BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 633

Are there more …

… 2's or 8's in the numbers from 1 to 50,000?

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Puzzle 634

How many squares are in the drawing below?

An image with a number of squares overlaid.

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.

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Puzzle 635

This year, Farmer Stone's harvest of apples was quite significant.

He decided to donate some of the apples to the local community, 1,672 people in all.

Every person aged 50 or more received 16 apples, and every person under 50 received 96 apples.

Only ³/₄ of the over 50s collected their apples, and only ¹/₈ of the under 50s collected theirs.

How many apples did the farmer give away?

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Puzzle 636

Find two words, which are anagrams of each other, which complete this sentence:

Due to a recent outbreak of a ? infection in the zebra house, the local animal sanctuary had to ? their electron microscope correctly, to ensure rapid detection.

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