BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:

At school, most of my friends learnt French. I learnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.

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Puzzle 2

Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

I really fear lions and tigers, but the animal I fear most though is the mouse.

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Puzzle 3

You are running in a marathon and you overtake the person in second place.

What position are you now in?

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Puzzle 4

As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

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