Puzzle 801
Can you unscramble the following anagrams to find ten well known seasonal words:
aanst, beeehhlmt, eeilmostt, hlloy, cgiknost, adentv, dhlopru, ejssu, amnnosw, aiinttvy
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Puzzle 802
Below is a map of the BrainBashers detention facility.
There are 9 guards, A-I, who are in charge of a particular number of cells.
The guards only guard cells that they can see in a continuous straight line, either horizontally or vertically, and each cell is only protected by one guard.
The numbers represent how many cells each guard is in charge of, they are of course in charge of the cell they are currently in.
Can you work out which guards are in charge of which cells?
| A-7 | B-7 | |||||
| C-5 | ||||||
| D-1 | ||||||
| E-5 | F-3 | |||||
| G-6 | ||||||
| H-3 | ||||||
| I-12 |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.
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Puzzle 803
Starting with any C, using the move of a chess knight, can you find the letters of Christmas in the correct order?
The moves of a knight are:
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Puzzle 804
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.
Can you find 10 girl's names?
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
11001 11000 11001 01110 01
10001 11101 11011 000
11001 10101 10010 10111 10
11101 00111 11111 10010 1
11101 11110 1001
10010 11110 00101 1100
10101 11110 01010 01111 0
11010 11001 00101 01110 01
10011 11110 10010 0101
10010 11110 10011 00111 01
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