IMPOSSIPUZZLES

1. Joe was at the window. “There go the three Lang girls,” he said. “They all look the same to me, always in red or blue.” “Eve, Ann and Carol. Nice kids, but they do have a thing about those two colours,” Susan told him. “Ann wears blue if, and only if, Eve is in red, and you never see Carol and Eve both in blue. That’s Carol or Ann in the red mini, but they wouldn’t both wear red.”

Which of the girls would be in blue that day?

2. Today we have a Magic Square. That’s a sequence of consecutive positive numbers in a chessboard style formation, so that each row, each column, and each of the two diagonals will add up to the same Magic total: 50.

You only have to discover what the smallest and greatest numbers must be in this Magic Square.

3. “That’s right, six kids and all spaced evenly one year apart,” Clem declared. “Regular, like clockwork.”

Jim smiled. “Quite a family, but what ages?”

“Well, you get that this way,” Clem replied. “The eldest is just twice as old as the youngest.”

You figure it out!