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Volume No. 9 May - June 2018 Issue No. 3

Dear colleagues and their families,

It’s time for the Summer Special of Scribbles. This special edition, released in April every year, is a handy book full of activities for all age groups. The older people can do activities meant for the 5-year and 8-year olds! Children can challenge themselves on activities for which there is no age bar. This book helps in beating the scorching summer through being engaged indoors.

This year we have announced six contests in the last pages of the book. Don’t miss them. Attractive prizes await the winners.

Our endeavour is to get you hooked to Scribbles. Hope this edition does that. Get cracking and have fun.

Best wishes.

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Match the animals with their feet.

Activity 1 Feet find Age: 3 - 5

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a b c

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Activity 2 Odd one Age: 3 - 5

Circle the odd one in each row.

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a b c d

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Match the insects with their silhouettes.

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c d

Activity 3 Match the silhouettes Age: 3 - 5

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Find which hippo will reach the finish point.

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Activity 4 Hippo finish Age: 5 - 7

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Find my name by filling the missing letters.

Who am I?Activity

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Unscramble the words to find the names of colours; then colour the shapes with the same colour.

LUEB

RGYE

REGEN

OLEYWL

NAGROE

Colours hide & seekActivity

6Age: 5 - 7

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Can you count the number of spots in me?

Activity 7 Spot my spots Age: 5 - 7

No. of spots

No. of spots

No. of spots

4. Leopard with most spots

3

2

1

5. Total number of spots

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Find out the names of the objects hidden in the given letters. The first one is done for you.

P F C G M A O K S E

S B M P U T F S R Q

M P A T N Q G W O

B F T L O H W E I R

F Y O L P A D G J M

S P H Z O A U S Y E

Activity 8 Can you find our names? Age: 5 - 7

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Activity 9 Solve me Age: 5 - 7

5 40 8

30 24

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Identify the missing number.

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Find the strange part on me and circle it.

Activity 10 What is strange on me? Age: 5 - 7

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Help Ravi reach his destination through the maze.

MazeActivity

11Age: 8 - 10

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Circle the two bows which look identical.

Matching bowActivity

12Age: 8 - 10

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Spot twelve differences between the two pictures.

Activity 13 Spot the differences Age: 8 - 10

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Spot eight differences between the two pictures.

Activity 14 Tell us apart Age: 8 - 10

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i corn i chicken i duck i eggs i farmer i hay i horse i pig i rooster i sheep i tractor

H R I D R E S G O F

C O R N U B G W I S

H O F M X C A G S H

I S H A O A K C S E

C T A D R L N F K E

K E Y G I M S M L P

E R E P S L E T B Y

N T R A C T O R E R

F B N H O R S E Y R

P N B P I G V N X W

Identify the words given below in the grid and circle them. Words can go horizontal, vertical or diagonal.

Activity 15 Farm crossword Age: 8 -10

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You are given 16 witch hats. There are four hats in four different colours - red, blue, green and yellow. Can you arrange all the 16 hats in the 4x4 grid in a fashion that no colour is repeated in a row or column?

We have arranged four hats in the below picture to assist you.

Activity 16 Which witch hat? Age: 10 - 12

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Unscramble the words below to identify my name from the letters in the circles. I am more than just a popular bird.

atb

mrow

hfis

hemtasr

bergil

lrizad

agto

Answer

Activity 17 Tweet Age: 10 - 12

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ACROSS DOWN

1. 150 + 150 + 15 2. Add 100 to 60

4. Double 80 + 2 3. 74 - 20

7. Add 20 to 44 5. Take 10 away from 634

8. Half of 42 6. 30 - 9

9. 22 - 12 9. 1 ten and 7 ones

10. 344 + 100 10. Add 10 to 419

12. 100 + 200 + 20 + 5 11. Double 15 + 10 + 5

14. Take 100 away from 369 12. 3 tens and 6 ones

15. 25 + 25 13. Double 200 + double 2

16. 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 14. Add 10 to 196

18. Double 80 + double 2 16. 30 + 31

19. Double 7 17. 15 + 16

Activity 18 Mind math Age: 10 - 12

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8

9 10 11

12 13

14 15

16 17

18 19

Solve the clues and place them in the number puzzle. Try doing it without a calculator.

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Understand the sequence in each puzzle and replace the ? with the missing letter.

Activity 19 Decode me Age: 12 - 14

1

2

3

B C E G K M Q ?

13 INC 2

6 QRG 7

4 DOM 8

7 ISUI 7

8 AD? 2

?

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Fill up the grid with numbers 1 to 34, tracking your way in numerical order. Start from 1 and place the next missing number in a touching hexagon. Some numbers are already given.

