BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 5

Imagine a bottle recycling skip, empty other than one lonely bottle.

Every hour, on the hour, people come and put bottles into the skip.

The first hour, at noon, one person came and put a bottle in.

One hour later, two people each placed a bottle into the skip.

An hour later, four people each placed a bottle into the skip.

This doubling of people continued until 11pm, when the skip was finally full.

When was the skip exactly half full?

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Puzzle 6

Take away eight of the sticks below, and leave one stick behind.

There are no hidden sticks.

Sticks Puzzle

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

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Puzzle 7

What word goes in the brackets:
food [road] hard
weep [----] fall

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Puzzle 8

What are the next three letters in this sequence:
HDD
TMRUTC
TCSO
TMRD

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