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Sat 27 Jun 2020

In a normal deck , how many playing cards have names made of unique letter (no repeats)?
(Ignore the “the”).

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Fri 26 Jun 2020

I’m holding a playing card.

It’s name contains all 5 vowels.

Which card is it?

(Ignore the “the” before any names).

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Thu 25 Jun 2020

Name a word whose first, second and last letters are successive letters in the alphabet.

So… if your word begins with an “A”, the second letter must be a “B” and the last letter must be a “C”.

If you’re feeling clever, go for more than one word but, be warned, it’s harder than you think and there are only a dozen such words in the whole English language.

Try going for well known ones rather than obscure words.

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Wed 24 Jun 2020

There’ll be lots of barbecues taking place tonight. It’s often abbreviated to “BBQ”.
There are TWO well known English words which contain two “B”s and a “Q”.
They begin with different letters.
Name BOTH of them.

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Tue 23 Jun 2020

A pet shop assistant is sent off to the wholesaler – by his boss – with £100. He is ordered to come back with exactly 100 animals and no change.
When he gets there, they only have three types of animal left:

Rabbits cost £8
Mice cost £3
Goldfish cost 50p

What is the lowest number of goldfish the assistant could have returned with having succeeded on his mission? He returns with at least one of each of the three types of animal.

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Mon 22 Jun 2020

On the table in front of me I have £8.89
Each denomination (type!) of coin used is there in the same number.

So, for example, if I’ve used 1p, 5p and 50p pieces there is the same number of each of them.

What coins are in front of me?

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Sun 21 Jun 2020

On a cooked breakfast:
        42 people have Danish bacon,
        65 have fried eggs and
        22 have baked beans,

how many people have espresso coffee?

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Sat 20 Jun 2020

Today is the Summer Solstice and, therefore the longest day (ie. most daylight). Which country has the longest name containing NO letters from the word “solstice”?

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Fri 19 Jun 2020

Which is the only country in the whole world to have the same first two letters and last two letters?

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Thu 18 Jun 2020

In a wildlife documentary this week, Sir David Attenborough used the line “The Sea Eagle makes good use of its enormous ******** as it flies over the river in which the salmon are ********.”

The two disguised words are anagrams of each other.
What are they?

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