BRAINTEASERS

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

1 Crypticville neighbours are discussing where they live. ‘Fay lives next to May but not in the red house, Ray lives next to the grey house and no.8 is not the blue house.’ said Jay. ‘No.4 is between Jay and the white house, May does not live next to no.2 and Jay does not live at

no.6 or the blue house.’ said Fay. Where does each person live?

2 Which two words meaning ‘plan’ and ‘index’ combine into one meaning ‘utopian’?

3 Find the building materials in these anagrams: a) Core Cent, b) Yowl Pod, c) Tat Creator.

4 Ken’s car uses half a tank to go 200 miles.

If he wants to go 120 miles, given that the tank holds 80 litres, what’s the

difference in cost between using the same fuel at £1.27 per litre and £1.19 per litre for the journey?