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Puzzle 201 


Exactly how many minutes is it before eight o'clock if …

… 40 minutes ago, it was three times as many minutes past four o'clock?

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Puzzle 202 


I was recently given a new watch for my birthday.

However, as usual with my presents, it was quite useless as it loses 6 minutes every hour.

I set it using my friend's accurate watch at midnight, and it now shows 10:39am.

I know that the watch stopped 21 minutes ago, so what is the correct time now?

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Puzzle 203 


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.

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Puzzle 204 


What comes next in this sequence:

boron  carbon  nitrogen  oxygen  ?

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