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Puzzle 173 


I recently gave a new carriage clock to my friend for a very special birthday.

However, as usual with my presents, it was quite useless as it loses 6 minutes every hour.

I set it using my own accurate clock at midnight, and the clock now shows 10:12am.

I know that it stopped 2 hours ago, so what is the correct time now?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 174 


Can you fill the thermometers with mercury, such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in each row and column contain mercury.

Mercury always starts filling from the bottom of a thermometer and not every thermometer has to contain mercury.

Puzzle Copyright © Johan de Ruiter

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Puzzle 175 


What is the next number in this sequence:

100  365  24  60  ?

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Puzzle 176 


Below, 10 countries have been broken into chunks of letters.

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 10 countries are?
ezu itz zil ela bra gi ia
fi pan mba bel and ber zi
nl bo cam ven dia and um
sw bwe mex erl ico ja li

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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