BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.

Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?

Therefore, what now reads 'awpydnucepa' will be a real word.
bake swap opal dyed idle snow lump aces melt spun rant

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Puzzle 2

At the local mid-summers fayre, four ladies are planning to delight the visitors with their speciality cakes.

Mrs Archer will make a chocolate cake.

Neither Mrs Bowness, Louise nor Kay Cook propose to make a vanilla cake.

Julie, who is not Mrs Dancer, will make coffee.

Mary will not make a plain one.

You need to find their full names and who plans to make which cake.

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Puzzle 3

Chess Tournament – Logic Puzzles

The results of a recent Chess tournament between five close rivals is described below:

Dale finished before Alex.
Emery finished after Bailey.
Alex finished before Chris.
Emery finished after Dale.
Bailey finished before Alex.
Dale finished after Bailey.
Chris finished before Emery.
Who finished where?

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Puzzle 4

What comes next in this sequence:

boron carbon nitrogen oxygen ?

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