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Puzzle 153 


I have a jar of sweets.

There are 234 red, 26 blue, 67 green and 63 yellow sweets.

What chance do I have of picking a blue one with my eyes shut?

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Puzzle 154 


Can you find a number such that …

… its double is fourteen more than its quarter?

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Puzzle 155 


Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to Z=26.

Can you find any common 6-letter words that have a total over 115?

For example, WIZARD = 23 + 9 + 26 + 1 + 18 + 4 = 81.

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Puzzle 156 


What is the simplest way of making this equation correct?

81 + 18 = 66

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