BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

These five words are connected somehow, which word is missing?

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Choose from:

albatross, approved, bingo, furtive, pedalled, zebra

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Puzzle 2

During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a Morse code contest took place.

The contest consisted of a Morse code transmission where the spaces between the letters and words were missing.

Can you decipher the sequence and find the well known proverb?

Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Puzzle 3

Downhill Mountain Bike Race – Logic Puzzles

At the recent BrainBashers downhill mountain bike race, four entrants entered the challenging slalom event.

Alex finished in first position.
The entrant wearing number #2 wore red, but Drew didn't wear yellow.
The person in last place wore blue, and Stevie wore number #1.
Glen beat Stevie, and the person who finished in second wore number #3.
The entrant in yellow beat the entrant in green.
Only one of the entrants wore the same number as their final position.
Can you determine who finished where, the number, and colour they each wore?

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Puzzle 4

Can you complete this grid of letters. Each line is a valid 5-letter word with its first and last letter missing.

The missing letters form a word when read downwards, and the same word appears both at the start and at the end.

What is the missing word?

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

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