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Puzzle 109 


What word completes this square:

ferret   rabbit otter    ?
Choose from:

giraffe, mink, cow, bison

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 110 


Gardener's Spring Fayreall logic puzzles

At the recent spring fayre, four keen gardeners were displaying their fine roses.

In total there were four colours and each rose colour appeared twice.

From the clues below, can you tell who had which colour roses?

Gardener Green had a yellow rose.
Gardener Yellow did not have a red one.
Gardener Red had a blue rose, but not a green one.
Gardener Blue did not have a yellow one.
One person with a red rose also had a green one.
One person with a yellow rose also had a blue one.
One of the persons with a green rose had no red.
Neither of the persons with a yellow rose had a green one.
No person had two roses of the same colour.
No two persons had the same two colour roses, and their names provide no clues.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 111 


What is missing from this sequence:

Greenland · New Guinea · Borneo · Madagascar · ? · Sumatra · Honshu

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Puzzle 112 


The other day I was sitting in my local tavern, The Spyglass, which overlooks the sea, when in sailed my old friend the pirate Captain Conan Drum. "Well, shiver me barnacles!" he roared on seeing me. He too is a bit of a puzzle addict and so, after joining me for a glass of milk and telling me about his latest exploits on the high seas, he couldn't resist showing me his latest conundrum.

He reached into one of his jacket pockets and produced seven gleaming £5 coins, which he then proceeded to arrange on the table in front of me exactly as shown below. "Now, me lad." he said, with a mischievous look in his eyes. "I'll wager you'll not be able to solve this one. Take away two coins from this here arrangement to leave five coins across and three coins going down."

It was clear the wily old sea dog still had one or two tricks up his sleeve, as I couldn't for the life of me see how it could be done. Can you see through his skulduggery and solve it?

Coins Cross

Puzzle Copyright © Lloyd King

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