BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 5

I was quite bored yesterday, so I visited my local animal sanctuary.

To pass the time, I counted 612 legs.

This came from an equal number of beetles, spiders, and mice.

Can you work out the total number of animals I counted?

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Puzzle 6

Can you create a sentence that contains the word 'and' five times in a row?

With no other word between each 'and'.

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Puzzle 7

Can you complete the following four 5-letter words?

The missing letters, in order, spell an animal.
--ute
c--el
st--g
car--

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Puzzle 8

What four-letter word can be placed between the two following words to make two new words:
table[----]house

In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case

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