Puzzle 1
Below you will find 9 well-known five-letter words, with only their endings remaining.
Once you have found the words, their initial letters are an anagram of a 9-letter word.
What is the word?
--xic
--ien
--nre
--ppo
--pil
--loo
--day
--uip
--elf
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The anagrammed word begins with the letter S.
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Spaghetti.
--xic = toxic
--ien = alien
--nre = genre
--ppo = hippo
--pil = pupil
--loo = igloo
--day = today
--uip = equip
--elf = shelf
Giving the letters TAGHPITES, which is an anagram of SPAGHETTI.
Puzzle 2
Three builders are laying a brick wall.
Freddie can lay 1,000 bricks in three hours, Jimmy can lay 1,000 bricks in two hours and Kevin can lay 1,000 bricks in six hours.
How long will it take Freddie, Jimmy, and Kevin to lay 1,000 bricks if they all work together?
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How many bricks are laid in six hours?
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1 hour.
Reasoning
How many bricks are laid in six hours?
In six hours, Kevin lays 1000 bricks, Freddie lays 2000 bricks, and Jimmy lays 3000 bricks.
So, in six hours, we have a total of 6000 bricks laid.
Which means that it will take one hour to lay 1000 bricks.
Puzzle 3
Three people check into a hotel.
They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room.
The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the porter to return to the people.
On the way to the room the porter reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so they keep £2 and give £1 to each person.
Now each person paid £10 and got back £1.
So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The porter has £2, totalling £29.
Where is the missing £1?
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Be careful of what you're adding.
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We have to be careful what we are adding together.
Originally, they paid £30, they each received back £1, they now have only paid £27.
Of this £27, £25 went to the manager for the room and £2 went to the porter.
Puzzle 4
Place a horizontal or a vertical line into every blank square.
Each number tells you the total length of the lines connected to that square.
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Start by looking at the 6 and 4 on the top row.
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