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Puzzle 409 


During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a Morse code contest took place.

The contest consisted of a Morse code transmission where the spaces between the letters and words were missing.

Can you decipher the sequence and find the well known proverb?

-......-.......-.---..-.------.-...-....-.-..--.---.-..-....-.------.-..
Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:

A .-B -...C -.-.D -..E .F ..-.G --.H ....I ..J .---K -.-L .-..M --N -.O ---P .--.Q --.-R .-.S ...T -U ..-V ...-W .--X -..-Y -.--Z --..

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Puzzle 410 


If 5 cats can catch 5 rats in 5 minutes …

… how many cats do you need to catch 100 rats in 100 minutes?

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Puzzle 411 


Hidden in the grid below are three boys names. Starting at any point, trace out the path of a chess knight. The last letter of one name starts the next one. What are the names?



The moves of a knight are:

Knight's Move

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Puzzle 412 


What word goes in the brackets:
food [road] hard
weep [----] fall

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