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Puzzle 409 


What is the minimum number of queens required on a chessboard such that all squares are attacked?

Queen On C3

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Puzzle 410 


Which one of these sentences is the odd one out? The answer is nothing to do with food or animals.
Jackals are mean, eager scavengers.
Koalas eat in the heat.
Sheep invariably munch old newspapers.
Seals are rare and hungry.
Foxes rich appetite never kicks.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 411 


If it took …

… Alex, Billie and Charlie exactly 60 minutes to dig a hole …

how long would it take for them …

… to dig half a hole?

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Puzzle 412 


Below are 8 Academy Award winners.

The letters of their names have been mixed up and put into alphabetical order.

The brackets contain clues to their names, the first letter and the length of each part of their name. For example, EEIKNNOSTV [K5 S5] = KEVIN STONE.
DEEFIJOORST      [J5 F6]
EEELMPRRSTY      [M5 S6]
ABEIJLORRSTU     [J5 R7]
AABEEHHIKNNPRRTU [K9 H7]
CEEEGGLNOOORY    [G6 C7]
ACCHIJKLNNOOS    [J4 N9]
BDEEINOORRRT     [R6 D2 N4]
AACCEEHIILMN     [M7 C5]

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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