Puzzle 9
Below you can find 8 words that have had their beginnings and endings removed. In each case, the same two letters can be found at the beginning and the end. For example REspiRE.
--qui--
--yli--
--tat--
--gib--
--liv--
--rmi--
--ifi--
--alg--
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Hint
The first letters of the words are: R, S, E, L, E, T, E, A.
Answers
require
stylist
estates
legible
enliven
termite
edified
amalgam
Puzzle 10
Alex's Dogs - Logic Puzzles
Alex is a keen dog admirer and over the years has had a number of dogs.
Alex has had an Alsatian, a Dalmatian, a Poodle, and a Great Dane, but not necessarily in that order.
Alex had Jamie first.
The Dalmatian was an adored pet before the Great Dane.
Sammy, the Alsatian, was the second dog Alex loved.
Whitney was owned before the Poodle.
Jimmy was not a Great Dane.
Can you match the dogs to their names and find the order in which Alex had them?
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Which dog was first, and which was second?
Answer
# Name Breed
1 Jamie Dalmatian
2 Sammy Alsatian
3 Whitney Great Dane
4 Jimmy Poodle
Reasoning
(Clue 1) Jamie was first, and (Clue 3) Sammy the Alsatian was second:
# Name Breed
1 Jamie
2 Sammy Alsatian
3
4
(Clue 4) Whitney was owned before the poodle, leaving Jimmy last:
# Name Breed
1 Jamie
2 Sammy Alsatian
3 Whitney
4 Jimmy Poodle
(Clue 2) the Dalmatian was before the Great Dane:
# Name Breed
1 Jamie Dalmatian
2 Sammy Alsatian
3 Whitney Great Dane
4 Jimmy Poodle
Puzzle 11
By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.
Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?
Therefore, what now reads 'awpydnucepa' will be a real word.
bake
swap
opal
dyed
idle
snow
lump
aces
melt
spun
rant
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The eleven-letter word begins with the letter I.
Answer
Investigate.
bake = bike
swap = snap
opal = oval
dyed = deed
idle = isle
snow = stow
lump = limp
aces = ages
melt = malt
spun = stun
rant = rent
Puzzle 12
Triathlon - Round 2 - Logic Puzzles
The final of the BrainBashers triathlon was a close run thing.
The whole tournament was decided on the last two sections, cycling and the road race.
Alex didn't win either section.
The person who won the cycling came third in the road race.
Alex beat Charlie in cycling, but was beaten by Charlie in the road race.
Charlie was last in neither section.
Drew won the road race, but was beaten by Billie in the cycling.
Can you work out who came where in each section?
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In the road race, where could Charlie have finished?
Answer
Cycling : Billie > Alex > Charlie > Drew
Road race : Drew > Charlie > Billie > Alex
Road Race
In the road race, where could Charlie have finished?
By (4), he wasn't last. By (5), he wasn't first.
By (2), if Charlie was third, then he would have won the cycling, but by (3) Alex beat Charlie in the cycling, so Charlie can't have won the cycling.
So Charlie must have finished in second place.
By (5), Drew was first.
By (1), Alex didn't win the cycling, so by (2) he didn't come third in the road race. Therefore, Alex came last.
Leaving Billie in third place.
Road race : Drew > Charlie > Billie > Alex
Cycling
By (2), Billie won.
By (4), Charlie wasn't last.
By (3), Alex beat Charlie. So Alex finished in second place, with Charlie in third place.
Leaving Drew in last place.
Cycling : Billie > Alex > Charlie > Drew
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