Puzzle 13-25

The HASSRA 1% Puzzle – Number Two

HASSRA 1% Puzzle is a logic-based challenge designed exclusively for our members. It features a series of questions that gradually increase in difficulty, testing your reasoning, problem-solving, and common sense—rather than general knowledge. The ultimate goal is to reach the final question, which only 1% of participants are able to answer correctly. Do you have what it takes to be in the top 1%?

Q1. If there were no vowels at all, what would be the 13th letter of the alphabet?

Q2. Eight people are in a circle, either standing up (U) of sitting down (D) as shown in image. Everyone who is standing up sits down and vice versa. How many people are now standing?

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Q3. Which of the following words is still recognised as a word if you substitute the first letter for the next letter in the alphabet and the last letter for the previous letter in the alphabet?

Brink

Crown

Crest

Q4. Below is the recipe for the HASSRA Burger. If I have nine whole buns, nine cheese slices, eight tomato slices and ten patties, what is the maximum number of HASSRA Burgers I can make?

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Q5. How many pairs of anagrams are there in the following sentence?

Alice, Dan, Celia and Enid hoped to dine well on the plane from Nepal

Q6. Have a look at this bathroom floor covered in square tiles. If each square tile features eight triangles, how may square tiles cover this floor?

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Q7. In the puzzle below, what four words replace the question mark?

Shatter the frozen water = Break the ice

You can’t assess a novel by its dust jacket = You can’t judge a book by its cover

Illustrious intellects imagine identically = ?

Q8. Four people are in a maze trying to reach the centre. Which of them is going the wrong way?

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Q9. You have a pack of 52 playing cards in your hand and decide to sort them into alphabetical order. The ACE of CLUBS, ACE of DIAMONDS, ACE of HEARTS and ACE of SPADES are the first four cards you place on the table. If you carried on this sequence, what would be the LAST card you would place down?

Submit your answers at HASSRA Puzzle 13-25 before midnight on Sunday 6th July 2025 to be in with a chance of winning one of 14 Love2Shop e-vouchers, one x £100, one x £50 or one of 12 x £20 Love2Shop e-vouchers.