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Puzzle 5 


Can you place a different 4-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words.
  drift[----]wind    home[----]bench    foot[----]mother   court[----]stick    moth[----]room quarter[----]ground   space[----]yard    wild[----]span    your[----]less    back[----]fighter
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case

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Puzzle 6 


At a picnic recently, I noticed that:

Charles liked biscuits, but didn't like custard.
Mary liked quiche, but didn't like marshmallows.
Brian liked apples, but didn't like biscuits.
James liked chocolate, but didn't like jelly.
Did David like doughnuts?

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Puzzle 7 


Which one of these sentences is the odd one out? The answer is nothing to do with food or animals.
Jackals are mean, eager scavengers.
Koalas eat in the heat.
Sheep invariably munch old newspapers.
Seals are rare and hungry.
Foxes rich appetite never kicks.

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Puzzle 8 


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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