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Puzzle 5 


How many days before 17th August is it, if …

… 50 days before then, it was four times as many days since March 30th?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 6 


This famous river has a number of cities along its course.

What is its name?

A squiggly line, flowing to the right.

Puzzle Copyright © Lloyd King

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Puzzle 7 


Can you place a different 3-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words?
finger[---]toe   copy[---]walk    don[---]hole    out[---]trot  every[---]dream
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case

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Puzzle 8 


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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