USborne Activity Cards
Logic Puzzles
This pack is bursting with puzzles and games that will put your logic skills to the test
Use the pen to write the answers on the wipe-clean cards ® Tricky traffic in common,
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Find out what the cars ‘ows each rule Write their then choose the car that fol
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Logic puzzles are different from other puzzles With most puzzles, you're told what to do, and the challenge lies in doing it But with logic puzzles, the challenge lies in finding out what you're supposed to do in the first place Once you know that, the rest is simple Here are some handy hints to help you along:
TIP 1 Word-based puzzles are sometimes designed to trick you Look closely for clues in the details, and be careful of making assumptions
TIP 2 If a puzzle involves sequences of numbers or letters, it can help to read them aloud You could also try writing the sequence out in a straight line TIP 5ð If you're having trouble with a puzzle, try leaving
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Trang 6° Lost stone
In the language of an ancient civilization:
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SIKAT UMALA LUGMI U GAR!
means ‘The sacred stone is lost!’
GAR SHI LUGMI SIKAT!
means ‘find the lost stone!’
IRA GAR SIKAT U:!
means ‘J he stone is ours!’
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Đ Odd one out
Trang 98 Tricky traffic
Find out what the cars on each road have in common, then choose the car that follows each rule Write their
numbers in the empty circles
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Trang 11® Dotty squares
Discover the pattern in the grid, and draw the correct number of dots in the blank square
Trang 12® Who lives where?
There are three houses on this street Two people live _in each house As you look at the houses
e .Mike lives directly to the right of Ray e .Andy lives directly to the left of Mia e .Mia lives directly to the left of Anna e .Rose lives directly to the left of Mia
Who lives where ? Write each
person’s name under their house nha
Trang 13© Bus driver riddle
A bus driver was heading down
a street in Paris He went past a
stop sign without stopping Then he turned left where there was a sign meaning
‘NO LEFT TURN’ Finally, he
went the wrong way down a one-way street But after all this, no traffic laws had been broken Why not?
0 Counting candles
An old woman saves money by making a new candle
out of four old candle stubs One day she takes 32 stubs
out of her bag What is the maximum number of candles
Trang 14% Racing positions
Five cars took part in a race ¢ The purple car took third place
s The yellow car came in before the purple car
° The red car wasn’t last, but it came after the yellow car s The green car wasn’t first
e The blue car came in before the yellow car
Use this information to find out where each car finished
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Trang 16k Shapes and numbers
Trang 17® Which Kitten?
When Joe’s cat had kittens, his friends chose one each There were four kittens:
e Sooty and Shadow were black with pink noses e Tiger and Rusty were orange with black noses
¢ Sooty and Tiger were nervous
e Zack didn’t want a black kitten e Ellie wanted a kitten with a pink nose e Amy didn’t want a kitten that was nervous
Trang 18ki Fishy puzzle
Make a copy of this fish, but draw it pointing upward rather than left, by moving just two of its lines _ into different positions The first
Trang 19® Odd pattern out
Trang 20® Dog toys
Three dog owners are playing with their dogs in the park, and each owner has brought a different toy Follow the clues to find out who owns which dog, and which toy they are playing with Draw a V in the correct boxes for each person
Clues:
1 Ali is not playing with the ball & 2 Riz does not own Rex Ẩm 2 5 The person who owns Jojo is Lf ee playing with the ball
4 Pat is playing with the bone
5 The person who is playing with the stick does not own Spot
Jojo Rex | Spot Bone Ball = Stick Ali
Trang 21Pencil puzzle
Using your pen, cross out six pencils to make ten
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Trang 228 Puzzle time
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Dots on dice
Trang 24" Sudoku
Trang 25” Bell ringer
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Breakfast code
Trang 27A rocket blasts off for Mars By the end of its first week in space, the rocket has left the Earth far behind, and is getting faster all the time In fact, the spacecraft’s distance from Earth doubles each week
Trang 28” Not Knots
Only one of these ropes would make a knot if you pulled
both ends Which one?
Trang 29& Genies riddle
Trang 3027) Right rectangle
Find out the relationship between the rectangles in row 1, then use the same logic to discover which
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Sequence challenge
Trang 32® Follow the cogs
Trang 33& Fish in a bowl
Trang 34& Hen names
Look carefully at the picture and match each hen to
its name
Trang 35® BlocK prints
If this block is turned on its side so the dotted lines are
Trang 36© Detective school
Alex wants to be a detective, so his dad sets him
a question to test-his logic skills Alex is given five
statements and told only one of them is true Which one? CASE 3 7 A study in logic 1 Exactly one of these statements is false
2 Exactly two of these
statements are false
3 Exactly three of these
statements are false
4 Exactly four of these
statements are false
5 Exactly five of these
statements are false
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e Cake gobbler What comes next: A, Bor C?
Trang 38® Sweet treats
Circle the item that is
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Three cowboys ride into Dodge City Each cowboy arrives on a different day and has a different errand Follow the clues on the other side of this card to match the cowboy with their horse, and find out when each arrived and where they went Fill in your answers on the chart below
Day Cowboy Horse Errand Thursday
Trang 40® Wild West
1 Jesse rode in some time after another cowboy had been to buy a saddle
2 Betsy carried her owner into town on Thursday
3 Butch did not go to the dentist
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7] Shooting stars
Trang 42” CucKoo clock
If this clock takes 2 seconds to strike 2 o'clock, how long
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Four friends are wa†ching a murder mụs†eru movie, set in the criminal underworld
Trang 44HO Patchwork pattern
Trang 45“#8 Prism picKer
Trang 46H2 Postage puzzle The prices are missing from some of these stamps
Trang 4743 Puzzling print
Trang 49“ Jester’s riddle
A jester stands on his head and says: \ “Everyone calls me a fool, but no one
can answer my riddle; can you?
