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?
cer ent ead rat uti spr
ful oun pro ann ope ock
nce een oat est liv ion
nou sev ion ast hou akf
bre bea ens dim bed seb
Hints
The first letters of the words are: P, B, D, L, O, A, B, H, S, B.
Answers
pro + nou + nce = pronounce
bea + uti + ful = beautiful
dim + ens + ion = dimension
liv + est + ock = livestock
ope + rat + ion = operation
ann + oun + cer = announcer
bed + spr + ead = bedspread
hou + seb + oat = houseboat
sev + ent + een = seventeen
bre + akf + ast = breakfast
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Puzzle 2
A coin collector decides to divide his coin collection between his children.
The eldest gets 1/2 of the collection, the next gets 1/4 of the collection, the next gets 1/5 of the collection, and the youngest gets the remaining 49 coins.
During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try to identify who stole the prize cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:
Alex: it wasn't Emery
it was Billie
Billie: it wasn't Charlie
it wasn't Emery
Charlie: it was Emery
it wasn't Alex
Dale: it was Charlie
it was Billie
Emery: it was Dale
it wasn't Alex
It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?
Reasoning
Looking at Billie's statements, one of the statements was a lie and the other was the truth. Therefore, it must have been either Charlie or Emery.
Looking at Dale's statements, for the same reason, it was either Charlie or Billie.
Therefore, it must have been Charlie who committed the crime.
Double-checking this against the other statements confirms this.
