A list of people who have solved so far:

Hard: Dan, Shawn, michaelC, LaDana,

Couple of things, then the puzzle

Was surprised and happy to see Smartkit recently featured in a

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(you may find it easier to print this out)

Here’s another ABC-type puzzle. You can find the instructions on how to solve

Five photographers have entered a photography competition. Can you work out the subject of each photograph taken by each of the five, together with the make of the camera and the filter they used to take their shot?

1- The women don’t use F-stop cameras. The Focuswell fan used a polariser filter.

Saw some comments show up recently on our first scale balance puzzle (hard!), which reminded me how long its been since we put one of these up. With that in mind:

How many triangles are need to balance scale 3?

Mother Thrifty and her daughter Dollie each drive 30 ducks to the market. Mother Thrifty is eager for a trade, and hurries on with her 30, and reaches the market early when ducks are in demand. She sells two for one dollar; but Dollie dawdles along the road, and when she arrives the market is supplied so she only receives one dollar for every three.

Haven’t done one of these in a while;

Which figure (a), (b), (c), (d) best completes the matrix?

Here’s an earlier series type question you can also try.

Here is smartkit’s 1st sponsored puzzle game: Ladybird

Ian let me know about this challenging river crossing puzzle game. The graphics are well done, and the little animations are kind of amusing:

(To play, click on the image and then press the big blue button. Note the rules below!)

Here’s a classic brain teaser: “At the close of last season, of the footballers of my acquaintance four had broken their left arm, five had broken their right arm, two had the right arm sound, and three had sound left arms.”

Can you discover from that statement what is the smallest number of players that the speaker could be acquainted with?

For this problem, can you figure out what the missing number is?

will reveal submitted answers in 1-2 days.

For this puzzle, arrange the 12 ancient coins in six rows, with four coins in each row.

Click on image below to play the puzzle in flash.

There are two winning configurations that I know of; will reveal submitted answers in a day or 2.

The seven figures below form a series. However, one of the five numbered squares doesn’t fit.

Can you figure out which one doesn’t belong?

click on image below to jump to full IQ test question

How many yellow hearts are needed to balance scale #3?

hope this doesn’t turn out to be as difficult as the last scale balancing puzzle we posted…

Try to figure out which 3 stars belong in the colored boxes.