BRAINTEASERS

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

1 Ben is building a block barn with Bob and Bill. Bob’s blocks are blue or beige and blocks at the base of the barn are built up by Bill or Ben. Black blocks are used either by Bill or for the border of the barn. Bob does not build the back of the barn and blue is used by Ben if

beige is used at the base. Who builds where using which blocks?

2 Which two words meaning ‘blackleg’ and ‘poet’ combine into one meaning ‘sword holder’?

3 Find the ice cream flavours in these anagrams: a) Cool Cheat, b) Caldera Metals, c) Obstruct Tech.

4 Heidi just got back from a holiday of 10 days in Finland, where they use Euros, and 4 days in Norway, where they

use Krone. At the start, she changed £1260 to Euros at a rate of £1:€1.29. When she went to Norway she changed her remaining Euros and received 4272.48 Krone. She had run out of money on returning home. What was the exchange rate from Euros to Krone?