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(P OT OF GOLD) DARREN RIGBY READER’S DIGEST (TAKING ORDERS) DARREN RI GBY; (RUNS IN THE FAMI LY ) S UE DOHRIN ; (P LACE YOU R CHIPS) FRASE R SIMPSON TAKING ORDERS The robot shown here can move only horizontally or vertically from where it stands If it’s ordered to go in any one of its four available directions, it will continue as far as it can in that direction before it stops When it encounters a single box, it will push it until it can’t go any further in that direction However, it isn’t strong enough to push multiple boxes at once, meaning that two or more boxes stacked next to each other will just stop it where it is, as will a wall or a box stacked against a wall How could you order the robot out of the room, presuming the doorway is too narrow to push a box through? DOORWAY RUNS IN THE FAMILY Jim and his daughter Sam both ran in a six mile race Jim finished in 49 minutes, Sam in 54 Jim ran at a perfectly steady pace, but Sam lost steam and took exactly 25 per cent more time to complete the second half of the race, compared to the first Jim’s wife and Sam’s mother, Heather, stood at the halfway mark to cheer them on as they passed Who went by her first? 40 60 10 10 50 25 65 80 10 35 30 70 55 50 50 25 PLACE YOUR CHIPS You have a stack of poker chips that are each worth £5, £10 or £25 You need to put them on the squares of this grid—but no more than one chip per square—so that their value totals the amount of pounds shown for each row, column and long diagonal Not every square needs to have a chip on it Several chips and one blank space (designated by a star) have been placed to get you started Can you finish the grid? APRIL 2019 • 137 BRAIN TEASERS CROSSWISE Test your general knowledge Answers on p142 ACROSS DOWN 10 11 13 14 18 19 21 23 24 28 29 30 31 10 12 15 16 17 Husky (7) Highest (7) Complete (6) Opening (8) Shades (10) Restraint (4) Unsullied (6) Foretells (8) Fleet commander’s vessel (8) Chaise longue (6) Having no money (4) Writing materials (10) Large amount of electrical power (8) Stoppage (6) Profound (7) Nervous (7) 138 • APRIL 2019 20 22 25 26 27 Member of the Indian majority (5) Unpaid (5) Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (5) Lay out too much (9) Motherhood (9) Table napkin (9) Fabulous story-teller (5) Permit (3) Eve of All Saints’ Day (9) Source of sweetness (5,4) Recipients of one of St Paul’s Epistles (9) Braid (5) Fuss (3) Relative by marriage (2-3) The dark (5) Achieve (5) READER’S DIGEST POT OF GOLD PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT 5 4 5 TAKING ORDERS £50 PRIZE QUESTION Answer published in the May issue Which of the four words below this is the definition of the first word? Prepare Seasoning Stealth Channel Brainteasers: Answers THE FIRST CORRECT ANSWER WE PICK WINS £50!* Email excerpts@ readersdigest.co.uk =BOX THAT HAS MOVED =BOX THAT HASN’T MOVED RUNS IN THE FAMILY Sam, by half a minute PLACE YOUR CHIPS 10 10 10 10 10 25 25 10 10 25 10 10 25 5 10 10 10 10 ANSWER TO MARCH’S PRIZE QUESTION TEMAN = meant AND THE £50 GOES TO… Barbara Brooks, Cannock APRIL 2019 • 139 FUN & GAMES Laugh! Win £30 for every reader’s joke we publish! Go to readersdigest.co.uk/contact-us or facebook.com/readersdigestuk I HATE IT WHEN WOMEN SAY TO ME, “I just don’t like to lift weights I’m worried I’ll get too muscular.” Do you know how much time I’ve spent at the gym just to look this average? That’s like walking up to a piano and saying, “Don’t let me touch those keys, I’m worried I’ll accidentally write a concerto.” COMEDIAN NELSON LINSANITY I NEVER REALLY UNDERSTOOD WHY parents tell their children that if somebody is bullying them, they should just say, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” If somebody is already bullying Puppy to Pooch These strong owners show off their best friend’s progression from lap dog to top dog (via boredpanda.com) 140 • APRIL 2019 you, why would you tell them, “What you’re doing isn’t working, but if you tried weapons…” SEEN ON REDDIT I THINK IT’S REALLY WEIRD when you give someone flowers Really what you’re saying is, “Here you go, now watch these die, cause I like you.” I think you should give someone flowers if you want to threaten them: “Here, you’re next Better put your feet in water cause I’m coming for you…” COMEDIAN DEMETRI MARTIN I LOVE COMEDY I WAS TELLING my Uber driver that I was on my way to perform and he said, “Wow, how cool that you comedy! You’re so READER’S DIGEST brave If you find a community that’s supportive and uplifting you should go all in and align yourself with them, because you’re worth your own happiness.” So I’m doing it! I’m going to be an Uber driver COMEDIAN CAROLINE TWYMAN I’M VERY AGAINST FAST FOOD corporations replacing their workers with computers It’s not because I worry about the potential effects automation will have on the working poor, but because a human face is the only thing that stops me from ordering a number one through ten COMEDIAN MIKE AMORY MY UNCLE WORKS AS A LION tamer When he went bankrupt, they took nearly everything But at least he’s still got his pride COMEDIAN GARY DELANEY I RECENTLY WENT TO A COMPETITION to see who had gained the most weight and lost the most hair Obviously it wasn’t called that It was called a “school reuinion” SEEN ONLINE I MADE MY TELEVISION DEBUT this year on the show Law & Order: DVU It was a very small part, I played a waiter But I really wanted to well so to prepare for it, I actually became a waiter for ten years COMEDIAN GIAN-MARCO SORESI