Puzzle 185
Below you will find 15 well-known six-letter words, with only their endings remaining.
Can you find the words?
---rix
---osy
---few
---oze
---uum
---wth
---nda
---nis
---tem
---pod
---reo
---hom
---gan
---amt
---gen
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Puzzle 186
During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a binary code contest took place.
The contest consisted of a binary code transmission where the spaces between the letters were missing and there was no punctuation.
Each letter of the alphabet was translated into its binary equivalent based on its position in the alphabet. The resulting code was then blocked in groups of five digits.
a=1, b=10, c=11, d=100, e=101, f=110, g=111, h=1000, i=1001, j=1010, k=1011, l=1100, m=1101, n=1110, o=1111, p=10000, q=10001, r=10010, s=10011, t=10100, u=10101, v=10110, w=10111, x=11000, y=11001, z=11010
Can you find 10 boy's names?
11010 01011 11010 11
10101 11011 01100 11
10101 10011 11111 110
10011 10100 10110 11010 1
10011 01101 00110 0
10000 10110 10010 11001 0
11100 01001 01001 10011
10101 11111 110
10111 01101 10100 11110
10100 10100 11111 0
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Puzzle 187
At the local mid-summers fayre, four ladies are planning to delight the visitors with their speciality cakes.
Mrs Archer will make a chocolate cake.
Neither Mrs Bowness, Louise nor Kay Cook propose to make a vanilla cake.
Julie, who is not Mrs Dancer, will make coffee.
Mary will not make a plain one.
You need to find their full names and who plans to make which cake.
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Puzzle 188
Below is a grid which should contain animals. The missing letters for a particular column are listed at the top of that column. Can you 'drop' the missing letters in and complete the grid? Each animal begins with a different letter of the alphabet.
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