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Puzzle 17

A coin collector decides to divide his coin collection between his children.

The eldest gets ¹/₂ of the collection, the next gets ¹/₄ of the collection, the next gets ¹/₅ of the collection, and the youngest gets the remaining 49 coins.

How many coins are in the collection?

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Puzzle 18

Using the clues from below can you find ten words?

Once you have placed the words into the correct order you will find that each word is different from the previous word by only one letter.

For example, DOG may be followed by DIG, etc.

in the back of the net sock material forest baby horse hooded robe spiral of wire not hot roasting metal earthy ground not bad

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Puzzle 19

I have three daughters and each has one brother.

How many children do I have?

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Puzzle 20

Which of the shapes is identical to the first one?

There might be more than one.

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