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"A puzzle for yous all..."

My first is in biscuit but never in cake
My second's in awesome but not in great
My third is in mother but not seen in dad
My fourth is in sunny but never in sad
My fifth is a vowel found in water not creek
My sixth is found only in one day of the week
My seventh's two of three that you learn when you're young
My eighth's not in song but it's there when it's sung
My ninth's in eleven and twelve, not thirteen
My tenth is in island and river, not stream
My eleventh's in precious and secret and paste
My twelfth is in phantom and spectre and haste
My whole stalks the night in a quiet dreamlike state
With no memories the next day of being out late

If sarah had no money with her then a chocolate bar would cost 24p. Since Charlotte has 2p less than a bar of chocolate she would have 22p. There pooled money would also equal 22p.

If a chocolate bar cost 25p then Sarah has 1p and Charlotte has 23p. they still would not be able to afford the choclate as their comboined money would be 24p.

However if sarahhas 2p then chocloate must cost 26p. Charlotte would then have 24p and combined they would have the 26p for the chocolate.

So assuming that Sarah does have some money rather than no money the chocolate would cost 25p. But then you didn't say that Sarah had any money so it could be either 24 or 25p.

I'm opting for 35p

I had a few books of those when I used to go on holiday with my folks. Excellent, but take a while...

It's all to play for with the scores at:
Ros - 4
Unbeliever - 3

Sarah and Catherine, went into a shop to buy some chocolate bars. Sarah, however, discovered that she was 24 pence short of the price of a bar, while Catherine was two pence short. In a flash they decided to pool their money and make do with a single bar between them, but they were still short of the required price.

How many pence does a bar of chocolate cost?

Heres one I was sent about a year ago.

I enjoyed solving it and, if you haven't seen it before, you should too!

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a man with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

The question is: "Who owns the fish?"

Hints:

The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Rosalind wrote:
> Unbeliever wrote:
> >a simple matrix
>
> a what now?


oo oo, I know what one of them is.

*Feels clever again*

i knew this university lark was worth it. I HAVE learned something over the last 3 years!

Unbeliever wrote:
>a simple matrix

a what now?

:s

Rosalind wrote:
> This is fun. Thanks Slaveunit.
>
> Unbeliever your a worthy opponent.

I did get two easy ones though...the steps one had me racking my brains until I discovered a simple matrix (yes! I managed to use that word in a sentence) I could use.

Gangsta Hamsta wrote:
> Oh right, you're alowd to use both sides!
>
> *feels exceedingly thick*


You need a swift birching, Gangsta Hamsta!

Paxman, here I come!

*silently berates himself for such a foolish statement*

Oh right, you're alowd to use both sides!

*feels exceedingly thick*

This is fun. Thanks Slaveunit.

Unbeliever your a worthy opponent.