Black, Red, White
What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?
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Difficulty: Medium
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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King Octopus and His Servants
King Octopus has servants with 6, 7, or 8 legs. The servants with 7 legs always lie, and the servants with 6 or 8 legs always tell the truth. One day four of the king’s servants had the following conversation:
“We together have 28 legs,” said the first octopus.
“We together have 27 legs,” said the second octopus.
“We together have 26 legs,” said the third octopus.
“We together have 25
Which of the four servants told the truth?
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Getting Older
If the day before yesterday Tim was 18 years old and next year he will be 21 years old, what is the date today?
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Every Song
John: “I know every song in the World.”
Paul: “It can’t be. I bet you don’t know any songs which contain the name of my daughter – Beatrice.”
John accepted the bet and won. Which song did he sing?
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Along O’Brien’s Bridge
Get from START to FINISH in this landscape maze, created by Matthew Haussler.
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Every Night, Every Morning
Every night I’m told what to do,
and each morning I do what I’m told.
But I still don’t escape your scold.
What am I?
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