Activity 20 Honeycomb Age: 12 - 14

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Activity 21 Merry-go-round Age: 12 - 14

Place the numbers 1 to 19 in the 19 circles, so that wherever there are three in a straight line, they shall add up to 30. Each line is shown in a different colour. We think this is quite easy to crack!

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The four circles represent paths. The four cyclists started at noon. Each one rode around a different circle; one at the rate of six miles an hour, another at the rate of nine miles an hour, another at the rate of twelve miles an hour, and the fourth at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. They decide that they will ride till they all meet at the centre for the fourth time. The distance around each circle was exactly one-third of a mile. When did they finish their ride?

Activity 22 Ride time Age no bar

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1. If A is substituted by 4, B by 3, C by 2, D by 4, E by 3, F by 2 and so on, then what will be total of the numerical values of the letters of the word SICK?

2. I have no voice, yet I speak to you. I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree. I have a spine, but I am not a man. I have hinges, but I am not a door. I have told you all. I cannot tell you more. Who am I?

3. I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

4. A new girl came to our class. Everyone asked for her name. Instead of telling us her name, she wrote the following date on the board before leaving: 12/01/2001. What is her name?

5. In a one-storey pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower – everything was pink! What color were the stairs?

6. Who makes it has no need for it. Who buys it has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

7. Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home three fish?

Riddle timeActivity

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Find the logic in the figures given to find the missing one.

Missing suitActivity

24Age no bar

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In the illustration below, the numbers 1 to 19 are arranged in such a way that all the twelve lines of three add up to 23. Six of these lines are, of course, the six sides, and the other six lines radiate from the centre. Can you find a different arrangement that will still add up to 23 in all the twelve lines?

119

3

12

89

1416

184

13617

215

75

1011

Round & round I goActivity

25Age no bar

6

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Understand the relationship between the first pair of designs and identify which of the four shapes below (A-D) has exactly the same relationship with the new design.

LikenessActivity

26Age no bar

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Ranga finds himself in a situation where he is about to get shot. The shooter tells him that he will place two bullets into a six-chambered revolver in successive order, spin the chamber, close it, and take one shot. If Ranga is still alive, he will then either take another shot or spin the chamber again before shooting.

The shooter pulls the trigger. Whew! It was blank. Then he asks, ‘Do you want me to pull the trigger again, or should I spin the chamber a second time before pulling the trigger?’

What should Ranga choose?

Activity 27 Age no barTo shoot or not to?

Figure out the probability of both the options.

Tip

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You have to fill the grid in a manner that every row and column contains the digits 1 to 6. Also, make sure that the squares that are connected with each other must contain the same digit. Can you do it?

Activity 28 Age no barJittery grid

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In this puzzle, the value of a shape is the number of sides the shape has multiplied by the number within it (so that a triangle containing a 4 would have a value of 12). Can you find a block of four squares – two squares wide by two squares high – with a total value of 40?

Scan the grid for likely looking number-shape combinations. For example, any group with one or more triangles containing a low number is unlikely to be right.

Tip

Activity 29 Age no barNumber shapes

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Go from the first word to the final word by only changing one letter per line.

The first one is done for you.

Activity 30 Age no barOne at a time

— — —

— — —

W E L L

— — — —

— — — —

— — — —

T A K E

S I L T

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M A I L

T I R E

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W A S P

W O R D

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G E N E

1 2

3 4

O D D

A D D

O L D

A D O

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You are presented with two doors. Behind one is Rs 2 million, and behind the other is a donkey. Choose the correct door to win the prize. There are also two men in front of the doors, and they know which door leads to the money. One wears a black hat, and the other wears a white hat.

You know that one of the men is a liar, and will always lie, and the other man will always tell the truth – but you do not know which is which. You can ask only one of the men only one question. What is the question, and which man do you ask to ensure you win the money?

Activity 31 Age no barWhich way to go?

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In a Laxigram, you are given two letters – the same letters in each case. Identify the words based on their meaning given below.

1. High regard2. Emissions3. Finishing studies4. Firmness5. Worn out, tattered with age6. Deceptive, leading astray7. Diplomat8. Unit of temperature9. Far-flung, general

A DA D

A DA D

A DA D

A DA D

A D

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Activity 32 Age no barLaxigram

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Find three-letter words which when inserted into the middle sections, form another word when tagged onto the first word and a further word when placed in front of the second word.

BOW ALE

PAL HAL

RED TED

AIR MEN

TAP TED

NEW ERS

WIT TED

RED ION

Activity 33 Middles Age no bar

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The numbers 1 to 9 are arranged in some logic. Understand the logic behind them and identify the missing number.

4 3 23

? 3

5 5 1 11338216

97 2 8 4 3

Activity 34 What’s missing? Age no bar

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Determine how many spots should show on the die in the middle to make this a correct arrangement. Should you read from left to right, top to bottom, or some other configuration?

