Puzzle 1
In 1978,
what happened on the 5th of June,
at 34 minutes past 12?
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Hint
How can we write this time and date?
Answer
The time and day became:
12:34 5/6/78 (in UK format)
In US format, this happened on the 6th of May.
Puzzle 3
What comes next in this sequence:
boron · carbon · nitrogen · oxygen · ?
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The first in the list would be Hydrogen.
Answer
Fluorine.
These are the elements in atomic number order.
Puzzle 4
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 'krzsaprokg' will be a real word.
bake
cure
maze
pest
neat
rope
port
food
poke
bugs
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The first word is base.
Answer
Strawberry.
bake = base
cure = cute
maze = mare
pest = peat
neat = newt
rope = robe
port = poet
food = ford
poke = pore
bugs = buys
