BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 377

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

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Puzzle 378

Practical Pat was asked to cut a 99 foot rope into three smaller, equal length ropes.

However, as usual, Pat couldn't find the measuring tape, so a guess took place!

When the tape was finally found (it was under a hat), Pat discovered that:

the second piece of rope was twice as long as the first piece, minus 35 feet
the third piece of rope was half the length of the first, plus 15 feet
How long were each of the pieces of rope?

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Puzzle 379

The BrainBashers Speed Skating championship was recently completed, however, the computer storing the results suffered from a power cut!

Using the following snippets of information, can you work out who finished where, their ages (18, 21, 24, and 28), and the colour they wore?

The youngest, who didn't wear blue, won the championship.
Jesse was three years younger than the person who wore red.
Kelly performed well to finish in second place.
Logan wore green, and Max was the oldest competitor.
The person who wore yellow was younger than Kelly.
The person who came last was 21.

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Puzzle 380

By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.

Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?

Therefore, what now reads 'vokahliuppw' will become a real word.
oval post skin malt when slab miss fund aped sped sway

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