BRAINTEASERS

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

1 Jack was found before Zac, who was not hiding in the cellar. The child in the garden was found after Mac. Neither Shakira nor the child in the kitchen were found first. The child found second was not in the kitchen, and the child in the bath was found last. If Zac was in either the garden or the kitchen, in which order was each child found?

2 Which two words meaning ‘brown’ and ‘man’ combine into one meaning ‘geometric line’? 3 Find the US cities in these anagrams: a) Eel Slogans, b) Wrens Alone, c) Rat Mobile.

4 Flags Anonymous have to make an 11x8 metre flag of the Faroe Islands for the 2018 Island Games. It consists of a blue Nordic cross with bars 2 metres wide, with a red Nordic cross with bars 1 metre wide overlaying it, all on a white background. What area of blue cloth will they need?