BRAIN TEASERS

1 Lucy, the race adjudicator, blinked and missed the photofinish. Her assistant was eating a crepe and so wasn’t paying attention, although she recalls the red car placed before the white, the blue did not finish third, and black came first or second. Also, if the blue car came fourth, white came second; and black came first if red came second. 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. She baked some custard tarts and 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 left, but dropped two of this batch. If she now has the same number of tarts as she started the day with, how many is that? Solutions nexxttweeeekk