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Puzzle 1 


Imagine a bottle recycling skip, empty other than one lonely bottle.

Every hour, on the hour, people come and put bottles into the skip.

The first hour, at noon, one person came and put a bottle in.

One hour later, two people each placed a bottle into the skip.

An hour later, four people each placed a bottle into the skip.

This doubling of people continued until 11pm, when the skip was finally full.

When was the skip exactly half full?

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Puzzle 2 


The following words have had their vowels removed, can you find some animals?

ln ntlp gzll strch wl rbn rdvrk dr clt bs

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 3 


Two friends were driving from their home to Manchester, Alex drove the first 90 miles, and Billie took over for the remainder of the journey.

On the way back, Alex drove to begin with, and Billie took over for the last 100 miles.

Who drove the furthest?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 4 


Which two letters come next in this sequence:

ME · VE · EA · MA · JU · SA · UR · ?

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