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Safe Sheep

A local farmer wants to keep his sheep safe. He has one mile of fence, with which to surround the sheep. Luckily there is a very straight river which he can also use. Obviously the farmer wants to fence off as much land as possible, what shape will the fenced off area be and how [...]

Missing Reptile Letters

Below is a list of reptiles and amphibians, each of which has lost every other letter. Can you replace the missing letters?

*e*r*p*n
*o*t*i*e
*r*c*d*l*
*u*t*e
*o*c*s*n
*e*t
*k*n*

Animal Pairs

Place the words below into pairs. You will then have 5 lots of eight letters, each of which is an anagram of an animal. What are the original 5 animals?

 

PINK
TENT
MOST
MUCH
THEN
LEAP
SOOT
AREA
TIRE
MARE

Messy Mammals

Six words have had their mammals removed. The mammals have been placed into Group A. The remaining letters of each word have been placed into Group B. Your task is to reconstitute the words by merging each mammal with the proper set of letters. Other than merging the two groups together, there is no rearranging [...]

Phantom Ant

The following are clues that describe words containing an “ant.”  The clues do not refer to the words themselves, rather they refer to the word that must be added to the “ant.”  For example, “an ant that is waiting for something to happen” would be “expectant” (expect ant). The ant may appear at the beginning [...]

7 X 70

I’m seven times seventy,
Plus a decade more.
This has all happened before.
Red and gold, I am no liar.
My nursery will be made
From my funeral pyre.

Who am I?

Skin a Cat

Apparently, one side of a cat has more hair. The findings of the Swedish scientific establishment have been corroborated by a special enquiry by the BB Feline Federation. Many hair counts were taken of the side in question and consistently it was found to contain more hairs. The scientists determined that more hair was required on this [...]

Hide and Go Zoo

Hidden in the grid below are 6 hidden animals, once you have crossed of the hidden animals, you should be left with seven letters, which spell another animal. The letters are hidden in sequence using the move of a chess knight. For example, if the first letter of one of the animals was the top-right [...]

Crafty Beaver

A Beaver’s tail weighs eight pounds. Its head weighs as much as the tail and one-half of the body combined, and the body weighs as much as the head and tail combined. What does the whole Beaver weigh?

Animal Farm

What are the next two animals in this series:

Quail, Weasel, Emu,  Raccoon, -?-, and -?-.

Choose from:
Yak
Turkey
Bumblebee
Ostrich
Tiger
Eland