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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes was relaxing in his study when, suddenly,  a snowball struck one of the windows overlooking  the street below, causing it to shatter. Quickly, he went over  to the window to investigate and, looking out, just caught  sight of the Willoughby triplets, Danny, Mark and Oliver, disappearing rapidly round a street corner. The next  morning he received this anonymous message: ? Willoughby. I am certain he broke your window . According to this, which one of the triplets should he  question  about the incident? Answer: Mark Willoughby.  "?" Denotes "Question Mark".

Sequence

What letter, apart from E, can be added to the following  to complete this sequence? SEQUENC_ Answer: Place the letter "F" above the line to make the word SEQUENCE.

What Comes Next?

77, 49, 36, 18, ?? Answer: 8.

NAME CARD

A DJ friend of mine whose name card looks like this: J JASON DJ FM-AM I have found a pattern hidden in this name card. After I revealed it to him, he was shocked as well. What was the Pattern? Answer: The first letter of months appear in the same order: June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April and May.

KOMACHI TIME

My digital watch shows the time as: 8:19 23:46:57 It reads August 19th, 23 hours, 46 minutes and 57 seconds. You will notice that the digits of 1-9 displays all the digits only once. There are 768 instances in a year like this. Find the KOMACHI time that appears earliest in the year? Answer: 3:26 17:48:59 March 26th, 17 hours, 48 minutes and 59 seconds.

What's next?

4, 16, 37, 58, 89, 145, 42, ?? What number will come in next place? Answer: 20. The series consists of numbers which follow the pattern: 4 2 = 16 1 2 + 6 2 = 37 3 2 + 7 2 = 58 5 2 + 8 2 = 89 8 2 + 9 2 = 145 1 2 +4 2 + 5 2 = 42 42 + 2 2 = 20

Travelling

A man drove from A to B. On the first day he travelled 1/3 of the distance. On day two he travelled 1/2 of the remaining distance. On day three he travelled 2/3 of the remaining distance. On day four, after covering 3/4 of the remaining distance, he was still 5 miles away from B. How many miles had he covered in total upto day four? Answer: 175 miles. The total trip was 180 miles. Working backwards: Day 1: travelled 1/3 leaving 120 miles, which means that 120 miles is 2/3, so 180 miles were left at the start of Day 1.    Day 2: travelled 1/2 leaving 60 miles, which means that 60 miles is 1/2, so 120 miles were left at the start of Day 2. Day 3: travelled 2/3 leaving 20 miles, which means that 20 miles is 1/3, so 60 miles were left at the start of Day 3.   Day 4: travelled 3/4 leaving 5 miles, which means that 5 miles is 1/4, so 20 miles were left at the start of Day 4. Of the 180 miles overall, 175 were covered in the 4 days.