Quiz
Puzzle 1: Cursed. (1 point) Difficulty: 0.1/10
You have angered a friend and now they won't talk to you until you solve this riddle: There are twelve inches in a foot. There are 5280 feet in a mile. There are 3 feet in a yard. So, how many feet do you have?
Puzzle 2: Eggs!!! (1 point) Difficulty: 0.1/10
A rooster lays an egg right on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Both countries argue that they should get the egg. Who has the right to the egg: The U.S. or Canada?
Puzzle 3: Can you decipher this word? (1 point) Difficulty: 0.3/10
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Puzzle 4: The robbery. (2 points) Difficulty: 0.5/10
There was a bank robbery in progress. A man sitting in a car outside realized that he was parked right in front of the getaway vehicle. He quickly looked in his mirror and wrote down the license plate number, just before the crooks sped away. He then took it to the police. The police tracked down the plate and unfortunately arrested the wrong person. Why did they do this?
Puzzle 5: Shh…It’s a secret. (2 points) Difficulty: 0.5/10
A top secret organisation used codes to keep their conspiracy secret. They called themselves the blamenck, who were they?
Puzzle 6: Sherlock Holmes (4 points) Difficulty: 1/10
One snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was in his house sitting by a fire. All of a sudden a snowball came crashing through his window, breaking it.
Holmes got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids who were brothers run around a corner. Their names were John Crimson, Mark Crimson and Paul Crimson.
The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read "? Crimson. He broke your window."
Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?
Puzzle 7: Escape. (5 points) Difficulty: 5/10
Justin Case and Auntie Bellum are fellow con artists who deliver coded messages to each other to communicate. Recently Auntie Bellum was put in jail for stealing a rare and expensive diamond. Only a few days after this, Justin Case sent her a friendly letter asking her how she was. On the inside of the envelope of the letter, he hid a code. Yesterday, Auntie Bellum escaped and left the envelope and the letter inside the jail cell. The police did some research and found the code on the inside of the envelope, but they haven't been able to crack it. Could you help the police find out what the message is?
The message is:
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*Hint*
Separate the message. It was a TIMED escape.
Puzzle 9: Family Tree (10 point) Difficulty: 7/10
I was going through, some old family photos in the attic when I stumbled upon our family tree. I studied for a couple minutes then went back down stairs to tell my mom about the family tree. The problem is I didn't study it long enough to remember the whole thing. I only remembered a couple things about it, and recent memories. Can you help me figure out my family tree. There are two grandparents, that had two children, that both got married and had 2 more children each. Totaling 10 people in all (Alex, David, Jamie, Jessica, John, Justin, Lincoln, Martha, Mary and Tina).
1. One of Jamie's ancestors was David.
2. John's sister gave birth to Tina.
3. Mary went bowling with her nephew last Saturday.
4. Alex is cousins with one of the girls.
5. Justin married Mary.
6. Jessica is not an ancestor, nor cousin of Tina.
7. Lincoln's brother showed Justin's son his baseball cards.
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