The Riddle Dude

You meet a magician and his assistant, who decide to show you a trick.

The assistant leaves the room, and the magician hands you an ordinary deck of 52 cards. He has you choose any 5 cards from the deck and give them to him.

He looks over the 5 cards you chose, takes one of them, [...]

Hidden in each of the sentences are the numbers 1 to 10 in words.

A number might appear in more than one sentence, but there is only one way to find all ten numbers.

For example ‘My parents told me to never cross the road without looking.’ contains the number 1: ‘My parents told me tO NEver [...]

Below, ten nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.

These chunks have been mixed up, no chunk is used twice and all chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 10 words are?
hol rec ant imp fer con
man dif ice pol acq htn
ort myt new air sag duc
dec lig kch ogy ing tan
uit ent [...]

Below are six animals that have been split. Take a set of three letters from the left column, and a set of three letters
from the right column and merge them together again, without changing the order of the letters in each half. Matching sets
will not necessarily be on the same row.

For example WMB + OAT [...]

How many common five letter words can you make from the following letters, using all the letters in each word?

AELST

What is missing from this sequence:

teloiv ogidni eulb ==?== wolley egnaro der

Which word is the odd one out:

seventy
brawl
clover
proper
carrot
swing
change
travel
sacred
stone