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Puzzle 1 


Below are seven clues to seven words.

When arranged in the correct order, longest to shortest, each word is an anagram of the previous word with a letter removed.

capital of France snake long root vegetable single article twisted ankle coarse file equally

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Puzzle 2 


I am compiling the new BrainBashers world almanac, and it now contains lots more pages.

I know that it takes 333 digits to print the page numbers in sequence.

How many numbered pages does the book have?
How many times does the number 3 appear?

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Puzzle 3 


Starting with any C, using the move of a chess knight, can you find the letters of Christmas in the correct order?



The moves of a knight are:

Knight's Move

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Puzzle 4 


Can you complete this grid of letters. Each line is a valid 5-letter word with its first and last letter missing.

The missing letters form a word when read downwards, and the same word appears both at the start and at the end.

What is the missing word?

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.

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