BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

Below you will find 9 well-known five-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Once you have found the words, their initial letters are an anagram of a 9-letter word.

What is the word?
--xic --ien --nre --ppo --pil --loo --day --uip --elf

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Puzzle 2

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
-e-er --eue --o ma- -p-a-e- -erso- ---k-am-on -ouse -a- -ur- ---igent

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Puzzle 3

My first is in camel, and in hamster.
My second is in otter, but not in ferret.
My third is in mustang, but not in horse.
My fourth is in snake, and in asp.
My last is in tiger, and in panther.

What am I?

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Puzzle 4

Last night, I was looking at a road sign and could see that Leeds was 13 miles away, Stoke was 13 miles away and Leek was 10 miles away.

Unfortunately, it was too dark to see how far it was to Manchester. Can you help me?

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