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#176 Ant-i-clockwise

When the giant town-hall clock chimed 2 o’clock, an ant resting by the number 2 woke from its nap. Spotting that the minute hand was edging towards it, the ant started walking clockwise round the rim of the clock face. Thinking it had escaped the minute hand, it was shocked when it caught up with the hand again. At that point, the ant turned round and walked anticlockwise back round the rim, at the same constant speed as before, reaching the minute hand for a second time after a further 15 minutes. At this point, it decided to give up and take another nap.

At what time did the ant stop walking?

Solution next week

#175 Wizard of odds

Solution

Jane gets Dorothree, Nicki is the Ten Man, Kasey is the Square Crow, Leah is the Cowardly Line and Megan gets the Wicked Witch.

Kasey can’t be Dorothree, because that would make statement 1 a contradiction. If Jane isn’t Dorothree, then based on statements 2 and 3, Leah would need to be the Square Crow and Nicki the Cowardly Line, but then number 5 presents a contradiction. So Jane must be Dorothree.

Then, based on 1 and 4, Nicki is the Ten Man and Kasey the Square Crow. That leaves Leah as the Cowardly Line (from statement 5) and, finally, Megan as the Wicked Witch.