BRAINTEASERS

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

1 Lucy the race adjudicator blinked and missed the photo finish. Her assistant was eating a crepe and so wasn’t paying attention, though she recalls the red car placed before the white, the blue did not finish 3rd, and black came 1st or 2nd. Also if the blue car came 4th, white came 2nd; and black came 1st if red came 2nd. In which order did they finish?

2 Which two words meaning ‘pin’ and

‘guided’ combine into one meaning ‘confronted’? 3 Find the vehicles in these anagrams: a) Book Merit, b) Cabal Menu, c) Mini Louse.

4 Yuki the baker had a clumsy day at work. First thing she baked some custard tarts and then dropped one eighth of them on the floor. Then she stuck her fingers in two others. To make up for it she baked 20% more tarts than she had remaining, but managed to drop two of this batch! If she now has as many as she started the day with, how many is that?