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Puzzle 1 


I was recently given a new watch for my birthday.

However, as usual with my presents, it was quite useless as it loses 6 minutes every hour.

I set it using my friend's accurate watch at midnight, and it now shows 10:39am.

I know that the watch stopped 21 minutes ago, so what is the correct time now?

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Puzzle 2 


A kind old person decided to give 12 sweets to each of the adults in the town, and 8 sweets to each of the children.

Of the 612 people in the town, exactly half of the adults, and exactly three quarters of the children took the sweets.

How many sweets did the kind old person have to buy?

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Puzzle 3 


What number comes next in the sequence:

11  13  17  31  37  71  73  79  97  ?

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Puzzle 4 


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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