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Puzzle 277 



Can you fill the thermometers with mercury, such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in each row and column contain mercury?

Mercury always starts filling from the bottom of a thermometer and not every thermometer has to contain mercury.

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Puzzle 278 



The following words have had their vowels (AEIOU) removed, can you find the missing animals?
rdvrk rndr prcpn rhncrs sqrrl clt frrt sknk dnky ntlp

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 279 



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 exactly {?} E's and not one more.
However, this sentence contains exactly {?} S's, with a single Z.
Finally, to finish, this sentence has exactly {?} I's.

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Puzzle 280 



Practical Pat was asked to cut a 99 foot rope into three smaller, equal length ropes.

However, as usual, Pat couldn't find the measuring tape, so a guess took place!

When the tape was finally found (it was under a hat), Pat discovered that:

the second piece of rope was twice as long as the first piece, minus 35 feet
the third piece of rope was half the length of the first, plus 15 feet
How long were each of the pieces of rope?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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