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At the annual BrainBashers puzzle discussion conference, 20 people attended.

At the start of the conference, each person shook hands with every other person, how many handshakes took place in total?

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Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you find the 10 words?
tin som mea and all ple
sca eth ile rbr man ssl
pol rec hai yes gra wat
ing ter ice eap erf ate
nwh pin obs ush row day

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Which pair of letters comes next in this sequence:

on · et · wo · th · re · ef · ou · ?

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What comes next in this sequence:

Dave · Edward · Duncan · Neil · Liam · ?
Choose from:

Alan, Kevin, John, Michael, Steve

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