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Puzzle 13 


Customer services at BrainBashers headquarters received the following letter recently.

Luckily, our top puzzle solvers were able to determine the meaning and help Sam South.

Can you work out what the problem was?
D-a- K-v-n,

- ---ld l-k- -- c-m-la-n ab--- -h- --- --- -f m- ----------.

-h-s- l-----s d- n-- a---a- -- b- ---k-ng c----c-l-.

As --- can s--, -h-- a-- m-ss-ng f--m -h-s d-c-m-n-.

- ---ld b- v--- g-a--f-l -f --- c--ld c----c- -h-s ---bl-m -mm-d-a--l-.

K-nd --ga-ds.

Sam S---h.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 14 


Many years ago, a cruise liner sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The castaways luckily landed on a remote desert island.

There was enough food for the 135 people to last four weeks.

Nine days later a rescue ship appeared, unluckily this ship also sank, leaving an additional 36 people stranded on the island to now share the original rationed food.

The food obviously had to be re-rationed, everyone was now on three-quarters of the original ration, so how many days in total would the food last, from the day of the original sinking?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 15 


Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 10 words are?
som one dbr pen rtm ber
nes ent ive eph eti ens
mes off eak eid sep win
erd tel day ter wed tem
aft apa own car ern oon

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 16 


How much soil is there …

… in a circular hole 2 metres deep and 1 metre across?

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