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Puzzle 77

Can you highlight exactly three numbers that add to 17?

3x3 Grid: 2 4 1, 1 3 8, 9 2 1

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the numbers cannot be clicked.

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Puzzle 78

Take a word from the first column, and a word from the second column.

You will now have 6 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of something that lives in water.
dish         leek
tray         shoe
raft         sign
cram         golf
ears         fern
loud         hiss

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Puzzle 79

After a day picking strawberries, I ended up with a full basket, which is always nice.

I ate 5, and then gave Alex half of the remaining.

I ate another 3, and then gave Billie one third of the remaining.

I ate another 6, and then gave Charlie two thirds of the remaining.

I now had 34 strawberries left. How many did I start with?

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Puzzle 80

What comes next in this sequence:

elgnairt erauqs nogatnep nogaxeh nogatpeh {?}

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