Puzzle 1
Snail Raceall logic puzzles
At last year's BrainBashers snail race, 10 fine snails completed the tabletop course.
Predictably, as per every year, the results mysteriously went missing.
However, various spectators remembered the following snippets of information:
Orange Berry lost to Zebra Wings.
Zebra Wings beat Orange Berry, Frog Flippers, and Apple Pie.
Fizzy Pop lost to Minty Mouth, Orange Berry, and CD Player.
Frog Flippers beat Windy Hill, CD Player, and Orange Berry.
Top Hat lost to CD Player, Kipper Slippers, and Apple Pie.
CD Player beat Top Hat, and Fizzy Pop.
Apple Pie lost to Zebra Wings, and Orange Berry.
Kipper Slippers lost to Apple Pie, and Frog Flippers.
Frog Flippers beat Fizzy Pop, Minty Mouth, and CD Player.
CD Player lost to Frog Flippers, Kipper Slippers, and Apple Pie.
Top Hat beat Fizzy Pop, and Windy Hill.
Minty Mouth lost to Windy Hill, and Orange Berry.
Windy Hill lost to Apple Pie, and CD Player.
Can you work out who finished where?
Puzzle 2
This year, Farmer Stone's harvest of apples was quite significant.
He decided to donate some apples to the local community, 1,672 people in all.
Every person aged 50 or more received 16 apples, and every person under 50 received 96 apples.
Only 3/4 of the over 50s collected their apples, and only 1/8 of the under 50s collected theirs.
How many apples did the farmer give away?
Puzzle 3
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?
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Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:
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Puzzle 4
Each of these rows of arrows represents a word. What are the words?