Puzzle 5
I was quite bored yesterday, so I visited my local animal sanctuary.
To pass the time, I counted 612 legs.
This came from an equal number of beetles, spiders, and mice.
Can you work out the total number of animals I counted?
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Hint
A beetle has six legs, a spider has eight legs, and a mouse has four legs.
Answer
102 animals, 34 of each.
Reasoning
As there are the same number of each animal, for every beetle, spider, and mouse counted, there are a total of 18 legs.
612 ÷ 18 = 34 of each animal.
Which gives a total of 34 x 3 = 102 animals.
Puzzle 6
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Hint
The puzzle contains the question.
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26.
Reasoning
The puzzle reads 'how many letters in this puzzle'.
The puzzle's letters alternate between the top and bottom lines.
Puzzle 8
Place the following words into the grid:
MERCURY VENUS EARTH MARS SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO
Jupiter is NOT in the list.
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Neptune is written diagonally.
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