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Puzzle 1 


Below, 10 countries have been broken into chunks of letters.

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 10 countries are?
ezu itz zil ela bra gi ia
fi pan mba bel and ber zi
nl bo cam ven dia and um
sw bwe mex erl ico ja li

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Puzzle 2 


Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7-letter words. Each word begins with the central P and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be clicked.

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Puzzle 3 


Can you find common anagrams of the following words:
BINARY
ABROAD
RASCAL
ALTARS
BADGER
BARKED
MARBLE
UNABLE
TABLET
CALLER

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Puzzle 4 


Cake TheftAll Logic Puzzles

During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try to identify who stole the prize cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:
Alex:    it wasn't Emery
         it was Billie

Billie:  it wasn't Charlie
         it wasn't Emery

Charlie: it was Emery
         it wasn't Alex

Dale:    it was Charlie
         it was Billie

Emery:   it was Dale
         it wasn't Alex

It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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