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Puzzle #183: Can you work out the order the books are arranged in?

Can you solve this week’s puzzle, Animal rights? Plus the answer to puzzle #182

31 August 2022

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#183 Animal rights

set by Zoe Mensch

Hattie keeps an old animal encyclopaedia on her shelf that comes in three volumes, each roughly 5 centimetres thick. The first volume has all the animals arranged alphabetically from A to F, the second from G to O and the third from P to Z.

Hattie has bookmarked six of her favourite animals: the aardvark, fruit bat, gecko, oyster, pangolin and zonkey, with the bookmarks sticking out of the top of the volumes as shown above. At least, that is how they looked until her granddaughter shuffled the order of the books. Now,…

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