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Puzzle 25 


Cabbage is to sprouts as carrot is to:
pea cucumber potato tomato artichoke celery

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Puzzle 26 


Three builders are laying a brick wall.

Freddie can lay 1,000 bricks in three hours, Jimmy can lay 1,000 bricks in two hours and Kevin can lay 1,000 bricks in six hours.

How long will it take Freddie, Jimmy, and Kevin to lay 1,000 bricks if they all work together?

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Puzzle 27 


Gardener's Spring Fayreall logic puzzles

At the recent spring fayre, four keen gardeners were displaying their fine roses.

In total there were four colours and each rose colour appeared twice.

From the clues below, can you tell who had which colour roses?

Gardener Green had a yellow rose.
Gardener Yellow did not have a red one.
Gardener Red had a blue rose, but not a green one.
Gardener Blue did not have a yellow one.
One person with a red rose also had a green one.
One person with a yellow rose also had a blue one.
One of the persons with a green rose had no red.
Neither of the persons with a yellow rose had a green one.
No person had two roses of the same colour.
No two persons had the same two colour roses, and their names provide no clues.

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Puzzle 28 


Can you find every occurrence of the word AUGUST that appears in this grid (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?

The hint will reveal the number of times it occurs, but where are they?



Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be selected.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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