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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Puzzle 2
In each of these 5 words, can you change the highlighted letter to produce a new word?
The new letters spell a fruit.
Date
nUt
Lime
pEach
Pear
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Puzzle 3
My BrainBashers calculator is low on batteries again, and the following multiplication is wrong. Can you correct it?
Each of the numbers has the correct digits, but they have been mixed up.
Luckily, the solution is correct, which makes the task a little easier.
2471
3725 x
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22084429
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Puzzle 4
Can you find three consecutive prime numbers …
… that equal 409,457 when multiplied together?
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