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Puzzle 1 


Can you find a 5-digit number …

… whose digits add up to 18 and whose product is 210 and the digits increase from left to right in the number?

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Puzzle 2 


In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.

The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.

This sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, two commas and a full stop.
Interestingly, this sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, three commas and the final full stop.
Finally, this sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, three commas and one full stop.

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Puzzle 3 


At the local mid-summers fayre, four ladies are planning to delight the visitors with their speciality cakes.

Mrs Archer will make a chocolate cake.

Neither Mrs Bowness, Louise nor Kay Cook propose to make a vanilla cake.

Julie, who is not Mrs Dancer, will make coffee.

Mary will not make a plain one.

You need to find their full names and who plans to make which cake.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 4 


What is the test to see …

… if a number is divisible by nine?

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