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Puzzle 185 



At the local mid-summers fayre, four ladies are planning to delight the visitors with their speciality cakes.

Mrs Archer will make a chocolate cake.

Neither Mrs Bowness, Louise nor Kay Cook propose to make a vanilla cake.

Julie, who is not Mrs Dancer, will make coffee.

Mary will not make a plain one.

You need to find their full names and who plans to make which cake.

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Puzzle 186 



Below is a grid which should contain animals. The missing letters for a particular column are listed at the top of that column. Can you 'drop' the missing letters in and complete the grid? Each animal begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

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Puzzle 187 



Trade Convention #2 - Logic Puzzles

Workers with the surnames Butcher, Baker, Carpenter and Plumber are currently attending an annual convention.

No-one is currently, nor ever has been in the same profession as their name and no-one has had the same profession twice.

Alan is now a butcher, whereas Mr Brian Butcher used to be a baker.
The person who is now a carpenter used to be a butcher.
Charles has never been a baker, Mr Darren Carpenter has never been a butcher and Mr Baker is not now a carpenter.
Can you determine their full names, along with their current and previous professions?

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Puzzle 188 



Without using any reference material can you find the hidden countries?

In each case, the letter indicates the first letter of the country in question, the number represents the number of letters in the country.

For example, E7 would be England.
B10 E5 F4 F7 J5 L13 N9 S11 T7 Z6

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