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Puzzle 1 


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.

Puzzle Copyright © Johan de Ruiter

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Puzzle 2 


Boat Club Boatsall logic puzzles

At the local model boat club, four friends were talking about their boats.

Alex didn't have a yellow boat.
Billie didn't have a red boat, but did have a green one.
One of the friends had a yellow boat, and a blue boat.
Another friend had a green boat, and a blue boat.
Charlie had a yellow boat.
Drew had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.
There were a total of eight boats, two in each colour: red, green, blue, and yellow.

Each friend owned two boats, and no friend had two boats of the same colour.

Can you work out the correct colours?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 3 


Which one of these letters is the odd one out?

xi, chi, theta, psi, pi, phi

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 4 


Can you find every occurrence of the word JANUARY that appears in this grid (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?

The hint will reveal the number of times it occurs, but where are they?



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

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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