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Classical Collection - Logic Puzzles

In my collection of classical music, I have a range of pieces that last 6, 7, 8 and 9 minutes.

The piece by Bach lasts 8 minutes, and the CD lasts longer than the piece by Holst.
The piece on DAT tape is longer than the piece by Beethoven.
The single lasts 7 minutes, and the album does not contain any Holst.
The piece by Butler is on the DAT tape.
Can you determine which piece of music is in which format, and how long each lasts?

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Starting with a five-letter word, change one letter to create a new word.

This word is then changed by one letter to create another new word.

These words in turn mean:

a gaggle of geese a device for measuring time what you can do with a mouse a baby chicken a device to prevent wheels from moving a surprise a small house a pile of cards a small piece of wood unable to move

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Can you find every occurrence of the word LOVE 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.

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The Miller next took the company aside and showed them nine sacks of flour that were standing as depicted in the sketch.

"Now, hearken, all and some," said he, "while that I do set ye the riddle of the nine sacks of flour.

And mark ye, my lords, that there be single sacks on the outside, pairs next unto them, and three together in the middle thereof.

By Saint Benedict, it doth so happen that if we do but multiply the pair, 28, by the single one, 7, the answer is 196, which is of a truth the number shown by the sacks in the middle.

Yet it be not true that the other pair, 34, when so multiplied by its neighbour, 5, will also make 196.

Wherefore I do beg you, gentle sirs, so to place anew the nine sacks with as little trouble as possible that each pair when thus multiplied by its single neighbour shall make the number in the middle."

As the Miller has stipulated in effect that as few bags as possible shall be moved, there is only one answer to this puzzle, which everybody should be able to solve.

The Miller's Puzzle – The Canterbury Puzzles, Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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