Puzzle 1
Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:
At school, most of my friends learnt French. I learnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.
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The country spans more than one word.
Answer
Chile.
At school, most of my friends learnt FrenCH. I LEarnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.
Puzzle 2
What is the next number in this sequence:
2 · 5 · 8 · 11 · ?
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What is the difference between each number?
Answer
14.
Add 3 to the previous term.
Puzzle 3
Where on Earth do …
… the winds always blow from the South?
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Where on Earth is everything South?
Puzzle 4
Can you find anagrams of the following words?
coagulate
cavitates
bacterial
balancers
headlamps
milestone
telephony
dignifies
unnoticed
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The first letters of the words are: C, A, C, B, L, L, P, S, C.
Answers
coagulate = catalogue
cavitates = activates
bacterial = calibrate
balancers = barnacles
headlamps = lampshade
milestone = lemoniest or limestone
telephony = polythene
dignifies = signified
unnoticed = continued
