Puzzle 1
What three-letter word best completes these words?
c---on
he---
e---h
m---yr
qu---er
st---
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Hint
The word ends with the letter T.
Answer
Art.
c---on = carton
he--- = heart
e---h = earth
m---yr = martyr
qu---er = quarter
st--- = start
Puzzle 2
How should this word be pronounced:
GHOTI
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Break the word down in this way: GH-O-TI.
Answer
Fish!
Reasoning
The GH as in ENOUGH = F.
The O as in WOMEN = I.
The TI as in MOTION = SH.
Puzzle 3
Imagine a bottle recycling skip, empty other than one lonely bottle.
Every hour, on the hour, people come and put bottles into the skip.
The first hour, at noon, one person came and put a bottle in.
One hour later, two people each placed a bottle into the skip.
An hour later, four people each placed a bottle into the skip.
This doubling of people continued until 11pm, when the skip was finally full.
When was the skip exactly half full?
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Remember that the bottle count doubles each time.
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10pm.
Reasoning
The skip started with 1 lonely bottle.
At Noon: 1 person came along and added a bottle, making the total 2 bottles.
At 1pm: 2 people came along and each added a bottle, making the total 2 + 2 = 4 bottles.
At 2pm: 4 people came along and each added a bottle, making the total 4 + 4 = 8 bottles.
At 3pm: 8 people came along and each added a bottle, making the total 8 + 8 = 16 bottles.
Therefore, the number of bottles in the skip is doubling every hour, as it was full at 11pm, it must have been half full at 10pm.
Puzzle 4
Can you find every occurrence of the word LEMON that appears in this grid (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?
The hint will reveal the number of times it occurs, but where are they?

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be selected.
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The word LEMON appears 47 times.
Answer
The word LEMON appears 47 times.