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Puzzle 17 


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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Puzzle 18 


My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.

I listed six countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Spain     14,000 miles
Fiji      12,000 miles
Germany   18,000 miles
Brazil    16,000 miles
India     16,000 miles
Iceland   --,--- miles

How far away did it list Iceland as?

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Puzzle 19 


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 20 


Can you find every occurrence of the word MAY that appears in this grid (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?

The hint will reveal the number of times it occurs, but where are they?



Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be selected.

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