THERE HAVE NOW BEEN 159 SEASONS of House Hunters, and they still haven’t shot a single house! SEEN ONLINE I DON’T LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE fixate on one thing about a performer and then judge them based on that I have so many female comedian friends, and if any of them goes and tells two jokes, they’re labelled a “sex comic” Meanwhile I go and tell lots of jokes about all the sex I’m having and people label me a “liar” COMEDIAN PEDRO GONZALEZ APRIL 2019 • 141 LAUGH New Rules Twitter users share the everyday things they think should be made illegal @CJ7Ten: “It should be illegal to let Netflix ask, ‘Are you still watching?’Yes Netflix, I am in fact still watching my eighth consecutive episode of Grey’s Anatomy @LissyIsBusy: “It should be illegal to only give me one sauce when I order a tenpiece chicken nugget box I require a minimum of one sauce per three nuggets @AGillenwater98: “It should be illegal to sneeze more than twice in a row You only get one ‘bless you’ and after that you’re on your own.” @Margeson_Danny: “It should be illegal to give me a merchant receipt, a customer receipt and a third receipt every time I go out for food What exactly am I supposed to with all this documentation for my nachos?” MY TYPE IN RELATIONSHIPS IS ME, but better That’s OK, I just need to find somebody who wants himself, but much, much worse COMEDIAN SIMON AMSTELL A SMALL BOY WALKED INTO A FISHMONGERS proudly carrying a goldfish in a bowl He cautiously asked the fishmonger, “Do you sell fishcakes?” “Of course,” came the reply “Thank goodness,” he cried, holding up the goldfish bowl “It’s his birthday!” PATRICK BROADHURST, N o r t h Yo r k s h i r e I DON’T DO DRUGS IF I WANT A RUSH, I just stand up when I’m not expecting it COMEDIAN DYLAN MORAN CHILDREN ALWAYS WANT TO DO STUFF They get angry, they say, “Aw, we didn’t anything all day!” But if you ever ask an adult what they did over the weekend and they say they didn’t anything, their faces just light up COMEDIAN JOHN MULANEY I WENT TO A BOOKSTORE AND ASKED the saleswoman, “Whereabouts is the selfhelp section?” She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose… SEEN ONLINE CROSSWORD ANSWERS Across: Throaty, Topmost, Entire, 10 Aperture, 11 Sunglasses, 13 Rein, 14 Chaste, 18 Predicts, 19 Flagship, 21 Daybed, 23 Poor, 24 Stationery, 28 Megawatt, 29 Logjam, 30 Intense, 31 Twitchy Down: Hindu, Owing, Theta, Overspend, Maternity, Serviette, 10 Aesop, 12 Let, 15 Halloween, 16 Sugar cane, 17 Ephesians, 20 Plait, 22 Ado, 25 In-law, 26 Night, 27 Reach 142 • APRIL 2019 60 Stand-Up -Second We giggle with energetic comedian, Kieran Hodgson WHAT’S THE BEST PART OF YOUR CURRENT SHOW? My Howard Wilson WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE ONE LINER? There’s an old Les Dawson gag impression I a bit where he and other Labour politicians from the 1970s are dancing around like the gangs in West Side Story and that is a lot of fun to It’s quite a weird moment for the audience as well where he says, “I went to the doctor’s and asked, ‘What have you got for wind?’ He gave me a kite.” WHO INSPIRES YOUR COMEDY? A lot of character comedians and sketch artists such as The League Of Gentlemen and Harry Enfield With stand-up, I like Eddie Izzard, he’s someone who’s happy to talk about indepth subjects such as European history It made me think that I could comedy like that if I wanted DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY TALES ABOUT A TIME YOU BOMBED ON STAGE? I did a show about Lance Armstrong to an audience of people who worked in the cycling industry and I don’t think they liked it—it was a full hour of silence After about half an hour I realised there was no turning back and then it just became quite funny to me WHICH SUPER POWER WOULD YOU HAVE? Just to run around the rooftops like on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it looked like they were having a whale of a time—it’s pretty much the only thing I’ve ever wanted to as a superpower DO YOU FIND ANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY TO BE FUNNIER THAN OTHERS? I’m a Yorkshire man so I draw all of my inspiration from growing up there and the people I met and grew up with They remain the funniest for me, but I’ve recently been working in Scotland on a sitcom and there’s a great deal of Glaswegian wit I’ve been enjoying as well n Kieran Hodgson is touring nationwide from March 8-May 28 For information and tickets go to kieranhodgson-tour.com FOR MORE, GO TO READERSDIGEST.CO.UK/INSPIRE/HUMOUR APRIL 2019 • 143 LAUGH Beat the Cartoonist! In the May Issue Interview: Bonnie Tyler The singer on her new album and what it’s like to have such a legendary voice Think of a witty caption for this cartoon—the three best suggestions, along with the cartoonist’s original, will be posted on our website in mid-April If your entry gets the most votes, you’ll win £50 Submit to captions@readersdigest.co.uk or online at readersdigest.co.uk/fun-games by April We’ll announce the winner in our June issue The day has finally come for our cartoonist to snatch back the crown, with his own hilarious caption—“Well, actually, it’s not a corner is it?” — taking the top spot this month Think you could better? Then don’t let our cartoonist get complacent! Enter this month’s competition online and you could be the next reader to steal back our Beat the Cartoonist crown 144 • APRIL 2019 CARTOONST: STEVE JONES / BI LL H OUSTON February’s Winner What Happens When We Die? 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