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Puzzle 469 


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.

Can you find 10 girl's names?
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

11001 11000 11001 01110 01

10001 11101 11011 000

11001 10101 10010 10111 10

11101 00111 11111 10010 1

11101 11110 1001

10010 11110 00101 1100

10101 11110 01010 01111 0

11010 11001 00101 01110 01

10011 11110 10010 0101

10010 11110 10011 00111 01

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Puzzle 470 


Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
ba-g- d--ed dia-- -uo-a i-de- -o-el -um-s py--y g-ou- --nal tra-- -umb- d--ty

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Puzzle 471 


I recently travelled from my home town to a distant music concert, on a pedal tricycle, of all things! My wonderful, three-wheeled tricycle.

I knew that the epic 2,345 mile trip would wreak havoc on the tyres, but luckily I took along 4 spares!

Instead of waiting for any single tyre to fail, I decided that I would rotate the tyres evenly, making sure that by the end of the trip, all seven tyres had travelled exactly the same distance.

What was the distance that each tyre travelled?

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Puzzle 472 


Albert married Carol.

Steven married Katie.

Bob married Virginia.

Who did Simon marry: Teresa, Charlotte or Lisa?

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