February Mindbenders

All Play and No Work

There are 365 days in a year, or as I hope you all know, 366 this year.

Jill sleeps 8 hours a day and spends 7 waking hours a day at home.  These amount to 229 days of the year, leaving 137 days.  It takes Jill 1 hour and 40 minutes to travel to and from work (20 days), and her coffee and lunch breaks occupy 2 hours of the day (31 days).  This leaves 86 days.

Jill works five and a half days a week, so subtracting the 52 Sundays and 52 half-Saturdays (26 days) leaves 8 days.  But Jill’s company is closed for the 8 public holidays of the year.  Therefore Jill is left with no time to work!

What is wrong with this calculation (besides round-off error)?

Answer

Anagrams

Solve the anagrams:

  1. SORE (flower)
  2. THAN SLEEP (animals)
  3. BUS IN MARE (ship)

Rearrange the letters to make a related word or phrase:

  1. MOON-STARERS (one word)
  2. HERE COME DOTS (three words)

Answers

Matchstick Puzzles

Move two matches leave four squares.

Answer

Starting with the same pattern, move three matches to make nine squares.

Answer

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