown below.
The Candy Shop
A candy shop lets children exchange 3 chocolate wrappers for a brand new chocolate. Willy is walking around town collecting chocolate wrappers from people. How many wrappers must he collect in order to eat 10 chocolates?
SOLUTION
He needs only 21 wrappers. He uses them to get 7 chocolates. After he eats them, he is left with 7 wrappers, which uses to get 2 more chocolates. After he eats these, he is left with 3 wrappers, which are enough to get one more chocolate and make them 10 in total.
Professor Al’s Books
Professor Al has put the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy books on his shelf in order, next to each other. The books are hard copies, with pages which are 1/100in thick and covers which are 1/8in thick. A worm is eating its way from the first page of the first volume to the last page of the third volume. If each of the volumes contains 400 pages, how long this distance is?
SOLUTION
The first page of the first volume and the last page of the third volume are separated only by the second volume and the extra 2 book covers. Therefore the distance is 4in + 0.5in = 4.5 inches long.