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Puzzle 1 


During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a Morse code contest took place.

The contest consisted of a Morse code transmission where the spaces between the letters and words were missing.

Can you find the ten boy's names?

.---.---.... .-.-.-......-.-. ...-..-.-.----.-. .-.--..-...-.....-.- -.-.-.--...--. .-------..--.....--. -.-......-......----.--.......-. .-.-...-..-.--.-....-. --..-..--.---.-.-.-- .--..--.-...-.-.-.-
Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:

A .-B -...C -.-.D -..E .F ..-.G --.H ....I ..J .---K -.-L .-..M --N -.O ---P .--.Q --.-R .-.S ...T -U ..-V ...-W .--X -..-Y -.--Z --..

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 2 


Can you guess what the following abbreviations mean
COM DRA ADV ACT SPO MUS HOR SCI

Puzzle Copyright © Alan Stillson
Website: www.stillsonworks.com

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Puzzle 3 


If it took …

… Alex, Billie and Charlie exactly 60 minutes to dig a hole …

how long would it take for them …

… to dig half a hole?

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Puzzle 4 


Can you fill the thermometers with mercury, such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in each row and column contain mercury?

Mercury always starts filling from the bottom of a thermometer and not every thermometer has to contain mercury.

Puzzle Copyright © Johan de Ruiter

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