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Puzzle 1 


Can you fill the thermometers with mercury, such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in each row and column contain mercury?

Mercury always starts filling from the bottom of a thermometer and not every thermometer has to contain mercury.

Puzzle Copyright © Johan de Ruiter

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Puzzle 2 


Below, 9 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 9 words are?
ome clo ere ref int ere
bar ple pin ise phy gra
hni bio ewh eap sor fes
tec ckw som que tpr pro
nce ter foo

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 3 


Disastrous Dave was washing windows on a multi-storey office building when he took a fall off a fifty-foot ladder, directly onto the concrete pavement below.

Amazingly, Dave didn't get hurt at all.

How can this be possible?

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Puzzle 4 


Below you will find 15 well-known six-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
---cil ---hid ---nze ---ese ---lug ---som ---uxe ---uum ---arm ---amo ---rby ---ink ---sai ---too ---fen

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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