{"id":320,"date":"2013-08-06T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=320"},"modified":"2013-08-06T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:00:32","slug":"puzzles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Puzzles 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Questions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-104\" alt=\"Questions\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Questions-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Questions-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Questions-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Questions.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>1. An English-owned jet carrying one hundred and twenty French tourists home from\u00a0a holiday resort in the\u00a0Alps crash-lands on the border between Switzerland and Germany. Legally speaking, where should the survivors\u00a0be buried?<\/p>\n<p>2. A man walks into a bar and immediately falls unconscious. Why?<\/p>\n<p>3. Two days ago David was 14 years old. Next year he will be 17 years old. How is this possible?<\/p>\n<p>4. What can be seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?<\/p>\n<p>5. Mr and Mrs Smith, their two sons and a nephew are all waiting outside a photographic studio for another member of their family before having their family photo taken. A man walks past and both Mrs Smith and her nephew greet him simultaneously, &#8220;Hello, father!&#8221; Explain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Answers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-156\" alt=\"Answers\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Answers-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Answers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Legally speaking, survivors should not be buried (not even French ones!)<\/p>\n<p>2. It was an iron bar!<\/p>\n<p>3. Today is\u00a0January 1st. David&#8217;s birthday was yesterday,\u00a0December 31st, when he turned 15. Two days ago he was 14. He will be 16 this year and 17 the next.<\/p>\n<p>4. The letter &#8216;R&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>5. The man in question was a priest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. An English-owned jet carrying one hundred and twenty French tourists home from\u00a0a holiday resort in the\u00a0Alps crash-lands on the border between Switzerland and Germany. Legally speaking, where should the survivors\u00a0be buried? 2. A man walks into a bar and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles","tag-puzzles-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}