The Mince Pie Puzzles 2025
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The Mince Pie Puzzles 2025
A selection of puzzles, for people to solve between now and christmas eve, or to do them all on christmas eve over mince pies if you prefer.
We may add additional puzzles between now and 24/12/25 so be sure to solve all of them! Best NOT to look at other answers before you solve!
For anyone who missed out, here are last year's selection:
The Mince Pie Puzzle, Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 2:00 PM | Meetup
Puzzle 1. Back In The Day
33 Years ago when their youngest daughter Daria was born, the Rossi's had 3 other daughters. Arianna was twice Bianca's age, and thrice Chiara's age. Today the combined age of their 4 daughters is 165. How old is Bianca?
Puzzle 2. We've got your number
Firstly. which "intimate" palindrome has a square and a square root which are also palindromic?
And secondly, what is the two smallest positive whole numbers which, when each multiplied by the number 10 less than themselves, produce a number containing only one (repeating) digit?
Puzzle 3. Amazing Anagrams
The answers to the following nine clues are all 8 letter anagrams of each other, in other words all answers comprise exactly the same group of letters, now all you have to do is solve each of them!
- Necessary (8)
- Warning (8)
- Fish Group (8)
- Polygon (8)
- Ivory Coast Town (8)
- Connecting (8)
- Particle (8)
- More Twisty (8)
- Changing (8)