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Puzzle 613
Imagine a bottle recycling skip, empty other than one lonely bottle.
Every hour, on the hour, people come and put bottles into the skip.
The first hour, at noon, one person came and put a bottle in.
One hour later, two people each placed a bottle into the skip.
An hour later, four people each placed a bottle into the skip.
This doubling of people continued until 11pm, when the skip was finally full.
Can you place a different 4-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words? drift[----]wind home[----]bench foot[----]mother court[----]stick moth[----]roomquarter[----]ground space[----]yard wild[----]span your[----]less back[----]fighter
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case
The initial letters from the nursery rhyme, Hickory Dickory Dock.
Hickory, dickory, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, dickory, dock.
It is now four years since I first asked for support, and I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has helped me. BrainBashers doesn't show adverts, and I continue to depend on the ongoing support from everyone who enjoys the site.
