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Puzzle 13 


Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to Z=26.

Can you find any common 6-letter words that have a total over 115?

For example, WIZARD = 23 + 9 + 26 + 1 + 18 + 4 = 81.

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Puzzle 14 


Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

During the recent BrainBashers aquatic contest, the walrus struggled to finish, the sea lion finished second, and the penguin easily won!

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Puzzle 15 


Place the words below into pairs.

You will then have 5 lots of eight letters, each of which is an anagram of at least one other word.

Can you find the 5 pairings, and at least one anagram each?

peer time date wall june tone snob seat pale veil

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Puzzle 16 


At the toy factory, 2 toy makers can make 6 boxes of toys in 3 hours.

By this same reasoning, how many toy makers will it take to make 22 boxes of toys in 5 hours?

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