Puzzle 221
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 decipher the sequence and find the well known proverb?
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 222
At a local village gala, the entire population turned up, 500 people.
The event raised £3,000.
Tickets were priced as follows:
£7.48 men
£7.12 women
£0.45 children
How many children were there?
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Puzzle 223
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 {?} letters, one hyphen, two commas and a full stop.
Interestingly, this sentence contains {?} letters, one hyphen, three commas and the final full stop.
Finally, this sentence contains {?} letters, one hyphen, three commas and one full stop.
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Puzzle 224
Alex and Billie have to empty all of the bookshelves in the library, and move the books into storage.
Alex, on her own, can empty the bookshelves in 18 hours.
Billie, on her own, can also empty the bookshelves in 18 hours.
Unfortunately, Drew likes to move the books from storage back onto the bookshelves, and she can refill the bookshelves in 36 hours.
How long will it take the three of them, working at the same time, to empty the bookshelves?
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