Puzzle 1
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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Puzzle 2
Can you find every occurrence of the word OCTOBER that appears in this grid (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?
The hint will reveal the number of times it occurs, but where are they?
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be selected.
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Puzzle 3
Find an word which is singular, add an 's' and it becomes plural, and add another 's' it becomes singular again?
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Puzzle 4
Four friends were discussing the colours of the flowers they had for the local flower show, from this year, and last.
There were four different colours: red, green, blue and yellow.
No-one entered the same colour flower twice.
The entrant who currently has the green flowers, used to have yellow.
Betty, who is not Mrs Long, currently has the blue flowers.
Mrs Kipper, who now has yellow flowers, used to have blue.
Neither Mrs Annie Ford, nor Mrs Jester, have ever owned yellow flowers.
Cybil is not Mrs Kipper.
Diane and Annie have entered four different colours in total.
Can you determine the full names, and colours of the flowers the ladies currently have, and previously had?
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