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| 1. | In a row of seven houses, each house has a different colour front door. The white door is between the purple door and the red door. There are two houses between the blue door and the purple door. The yellow door is the last in the row. The orange door is next to the blue door. The house between the orange door and the purple door has a green front door. The first house in the row does not have a red front door. What is the order of the front doors? |
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Blue, orange, green, purple, white, red and yellow | |
| 2. | If John gives Allan 600 baht they will both have the same amount of money. If Allan gives John 600 baht, John will have five times as much as Allan. Who has what? |
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Allan has 1200 baht and John has 2400 baht | |
| 3. | What number should replace the question mark? 28→9 52→15 84→23 20→7 100→? |
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27 (Divide by 4, then add 2) | |
| 4. | How many squares are made by the red lines in this picture? |
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40 | |
| 5. | Behind a bar, the bottle between the Gordons and the Jack Daniels is Sang Som. The Gordons is next to the Regency and the Bacardi is next to the Tequila. The Jack Daniels is in the centre of the seven bottles. The Hong Thong bottle, which is next to the Bacardi, is at the far right. What is the order of the seven bottles? |
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R G S J T B H (Regency, Gordons, Sang Som, Jack Daniels, Tequila, Bacardi, Hong Thong) | |
| 6. | On each row, place a three letter word that can be attached to the end of the word to the left, and to the beginning of the word to the right, to give a longer word in each case. When completed, the initial letters of the three letter words will give another word reading downwards. What is it? SEE _ _ _DUST AM _ _ _ LESS WING _ _ _ POWER PLUM _ _ _ HOD WEEK _ _ _ OWED OVER _ _ _ AROUND |
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SUMMER (SAW, USE, MAN, MET, END, RUN) | |
| 7. | On each row place a letter that can be substituted for the fourth letter of the words either side, to give another word in each case. When completed, a word will be read downwards. What is it? LIVID _ CLUBS SPECK _ BREED BRICK _ CHEAT MUSHY _ DARES ALLOY _ PINTS THESE _ SCOPE |
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EASTER | |
| 8. | In a footrace, Brian was neither first nor last. Debbie beat Brian. Brian beat John. Chris was neither first nor last. Chris beat James. John beat Chris. Who came in last? |
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James | |
| 9. | What is the sum of the even numbers that are immediately followed by an odd number in the list below? 4 2 5 1 8 2 9 7 4 6 6 9 8 |
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10 (4 2 5 1 8 2 9 7 4 6 6 9 8) | |
| 10. | Place two letters at the end of each word to make a 5-letter word so that, when completed, an 8-letter word can be read in the missing letters from top to bottom. What is it? PIA _ _ SLA _ _ CLI _ _ EAG _ _ |
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November (PIANO SLAVE CLIMB EAGER) | |
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