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By changing the third letter of each of the words below, can you make another valid word?

You have to change each word such that the third letters will reveal a ten-letter word when read downwards.

Therefore, what now reads KRZSAPROKD will be a real word.
BAKE CURE MAZE PEST NEAT ROPE PORT FOOD POKE SODA

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Hidden below are eight, 7-letter words.

Each word begins with the central S and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter.

Each of the letters is used exactly once.

What are the words?

G	N	L	K	R	T	E
E	I	E	O	X	A	E
K	R	N	I	H	M	N
E	A	Y	S	E	A	P
R	E	P	P	A	W	O
N	E	A	G	U	E	O
R	N	E	S	A	D	E

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I am compiling the new BrainBashers world almanac, and it now contains lots more pages.

I know that it takes 333 digits to print the page numbers in sequence.

How many numbered pages does the book have?
How many times does the number 3 appear?

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Take a set of three letters from the left column, and a set of three letters from the right column and merge them together, without changing the order of the letters in each half (matching sets might not be on the same row).

Example 1: WMB + OAT and MAT + WOB both equal WOMBAT.

Example 2: RBT + ABI and AIT + RBB both equal RABBIT.

Can you find the six animals that have been split in half?
CYO ARU
WLS DNE
EAR FEE
OKY OTE
RRT JAR
AGU BVE

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