Tiffin Puzzle Treasure Hunt

Rules:
1) In summary, there are 10 puzzles around the school. Each of the puzzles
indicates the location for the team to go to next (although some of the
puzzles will be craftily hidden). Each puzzle requires either a numerical
or letter based answer.
2) Each team has a log sheet on which they can record their answers.
3) The team doesn’t have to wait to solve the current puzzle before going
on to the next.
4) 4 different teams will be competing concurrently. They will each be
given a different starting location to avoid all being in the same place at
once.
5) However, the members of a team must stay together as a group and not
separate.
6) Once the team’s current puzzle directs them to a location they’ve been
to before (because they’ve gone full circle and found the 10 puzzles),
they return to the ‘base’ (probably the maths department). The team
can check their answers with me. I only give an indication of how many
answers they’ve got right out of 10, not which ones they have right.
Teams can check their answers a maximum of 5 times before their
highest number of correct answers (and the time at which they got this
score) is recorded, and no subsequent declaration of answers is
permitted.
7) Teams are allocated points based on the time it takes for them to get all
10 questions correct. If they don’t get all 10 correct in the time available,
the maximum number they got correct will be recorded. Across all the
teams across the day, they’ll be allocated points based on their ranking,
by time first and then by the number they got correct (so for two teams
both getting 8 out of 10, the one with the faster time will get more
points, but both will score more points than any team scoring less than
8).
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This Location: Benches

There are 6 friends who need to form 3 teams (each of 2 people) for
a tennis doubles league. How many possible ways of organising the
friends into teams are there?

Next Location: School Hall

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This Location: School Hall

Two adults and two children wish to cross a river. They make a raft
but it will carry only the weight of one adult or two children. What is
the minimum number of times the raft must cross the river to get all
four people to the other side? (N.B. The raft may not cross the river
without at least one person on board.)

Next Location: Art

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This Location: Art

Which one of the following shapes could not appear as

the overlapping region of two identical squares?

A equilateral triangle B square C kite

D heptagon E regular octagon

Next Location: Geography

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This Location: Geography

The diagram shows a unit cube coloured blue.

Additional blue unit cubes are glued face-to-face to
each of its six faces to form a three-dimensional
“cross”. If unit cubes coloured yellow are now glued
face-to-face to all the spare faces of this cross, how many yellow unit
cubes are required.

Next Location: Walden Hall

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This Location: Walden Hall

On a digital clock displaying hours, minutes and

seconds, how many times in each 24-hour period do
all six digits change simultaneously?

Next Location: LRC

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This Location: LRC

A positive whole number less than 100 has remainder 2 when it is

divided by 3, remainder 3 when it is divided by 4 and remainder 4
when it is divided by 5. What is its remainder what it is divided by 7?

Next Location: Elmfield

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This Location: Elmfield

The pupils in Year 7 are holding a mock election. A candidate

receiving more votes than any other wins. The four candidates
receive 83 votes between them. What is the smallest number of
votes the winner could receive?

Next Location: Petit Jardin

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This Location: Petit Jardin

A cat runs from its house to a tree at a speed of 1 m/s. On arrival, it

immediately spots a dog and runs back to the house at a speed of 3
m/s. What was its average speed across the cat’s entire journey?

(Hint: the answer is not 2 m/s, and you may find the formula
speed=distance ÷ time helpful)

Next Location: Chemistry

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This Location: Chemistry

Six friends are having dinner together in their local restaurant. The
first eats there every day, the second eats there every other day, the
third eats there every third day, the fourth eats there every fourth
day, the fifth eats there every fifth day and the sixth eats there every
sixth day. They agree to have a party the next time they all eat
together there. In how many days’ time is the party?

Next Location: Behind Sports Centre

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This Location: Behind Sports Centre

At a holiday camp, the ratio of boys to girls is 3:4 and the ratio of girls
to adults is 5:7. What is the ratio of children to adults at the camp?

Next Location: Front School Gates

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This Location: Front School Gates

The diagram shows a trapezium made from three

equilateral triangles. Three copies of the trapezium are
placed together, without gaps or overlaps and so that
only complete edges coincide, to form a polygon with N sides.
How many different values of N are possible?

Next Location: Outside Canteen

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This Location: Outside Canteen

The sum of three different prime numbers is 40. What is the

difference between the two biggest of these three numbers?

Next Location: IT Room

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This Location: IT Room

After playing 500 games, my success rate at Spider Solitaire is 49%.

Assuming I win every game from now on, how many extra games do I
need to play in order that my success rate increases to 50%?

Next Location: Careers Office

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This Location: Careers Office

In the diagram on the right, the number in each box

is obtained by adding the numbers in the two boxes
immediately underneath. What is the value of x ?

Next Location: Main Office

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This Location: Main Office

In this Multiplication Magic Square, the product of the

three numbers in each row, each column and each of
the diagonals is 1. What is the value of r + s?

Next Location: Benches

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Room 57 Bonus Question

The interior angles of a triangle are ( 5 x+ 3 y ) ° ,

( 3 x+ 20 ) ° and ( 10 y +30 ) ° where x , y are positive
integers (whole numbers).
What is the value of x + y ?

Answers:

1) 15 – (BENCHES) 10) 5:4 (BEHIND SPORT CENTRE)

2) 9 (SCHOOL HALL) 11) 6 (SCHOOL GATES)
3) A (ART) 12) 24 (OUTSIDE CANTEEN)
4) 18 (GEOGRAPHY) 13) 10 – (IT ROOM)
5) 3 – (WALDEN HALL) 14) 360 (CAREERS OFFICE)
6) 3 (LRC) 9
15) (MAIN OFFICE)
7) 22 (ELMFIELD) 16
8) 1.5 (m/s) (PETIT JARDIN) 16) 15 - BONUS
9) 60 (days) – (CHEMISTRY)
 Tiffin Puzzle Treasure Hunt Answer Card

Team Name _______________________________

Initial Location _____________________________

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BONUS
 Teacher Team Record Sheet

Team Name Num Correct (with time) Final Score

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