BRAINTEASERS

Can you bend your brain around this set of mathematical, lexical and logistical teasers?

1 Four colleagues accidentally shared the wrong contact details with each other after a meeting. ‘I didn’t call you Cal, did you call me?’ asked Cate. ‘I called the person who called you’, replied Cal. ‘Cam didn’t call me, Cam called my caller’, said Carl. ‘I only

called Cate if it was Carl who called me’, added Cam. Who did each colleague call?

2 Which two words meaning ‘vomit’ and ‘fibs’ combine into one meaning ‘tipplers’?

3 Find the hairstyles in these anagrams: a) Caked Lords, b) Toy Plain, c) Ecstatic Rummy.

4 Blodwyn collects water, run off from her garage roof that measures 2.4m by 4.9m, in a cuboid tank to water her plants. The

tank is 60cm by 1.5m and is 1m high. If all of the water that falls onto the roof is collected, how many millimetres will have to fall to fill the storage tank completely?