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Puzzle 369 


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 370 


Below you will find 10 well-known seven-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
----rem ----oct ----pso ----dma ----edo ----rre ----sfy ----ott ----hma ----dpa

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Puzzle 371 


Painter Pete did such a good job of the housing estate, he was asked to paint the room numbers on all of the doors of the fourth floor of the local hotel.

Pete painted all of the numbers from 400 to 499.

How many times did he paint the number 4?

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Puzzle 372 


How many squares, of any size, can be found on a standard chessboard?
How many rectangles, of any size, can be found on a standard chessboard?
Remember when counting the rectangles, that squares are also rectangles.

8 x 8 Chessboard

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