BrainBashers - Medium Puzzles

Puzzle 17

Each of these words can be split in half, and two letters can be placed in the middle to create a new six-letter word.

The four added pairs of letters, in order, spell an 8-letter word. What is that word?
lend
liar
pale
coin

For example:
door + ct = do + ct + or = doctor
suit + nl = su + nl + it = sunlit

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Puzzle 18

Triathlon - Round 1 - Logic Puzzles

During the latest round of the BrainBashers school triathlon the final results were mislaid, however, this is what we do know.

Hayden was fourth.
Alex was not the oldest but was older than Drew, who was not second.
The child who was next in age to the youngest, finished second.
The child who finished in third place was older than the child who finished first.
Billie was younger than the child who finished in third place.
Can you determine who finished where and place the children in order of age?

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Puzzle 19

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 animals?

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 20

Can you find anagrams of the following words?

coagulate cavitates bacterial balancers headlamps milestone telephony dignifies unnoticed

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