Riddles and Puzzles

[AndyRM]

But the question ask how many did you count not how many houses there was , so if you count them both there and back then you count 40 ,pedantic I know

True. I suppose you could get quite philosophical about the nature of perception and stuff like that, but I reckon 20 is the right answer. If it's 40, you've just counted 20 things twice.

 

[classic33]

This made my brain hurt, but I think:
The son murdered the mother, assisted by the father, and the daughter was the witness.

No.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

How Do You Do
A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds.

What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?

a hole

 

[shouldbeinbed]

A hole

Dang, beat me to it

 

[thom]

Well Bob finishes in 209.6 minutes (26.2 * 8)
Alice finishes 26 miles in 208.442 minutes, plus the final 0.2 miles in (481 seconds *0.2) = 96 seconds = 1.6 minutes, so 210.04 minutes

So Bob is the winner.

Bob can still lose ;-)
You've made an assumption - as likely has the questioner given he seems to have approved your answer.
I wonder if either of you can point it out ;-)

 

[classic33]

Does anyone have any problem with these questions coming from books?

 

[benb]

Does anyone have any problem with these questions coming from books?

Nope.
I think after a while you should put the answer up, inside a spoiler

Spoiler

like this

to put us out of our misery!

 

[classic33]

Bring On The Clowns
The four clowns in this puzzle all competed for the much-prized 'Clown of the Year' award recently. There were 30 clowns in total who entered the competition and each had to make the judges laugh.

1. The Budsworth clown finished one place lower than Strumpy who is not from Witfield.

2. The judges roared with laughter as one clown cycled across a tightrope, wobbled, screamed and fell head first into a pool of water. He finished two places below Boo Boo who was not from Witfield.

3. The clown who finished in 7th place lost points when her big red nose fell off during her manic routine. This involved being hit with a giant rubber mallet by her assistant who was supposed to hit her on the shoulder but unfortunately had something in his eye at the time and accidentally bashed her in the face instead.

4. Tambo was disappointed when his usually masterful custard pie antics failed to impress the judges sufficiently to secure the award. He was not the clown from Stockville whose final placing was lower than the Shrimpton clown.

Clowns: Boo Boo, Grego, Strumpy, Tambo
Towns: Budsworth, Shrimpton, Stockville, Witfield
Position: 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th
Routine: Custard Pie, Flower, Rubber Mallet, Unicycle

From the clues above, can you work out each clown's name, the town he or she came from, what place each clown was awarded and the most comical moment of each clown's routine?

 

[classic33]

Words Don't Come Easy
Complete these common words by using all of the letters A to Z, each exactly once.

*e*er
**eue
**o
ma*
*p*a*e*
*erso*
***k*am*on
*ouse
*a*
*ur*
***igent

 

[classic33]

Coded Transmission Received
Below is a print of the binary code transmission where the spaces between the letters were missing and there was no punctuation.

Each letter of the alphabet was translated into its binary equivalent based on its position in the alphabet:
a=1, b=10, c=11, d=100, e=101, f=110, g=111, h=1000, i=1001, j=1010, k=1011, l=1100, m=1101, n=1110, o=1111,
p=10000, q=10001, r=10010, s=10011, t=10100, u=10101, v=10110, w=10111, x=11000, y=11001, z=11010.

110011101001000100110011100110011110110
101100101100110010011101101001111010111
001010010000101011101011010110010110011
010010001111101011111000101001001101001
011111111010111001001000101110010000100
111010011100111011101100110011100111011
000011001011000110101101100111010010011
111111010111100011010010011001111111110
101100001100101011001111111110101

What is the encoded message?

 

[classic33]

Adding it All Up!
Complete this sum with the digits 1 to 6 to make the sum correct.
Perform each mathematical operation in the order shown, from left to right, e.g. 1 + 2 x 3 is treated as (1 + 2) x 3 = 9.

Note: there is no ÷ 1, and at no point is a decimal or fraction used.

 

[classic33]

First
If, having only one match, on a freezing winter day, you entered a room which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove, which should you light first?

 

[classic33]

Calender Code
The months of the calendar have been coded in the following ways:
January = 1071
February = 682
March = 1353
April = 154
May = 1335
June = 1046
July = 1047
August = 168

Using the same coding method, how is September coded?

 

[classic33]

Parents For Breakfast
You are awoken at 3 A.M. by a knock on your door. Your parents call you to let you know that they are there for breakfast. You are half asleep and confused but quickly think of what food you have. You have bread, jam, butter, and eggs.

What do you open first?

 

[classic33]

Eggsactly
If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?