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Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7-letter words. Each word begins with the central S and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?

G	N	L	K	R	T	E
E	I	E	O	X	A	E
K	R	N	I	H	M	N
E	A	Y	S	E	A	P
R	E	P	P	A	W	O
N	E	A	G	U	E	O
R	N	E	S	A	D	E

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be clicked.

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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 countries?
10101 10000 11110 10111 11100 10110 011 10000 11111 10011 11010 0 11010 01011 11011 101 11100 01001 11001 01 11011 11110 01011 11111 11111 11010 11101 10100 11 10100 11111 11011 11 10000 11110 11101 1 11011 11111 10111 11111 10010 011

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Two explorers went wandering one day, one mile south, then one mile east, then one mile north, and they were back where they started.

What colour was the bear that was eating their sandwiches?

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Triathlon - Round 1 – Logic Puzzles

During the latest round of the BrainBashers school triathlon the final results were mislaid, however, this is what we do know.

Hayden was fourth.
Alex was not the oldest but was older than Drew, who was not second.
The child who was next in age to the youngest, finished second.
The child who finished in third place was older than the child who finished first.
Billie was younger than the child who finished in third place.
Can you determine who finished where and place the children in order of age?

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