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Puzzle 85 


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

origami reptilian {?} nuclei gliding echo
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albatross, approved, bingo, furtive, pedalled, zebra

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Puzzle 86 


By changing the third letter of each of the words below, can you make another valid word?

You have to change each word such that the third letters will reveal a ten-letter word when read downwards.

Therefore, what now reads 'krzsaprokd' will be a real word.
bake cure maze pest neat rope port food poke soda

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Puzzle 87 


Hidden below are eight, 7-letter words.

Each word begins with the central S and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter.

Each of the letters is used exactly once.

What are the words?

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

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Puzzle 88 


I am compiling the new BrainBashers world almanac, and it now contains lots more pages.

I know that it takes 333 digits to print the page numbers in sequence.

How many numbered pages does the book have?
How many times does the number 3 appear?

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