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Can you unscramble the following anagrams to find ten well known seasonal words:
aanst, beeehhlmt, eeilmostt, hlloy, cgiknost, adentv, dhlopru, ejssu, amnnosw, aiinttvy

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The following are the first letters of the first few lines of popular Christmas carols. Can you guess which ten carols they are from?
GRYMGLNYD
WTKFOABGWTA
DDMOHIHTBAR
OIRDCSALCS
WSWTFANASOTG
AIAMNCFABTLLJLDHSH
OLTOBHSWSTL
HTHASGTTNBK
OCAYFJATOCYOCYTB
THATIWYABFG

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Below is a map of the BrainBashers detention facility.

There are 9 guards, A-I, who are in charge of a particular number of cells.

The guards only guard cells that they can see in a continuous straight line, either horizontally or vertically, and each cell is only protected by one guard.

The numbers represent how many cells each guard is in charge of, they are of course in charge of the cell they are currently in.

Can you work out which guards are in charge of which cells?

		A-7				B-7
					C-5
				D-1
	E-5		F-3
						G-6
					H-3
I-12

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Starting with any C, using the move of a chess knight, can you find the letters of Christmas in the correct order?



The moves of a knight are:

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