Puzzle 1
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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Puzzle 2
In Farmer Stone's hay loft, there were several animals, in particular birds, mice, and cockroaches.
One day, feeling bored, I decided to count the animals. I found there were exactly 150 feet and 50 heads in total, and there were twice as many cockroaches as mice.
How many of each animal were there?
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Puzzle 3
Sports Day - Logic Puzzles
During the recent BrainBashers school sports day, four students were competing in the 400 metres hurdles.
Official figures mysteriously went missing just after the event, however, various spectators could remember the following information.
Alex won and wore red.
The student wearing number 1 came third.
Billie beat the student in yellow, but wasn't wearing number 2.
Only one student finished in the same position as the number they wore, but they didn't wear red.
Emery beat the student wearing number 3, and Glen wore yellow.
The student in green wore number 2.
A spectator remembered that one student wore blue, but couldn't remember anything else about them.
Can you determine the positions the students finished in, along with the numbers and colours they wore?
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Puzzle 4
Below you will find 10 well-known six-letter words, with only their endings remaining.
Can you find the words?
---jos
---icy
---uld
---bts
---nda
---phy
---may
---ese
---mth
---axy
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