BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

Dave's current age is the age of his favourite book (which is 14 years old) plus one third of his age.

How old will he be when his favourite book is twice its current age?

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Puzzle 2

What animal comes next in this sequence:

dog · rooster · monkey · sheep · horse · snake · ?

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Puzzle 3

Each of these words can have the same letter placed at the beginning and the end to form a new (common) word.

For example, -LIT- becomes ELITE by adding an E at both ends.

What are the new words?
-eve- -able- -carve- -as- -on- -ode- -elude- -ape- -ate- -rod-

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Puzzle 4

Below are 8 Academy Award winners.

The letters of their names have been mixed up and put into alphabetical order.

The brackets contain clues to their names, the first letter and the length of each part of their name. For example, EEIKNNOSTV [K5 S5] = KEVIN STONE.
DEEFIJOORST      [J5 F6]
EEELMPRRSTY      [M5 S6]
ABEIJLORRSTU     [J5 R7]
AABEEHHIKNNPRRTU [K9 H7]
CEEEGGLNOOORY    [G6 C7]
ACCHIJKLNNOOS    [J4 N9]
BDEEINOORRRT     [R6 D2 N4]
AACCEEHIILMN     [M7 C5]

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