BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 805

The BrainBashers golf world tour is well underway and Fred is planning the journey to each location.

Unfortunately, the BrainBashers atlas is playing up again and has worked out the mileage incorrectly, as shown below.
Birmingham   47,000
Oslo         18,000
Chicago      32,000
Manhattan    42,000

According to the system, how many miles is it to Sydney?

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Puzzle 806

Using the clues from below can you find ten 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, DOG may be followed by DIG, etc.

in the back of the net sock material forest baby horse hooded robe spiral of wire not hot roasting metal earthy ground not bad

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Puzzle 807

Can you find the sum of the second column?

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Puzzle 808

I have a jar of sweets that contains 114 red, 35 blue, 67 green, and 9 yellow.

What chance do I have of picking a yellow sweet with my eyes shut?

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