Puzzle 57
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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Try: dish + golf, tray + sign, raft + hiss.
Answers
dish + golf = goldfish
tray + sign = stingray
raft + hiss = starfish
cram + leek = mackerel
ears + shoe = seahorse
loud + fern = flounder
Puzzle 58
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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The first letters of the words are: F, T, W, S, F, T, T, T, S, M.
Answers
Fluffy
Tiger
Whiskers
Spot
Felix
Tom
Tabby
Tiddles
Socks
Mittens
Puzzle 59
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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The 4th word begins with the letter Q.
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ba-g- = badge (DE)
d--ed = dazed (AZ)
dia-- = diary (RY)
-uo-a = quota (QT)
i-de- = index (NX)
-o-el = vowel (VW)
-um-s = bumps (BP)
py--y = pygmy (GM)
g-ou- = ghoul (HL)
--nal = final (FI)
tra-- = track (CK)
-umb- = jumbo (JO)
d--ty = dusty (US)
This puzzle isn't guaranteed to have a unique answer, can you find another?
Puzzle 60
What number comes next in this sequence:
1 23 124 1251 26127 128129 ?
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Try removing the spaces from the sequence.
Answer
1301311 or 1210121.
Reasoning
Removing spaces from the original sequence gives:
1 23 124 1251 26127 128129
123124125126127128129
Now adding spaces back in, in the correct place:
123 124 125 126 127 128 129
The next few terms could be:
130 131 132
or
1210 1211 1212
Add these to the end:
123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132
or
123 124 125 126 127 128 129 1210 1211 1212
Remove the spaces again:
123124125126127128129130131132
or
123124125126127128129121012111212
Now break the sequence into chunks of increasing size:
1 23 124 1251 26127 128129 1301311
or
1 23 124 1251 26127 128129 1210121
So the missing term is 1301311 or 1210121.
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