DAY 4 – Summer Holiday Group 2 Year 6 Thinking Skills Homework

In the word “WRISTWATCH” how many sets of two letters have as many letters between them as in the English
alphabet?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

A gym teacher wants his 6 students, Candice, Thea, Ben, Jonathan, Will and Dan to line up in height order, from
shortest to tallest.
● Will is neither the tallest nor the shortest.
● No girl is taller than Jonathan.
● Dan is shorter than Candice but taller than Thea.
● Ben is the tallest.

If Jonathan is the second tallest, what must be true?

A. Will is the third tallest.
B. Will is the second shortest.
C. Will is the third shortest.
D. Thea is the shortest.

Here are some words translated from an artificial language.
● hapllesh means cloudburst
● srenchoch means pinball
● srenchresbo means ninepin

Which word could mean “cloud nine”?

A. leshsrench
B. ochhapl
C. haploch
D. haplresbo

A museum must choose five stuffed birds to be shown in their newest exhibit. Their choices include an Albatross,
a Bluebird, a Condor, a Diver, an Eagle, a Flamingo, a Gull and a Hummingbird.
● If the Diver is chosen, then the Albatross is not.
● The Eagle is chosen only if the Flamingo is not.
● If the Flamingo is chosen, so is the Albatross and the Hummingbird.
● If the Gull is chosen, either the Hummingbird or the Bluebird is chosen as well.

Which of the following is a complete list of the birds shown in the exhibit?

A. Albatross, Condor, Eagle, Diver, Bluebird.
B. Diver, Eagle, Condor, Gull, Hummingbird.
C. Gull, Hummingbird, Flamingo, Albatross, Bluebird.
D. Flamingo, Albatross, Condor, Gull, Bluebird.

On a railway system, every station sells tickets to every single other station. During an expansion, some new
stations were added.
● 46 additional sets of tickets were required.
● There were 11 original stations.

How many stations were added?
A. 4
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

Which of the following is the odd one out?

Fiona, Georgia, Heather, Ian, John, Kevin and Lily are forming a line, trying to get tickets to a concert.
● Fiona is standing in front of Ian.
● John is standing in front of Heather.
● If John is not first in line, Lily is standing somewhere in front of him.
● Ian is standing immediately in front of or immediately behind Kevin.

If John is fourth in line, which of the following cannot be true?

A. Fiona is behind Lily.
B. Heather is in front of Ian.
C. Kevin is behind Fiona.
D. Georgia is behind Heather.

Below is a sudoku puzzle. Here are the rules of this game:
● An image must only appear once in a column.
● An image must only appear once in a row.
● An image must only appear once in a 2×2 grid found in each corner.

Jena Ortega has a large number of passwords she needs to remember from the many internet accounts she has.
Thinking it will be more secure, she uses an alternative alphabet to create the passwords required to access the
different accounts. SHe uses a version of the Leet alphabet, shown in the table below, to create these passwords.
So, for example, LEET could be translated as 1337. To access her Netflix account online, she makes the password
by translating his hint word MISSISSIPPI using the Leet alphabet.
Take note that numbers combined with a symbol such as “I” or other similar symbols can still be counted
separately.

John is four times older than his son right now. In 20 years, he will be twice as old as his son.

How old is John’s son now?

In a textile factory, a machine cuts rolls of cloth into 1 metre strips.
● Each roll is 181 m long.
● One cut takes 4 seconds.

How long will it take the machine to finish the roll?

A. 12 minutes
B. 11 minutes 30 seconds
C. 9 minutes
D. 14 minutes 15 seconds

At a small town election, in total 963 people voted between four different candidates.
● The winner exceeded the runner-up by 53 votes, the third by 79 votes and the fourth candidate by 105
votes.

How many votes did the winner get?

A. 350
B. 270
C. 480
D. 300

I have a 6-digit pin code for my bank account. The third multiple of the first two digits (when considered as one
value) corresponds to the fifth and sixth digits, respectively. By adding 20 to the first two digits (when considered
as one value), you get the third and fourth digits, respectively. No two adjacent, consecutive numbers are greater
than 50.

If the fifth digit is 4, what could the sixth digit possibly be?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
E. None of the above.

Lily would like to send out family pictures to her extended family. The pictures measure 8.5 cm by 7.5 cm. Lily
would like to enlarge the pictures before sending them, making the longer side 13.6 cm long.

How long will the shorter side have to be?

A. 11.5 cm
B. 10 cm
C. 12 cm
D. 12.5 c