Brain Teasers and Puzzles 

Place letters into the grid such that every row, column, and 2x2 block has letters (in any order) that form a common word. Each letter is only used once, and no letter is repeated in the rows / cols / blocks.

Letters allowed: S C H O O L

	J	Y
E	K	A
M		E
R	A		P

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Puzzle Copyright © Alan Stillson and Frank Longo

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This BrainBashers safe has a rather unusual control panel.

In order to open the safe, you have to press every single square once only, in the correct sequence, ending on the square marked E.

Each square indicates which square to press next, for example, 2U means move up 2 squares and 3R means move right 3 squares.

Can you determine which square you must start with?

1D	6D	2R	3R	3L	5D	1L
1R	E	1U	3R	1R	3L	2D
2U	1D	2L	2U	1L	2D	1L
2D	2R	1D	3L	2U	3L	1D
1R	1D	2R	2D	1L	2D	1D
3R	1R	3U	4U	2U	1L	1D
2U	1R	2L	1R	4U	3U	4U

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Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Painter Pete, our local DIY expert, is renovating the local hospital.

He has to number each of the rooms in the hospital with plastic numbers.

However, he has run out of the number 9.

How many 9's must Pete buy in order to number all 1,000 rooms?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Combine the word fragments below to produce pairs of words that have opposite meanings. There are 9 pairs of words, one pair on each line.

For example, USE REF EPT ACC becomes ACCEPT + REFUSE.
AB ANT RCE SCA UND

WA RY RD BR ICE CO AVE

ETY NG SAF ER DA

ACT AND CO EXP NTR

WN US UNK NO MO FA

TR TE IBU HER GAT DIS

CAL HO RI RTI TAL VE ZON

TIO AL CID EN ENT INT NAL AC

OWL OR KN IGN GE ED CE AN

Puzzle Copyright © Elliott Line
This puzzle appeared in Mensa's EnigmaSig (194.21) and is used with permission.

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