When Gulliver came to Lilliput, he found that everything was exactly 12 times shorter than in his homeland. Can you say how many Lilliputian matchboxes fit into the matchbox of Gulliver?
Try to read the word in the first figure, using the key (see the second figure).
Find the missing numbers:
a) 4, 7, 12, 21, 38 ...;
b) 2, 3, 5, 9, ..., 33;
c) 10, 8, 11, 9, 12, 10, 13, ...;
d) 1, 5, 6, 11, 28, ....
What are the eight coins you need to take, so that you can use them to pay without change any amount from 1 pence up to 1 pound?
(In circulation at the time, there were coins of 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 50 pence).
It is known that in January there are four Fridays and four Mondays. What day of the week is January 1st?
How, without any means of measurement, can you measure a length of 50 cm from a shoelace, whose length is \(2/3\) meters?
Ten people wanted to found a club. To do this, they need to collect a certain amount of entrance fees. If the organizers were five people more, then each of them would have to pay £100 less. How much money did each one pay?
A cube with a side of 1 m was sawn into cubes with a side of 1 cm and they were in a row (along a straight line). How long was the line?
Seven nines written out in a series: 9 9 9 9 9 9 9. Put some “\(+\)” or “\(-\)” between some of them, so that the resultant expression equals 1989.
The tower clock chimes three times in 12 seconds. How long will six chimes last?