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Puzzle 1
Using the clues below, can you find 8 four-letter words?
Once you have placed the words into the correct order, you will find that each word is different from the previous word by only one letter.
For example, FARE may be followed by FIRE, etc.
Additional items
Insufficiently heated
A female equine
Insufficiently cooled
Pottery
A bump on a toad?
The middle of an apple
Insulated electrical wire
Puzzle 2
Can you find a word which can go in front of each of these words to make a new word?
colour
cress
fall
proof
shed
way
Puzzle 3
At the annual BrainBashers puzzle discussion conference, 20 people attended.
At the start of the conference, each person shook hands with every other person, how many handshakes took place in total?
Puzzle 4
Below you will find ten common 6-letter words, however, every other letter is missing.
Can you determine the original words?
-s-e-d
-p-a-g
-r-f-r
-y-r-d
-r-f-e
-a-b-n
-a-e-a
-m-z-s
-s-f-l
-i-s-e