Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle: Can you solve it? An Oxford University admissions question

Today’s puzzle concerns contestants in a fictitious game show trying to win £1m. It was also once given to a different sort of contestant competing for a different sort of prize: candidates applying to study joint philosophy degrees at Oxford university.

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Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle: Can you solve it? Intrigue at the pet hotel

Today’s brain-manglers come from Tadao Kitazawa, a prolific creator of maths and logic puzzles from Japan. Over the last two decades he has introduced many original ideas, and given new twists to established genres.

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