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Puzzle 117 


A 'complete' word is a word in which every letter, in turn, can be replaced by another to form a new word.

For example, RUG is a complete word because:
-ug = hug
r-g = rig
ru- = run

How many of the following words are not complete words? Proper nouns and names are not allowed.
hard port duck bugs bail mast thin lean fire read

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Puzzle 118 


This is a well known children's musical piece, the vowels have been removed and the remaining letters have been grouped together. Can you determine the correct words?
lttl mssm ffts tntf fttn ghrc rdsn dwhy thrc mbgs pdrw hstd wnbs dhrn dfrg htnd mssm fftw y

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Puzzle 119 


Below are 8 Academy Award winners.

The letters of their names have been mixed up and put into alphabetical order.

The brackets contain clues to their names, the first letter and the length of each part of their name. For example, EEIKNNOSTV [K5 S5] = KEVIN STONE.
DEEFIJOORST      [J5 F6]
EEELMPRRSTY      [M5 S6]
ABEIJLORRSTU     [J5 R7]
AABEEHHIKNNPRRTU [K9 H7]
CEEEGGLNOOORY    [G6 C7]
ACCHIJKLNNOOS    [J4 N9]
BDEEINOORRRT     [R6 D2 N4]
AACCEEHIILMN     [M7 C5]

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Puzzle 120 


Many years ago, befor modern educashun in the new millenium, one problem in skools was baseic speeling and grammer. To conbat this and rays acheivement, teechers were adviced to start at the very begining, at the yungest age. Once they had managed to breath new life into leessons, progres came quickly, sucess was then garanteed. How many speeling errors would modern skolars identify in this passage?

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