Answer
If you look very carefully, you will see that there are actually two sticks under the other seven, so you can take away eight sticks and still leave one behind.
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Puzzle 7
What word goes in the brackets:
food [road] hard
weep [----] fall
Hint
The letters come from the two words on the outside.
Answer
Leap.
From the third letter of the second word, plus the third letter of the first word, plus the second letter of the second word, plus the fourth letter of the first word.
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Puzzle 8
What are the next three letters in this sequence:
HDD
TMRUTC
TCSO
TMRD
The initial letters from the nursery rhyme, Hickory Dickory Dock.
Hickory, dickory, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, dickory, dock.