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Winner First V8 Puzzle 2004 Stuart Forbes |
Winner Second V8 Puzzle 2004 Doug Taylor |
Winner Third V8 Puzzle 2004 Tim Hipwell |
Winner Fourth V8 Puzzle 2004 Roger Glover |
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parrot is it anyway? This puzzle is to be solved using your combined powers of deduction, analysis and sheer persistence! The facts are as follows........... 1. There are five house in the street and each one is painted a different colour and is lived in by someone from a different town or city. Each person has a favourite drink, owns a different kind of pet and drives a different model of MG. 2. The person from Budleigh Salterton owns a dog. 3. The house painted pink is lived in by someone from Exeter. 4. The python is kept next door to the blue house. 5. Coffee is the favourite drink in the house painted green. 6. The person from Torquay drinks tea. 7. The house painted green is immediately to the right (your right) of the house painted lilac. 8. The MGB driver owns a goldfish. 9. The Midget is driven by the person who lives in the cream house. 10. In the middle house milk is the favourite drink. 11. The person who drives the RV8 does not live immediately to the right of the person from Exeter. 12. The person from Plymouth lives in the first house on the left. 13. The Magnette driver lives in the house next door to where a python is a pet. 14. The Midget driver lives next door to the house where the horse is kept. 15. Orange juice is drunk by the person who drives a MGC GT. 16. The person from Cullompton drives a RV8. 17. The person from Plymouth lives next door to the house painted blue. 18. The person who drinks Coca-Cola lives in one of the end houses. In which house does the parrot live? What answers have we had so far? Further responses will be reported as they come in. Friday 24th December 2004 00.27 - Philip Jones stays up late but the bird escapes him. Thursday 23rd December 2004 21.49 - Roger Glover gets the bird and has solved the puzzle. 16.39 - Richard Day employs the scientific might of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to deduce that the parrot lives in a cage! 15.02 - Michael Howlett corners that elusive bird. 09.56 - Doug Taylor tries but the parrot escapes him. |
Fourth
V8 Puzzle 2005 Tim Hipwell has come up with another V8 Puzzle. (launched 22.12.04 @ 17.00hrs) Email answers to Chris Hunt-Cooke Solution 24.12.04 |
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the money? Three friends decide that that they would really like an MG ZT 260 V8, but cannot afford one, so they will buy one between them which will cost £30,000 in the specification they want. Each clutching £10,000, they toddle off to their friendly local MG Rover dealer and buy a car. The salesman proudly takes in the £30,000 cash to his manager, but the manager says to him, "Didn't you realise we have a special offer going on the car, the price should be £25,000. Here, those chaps are still outside discussing who will drive it first, take £5,000 and give it back to them". (This is a work of fiction, you understand!) So the salesman takes the £5,000 and goes outside, but he puts £2,000 in his pocket and gives the men back £1,000 each (Disclaimer: No MG Rover salesman would of course do such a thing, this really is a work of fiction). So the situation is that each man has paid initially £10,000 and received back £1,000, so has paid £9,000 net, and there are three of them, so that is £27,000 altogether, the salesman has £2,000 in his pocket, that makes £29,000, but what has happened to the other £1,000? What answers have we had so far? Further responses will be reported as they come in. To clarify, the salesman really did give each buyer back £1,000, so that they ended up paying £9,000, and the Sales Manager did not hang on to £1,000 himself, as someone else suggested! Wednesday 22nd December 2004 14.13 - Steve Bowley has an original thought, but it's wrong! 10.21 - Doug Taylor has solved it. Tuesday 21st December 20.56 - Roger Glover has sorted it out, but is surprised his friend Tim Hipwell has, since Tim is so bad with numbers he thinks his RV8 is 4.6 litres!!! 13.04 - Tim Hipwell cracks it. 10.33 - Chris Taylor has had a couple of attempts, but has not got there yet. Monday 20th December 2004 21.44 - Chris Hunt-Cooke reports that "those who have so far got the third one correct are Pete Doughty, Geoff Harris, Stuart Forbes and Philip Jones". |
Third
V8 Puzzle 2005 Just as a bit of fun, Chris Hunt-Cooke has been sending off the puzzle he had originally intended using to the puzzle entrants, as something else to think about as clearly some sharp minds are getting well warmed up after first two V8 Puzzles. No prizes for this one. (launched 20.12.04 @ 16.45) BTW, Chris Hunt-Cooke won the V8 Puzzle 2003 and received his prize of a CD and a miniature bottle of malt - and then found that the winner has the task of setting and managing the puzzle for the following year! So Stuart Forbes will be arranging the First V8 Puzzle 2005 and Peter Doughty the second - and possibly Mike Simmonds the third! Email answers to Chris Hunt-Cooke Solution 24.12.04 |
