Medium Puzzles 

The infamous BrainBashers encyclopedia has been suffering from its usual problems again.

Below is a printout of reptiles and amphibians, but they have lost every other letter.

Can you replace the missing letters?
-r-g -o-t-i-e -n-k- -e-t -i-a-d -r-c-d-l- -a-a-a-d-r -u-t-e -k-n- a-l-g-t-r

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Which one of these sentences is the odd one out?

Sam wanted another newt.
Every artistic giraffe likes elephants.
Badgers rapidly excavate a mound.
Wild rabbits enjoy nature.
Dale understood cute kittens.
Casual restless aardvarks need exercise.

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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?
rbr ent ard man tor rbo
and ban con erf dst dli
fly spa dra dif hai ght
per all fis ove ush hea
new gon fer wat her duc

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Greenjack Round #2 - Logic Puzzles

You find yourself playing a game with your friend.

It is played with a deck of only 16 cards, divided into 4 suits:

   Red, Blue, Orange, and Green.

There are four cards in each suit:

   Ace, King, Queen, and Jack.

All Aces outrank all Kings, which outrank all Queens, which outrank all Jacks, except for the Green Jack, which outranks every other card.

If two cards have the same face value, then Red outranks Blue, which outranks Orange, which outranks Green, again except for the Green Jack, which outranks everything.

Here's how the game is played: you are dealt one card face up, and your friend is dealt one card face down. Your friend then makes some true statements, and you have to work out who has the higher card, you or your friend. It's that simple!

Round 2:
You are dealt the Blue King and your friend makes three statements:

My card would beat a Green King.
Knowing this, if my card is more likely to be a Jack than a Queen, then my card is actually a King. Otherwise, it isn't.
Given all of the information you now know, if my card is more likely to beat yours than not, then my card is Red card. Otherwise, it isn't.
Who has the higher card, you or your friend?

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