BrainBashers - Easy Puzzles

Puzzle 173

How many squares, of any size, can be found on a standard chessboard?
How many rectangles, of any size, can be found on a standard chessboard?
Remember when counting the rectangles, that squares are also rectangles.

8 x 8 Chessboard

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Puzzle 174

Place letters into the grid such that every row, column, and 2 x 2 block has letters (in any order) that form a common word. Each letter is only used once, and no letter is repeated in the rows / cols / blocks.

Letters allowed: T U R K E Y

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

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Puzzle 175

Which is larger, the number of seconds in a day or …

… the number of hours in 10 years?

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Puzzle 176

Here is a set of five clues for five words that only differ by one vowel (vowels are AEIOU, but not necessarily in that order). What are the words?

small robot small part on the contrary nocturnal mammal wager
Here's another set of clues for five new words:

struck heated (archaic British) straw dwelling a head warmer not cold

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