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Puzzle 1 


Can you find a word that can suffix (go after) each of these letters:

re deva rein over inter under

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Puzzle 2 


By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.

Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?

Therefore, what now reads 'awpydnucepa' will be a real word.
bake swap opal dyed idle snow lump aces melt spun rant

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Puzzle 3 


Three people check into a hotel.

They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room.

The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the porter to return to the people.

On the way to the room the porter reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so they keep £2 and give £1 to each person.

Now each person paid £10 and got back £1.

So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The porter has £2, totalling £29.

Where is the missing £1?

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Puzzle 4 


My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.

I listed six countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Spain     14,000 miles
Fiji      12,000 miles
Germany   18,000 miles
Brazil    16,000 miles
India     16,000 miles
Iceland   --,--- miles

How far away did it list Iceland as?

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