Mind Games 15

Discover your true identity, and help out an incompetent army of medieval muddlers.

38. What am I?

Guess what I am!

I am seven letters long: 1234567

123 is a kind of vehicle

2345 is a pop group

456 is a piece of luggage

567 changes every year

What am I?

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39. Befuddled besiegers

You, the commander of an army of bloodthirsty invaders, are laying siege to a castle. The castle is well defended: it stands on a square island with a deep moat ten metres wide running all the way around it. Your plan is to storm the island by laying plank bridges over the moat – but, frustratingly, the planks you’ve brought with you are only 9.5 metres long!

Using only this equipment, can you still get onto the island, and how? (No swimming allowed – you’re wearing full armour.)

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- Olivia Rose-Innes and Senora Sine Thirteen, Health24, January 2012

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