ReadersDigestAustraliaNewZealand-April2018

128 | April• 2018

TEST YOUR MENTAL PROWESS

Puzzles

BRAIN POWER

Challenge yourself by solving these puzzles and mind stretchers,

then check your answers on page 125.

BY MARCEL DANESI

METEOR SHOWERS BRING SPRING FLOWERS(MODERATELY DIFFICULT)

Spacedusthaslandedonearth,carryingwithitseedsforexoticnewalien

flowers.Oneofthemstilllacksaname.Ifthexenobotanistsfollowthesame

rules they used to create the other terms, what should they call the last flower?

MATCH GAME(EASY)

Therearefivesquaresinthefigureto

theright:thelargeexternaloneand

four smaller internal ones. What’s the

lowest number of matchsticks you

couldremovetoleavetwosquares,

with no leftover matchsticks that

don’t form part of a square?

ASPERFILIUM

NEPTUGORII

BELSACHRYST

MARBRISTO

ASPERCHRYST

JUPICALTAE

BELSAFILIUM

URANOCALTAE

COSMODENDRA

URANOGORII

?

(METEOR SHOWERS BRING SPRING FLOWERS) DARREN RIGBY; (MATCH GAME) MA

RCEL DANESI