30 PUZZLES
Detective Questions Answer the following questions based on the following information:
1
Holmes and Watson were invited to take part in a charity cricket match, playing for the Scotland Yard team. They both agreed to play. Holmes made 56 runs. Watson scored twice as many as Inspector Lestrade and three times as many as sergeant Smith. Holmes’ score exceeded Watson’ s by the same number of runs as Lestrade’ s exceeded sergeant Smith’ s. Can you give each player’ s score?
2
Holmes, Watson, Lestrade, Moriarty and Mrs
Hudson all belonged to the same library. All five were returning books at the same time. The library shelved its books in alphabetical order by title instead of by author.
Borrower HOLMES WATSON HUDSON MORIARTY
Dr Watson 3 decided he would try a little flutter on the stock market. To buy the shares he withdrew two-thirds of his total savings from his bank account.“ It was a disaster,” he said to Holmes only a few weeks later.“ I had to sell the shares at a loss, receiving only two thirds of the price I had originally paid. My brief venture into the world of high finance has lowered my bank balance by £ 500!” How much money did Watson originally have in his bank account?
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Title GREAT DETECTIVES MEDICINE THE COOK BOOK GREAT CRIMINALS
LESTRADE
POLICE
• None of the borrowers returned the book listed against their name above.
• Two books were overdue. Watson had one; the other was‘ Medicine’.
• The books returned by Holmes and Watson sat next to each other on the shelf.
• Mrs Hudson had to pay a fine for a late return.
Can you match up all five titles with the borrower?