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Puzzle 197 


Three teachers were discussing how long they had been teaching.

Alex and Billie had been teaching for a total of 36 years.
Charlie and Billie had been teaching for a total of 22 years.
Charlie and Alex had been teaching for a total of 28 years.
How long had each been teaching?

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Puzzle 198 


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 ? X.
Slightly trickier, this sentence contains ? R's.
Even trickier, this sentence contains precisely ? E's.
This sentence has exactly ? letters.
This sentence, hopefully, contains ? letters, one hyphen, five commas, and four Y's.
To finish, if this sentence had a T removed, it would contain ? letters!

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Puzzle 199 


Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
ba-g- d--ed dia-- -uo-a i-de- -o-el -um-s py--y g-ou- --nal tra-- -umb- d--ty

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Puzzle 200 


Can you unscramble these animal anagrams?

the plane cool dicer argon oak fig fear soon richer zip hem cane trio toes popout mishap upper coin tartan leeks

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