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Puzzle 1

Recently Kevin had a party and because it was his birthday he wanted a mathematical cake!

He ordered a cake in the shape of a cube and had it completely iced (but of course the shop didn't ice the underneath because that just isn't very sensible).

He cut every side of the cake into three equal pieces, giving 27 slices of cake.

He ended up eating all of the pieces of cake that had exactly 2 sides with icing.

So, how many pieces did that leave for the guests?

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Puzzle 2

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
cl--h co--h di-r- -rea- in-e- -ok-r -a-or -ua-l re-e- -to-e s-am- ya--t -eb-a

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Puzzle 3

You have a barrel, filled to the top with water, which weighs 150 pounds.

What can you add to the barrel in order to make it lighter?

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Puzzle 4

Start with a five-letter word.

At each step, the current word is changed by one letter to create the next word.

These words in turn mean:

a gaggle of geese a device for measuring time what you can do with a mouse a baby chicken a device to prevent wheels from moving a surprise a small house a pile of cards a small piece of wood unable to move

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