BRAIN TEASERS

1) Paul is decorating a three-tiered cake with Pete and Pat. The bottom tier will be iced by Pat or Paul. Pete will not be icing the top tier. Paul will only use the pink icing if peach icing is used on the bottom tier, and vice versa. The icing on Pete’s tier will be pink or peach. Purple icing will be used either by Pat or on the middle tier. Which tier is each person icing and with which colour?

2) Which two words meaning ‘swindle’ and ‘only’ combine into one meaning ‘comfort’? 3) Find the British poets in these anagrams: a) Easy Ramp, b) Hydro Asthma, c) Werewolf Din.

4) Bob the brewer had 270 pints of beer in three barrels. He wanted each barrel to contain 90 pints. So he poured 25% of the first barrel into the second. He then poured half of the second barrel into the third. Finally he poured 1/3 of the third barrel into the first. How many pints were in each barrel initially?