Puzzle 1
Someone purchases 1 for 38p, 23 for 76p and 102 for £1.14.
What are they buying?
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3,876 would cost £1.52.
Answer
House numbers at 38p each.
Puzzle 2
This is an annoying paragraph, in which you try to work out what is unusual about it. This paragraph has a quandary though. A solitary word has found a way to slink into this paragraph, to fox your fun, by going against all my jazzy plans. What is that word? Don't try to run a utility to assist you, that would spoil all of my attempts to absorb all of your avid skills in this mind-blowing prank.
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Is there a missing letter?
Answer
Attempts.
This word contains the only letter E in the entire paragraph, notice how every other letter appears at least once.
Although the letters C, E, J, Q, V, X each all appear once, the longer the piece of text the more difficult it is to avoid the letter E.
Puzzle 3
If you are running in a marathon, and you overtake the person in last place …
… what position are you now in?
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Who is in last place?
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This cannot happen, you cannot overtake the person who is in last place, as there is no-one behind them!
Ovetaking = passing someone who is ahead on the same lap, this is a change of position, e.g. 4th moves up to 3rd .
Lapping = passing someone who is a full lap behind, this isn't a change of position, e.g. 4th stays 4th .
Puzzle 4
Using the letters AAAAEERRRRTT complete this grid. The grid reads the same across as down.
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.
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One of the words is AREA.
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S
T
A
R
T
A
R
E
A
R
E
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