SEE THE PAGE PUZZLES[THINK AGAIN?] FOR INTRODUCTION
Puzzle 1
Sherlock Holmes wrote down the following code:11 6 11 17 21 27 16 5 20 3 21 27.'Each of the numbers represents a letter in the alphabet,' he informed Doctor Watson. Can you identify the word?
Puzzle 2
Can you find out the age of the boy,Luke who was a hostage: She was as her tongue and a little older than her teef. She was two years older than the Luke's father, who is four times Luke's cousin. As two years less than him when he was fourteen. Can you work out how old his father and mother was when Luke was born?
Puzzle 3
Holmes, Doctor Watson and Mrs Hudson were all having a friendly game of cards in the study of 22lb Baker Street one evening. The stalks were nothing more than matches, but nevertheless it turned out to be Mrs Hudson's night. She finished twice as many matches as Holmes, while Holmes ended up with three times as many as Watson. If the total matches were ninety-how many did they each end up with?
Puzzle 4
Moriarty has connected a large tank filled with acid to a bath. Holmes, bound and gagged, struggles above the bath. When the bath fills, Holmes will fall in, to his certain death. The first tap will fill the bath with the plug in, in eight minutes. The second tap will take seven minutes to achieve the same result. With the bath filled and both taps off with the plug out, the bath will empty in two minutes. Moriarty decides to run both the taps together and leave the plug out before leaving the room and Holmes to his fate. How much time does Holmes have to struggle free?
Puzzle 5
Watson gave Holmes a test and gave the following sequence: 1 3 2 6 1 1 5 7 2 4 2 8 3 3 4?
Can you tell the next number in the sequence before Holmes?
Puzzle 6
Holmes, Watson, Inspector Lestrade and Sergent Duff, all spent a relaxing morning on the golf course. Between them they took 304 strokes to finish the round, all scoring over seventy. Holmes went round in six strokes less than Watson, who took eight more strokes than Lestrade, while Sergant Duff beat Watson by two strokes. How many strokes did they each take?
Puzzle 7
Holmes gave a the following question:If two apples and a pear cost 7p, and two pears and an apple cost 8p, how much does an orange cost if a pear and two oranges cost 11p.Watson solved the problem after a lot of thinking. Can you solve it?
Puzzle 8
Watson asked Mrs Hudson her weight. She replied,''I am 126 pounds plus a quater of my weight''.Can you deduce how heavy Mrs Hudson was?
Puzzle 9
Holmes enjoyed several duck eggs in his friend house. Holmes asked his friend whether his ducks lay eggs often. His friend replied,''A duck and a half lay an egg and a half in a day and a half''. How many eggs will six ducks lay in seven days?
Puzzle10
Holmes asked Watson (Watson was good in maths) ,''Can you tell me which four digit number which satisfies the followin conditions: the last digit is twice as the first, the third digit is twice as the second, and the sum of the first and last digits is twice the third?''. Can you give the answer?
Puzzle 11
As Holmes was strolling through a graveyard he saw a grave in which it was written:
R.I.P
HERE LIES THE SECOND OF THE TWO CHILDREN OF MY FATHER'S MOTHER'S ONLY DAUGHTER'S ONLY SISTER-IN-LAW'S ONLY DAUGHTER.
REMEMBERED ALWAYS,
JOHN
Can you work it out?
Puzzle 12
Holmes, Watson and Lestrade spent a quite afternoon fishing on river Thames.Between them they caught twenty-one fish. If Holmes caught two more fish than Lestrade, and Watson caught two more fish than Holmes-how many fish did they each catch?
Puzzle 13
Holmes brought five criminals to Lestrade to be fingerprinted.From the following clues can you give the correct order that the villans went through the fingerprinting process?
Jack was fingerprinted after Jones but ahead of Hans. Ken had his fringerprint taken before John but after Hans.
Puzzle 14
A robber ran into a hotel, hotly pursued by Holmes, Watson, Lestrade and Sergant Duff. The hotel had four floors numbered from one to four. The pursuers searched a floor each. Lestrade was on the floor above Holmes, while Duff was two floors below Lestrade. Watson was on an even number floor. Can you tell which floor they were each searching?
Puzzle 15
Holmes was paying some of the Baker Street Irregulars for help on a case. If Holmes gave John 47p, Tom 43p, David 40p, and Simson 70p, how much did he give Robert? (Holmes is giving in a sequence)
Puzzle 16
Moriarty has been carrying out a number of burglaries during the month of May in a fashionable London street. Listed below are the dates of the first five burglaries.Can you work out the date of the sixth?
Burglaries were commited on 2nd, 7th, 11th, 14th and 16th of May.
Puzzle 17
Holmes and Watson caught a pickpocketer named Fingers in action, but his ten year old assistant, young Fletcher, managed to givethem a slip. If Fingers was thirty-one years old , how long ago was it when he was four times older than Fletcher?
Puzzle 18
Can you tell Lestrade's house number from the following information:The number is as much higher than twenty-one as it is lower than thirty-seven.
Puzzle 19
Moriarty swindled five businessmen out of a total of $1000. From the first, he swindled $20 less than the second.From the second, he swindled $20 less than the third. From the third, he swindled $20 less than the fourth, from the fourth he swindled $20 less than the fifth. How much did he swindle from each men?
Puzzle 20
As Holmes and Watson travelled by a cab to Scotland Yard, Holmes set the following puzzle to Watson to work out:'On this note is a sequence of letters, Watson. Can you give me the next three letters in the sequence?'
The letters were A R Y A R Y R C H R I L ...
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE PUZZLES I GAVE . THE ANSWERS WILL BE GIVEN LATER.