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Puzzle 465
Below you will find 9 well-known five-letter words, with only their endings remaining.
Once you have found the words, their initial letters are an anagram of a 9-letter word.
What is the word?
--xic
--ien
--nre
--ppo
--pil
--loo
--day
--uip
--elf
Puzzle 466
Starting with COLD, change one letter at a time until you have the word WARM.
Each change leaves the other letters in their original places and must result in a common word.
What is the minimum number of steps required to achieve this change?
Puzzle 467
Marathon Warm-upall logic puzzles
After the recent BrainBashers annual marathon, the judges were comparing notes to determine who finished where. From their notes, can you help them reconstruct the final result?
Max Merrymood beat Toby Trent and Jesse Jackson.
Pat Piper beat Jesse Jackson, Toby Trent, and Alex Ardle.
Zeb Zebra lost to Pat Piper.
Glenn Goodfellow beat Toby Trent
Zeb Zebra beat Frankie Flint.
Glenn Goodfellow lost to Frankie Flint and Pat Piper.
Toby Trent beat Billie Brick.
Alex Ardle beat Zeb Zebra, Kelly Kingfisher, and Glenn Goodfellow.
Kelly Kingfisher lost to Glenn Goodfellow and Max Merrymood.
Billie Brick beat Kelly Kingfisher.
Max Merrymood lost to Alex Ardle and Zeb Zebra.
Frankie Flint beat Toby Trent, Max Merrymood, and Billie Brick.
Toby Trent lost to Jesse Jackson and Alex Ardle.
Jesse Jackson beat Glenn Goodfellow and Billie Brick.
Puzzle 468
Which word does not belong with the others:
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