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Puzzle 5 


A parent recently arranged a children's party, and had 187 sweets to give out equally to the children.

Each child had more than one sweet, and there were more children than there were sweets per child.

How many sweets did each child end up with?

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Puzzle 6 


We have been quite lucky with the weather recently, it has got steadily warmer each day, over the last five days.

By this, I mean that the temperature rose by the same amount each day.

The average temperature was 2 °C, and I know it froze on two occasions (0 °C).

I also know the product of the temperatures was over 500 but below 2,000 and each temperature was an integer.

What were the last 5 temperatures?

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Puzzle 7 


At midnight at the start of January 1st, Professor Stone set two old-fashioned clocks to the correct time.

One clock gains one minute every hour, and the other clock loses two minutes every hour.

When will the clocks next show the same time as each other?
When will the clocks both show the correct time?

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Puzzle 8 


The legendary BrainBashers calendar had a recent bug. Here is a listing showing the number of days in each month:
January    107
February   68
March      135
April      15
May        133
June       104
July       104
August     16
September  ?

How many days did it show for September?

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