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add to the excitement of our seasonal V8 Puzzle we have another clock
face! As we have had two correct responses for the First V8 Puzzle 2004 below, we have added a Second V8 Puzzle using the clock face we used for the puzzle last year. (launched on 18.12.04 @ 16.00hrs) What answers have we had so far? Further responses will be reported as they come in. Thursday 23rd December 2004 09.32 - Doug Taylor has another go and is the first to get it. Wednesday 22nd December 2004 17.17 - Stuart Forbes, trying for a hat trick, has the convoluted thought that 4.41 is 19 minutes to (2) 5, which could be the date of the first MG - but nul points for that! 10.13 - Doug Taylor is the first to have a go, but has not got it yet. Doug guessed that the 16.41 on the clock related to the steering ratio of the V8 which he says is 16.4:1 I've told him that's not the right answer anyway. Tuesday 21st December 2004 None yet. Monday 20th December 2004 None yet. Sunday 19th December 2004 None yet Saturday 18th
December 2004 |
Second
V8 Puzzle 2005 
Why is this clock face significant for V8 enthusiasts? Ignore the reflection of the flash - that is not part of the puzzle! Email answers to Chris Hunt-Cooke What was the V8 Puzzle 2003 with the clock face? V8 Puzzle 2003 Solution 24.12.04 |
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Eight
questions for the Seasonal V8 Puzzle If an MG specialist asks you to take three temperature readings from your engine at half hour intervals, how long would it take to complete the test? Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?
A dealer had 17 MGs in stock and sold all but 9, how many did he have left?
If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil lamp, an oil heater and a candle, which would you light first?
A man builds a garage with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear?
How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark? You are competing
in a race and overtake the car lying in second place. In which position
are you now? What answers have we had so far? Further responses will be reported as they come in. If correct answers to the nine questions are received, we may have to release a further V8 Puzzle 2004. Would the successful members please let Victor Smith have their mail address so the CDs can be sent to them. Monday 20th December 2004 14.39 - Chris Hunt-Cooke declares the First V8 Puzzle has been solved by three members. So on to the next puzzle! 09.20 - Mike Simmonds let out an Arrrrrghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as he got the final answer and became the third prize winner. 08.15 - Mike Simmonds is now up to eight correct answers but is stuck on the same one as Philip Jones. Sunday 19th December 2004 22.44 - Philip Jones has got up to eight correct answers and is pleading for a clue as he is doing his wife's head in puzzling away! A lot of people got this one wrong, which is strange because the answer is clearly stated in the question, but they made another assumption, as Philip did. So there's your clue Philip! 10.42 - Mike Simmonds entry has seven correct answers. 01.16 - Geoff Harris, burning the midnight oil, has had another go but is still stuck with six correct answers. Saturday 18th December 2004 18.09 - Geoff Harris responded with six correct answers. Friday 17th December 2004 22.10 - Peter Doughty has contemplated the puzzle further and submitted nine correct answers so is the second member to complete the V8 Puzzle 2005. 17.16 - Ken Lillywhite has sent a response with six correct answers. 14.15 - Gerard Jansen sent a response with six correct answers. 12.27 - Stuart Forbes has sent in nine correct answers so is the first to complete the V8 Puzzle 2005. Thursday 16th December 2004 18.59 - Philip Jones sent in a response with seven correct answers. 14.54 - Peter Doughty sent in a further response with eight correct answers. 14.43 - Peter Doughty responded with six correct answers. |
First
V8 Puzzle 2005 This year the annual V8 Puzzle is devised by Chris Hunt-Cooke, the winner of the V8 Puzzle last year. Naturally he has gone for eight questions plus one for luck making nine in total. The
winner will be the first person with nine correct answers, or failing
that the most correct answers, by Christmas Eve. If there is a tie,
then it will be settled by the earliest correct response received.
For the first three correct answers received before Christmas
Eve we will send them a free CD with sets of both the V8 and
RV8 Workshop Notes. Send your answers to Chris Hunt-Cooke by
email. The decision of the V8 Registrar shall be final. Results
1st - Stuart Forbes 2nd - Peter Doughty 3rd - Mike Simmonds So that completes the First V8 Puzzle 2005 Solution 24.12.04 |