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Puzzle 17 


Can you fill the thermometers with mercury, such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in each row and column contain mercury?

Mercury always starts filling from the bottom of a thermometer and not every thermometer has to contain mercury.

Puzzle Copyright © Johan de Ruiter

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Puzzle 18 


Below you will find 15 well-known six-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
---rix ---osy ---few ---oze ---uum ---wth ---nda ---nis ---tem ---pod ---reo ---hom ---gan ---amt ---gen

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 19 


The BrainBashers Speed Skating championship was recently completed, however, the computer storing the results suffered from a power cut!

Using the following snippets of information, can you work out who finished where, their ages (18, 21, 24, and 28), and the colour they wore?

The youngest, who didn't wear blue, won the championship.
Jesse was three years younger than the person who wore red.
Kelly performed well to finish in second place.
Logan wore green, and Max was the oldest competitor.
The person who wore yellow was younger than Kelly.
The person who came last was 21.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 20 


Below you will find well-known eight-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
-----rue -----jar -----dil -----any -----pox -----gth -----elf -----oia -----ige -----hog -----too -----dix -----fin -----upt

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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