Puzzle 5
What well known saying is expressed here:
Refrain from enumerating your owned domestic fowl while their hard, porous calcium containers are undamaged.
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Don't count your chickens until they're hatched.
Puzzle 6
Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:
At school, most of my friends learnt French. I learnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.
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The country spans more than one word.
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Chile.
At school, most of my friends learnt FrenCH. I LEarnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.
Puzzle 7
Each of these rows of arrows represents a word. What are the words?
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Where else might you see arrows and letters together?
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See, new, sense, sew, ewe.
The arrows are pointing in the compass directions N, E, S, and W.
Puzzle 8
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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The eleven-letter word begins with the letter I.
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Investigate.
bake = bike
swap = snap
opal = oval
dyed = deed
idle = isle
snow = stow
lump = limp
aces = ages
melt = malt
spun = stun
rant = rent