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.
Puzzle 801
What is the missing number in this sequence:
4 · 9 · 28 · 125 · ? · 5047 · 40328
Puzzle 802
I recently gave a new watch to my friend for their birthday.
However, as usual with my presents, it was quite useless as it gains 6 minutes every hour.
I set it using my own accurate clock at midnight, and the watch now shows 8:26am.
I know that it stopped 30 minutes ago, so what is the correct time now?
Puzzle 803
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 boy's names?
11010 01011 11010 11
10101 11011 01100 11
10101 10011 11111 110
10011 10100 10110 11010 1
10011 01101 00110 0
10000 10110 10010 11001 0
11100 01001 01001 10011
10101 11111 110
10111 01101 10100 11110
10100 10100 11111 0
Puzzle 804
One name is in the wrong position. Which one?
Joshua, Jacob, Cedric, Luke, Geoff, Edward, Craig, Keith.