Is there something familiar about the arrangement?

Tip

Not quite in orderActivity

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Age no bar

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2 6 7 16 8 7 91 9 4 58 2 1 4

4 6 2 95 3 2 8

9 3 7 44 5 3 6

7 3 1 8

SudokuActivity

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Sudoku is a logic-based, combinatorial number placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9x9 grid with digits so that each row, column and 3x3 grid contain all of the digits from 1 to 9. Exercise your brain with this Sudoku.

Age no bar

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A man left 21 barrels (seven of which are filled with wine, seven of which are half full, and seven of which are empty) to his three sons.

The wine and barrels must be split, so that each son has the same number of full barrels, the same number of half-full barrels, and the same number of empty barrels.

Note that there are no measuring devices handy. How can the barrels and wine be evenly divided?

How many for me?Activity

37Age no bar

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How many words of four or more letters can you make from the letters shown? In making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each word must contain the letter at the top of the pyramid. There should be at least one nine letter word. Plurals, foreign words and proper nouns are not allowed.

C

OI IM F L R M

WordmineActivity

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The challenge is to fit the letters A,B,C,D,E and F into the grid in such a way that each horizontal row, vertical column and heavily outlined section of six squares contains the six letters. Some letters are already in place.

The L-shape in the bottom left may be the most promising place to start.

Tip

Grid challengeActivity

39Age no bar

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Connect the nine stars by using just four lines, without lifting your hand i.e., in a continuous flow.

Think out of the boxActivity

40Age no bar

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Move only three bubbles and turn the shape of the pyramid upside down.

Pyramid mix-upActivity

41Age no bar

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How many umbrellas do you see in this picture?

Umbrella upsetActivity

42Age no bar

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Workout the logic behind the numbers in the shapes, and find the value of A+B.

Use logic and mental arithmetic to calculate the answer.

Tip

Activity 43 Geometrikey Age no bar

89

A

B

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Fit the given hexagons into the central grid so that the contents of the adjacent triangles on either sides of a bold line are the same. But remember - you may not rotate any hexagon.

Activity 44 Hexagon dance Age no bar

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Look out for 3s – they are where the line makes a U – turn.

Draw a single continuous line linking as many of the Ds as necessary.

Rules: No line may cross the path of another. The number inside each set of any four surrounding Ds indicates the total number of surrounding lines.

Tip

The D mazeActivity

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Colour me

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Activity 13

Activity 17 Bat, Worm, Fish, Hamster, Goat, Gerbil, LizardTwitter

Y B R GG R B YB Y G RR G Y B

Activity 16

Activity 15

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1 4 1 4

Activity 1 1-b 2-a 3-c

Goat, Owl, Caterpillar, Elephant, Camel, Dog

Activity 2 1-c 2-d 3-c 4-a

Activity 4 Hippo - 1

Activity 3 1-d 2-a 3-b 4-c

Activity 5

Activity 10

1-35 2-23 3-28 4-1 5-86

Activity 7

Activity 14

Activity 11

S B M P U T F S R QM P A T N Q G W O B F T L O H W E I RF Y O L P A D G J MS P H Z O A U S Y E

Activity 6 Blue Grey

Activity 8

Green Yellow Orange

Activity 9 18

Activity 19

1. S

3. K

2. P

Activity 20

Taking the numerical value of each letter, they follow the sequence of Prime Numbers.

In each row, the product of the left and right hand numbers equals the sum of the numerical values of the three letters.

Starting at the top left circle, and moving right, then down one row and moving left, in a snakes and ladders pattern, letters move through the alphabet in steps of 2, 3 and 4, repeating this pattern all the way down.

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2. Book3. The letter S4. Lata (L-12th letter and so on)5. There weren’t any stairs; it was a one

storey house.6. Coffin7. The fishing group comprises a

grandfather, his son and his grandson - hence just three people.

Activity 23

Activity 24

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3

18

215

1416

1210

765

89

1317

411

Activity 25

The design with the same relationship is design D. The large shape swaps shade with the top right and bottom left shapes and the top left shape goes behind the large shape.

Activity 26

Ranga should have the shooter pull the trigger again without spinning.

Since the bullets were placed in consecutive order, one of the empty chambers is followed by a bullet, and the other three empty chambers are followed by another empty chamber. So if Ranga has the shooter pull the trigger again, the probability that a bullet will be fired is 1/4.

If he spins the chamber again, the probability that he shoots Ranga would be 2/6, or 1/3, since there are two possible bullets that would be in firing position out of the six possible chambers.

Activity 27

Activity 28

S I C K

4 2 2 3

Ô Ô Ô Ô1. Total value = 4 + 2 + 2 + 3 = 11.

