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Puzzle #232: Can you work out what Belle Wether’s house number is?

Can you solve this week’s arithmetical puzzle, Opposite number? Plus the answer to puzzle #231

26 July 2023

#232 Opposite number

Set by Zoe Mensch

The parish council election for the Wraparound Close ward is fiercely contested this year. The road gets its name from the fact that the consecutive house numbers “wrap around” the close – from 1 at the start of one side, up to the single house at the dead end of the close, and back along the other side so that the highest numbered house (which is less than 100) is opposite number 1.

Candidate Leah Valone knows she can count on the votes of everyone on her side of the street. Her opponent, Stan…

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