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Puzzle 229

Many years ago, a cruise liner sank in the middle of the ocean.

The castaways luckily landed on a remote desert island.

There was enough food for the 220 people to last three weeks.

Six days later a rescue ship appeared, unluckily this ship also sank, leaving an additional 55 people stranded on the island to now share the original rationed food.

The food obviously had to be re-rationed, but everyone was now on one-half of the original ration, so how many days in total would the food last for, from the day of the original sinking?

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Puzzle 230

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.

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Puzzle 231

What are the next two numbers in this sequence:

14 91 62 53 64 96 ? ?

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Puzzle 232

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
cl--h co--h di-r- -rea- in-e- -ok-r -a-or -ua-l re-e- -to-e s-am- ya--t -eb-a

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