A warty old man has a gaggle of daughters They're all blonde but two, all brunette but two, and all redheaded but two How many daughters does the old man have ?”
46 Near miss
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Trang 52® Cryptic grid
Trang 5350 Symbol sudoku
Trang 54® Pattern puzzler
Trang 55Z Tom the cat
Tom the cat has led an eventful life He spent Dị of it in a peasant’s cottage with little food, % of it working as a ship’s cat, and > of it catching rats in a sultan’s palace If he’s been living with the mayor of London for the past 2 years, how long did he spend doing each thing?
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Trang 56Detective work
In each set of statements, underline the two which
prove that:
1 A tiger has escaped from the zoo a The tiger enclosure in the zoo is empty b The zoo’s only tiger has one ear c The zoo has been closed for the day d There’s a one-eared tiger in the park e The zoo keepers are all panicking
2 Cathy has eaten a slice of her mother’s cake a Cathy’s mother bakes delicious cakes
b A slice of cake is missing c Cathy has a sweet tooth
d The cake was covered in chocolate e Cathy has cake crumbs around her lips
5 The prince fought a giant dragon a The dragon is dead
b The prince said he killed the dragon
c There’s blue blood on the prince’s sword and tunic d The prince is known for being very brave
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Trang 58® Choose carefully
A man finds two identical doors at the end of a secret corridor Behind one door there are riches beyond his wildest dreams; behind the other there’s a pair of sweaty boots There is a guard at each door One always tells the truth, and the other always lies, but he doesn’t know which is which Before he picks a door, the man can choose one guard and ask him one question
Trang 59® Testing tubes
Boris heats two test tubes, each half-filled with chemical mixture After five minutes, the liquid doubles in volume and fills each tube He splits the liquid between four test tubes, heats it for another five minutes and it doubles again Then he splits it between eight tubes, and so on
In four hours he makes enough mixture to fill a large barrel How long would it take if he only started out
Trang 60oT Art club
Trang 61B8 Hat puzzler
A man s†ands on one side of a solid brick wall, and three men line up, one behind the other, facing the other side The man at the back sees both men in front of him The man in the middle sees only the man in front of him The man in front sees only the wall
They close their eyes while a hat is placed on their heads They're told two are yellow and two are blue Then they're asked: “In 30 seconds, can any of you say which hat you're wearing?” They can’t move, or talk to each other Which is the only man who can answer the question ?
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Trang 6350 Pattern streamers
Find out the sequence below and draw in the next two patterns with your pen
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Trang 64a River crossing
A farmer stands on one side of a river with a fox, a rabbit and a bunch of carrots She needs to take them across, but can only carry one thing at a time
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Number Square
Trang 66® Planes puzzle
Four planes take off from the same airport at the
same time
¢ The first plane returns to the airport once a day * The second plane returns every other day ¢ The third plane returns every three days ° The fourth plane returns every four days
If they take off on Day 1, which is the next day when
all four planes are due back in the airport together ?
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64 Faulty calculator
Trang 68® Paperboy puzzle
A paperboy’s route goes from orange door, to red door, to purple door, to yellow door If he continues his route with this pattern, what will be the number of the house
Trang 69J Cube Finder
This pattern can be folded to make only one of the
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Wrong total
Zina and six of her friends are visiting Italy They all go into a café and choose the
same ice cream The price
comes to 24 euros and Zina knows it is wrong, even though she can’t remember how much each ice cream cost Why is this ?
“ Age puzzler On Laura’s 5th birthday,
her mother was 35 On her 15th birthday, her mother
was 5 times her age Lill
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Trang 72s In the bay
1 The boat with 109 on its sail is one year older than the Crab’s Claw, which is owned by Seb
2 The owner of the boat that is 3 years old isn’t
Mick, who has a boat numbered 564
3 The Salt Spray isn’t owned by Joss 4 The Merrimack is 3 years old
Trang 73® Tricky triangles
Trang 74™ Whats the time?
Look at the clocks to find out what time the green clock should show, then draw its hands in the correct position
Trang 75® Birds eye View
Trang 7673 Short puzzles
1 What is the next letter in this sequence ?
O Wap, a F F S S ?
2 If a sharp prod can be spelled POKE, and a cape can be spelled CLOAK, how do you spell the white of an egg?
5 Two daughters are born to the same woman at the same time on the same day of the same year But they are not twins How is this possible ?
Trang 77® Parrot in a cage
This parrot and cage cost 50 silver pieces If the parrot costs 40 silver pieces more than
Trang 78# Dog parade
Trang 79® Impossible shapes
Three of the shapes below can be drawn on paper, but cannot exist in real life Which are the they ?
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Trang 81Salon selection
Minna has moved to a small island She wants to get her hair cut, and there are two stylists
to choose from One works ina
modern salon and has an elegant
bob of smooth brown hair The other works in a wooden shack
and has a badly-dyed disaster of a haircut Which stylist should
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Square-eyed
Look at the pattern below The blue square forms new squares by fitting around the red square Then the yellow square fits around the blue square How
many squares are there in total ?
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If a larger square were drawn around the yellow square, and an even larger square were drawn around that, how many squares would there be in the new pattern?
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Trang 84® Dotty problem These four dice show which number is on which
side if a dice is rotated while keeping the ‘3’ on top
Trang 8582) Castle code
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® Laundry line-up
Look carefully for the sequence on this line, and decide which collection of laundry should be hung up next
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Trang 89® Act your age
1 On her birthday, William asks his great aunt Millicent how old she is, and she replies: “Well, young man, | am 44 years old, not counting Saturdays, Sundays or Mondays, because | hate Mondays.” What is her real age?
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