A, B, C, D could ride one mile in 1/6, 1/9, 1/I2, and 1/15 of an hour respectively. They could, therefore, ride once round in 1/18, 1/27, 1/36, and 1/45 of an hour, and consequently in 1/9 of an hour (that is, 6 2/3 minutes) they would meet for the first time. Four times in 6 2/3 minutes is 26 2/3 minutes. So that they would complete their task in 26 minutes 40 seconds past noon.

Activity 22

Place 10 in the centre and write the numbers in their proper order around the circle: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11.

Activity 21

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Answer: 6

Activity 34

Looking at the diagram in rows, the central circle equals half the sum of the numbers in the other circles to the left and right of the centre.

Activity 36

4 3 5 2 6 9 7 8 16 8 2 5 7 1 4 9 31 9 7 8 3 4 5 6 28 2 6 1 9 5 3 4 73 7 4 6 8 2 9 1 59 5 1 7 4 3 6 2 85 1 9 3 2 6 8 7 42 4 8 9 5 7 1 3 67 6 3 4 1 8 2 5 9

Activity 29

Activity 30

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You ask either man the following question: “If I asked the other guy which door has the money, what would he say?” and then choose the opposite door. Work it out: If you ask the question to the liar, he will lie about the ‘correct’ answer, so you must choose the opposite door. If you ask the truth teller, he will tell the truth about the lie, so you can choose the opposite door as well.

Activity 31

Activity 32

A D M I R A T I O NR A D I A T I O N SG R A D U A T I N GS T E A D I N E S ST H R E A D B A R EM I S L E A D I N GA M B A S S A D O RC E N T I G R A D EW I D E S P R E A D

BOW-FIN-ALEPAL-LET-HALRED-DEN-TEDAIR-GUN-MENTAP-PET-REDNEW-TON-ERSWIT-HAL-TEDRED-ACT-ION

Activity 33

The missing number is 2. The dice could be read as an addition sum. The top row (1 2 6) added to the bottom row (3 2 5) gives the answer in the bottom row ( 4 5 1).

Activity 35

WELL TELL TALL TALE TAKE

TIRE WIRE WISE WISP WASP

SILT SALTMALTMALL MAIL

WORD WORE GORE GONE GENE

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Activity 44

Activity 43The answer is 26. The digit represents number of sides in the shape they occupy. When shapes overlap, the numbers are added together.A: 3+4+5=12, B: 4+5+5=14, 12+14=26.

Activity 39

Activity 37

Two half-full barrels are dumped into one of the empty barrels. Two more half-full barrels are dumped into another one of the empty barrels. This results in nine full barrels, three half-full barrels, and nine empty barrels. Each son gets three full barrels, one half-full barrel, and three empty barrels.

Cirio, Coif, Coil, Coir, Corf, Corm, Fico, Floc, Formic, Frolic, Micro, Micro-film, Mimic.

Activity 38

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Contest 1

What is your dream profession? Teacher? Chef? Pilot?What do you think you will do when you grow up? Draw a picture of yourself in your dream profession. This is a contest to display your creativity at its best.

1. Contest is open only for the children of employees in the age group 14-18 years.

2. Send in your entries to the Location HR by 9 May 2018.

If dreams come true!

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Story writing

Develop a story from the picture given below. Do not exceed 350 words.

Conte

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1. Contest is open only for the children of employees in the age group 10-16 years.

2. Send in your entries to the Location HR/ scribbles@sanmargroup.com by 15 May 2018.

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1 Women Sanmarites, wives, daughters and mothers of employees can participate.

2. Can we make millets delicious with interesting recipes?

3. Prizes await the best entries.

Millet DelightsIntroduce us to a recipe with millets. Please send us the calorie count and the nutrition value of your recipe.

Send in your entries to scribbles@sanmargroup.com

by 16 May 2018.

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1. Open to employees only.2. Do not exceed 300 words.

That’s a good oneAmidst targets, deadlines and stress, our workplaces can also be full of unexpected moments of fun and laughter. Share one such moment in the form of a short article/ story/ dialogue. Theme: Humour at work

Conte

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Send in your entries to scribbles@sanmargroup.comby 19 May 2018.

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Rules for Contest 5

1. Contest is open only for the children of employees in the age group 5-10 years.

2. Cut on the dotted line and send in your entries to the Location HR by 25 April 2018.

Name:_____________________________________

S/o or D/o: _________________________________

PEN ID: ___________________________________

Class: _____________________________________

Age: ______________________________________

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Name:_____________________________________

S/o or D/o: _________________________________

PEN ID: ___________________________________

Class: _____________________________________

Age: ______________________________________

Rules for Contest 6

1. Contest is open only for the children of employees in the age group 15-18 years.

2. Cut on the dotted line and send in your entries to the Location HR by 9 May 2018.