BRAINTEASERS

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

1 In a Twista game Beth moved a hand and Dave moved either his left foot or right hand. The left hand was either placed on yellow or by Seth and a foot was not placed on red. Blue was used either by Beth or the right foot and Jeff didn’t play on blue or green. If

each move is unique in colour and body part, who moved where?

2 Which two words meaning ‘jeer’ and ‘ruler’ combine into one meaning ‘reservation’?

3 Find the primates in these anagrams: a) Tuna Argon, b) Art Memos, c) Pike Syndrome.

4 Tim’s USB stick can store a lot of photos. It can hold 3200 photos that were taken on the compact digital camera

or 400 photos taken on the digital SLR or 8000 photos taken using the phone. If each of these types of photo is an exact number of megabytes, what’s the minimum capacity of the device?