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We meet three people: Alex, Brian and Ben. One of them is an architect, the other is a baker and the third is an bus driver. One lives in Aberdeen, the other in Birmingham and the third in Brighton.

1) Ben is in Birmingham only for trips, and even then very rarely. However, all his relatives live in this city.

2) For two of these people the first letter of their name, the city they live in and their job is the same.

3) The wife of the architect is Ben’s younger sister.

Professions of family members. In the Smith family there are 5 people: a husband, a wife, their son, a husband’s sister and the father of his wife. They all work. One is an engineer, another is a lawyer, the third is a mechanic, the fourth is an economist, the fifth is a teacher. Here’s what else is known about them. The lawyer and the teacher are not blood relatives. The mechanic is a good athlete. He followed in the footsteps of an economist and played football for the national team of the plant. The engineer is older than his brother’s wife, but younger than the teacher. The economist is older than the mechanic. What are the professions of each member of the Smith family?

Some girls are on a street. On the street, standing in a circle, four girls are talking: Janine, Mimi, Beatrix and Tash. A girl in a green dress (not Janine or Mimi) stands between a girl in a blue dress and Tash. A girl in a white dress is standing between a girl in a pink dress and Mimi. What dress is on each of the girls?

Replace the letters in the word \(TRANSPORTIROVKA\) by numbers (different letters correspond to different numbers, but the same letters correspond to identical numbers) so that the inequality \(T > R > A > N < P <O < R < T > I > R > O < V < K < A\).

Burbot-Liman. Find the numbers that, when substituted for letters instead of the letters in the expression \(NALIM \times 4 = LIMAN\), fulfill the given equality (different letters correspond to different numbers, but identical letters correspond to identical numbers)

Restore the numbers. Restore the digits in the following example by dividing as is shown in the image

Decipher the numerical puzzle system \[\left\{\begin{aligned} & MA \times MA = MIR \\ & AM \times AM = RIM \end{aligned}\right.\] (different letters correspond to different numbers, and identical letters correspond to the same numbers).

Everyone believed that the Dragon was one-eyed, two-eared, three-legged, four-nosed and five-headed. In fact, only four of these definitions form a certain pattern, and one is redundant. Which characteristic is unnecessary?

Fred always tells the truth, but George always lies. What question could you ask them so that they would give the same answer?

Jemima always tells the truth, but when she was asked the same question twice, she gave different answers. What kind of question could this be?