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Puzzle 129 


Place the following words into the grid:

MERCURY VENUS EARTH MARS SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO
Jupiter is NOT in the list.

Puzzle Copyright © Cihan Altay

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Puzzle 130 


Can you find a 5-digit number …

… whose digits add up to 18 and whose product is 210 and the digits increase from left to right in the number?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 131 


I am compiling the BrainBashers world almanac and it now contains quite a few pages. But just how many?

I know that it takes 121 digits to print all of the page numbers in sequence.

So, how many numbered pages does the book have, and how many times does the number 9 appear?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 132 


Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

A popular newspaper printed part of a page that pointed out that port officials use a pencil, not a pen, when they prepare paper updates to their port reports.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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