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Jangled Febrifuge

What word comes next:

jangled
febrifuge
marbles
apricot
mayflower
jungle
julienne

Choose from: augment, elephant, autumn, juiciest.

Grand Ands

Can you create a sentence that contains the word ‘and’ five times in a row, i.e. with no other word between each ‘and’?

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*

1 through 9

Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, can you make 100?

You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as brackets.

However, they must stay in the same order and you cannot join two digits to make another number, e.g. 1 and 2 cannot be used together as 12. The [...]

Side Saddle

Without a bridle, or a saddle,
across a thing I ride a-straddle.
And those I ride, by help of me,
though almost blind, are made to see.
What am I?

Midday Mohican

Which word is suggested by:

“Midday starting block last of the Mohicans second in command bottom of the barrel second guess at wit’s end beginning of the end starting line early years?”

Digital Car

What car is represented below?

100 1 5 1 100

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

Ridgy Bridge

My first is in bridge, but not in ridge.
My second is in awake and in mistake.
My third is in danger, but not in ranger.
My fourth is in flange and in orange.
My fifth is in spline and in wine.
My last is in river and in diver.
My whole likes the darkness.
What am I?