PUZZLE #001
Puzzle #001 Solution:
The 3 letter word that fills each word is "RED".
CREDIT
REDACT
SACRED
DREDGE
PUZZLE #002
Puzzle #002 Solution:
The phrase is:
Six Feet Underground
PUZZLE #003
Puzzle #003 Solution:
The solution is:
Fly
Horse Fly
House Fly
Dragon Fly
Blow Fly
PUZZLE #004
Puzzle #004 Solution:
The solution is:
A Sneeze
PUZZLE #005
Puzzle #005 Solution:
The solution is:
HAND
HIND
FIND
FOND
FOOD / FONT
FOOT
PUZZLE #006
Puzzle #006 Solution:
The solution is:
Flobbers Flub
They always do the next vowel in alphabetical order.
What do you think Flubbers do?
PUZZLE #007
Puzzle #007 Solution:
The question mark = 20.
Left * Top - Right
3 * 7 - 1
PUZZLE #008
Puzzle #008 Solution:
For the first letter, look at all the sections that contain a black corner in the top left of the circle. What shape do all those sections make?
Repeat for all the different corners.
Solution = Holy
PUZZLE #009
Puzzle #009 Solution:
Solution = Yep.
PUZZLE #010
Puzzle #010 Solution:
The odds of the ball landing on red or black are the same regardless of how many times the ball has landed on black previously. Probability doesn't change based on previous outcomes.
Since the odds are the same, you could always copy the same bet as the man across from you in case he's cheating in some way!
However! Remember, kids: the only way to ensure you don't lose is to not gamble at all.
PUZZLE #011
Puzzle #011 Solution:
Grab a ball from the bag labelled 50-50. Since we know each bag is incorrectly labelled, we know that if we grab a white ball, that bag contains all white balls (same for black if you grab a black ball).
Assuming we've grabbed a white ball, we still need to find the bag containing black balls and the 50-50 bag. The remaining bag labels are "black" and "white". The black balls can't be in the bag labelled "black" so they must be in the "white" bag. Therefore the 50-50 balls must be in the bag labelled "black".
Of course, the same logic applies if you originally grab a black ball, just swap the colours around.
PUZZLE #012
Puzzle #012 Solution:
I'm talking about beds, baby!
A king bed is larger than a queen bed.
A king single is smaller than a queen, and a regular single is even smaller.
PUZZLE #013
Puzzle #013 Solution:
A skull and two right arrows, hmm...
The solution is "Dead to Rights".
(Dead + 2 rights)
PUZZLE #014
Puzzle #014 Solution:
It doesn't matter what your boss wants - or who's drawing the balls - as long as the balls are being drawn blindly there's equal chance of the bag running out of black or white first!
PUZZLE #015
Puzzle #015 Solution:
Before he lost any of those three things, he lost his job.
PUZZLE #016
Puzzle #016 Solution:
Using the given rules, the highest possible total is 27 (1+2+3+4+5+6+6).
To get 26, one option is 1+2+3+4+5+6+5.
The number that was rolled twice is 5.
There is one more correct solution. Can you find it?
PUZZLE #017
Puzzle #017 Solution:
He starts in the top left, and 10 minutes pass. So our froggy friend takes 10 jumps. There are five flies, but there is only one on which the frog can stop after an even number of jumps. He eats the fly on the bottom row on the left hand side.
In puzzles like this, it helps to think about the lilypads as squares on a chessboard. Let's say that the lop left square is black. That means his first jump he must move from black to white, and the next jump, white to black. Since each jump alternates colour, you know after an odd number of jumps he lands on white, and black after even jumps. Only the bottom left fly is on a "black" square.
PUZZLE #018
Puzzle #018 Solution:
It's tempting to say that since Timmy starts with twice as many beans, it'll take half the time. But that's not quite right.
In the first scenario, Timmy starts with one bean. A minute later, that bean doubles, and now he has two. If he were to start with two beans, all he's done is save that first minute. Starting with two beans, it'll take 29 minutes to fill the jar.
PUZZLE #019
Puzzle #019 Solution:
By itself, A rotates clockwise twice. While it is rotating, the ride itself is doing a full rotation.
