Puzzle 1
By changing the third letter of each of the words below, can you make another valid word?
You have to change each word such that the third letters will reveal a ten-letter word when read downwards.
Therefore, what now reads 'krzsaprokg' will be a real word.
bake
cure
maze
pest
neat
rope
port
food
poke
bugs
Puzzle 2
Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7-letter words. Each word begins with the central S and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?
| G | N | L | K | R | T | E |
| E | I | E | O | X | A | E |
| K | R | N | I | H | M | N |
| E | A | Y | S | E | A | P |
| R | E | P | P | A | W | O |
| N | E | A | G | U | E | O |
| R | N | E | S | A | D | E |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be clicked.
Puzzle 3
Take a set of three letters from the left column, and a set of three letters from the right column and merge them together, without changing the order of the letters in each half (matching sets might not be on the same row).
Example 1: wmb + oat and oat + wmb both equal wombat.
Example 2: rbt + abi and abi + rbt both equal rabbit.
Can you find the six animals that have been split in half?
cyo aru
wls dne
ear fee
oky ote
rrt jar
agu bve
Puzzle 4
During a recent BrainBashers thinking contest(!), the total number of points scored by the first six players was 103 and every score was above zero.
The first player scored half the points of the second player, who in turn scored 6 points fewer than the third player.
The third player in turn scored two thirds the points of the fourth player.
The fifth player managed to score the same number of points as the difference between the first and fourth player's points (larger − smaller).
Finally, the sixth player scored 14 fewer points than the fifth player.
Can you determine how many points the sixth player managed to score?