BRAINTEASERS

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

1 Four friends are comparing their bikes. It transpires that James’s bike is cheaper than Jack’s bike and the green bike separately. The red bike is dearer than the yellow bike and Jamie’s bike separately. Jim’s bike is dearer than Jack’s, and the blue bike is cheaper

than James’s. If Jack’s bike is not green and Jamie’s bike is not yellow, which colour bike does each friend own?

2 Which two words meaning ‘prohibit’ and ‘anger’ combine into one meaning ‘bombardment’?

3 Find the Welsh towns in these anagrams: a) Hyper Lilac, b) Grind Bed, c) Bott Patrol.

4 Mary and Kerry run a dairy near Derry. Early in the year they had to sell one eighth of their herd. Shortly after this Kerry left a gate open overnight

and two cows escaped. Later their herd increased by 20% due to births. But yesterday two cows fell ill and died. If they now have as many as he started the year with, how many is that?