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Puzzle 297 


What common animal comes next in this sequence:

eel · cat · lion · ibex · panda · squirrel · ?

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Puzzle 298 


I am compiling the new BrainBashers world almanac, and it now contains lots more pages.

I know that it takes 333 digits to print the page numbers in sequence.

How many numbered pages does the book have?
How many times does the number 3 appear?

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Puzzle 299 


Take a set of three letters from the left column, and a set of three letters from the right column and merge them together, without changing the order of the letters in each half (matching sets might not be currently on the same row).

Example 1: wmb + oat and oat + wmb both equal wombat.

Example 2: rbt + abi and abi + rbt both equal rabbit.

Can you find the six animals that have been split in half?
cyo aru
wls dne
ear fee
oky ote
rrt jar
agu bve

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Puzzle 300 


What comes next in this sequence:

2 · 3 · 5 · 7 · 11 · 31 · 71 · 91 · ?

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