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Puzzle 17 


Cake Theftall logic puzzles

During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try to identify who stole the prize cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:
Alex:    it wasn't Emery
         it was Billie

Billie:  it wasn't Charlie
         it wasn't Emery

Charlie: it was Emery
         it wasn't Alex

Dale:    it was Charlie
         it was Billie

Emery:   it was Dale
         it wasn't Alex

It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?

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Puzzle 18 


If I can boil 2 eggs in 10 minutes.

How long will it take me to boil 5 eggs?

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Puzzle 19 


Which four colours have been mixed up below?
bylv guee rllo iweo elen t

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Puzzle 20 


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.
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

Can you find 10 countries?
10101 10000 11110 10111 11100 10110 011 10000 11111 10011 11010 0 11010 01011 11011 101 11100 01001 11001 01 11011 11110 01011 11111 11111 11010 11101 10100 11 10100 11111 11011 11 10000 11110 11101 1 11011 11111 10111 11111 10010 011

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