Puzzle 37
In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.
The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.
This sentence contains {?} X.
Slightly trickier, this sentence contains {?} R's.
Even trickier, this sentence contains precisely {?} E's.
This sentence has exactly {?} letters.
This sentence, hopefully, contains {?} letters, one hyphen, five commas, and four Y's.
To finish, if this sentence had a T removed, it would contain {?} letters!
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Puzzle 38
Take a word from the first column, and a word from the second column.
You will now have 6 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of something that lives in water.
dish leek
tray shoe
raft sign
cram golf
ears fern
loud hiss
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Puzzle 39
During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a Morse code contest took place.
The contest consisted of a Morse code transmission where the spaces between the letters and words were missing.
Can you find the ten names for pet cats?
Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Puzzle 40
Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
ba-g-
d--ed
dia--
-uo-a
i-de-
-o-el
-um-s
py--y
g-ou-
--nal
tra--
-umb-
d--ty
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