BrainBashers - Brain Teasers and Puzzles

Puzzle 109

A 'complete' word is a word in which every letter, in turn, can be replaced by another to form a new word.

For example, RUG is a complete word because:
-ug = hug
r-g = rig
ru- = run

How many of the following words are not complete words? Proper nouns and names are not allowed.
team cost flew ward fail rook soft most lamp load

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Puzzle 110

Can you find the sum of the second column?

@&&$ @##% @&%$ ##%&

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Puzzle 111

Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:

After many years studying in the field of astrophysics, the boffin landed a plum job with the National Space Agency, where he became a leading figure in the area of quasars.

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Puzzle 112

Which one of these letters is the odd one out?

xi, chi, theta, psi, pi, phi

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