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Puzzle 1 


I recently travelled from my home town to a distant music concert, on a pedal tricycle, of all things! My wonderful, three-wheeled tricycle.

I knew that the epic 2,345 mile trip would wreak havoc on the tyres, but luckily I took along 4 spares!

Instead of waiting for any single tyre to fail, I decided that I would rotate the tyres evenly, making sure that by the end of the trip, all seven tyres had travelled exactly the same distance.

What was the distance that each tyre travelled?

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Puzzle 2 


Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

If a Dalmatian dog can catch five balls in five minutes, four balls in four minutes, and three balls in three minutes, can a Dalmatian dog catch two balls in two minutes?

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Puzzle 3 


Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 10 words are?
hol rec ant imp fer con
man dif ice pol acq htn
ort myt new air sag duc
dec lig kch ogy ing tan
uit ent gle tal tor ent

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Puzzle 4 


Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

A popular newspaper printed part of a page that pointed out that port officials use a pencil, not a pen, when they prepare paper updates to their port reports.

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