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Puzzle 17 



Below are thirteen 5-letter words, each of which has had two of its letters removed.

In total, these 26 letters are A to Z.

The remaining letters in each word are in the correct order.

There are no words that are spelled differently based on location (favour / favor, etc) and there are no plurals.

Can you find the original words?
aae ave uie gon pot vie act met bep uge lan rae bon

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Puzzle 18 



Boat Club Boats - Logic Puzzles

At the local model boat club, four friends were talking about their boats.

There were a total of eight boats, two in each colour: red, green, blue, and yellow.

Each friend owned two boats, and no friend had two boats of the same colour.
Alex didn't have a yellow boat.

Blake didn't have a red boat, but did have a green one.

One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat.

Another friend had a green boat and a blue boat.

Charlie had a yellow boat.

Drew had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.

Can you work out which friends had which coloured boats?

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Puzzle 19 



Can you find a number such that...

...its double is fourteen more than its quarter?

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Puzzle 20 



These five words are connected somehow, which word is missing?

ORIGAMI REPTILIAN {?} NUCLEI GLIDING ECHO
Choose from:

albatross, approved, bingo, furtive, pedalled, zebra

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