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Puzzle 393 


Many years ago, a cruise liner sank in the middle of the ocean.

The castaways luckily landed on a remote desert island.

There was enough food for the 220 people to last three weeks.

Six days later a rescue ship appeared, unluckily this ship also sank, leaving an additional 55 people stranded on the island to now share the original rationed food.

The food obviously had to be re-rationed, but everyone was now on one-half of the original ration, so how many days in total would the food last for, from the day of the original sinking?

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Puzzle 394 


If cat and a half can catch a mouse and a half in a day and a half how many mice can 3 cats catch in 3 days?

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Puzzle 395 


Can you place a different 4-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words.
  drift[----]wind    home[----]bench    foot[----]mother   court[----]stick    moth[----]room quarter[----]ground   space[----]yard    wild[----]span    your[----]less    back[----]fighter
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case

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Puzzle 396 


Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

During the recent BrainBashers aquatic contest, the walrus struggled to finish, the sea lion finished second, and the penguin easily won!

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