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Puzzle 1 


Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words. There are currently 2 different answers, can you find them both?
-ai-e s-ua- -e-el -o-ed -na-e fog-- c--mp b--jo -r-it -re-t -av-n mu--c mou--

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Puzzle 2 


At a recent BrainBashers party, I noted the ages of the children who attended.

Billie was 3, James and Keith were 4, Frankie and Rebecca were 5.

How old was Lara?

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Puzzle 3 


Can you find a word that means perimeter …

… and by adding a letter A another word is formed that means a lodger?

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Puzzle 4 


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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