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Puzzle 457 


My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed a fault, I did a listing of miles from Scotland to particular countries, and here is the result:
England      12,000 miles
Peru          6,000 miles
Egypt         9,000 miles
Iceland      11,000 miles

How far away did it list Ethiopia?

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Puzzle 458 


In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.

The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.

This sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, two commas and a full stop.
Interestingly, this sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, three commas and the final full stop.
Finally, this sentence contains ? letters, one hyphen, three commas and one full stop.

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Puzzle 459 


Paintballing WeekendLogic Puzzles

During an exciting weekend of paintball, four friends were having great fun.

The paintballs came in blue, green, yellow and red.

Coincidentally, the four friends had T-shirts in those same colours.

Billie used blue paintballs.
The person in the green T-shirt used yellow paintballs.
Charlie was not wearing a red T-shirt.
Drew used green paintballs and wore a blue T-shirt.
Alex was the only person who used paint which was the same colour as their T-shirt.
Can you tell which colour paint they each used and the colour of their respective T-shirts?

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Puzzle 460 


The Winter Festival is well underway and BrainBashers control is working out the plane times for the return journeys.

Unfortunately, the BrainBashers timetable software is playing up again and has worked out the times incorrectly, as shown below.
France    4.00pm
Mexico    3.00pm
Jamaica   5.00pm
Japan     1.00pm

According to the software, at what time is the return trip to Finland?

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