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Solve the following riddles, you may yourself construct such riddles.
(i) Go round a square Counting every corner Thrice and no more! Add the count to me To get exactly thirty four!.
(ii) For each day of the week Make an upcount from me If you make no mistake You will get twenty three!.
(iii) I am a special number Take away from me a six! A whole cricket team You will still be able to fix!.
(iv) Tell me who I am I shall give a pretty clue! You will get me backIf you take me out of twenty two!

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i)Given, there are `4` corners in a square so, thrice the number of comers in the square will be `3 × 4 = 12 .`
Adding result we get 34 therefore ,the number will be the difference of ` 34` and `12` i.e `34 – 12 = 22 .`

(ii)` 23` was the result when the old number was counted on Saturday and ,
`22` was the result when the old number was counted on Saturday ,
`20` was the result ‘when the old number was counted on Thursday ,
`19` was the result when the old number was counted on Tuesday,
`18` was the result when the old number was up counted on Tuesday,
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