BRAINTEASERS

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

1 ‘I don’t want my lolly, or Chuck’s lolly, or the orange lolly’, whinged Chad. ‘Chip doesn’t have or want the lemon lolly’, said Chuck. ‘I’ve been given the lolly that Chip wanted!’ moaned Chet. ‘Chuck was given the cherry lolly, and Chet wasn’t given the cola lolly’, added Chip. If no one child wants their given lolly, which flavour lolly do they want?

2 Which two words meaning ‘ignited’ and ‘whichever’ combine into one meaning ‘prayer’? 3 Find the party items in these anagrams: a) Terse Rams, b) Baked Charity, c) Pets Apparel.

4 Leo is playing on the merry-go-round and standing right on the edge, which is 80cm from the centre. Leo is going at one and two thirds of a metre per second when standing on the edge and can stay on for twentytwo rotations before he feels queasy, which takes how long?