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             pieces from a different puzzle.
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                                                                       your brain time to study them, however, and you will
                                                                         begin to tell them apart. In fact, each pattern has
                                                                           an exact double, except for one. See if you can
                                                                           find the unique pattern among the seven pairs.
      Spot the sequence
      These flowers (left) may look
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      can figure out the pattern. Which
      three colored flowers should
      finish off the sequence?
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