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Puzzle 1 


Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7-letter words. Each word begins with the central V and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be clicked.

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Puzzle 2 


How many days before 17th August is it, if …

… 50 days before then, it was four times as many days since March 30th?

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Puzzle 3 


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.

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Puzzle 4 


Below are ten everyday words, each of which has had some letters removed. The letters removed form either a boy's or a girl's name.

For example, if the word was PAN---IME, the answer might be PANTOMIME. Can you determine the original words?
demi----
---ple
absor---t
he---che
sc----r
----ionaire
break---ce
monog---
-----incense
s---ly

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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