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Puzzle 5 


As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

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Puzzle 6 


At a recent school fayre, 500 people attended and £500 was raised. The prices were as follows:
Fathers  £2.00
Mothers  £3.00
Children £0.48

More mothers than fathers turned up. How many children were there?

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Puzzle 7 


Last week I drove from Aardvark to Beeville.

On the first day, I travelled 1/3 of the starting distance.

On day two, I travelled 1/2 of the remaining distance.

On day three, I travelled 2/3 of the remaining distance.

At the end of day four, after travelling 3/4 of the remaining distance, I was still 5 miles away from Beeville.

How many miles had I travelled so far?

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Puzzle 8 


Below are seven clues to seven words.

When arranged in the correct order, each word is an anagram of the previous word with a letter removed.

capital of France snake long root vegetable single article twisted ankle coarse file equally

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