Using the clues below, can you find 8 four-letter words?
Once you have placed the words into the correct order, you will find that each word is different from the previous word by only one letter.
For example, FARE may be followed by FIRE, etc.
Additional items Insufficiently heated A female equine Insufficiently cooled Pottery A bump on a toad? The middle of an apple Insulated electrical wire
Answer
Insufficiently heated = cold
Insulated electrical wire = cord
The middle of an apple = core
Additional items = more
A female equine = mare
Pottery = ware
A bump on a toad? = wart
Insufficiently cooled = warm
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Puzzle 6
Below you will find ten common 6-letter words, however, every other letter is missing.
Can you determine the original words? -s-e-d-p-a-g-r-f-r-y-r-d-r-f-e-a-b-n-a-e-a-o-d-g-s-f-l-i-s-e
Answer
The BrainBashers electronic word processor has been playing up.
It is replacing every third letter with an a. What should this paragraph read?
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Puzzle 8
During the recent BrainBashers Football Competition, 5 teams were competing.
Each team played each other just once, with 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.
However, the rain damaged the final scoresheet, and this is all that could be read of the final points after all of the matches:
Rugby 6
Grimsby 5
Hereford 4
Lichfield 2
Reading ?
Can you work out how many points Reading ended the season with?
Reasoning
There were 5 teams in the league, and every team played every other, so there were a total of 10 games played:
Rugby vs Grimsby
Rugby vs Hereford
Rugby vs Lichfield
Rugby vs Reading
Grimsby vs Hereford
Grimsby vs Lichfield
Grimsby vs Reading
Hereford vs Lichfield
Hereford vs Reading
Lichfield vs Reading
We know that 2 points were allocated for each game played. Which means that there were a total of 20 points over the 10 games.
Since the given results add to 17, the remaining 3 points belong to Reading.
