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Puzzle 389

Trade Convention #2 – Logic Puzzles

Workers with the surnames Butcher, Baker, Carpenter and Plumber are currently attending an annual convention.

No-one is currently, nor ever has been in the same profession as their name and no-one has had the same profession twice.

Alan is now a butcher, whereas Mr Brian Butcher used to be a baker.
The person who is now a carpenter used to be a butcher.
Charles has never been a baker, Mr Darren Carpenter has never been a butcher and Mr Baker is not now a carpenter.
Can you determine their full names, along with their current and previous professions?

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Puzzle 390

Without using any reference material can you find the hidden countries?

In each case, the letter indicates the first letter of the country in question, the number represents the number of letters in the country.

For example, E7 would be England.
B10 E5 F4 F7 J5 L13 N9 S11 T7 Z6

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Puzzle 391

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

You have to change each word such that the second letters will reveal a ten-letter word when read downwards.

Therefore, what now reads 'craihruane' will be a real word.
icon crew farm oily chop arid fund wait gnat tear

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Puzzle 392

We have been quite lucky with the weather recently, it has got steadily warmer each day, over the last five days.

By this, I mean that the temperature rose by the same amount each day.

The average temperature was 2 °C, and I know it froze on two occasions (0 °C).

I also know the product of the temperatures was over 500 but below 2,000 and each temperature was an integer.

What were the last 5 temperatures?

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