BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 5

Below you will find 15 well-known six-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
---rix ---osy ---few ---oze ---uum ---wth ---nda ---nis ---tem ---pod ---reo ---hom ---gan ---amt ---gen

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Puzzle 6

Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:

At school, most of my friends learnt French. I learnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.

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Puzzle 7

For being well-behaved at the garden fayre, four children were each given two sweets.

Jesse had an orange sweet.
One child who had a red sweet also had a blue one.
No child had two sweets of the same colour.
A child who had a green sweet also had a red one.
Jamie didn't have a red sweet, and Jo had a green one.
Jordan didn't have an orange one, and Jesse had no blue sweets.
Knowing that there were two sweets of each colour, can you tell the colours of the sweets each child had?

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Puzzle 8

Bungled Heist – Logic Puzzles

After a local bungled heist, five suspects were being interviewed by the police.

Eventually, the police managed to get a confession.

Below is a summary of their statements, and it turns out that exactly 5 of these statements were true.

Would you make a good detective? Try and work out who committed the crime.

   Alex said:
      It wasn't Brook
      It was Charlie

   Brook said:
      It wasn't Alex
      It was Dale

   Charlie said:
      It wasn't Dale
      It wasn't Brook

   Dale said:
      It wasn't Emery
      It was Alex

   Emery said:
      It wasn't Charlie
      It was Dale

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