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Daily Puzzle – Oct 09, 2026 


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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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