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Puzzle 257

Can you complete this grid of letters. Each line is a valid 5-letter word with its first and last letter missing.

The missing letters form a word when read downwards, and the same word appears both at the start and at the end.

What is the missing word?

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.

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Puzzle 258

Place the digits 1 to 8, into the grid. The numbers you can see are the totals for the surrounding numbers.

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Puzzle 259

By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.

Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?

Therefore, what now reads 'vokahliuppw' will become a real word.
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Puzzle 260

As oou oan oee, oy poinoer oepoacos eoero thord oetoer oito tho leoteo 'o'.

How mony oifoeront oetoero haoe boen oepoacod?

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