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Puzzle 1 


Find two words, which are anagrams of each other, that complete this sentence:

While captive in the ?, James ? an entire book.

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Puzzle 2 


You can imagine an arrow in flight, toward a target. For the arrow to reach the target, the arrow must first travel half of the overall distance from the starting point to the target. Next, the arrow must travel half of the remaining distance.

For example, if the starting distance was 10m, the arrow first travels 5m, then 2.5m.

If you extend this concept further, you can imagine the resulting distances getting smaller and smaller. Will the arrow ever reach the target?

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Puzzle 3 


Below are safari animals, however, each letter has been replaced by its position in the alphabet, but the spaces between the resulting numbers have been removed.

For example, DOG = 4-15-7 = 4157.

What are the safari animals?

18891415 3181531549125 79181665 38552018 12515161184 89161615 512516811420 2216611215 1291514

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Puzzle 4 


Using a tap, a container of 9 litres and a container of 4 litres …

… can you measure 6 litres?

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