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Can you add two lines to complete this sequence of towers?

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The other day I was sitting in my local tavern, The Spyglass, which overlooks the sea, when in sailed my old friend the pirate Captain Conan Drum. "Well, shiver me barnacles!" he roared on seeing me. He too is a bit of a puzzle addict and so, after joining me for a glass of milk and telling me about his latest exploits on the high seas, he couldn't resist showing me his latest conundrum.

He reached into one of his jacket pockets and produced seven gleaming £5 coins, which he then proceeded to arrange on the table in front of me exactly as shown below. "Now, me lad." he said, with a mischievous look in his eyes. "I'll wager you'll not be able to solve this one. Take away two coins from this here arrangement to leave five coins across and three coins going down."

It was clear the wily old sea dog still had one or two tricks up his sleeve, as I couldn't for the life of me see how it could be done. Can you see through his skulduggery and solve it?

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Awards Ceremony - Logic Puzzles

At the local sports club, some veteran members were photographed together for the annual awards ceremony.

In the photograph, each member has a different coloured T-shirt.

Obviously, the number of awards each has won over the years counts towards their status within the club, however, it is also significant to let other members know how many relatives of theirs are eligible for membership.

From the information given below, can you determine the positions of the five members in the photograph, their T-shirt colour, their age (40, 48, 60, 65, 74), the number of awards they have won (40, 75, 96, 125, 165) and the number of eligible relatives (5, 9, 30, 46, 60)?

The person who is wearing red has 25 relatives more than Jesse and is not next to the person wearing blue.
Jordan is wearing orange and has 40 awards more than Jean.
Jean has 51 awards more than their age and Jesse has 5 relatives.
Jayden has 75 awards and is 65 years old.
The person on the far right has 37 fewer relatives than Jean and is 40 years old.
Jamie, who is the first, is 60 years old and has 20 awards fewer than their age.
The person who is next to the person who has 46 relatives but not next to the person who is 60 years old, is wearing yellow and has 96 awards.
The person in the centre has 46 relatives, is wearing blue and has 125 awards.
The person who is wearing green has 30 more relatives than the person to the left of them.

Puzzle Copyrighted. Created by Kevin Stone using Brain Cell.

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Can you find the book titles hidden in these phrases?
ROME OR OSLO? ANDREW, JULIE, TO VISIT.
WARM TOO FEW, THE SUBWORLD SNEEZES
AN I MALL? SHOPS, FAR MALLS?
GO NEXT, GO! WITHOUT OTHER I DWINDLE. GO!
WATER. SHIP, BOAT. STORM! DOWN RAIN!
BRAVERY IN A NEW AGE, WORLD'S HOPE.
For each word in the title, new letters are added of the same length, and then the spacing is changed, and punctuation is added.

For example:
   BOOK TITLE
   BOOK 1234 TITLE 12345
   BOOK NIGH TITLE APTUP
   BOOKNIGHTITLEAPTUP
   BOO, KNIGHT. IT LEAPT UP!

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