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Puzzle 17 


In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.

The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.

This sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, two commas and a full stop.
Interestingly, this sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, three commas and the final full stop.
Finally, this sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, three commas and one full stop.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 18 


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 determine what the 10 words are?
ely rec ant htn fer ort
ent cer por sin lig ian
lio row use rar lib ive
tfo sca ing ing far eth
som dif est dig imp mho

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Puzzle 19 


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

Can you find the words?
---amt ---nue ---rtz ---oze ---mth ---iek ---gry ---thm ---koo ---spy ---sip ---lem ---uid ---tyr ---meg

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 20 


Start in square 'S' and end in square 'E' moving either horizontally or vertically in each move. Start by moving 2 squares in each of your moves, but when you land on a '*' square, change the number of squares you move from 2 to 3, or vice versa. You can not step on or pass through the black squares and you have only 8 moves in which to complete this task.

Puzzle Copyright © Cihan Altay

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