The best student in the class, Katie, and the second-best, Mike, tried to find the minimum 5-digit number which consists of different even numbers. Katie found her number correctly, but Mike was mistaken. However, it turned out that the difference between Katie and Mike’s numbers was less than 100. What are Katie and Mike’s numbers?
Decipher the puzzle shown in the diagram.
The old shoemaker Carl sewed some boots and sent his son Hans to the market to sell them for £25. Two disabled people came to the boy’s market stall (one without a left leg, the other without a right one) and was asked to sell each of them a boot. Hans agreed and sold each boot for £12.50.
When the boy came home and told the whole story to his father, Carl decided that his son should have sold the boots to the disabled buyers for less – each for £10. He gave Hans £5 and ordered him to return £2.50 to each disabled buyer.
While the boy was looking for the disabled people at the market, he saw that someone was selling sweets and as could not resist, spent £3 on sweets. After that, he found the disabled buyers and gave them the remaining money – each got £1. Returning home, Hans realised how badly he had acted. He told his father and asked for forgiveness. The shoemaker was very angry and punished his son by sending him to his room.
Sitting in his room, Hans thought about the day’s events. It turned out that since he returned £1 to each buyer, they paid £11.50 for each boot: \(12.50 - 1 = 11.50\). So, the boots cost £23: \(2 \times 11.50 = 23\). And Hans spent £3 on sweets, therefore, it total, there were £26: \(23 + 3 = 26\). But there were only £25! Where did the extra pound come from?
A three-digit number \(ABB\) is given, the product of the digits of which is a two-digit number \(AC\) and the product of the digits of this number is \(C\) (here, as in mathematical puzzles, the digits in the numbers are replaced by letters where the same letters correspond to the same digits and different letters to different digits). Determine the original number.
A girl chose a 4-letter word and replaced each letter with the corresponding number in the alphabet. The number turned out to be 2091425. What word did she choose?
Replace the question marks with the appropriate letters or words:
a) r, o, y, g, b, ?, ?;
b) a, c, f, j, ?, ?;
c) one, three, five, ?,
d) A, H, I, M, O, T, U, ?, ?, ?, ?;
e) o, t, t, f, f, s, s, e, ?, ?.
There are five chain links with 3 rings in each. What is the smallest number of rings that need to be unhooked and hooked together to connect these links into one chain?
In Wonderland, an investigation was conducted into the case of a stolen soup. At the trial, the White Rabbit said that the soup was stolen by the Mad Hatter. The Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter also testified, but what they said, no one remembered, and the record was washed away by Alice’s tears. During the court session, it became clear that only one of the defendants had stolen the soup and that only he had given a truthful testimony. So, who stole the soup?
The stepmother, leaving for the ball, gave Cinderella a sack which contained a mixture of poppy and millet, and ordered them to be sorted. When Cinderella was leaving for the ball, she left three sacks: one contained millet, the other contained poppy, and in the third – a mixture that had not yet been sorted. In order not to confuse the sacks, Cinderella attached a label to each of them that said: “Poppy seed”, “Millet” and “Mixture”. The stepmother returned from the ball first and deliberately swapped all of the labels in such a way that on each sack there was an incorrect inscription. The fairy godmother managed to warn Cinderella that now none of the labels on the sacks were correct. Then Cinderella took out only one single grain from one sack and, looking at it, immediately guessed what was in each sack. How did she do this?
On the table four figures lie in a row: a triangle, a circle, a rectangle and a rhombus. They are painted in different colors: red, blue, yellow, green. It is known that the red figure lies between the blue and green figures; to the right of the yellow figure lies the rhombus; the circle lies to the right of both the triangle and the rhombus; the triangle does not lie on the edge; the blue and yellow figures are not next to each other. Determine in which order the figures lie and what colors they are.