BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

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

workings hint answer print

www.brainbashers.com /puzzle/zjnf share

Puzzle 2

Again, my BrainBashers thesaurus has let me down again. This time I was after boy's names and it failed to show the vowels.

What were the boy's names?
rn
jms
kvn
smn
kth
jrmh

workings hint answer print

www.brainbashers.com /puzzle/zlfh share

Puzzle 3

Combine the word fragments below to produce pairs of words that have opposite meanings. There are 9 pairs of words, one pair on each line.

For example, USE REF EPT ACC becomes ACCEPT + REFUSE.
AB ANT RCE SCA UND

WA RY RD BR ICE CO AVE

ETY NG SAF ER DA

ACT AND CO EXP NTR

WN US UNK NO MO FA

TR TE IBU HER GAT DIS

CAL HO RI RTI TAL VE ZON

TIO AL CID EN ENT INT NAL AC

OWL OR KN IGN GE ED CE AN

workings hint answer print

www.brainbashers.com /puzzle/ztzp share

Puzzle 4

At the local racetrack, Alex was testing the latest car.

During the eight test laps, Alex managed to average the first two laps at 100mph, the next two laps at 102mph, the next two laps at 140mph, and the last two laps at 150mph.

What was the average speed for the entire 8 laps?

workings hint answer print