Puzzle Answers

Challenge yourself by solving these puzzles and mind stretchers, then check your answers on page 133.

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Antonini: blue. Dubois: yellow. Borden: orange. Englehardt: brown. Cruz: white. Fung: green. SCHOOL SUPPLIES Buy one B and two Ds for $5.10. CONALL’S COINS Seven 10c coins and 13 5c coins.

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (DIFFICULT) Each of the six people quoted below live in one of the six houses in the neighbourhood shown. The houses are white, brown, green, blue, yellow and orange. Assuming that everyone is telling the truth, whose house is painted which colour?

Mrs Antonini: Mrs Borden lives due north of me. Mrs Borden: I live in the orange house. I can walk to Mrs Englehardt’s house without crossing any streets. Mr Cruz: I live due east of a green house. Miss Dubois: There’s a white house north of mine, but I can’t see it from my house because there’s a brown house in the way. Mrs Englehardt: I live directly across a street from both a yellow house and a white house. Mr Fung: I live in the green house. SCHOOL SUPPLIES (MODERATELY DIFFICULT) You need to acquire at least six pencils, six pens and six erasers for $5.20 or less. If the packages listed below are the only combinations that are available, which do you take? You can buy more than one of the same package.

A: Two erasers for $0.70. B: Four pencils, one pen and two erasers for $1.30. C: Three pencils, four pens and three erasers for $3.20. D: One pencil, three pens and two erasers for $1.90. E: One pencil and five pens for $2.30.