Liz Zelencich

Program Manager

Exercise Your Brain

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Puzzles

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Mr and Mrs Smith have seven daughters. If each daughter has a

brother how many children do Mr and Mrs Smith have?
It's so strong, it does not break, it's so powerful, it penetrates
a lake, sometimes it's weak as a twig left out in the sun, it's so
wonderful it gives us the power to have fun. What is it?
An electric train is going 40 kph north, the wind is blowing 60
kph south. Which way is the train's smoke blowing?
What question can never be answered, "Yes?"
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest
mountain in the world?
A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days, and
then leaves on Friday. How did he do it?

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I come one in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a

thousand years.
8. Bella has several favourite numbers. Read the clues to work out
WHATTHEYAREs%ACHONEISANODDNUMBER
s %ACHONEHASTWODIGITSs4HESUMOFTHEDIGITSIS7HAT
are Bellas favourite numbers?
9. Farmer Freddy keeps his cows and ducks in the shed. If there
are 13 animals in the barn and altogether they have 34 legs,
how many cows and how many ducks does he have?
10. What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

Colour the bricks using 3 different colours so that no 2 bricks of the same colour are touching.

A magic square is a puzzle where all the rows,

columns and diagonals must add up to the
magic number. Try these

Sudoko
Dice Game
Cooper and Mitchell are playing a dice game. Each
player rolls three dice and uses the three numerals
rolled to make 3-digit numbers. A numeral can only be
used once in any number. Each number a player can
make earns 10 points.
Cooper rolls 2, 5, and 3.
s7HATNUMBERSCANHEMAKEWITHTHESENUMERALS
Explain how you know you have found all of the possible
3-digit numbers.
s(OWMANYPOINTSDOES#OOPERSCOREFORTHISROUND
Mitchell rolled a 1, 4 and 4.
s7HATNUMBERSCANHEMAKEWITHTHESENUMERALS
Explain how you know you have found all of the possible
numbers.
s(OWMANYPOINTSDOES-ITCHELLEARNFORTHISROUND

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