BRAINTEASERS

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

1 Each customer has been given the wrong doughnut. Jeff was given the doughnut bought by Jen, and the recipient of the jam doughnut bought the glazed doughnut. Jeff did not buy the toffee doughnut, and Jack did not buy the jam doughnut, nor was he given the

glazed doughnut. Which doughnut was each customer wrongly given?

2 Which two words meaning ‘vote’ and ‘biked’ combine into one meaning ‘conductor’?

3 Find the Irish counties in these anagrams: a) Goal End, b) Reword Fat, c) Party Pier.

4 Sue is mowing her lawn. She mows at a rate of ten square metres per minute. If a 5m x 6m space in her garden were paved over, she would be able to mow

the whole lawn in twentyfour minutes. How big is her garden?