BRAINTEASERS

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

1 Following a fire alarm, the queue at the bank disbanded. The clerk recalls Tony stood next to the blond-haired man and Olaf did not stand next to Fred or the ginger-haired man. The black-haired man did not stand next to Chris, who has either brown or blond hair. If Olaf

did not have ginger hair, which colour hair does each man have?

2 Which two words meaning ‘harbour’ and ‘finish’ combine into one meaning ‘foretell’?

3 Find the garments in these anagrams: a) Shard Cafe, b) Can Ratio, c) Tart Wishes.

4 Ophelia is sending out her life-drawing portfolio. One sixth of the drawings were of Stuart, three quarters of Marco and only a couple of Christina.

If that accounts for the whole portfolio, which has between fifteen and thirtyfour drawings, how many of them were of Marco?