This means Jonesy will do three full rotations on his way around the ride. So by the time he is at B, he will be facing up again. He will also be facing up at C and when he is back at A.
From A to B, he will see the flower once. From B to C he will not see the flower. From C to A he will see the flower once.
This means each time the ride does a full rotation, Jonesy sees the flower twice.
So after 5 full rotations, Jonesy has seen the flower 10 times.
PUZZLE #020
Puzzle #020 Solution:
Neon Lights
(Knee on lights)
PUZZLE #021
Puzzle #021 Solution:
STRIDES
DRIEST
DIETS
TIES
SIT
IS
I
PUZZLE #022
Puzzle #022 Solution:
Yes, you should get him to spin the cylinder.
For the first shot, there is a 1 in 6 chance of a bullet being fired. For the second, it is 1 in 5, as we know that first slot doesn't have a bullet in it.
If he spins the cylinder, the odds are reset to 1 in 6.
PUZZLE #023
Puzzle #023 Solution:
First, empty the jug.
Now pour the contents of all the glasses into the jug and give it a mix.
Now pour the jug into each glass evenly. Each glass now contains a 50-50 mix of poison and antidote. Drinking 2 glasses now is perfectly safe. Enjoy your freedom!
PUZZLE #024
Puzzle #024 Solution:
If there are 100 suspects and 99% are innocent, that means that one person is the murderer.
After a certain number of suspects are ruled out, 98% of remaining suspects are innocent. That means 2% of the suspects are now the murderer.
We know the murderer is one person, therefore if 1 person = 2%, then there are 50 suspects.
We started with 100 and now have 50, therefore the clue ruled out 50 suspects.
PUZZLE #025
Puzzle #025 Solution:
PUZZLE #026
Puzzle #026 Solution:
We need to get to 10 minutes. We are going to achieve this by doing 4 mins, then 3 mins, then 3 mins.
Let's call the 4 minute hourglass "A" and the 7 minute hourglass "B".
Start by turning both A and B. When A has finished, there will be 3 minutes left in B.
Immediately turn both A and B. When the 3 mins from B is up, 3 mins of sand will have fallen into A.
Turn A. When the 3 minutes of sand has emptied, we have achieved exactly 10 minutes.
PUZZLE #027
Puzzle #027 Solution:
We need to get to 8 minutes. We are going to achieve this by doing 3 mins, then 3 mins, then 1 min, then 1 min.
Let's call the 3 minute hourglass "A" and the 7 minute hourglass "B".
Start by turning both A and B. When A has finished, turn it again to get to 6 minutes.
Now B has 1 minute left. Turn A. B will take 1 minute to empty, at which point A will have collected 1 minute of sand at the bottom.
Turn A. When its minute of sand has finished, 8 minutes in total have passed.
PUZZLE #028
Puzzle #028 Solution:
This is a strange phenomenon that occurs every day. Have you seen it?
The people who arrive at the station earliest in the morning take the spots closest to the train, and as they fill up, people park farther and farther away.
However, the people who arrive earliest are also more likely to finish work earlier than those who arrive later. This means that when the early birds have finished work and returned to their cars, those who arrived later are still parked.
Greg simply arrived in the afternoon, after the early birds had finished work for the day.
PUZZLE #029
Puzzle #029 Solution:
This is a tricky one! We need to determine what number each symbol represents, but also which symbol positions represent the digit's position in the 4 digit number. Here we go:
TL = top-left
TR = top-right
BL = bottom-left
BR = bottom-right
The only symbol in both TL and TR is a spade. The only number in both is a 5, therefore spade = 5. We can also determine from this that the top position represents the first digit - and the bottom position represents the second digit.
Now we can get a lot of info! Knowing top and bottom positions means we now know:
Spade = 5
Q = 6
K = 1
Crown = 9
J = 7
We now know the Crown's value is 9, so let's have another look at TL. The crown is on the right, therefore the right represents the 4th digit (and the left must be the 3rd).
Now we can determine the value for all the symbols! When that's done, let's figure out our BR question marks. We have 83?7. So what does A mean? Well we have the symbols for every digit (zero is blank) except for 4, so A must be 4.
So our final answer is 8347.