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Puzzle 5

Find two words, which are anagrams of each other, which complete this sentence:

Due to a recent outbreak of a ? infection in the zebra house, the local animal sanctuary had to ? their electron microscope correctly, to ensure rapid detection.

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Puzzle 6

You have a very large number of generic plastic building blocks, each in the shape of a cube.

Think about how many cubes you would need in order to construct a giant cube with 16 small cubes along each edge.

If you were to then remove the outside layer, how many small cubes would you have removed?

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Puzzle 7

Kevin's mother has three children.

The first was called Alpha, the second was called Beta.

What was the name of the third?

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Puzzle 8

Below, 10 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 10 words are?
ent sen oom ush ile cro
cla rbr ise lis ssr lig
hai mar htn age ess new
sag clo gar ion ing oth
enc ine col our erw cod

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