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Puzzle 137

During the recent BrainBashers school sports day, four students were competing in the 400 metres hurdles.

Official figures mysteriously went missing just after the event, however, various spectators could remember the following information.

Alex won and wore red.
The student wearing number 1 came third.
Billie beat the student in yellow, but wasn't wearing number 2.
Only one student finished in the same position as the number they wore, but they didn't wear red.
Emery beat the student wearing number 3, and Glen wore yellow.
The student in green wore number 2.
A spectator remembered that one student wore blue, but couldn't remember anything else about them.
Can you determine the positions the students finished in, along with the numbers and colours they wore?

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Puzzle 138

Which of the shapes is identical to the first one?

There might be more than one.

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Puzzle 139

My first is in bridge, but not in ridge.

My second is in awake, and in mistake.

My third is in danger, but not in ranger.

My fourth is in strange, and in orange.

My fifth is in spline, and in nine.

My last is in river, and in diver.

My whole likes the darkness.

What am I?

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Puzzle 140

A kind old person decided to give 12 sweets to each of the adults in the town, and 8 sweets to each of the children.

Of the 612 people in the town, exactly half of the adults, and exactly three quarters of the children took the sweets.

How many sweets did the kind old person have to buy?

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