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 'vokahliuppw' will become a real word.
oval post skin malt when slab miss fund aped sped sway

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Puzzle 2

Place letters into the grid such that every row, column, and 2x2 block has letters (in any order) that form a common word. Each letter is only used once, and no letter is repeated in the rows / cols / blocks.

Letters allowed: S C H O O L

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

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Puzzle 3

During a recent BrainBashers race meeting, the fastest driver managed to complete a lap with an average speed of 150 mph.

They managed to complete the first two fifths of the lap at a speed of 123 mph and the second two fifths of the lap at a speed of 164 mph.

At what speed was the final one fifth of the lap length covered?

The answer is not 176 mph.

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Puzzle 4

Each of these rows of arrows represents a word. What are the words?

Arrows pointing: DRR, URL, DRUDR, DRL, RLR.

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