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Puzzle 365 



Below you will find 10 well-known seven-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
----rem ----oct ----pso ----dma ----edo ----rre ----sfy ----ott ----hma ----dpa

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 366 



Painter Pete did such a good job of the housing estate, he was asked to paint the room numbers on all of the doors of the fourth floor of the local hotel.

Pete painted all of the numbers from 400 to 499.

How many times did he paint the number 4?

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Puzzle 367 



How many squares, of any size, can be found on a standard chessboard?
How many rectangles, of any size, can be found on a standard chessboard?
Remember when counting the rectangles, that squares are also rectangles.

8x8 Chessboard

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Puzzle 368 



Place letters into the grid such that every row, column, and 2x2 block has letters (in any order) that form a common word. Each letter is only used once, and no letter is repeated in the rows / cols / blocks.

Letters allowed: T U R K E Y

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

Puzzle Copyright © Alan Stillson and Frank Longo

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