Puzzle 1
If I can boil 2 eggs in 10 minutes.
How long will it take me to boil 5 eggs?
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Hint
Be careful with your thinking.
Answer
Exactly the same time!
Puzzle 2
I really must replace my BrainBashers word processor.
I recently spell checked my document, and it managed to misrepresent one letter in each of the words.
What were the original words?
A lake sees. Then a sea I fee, is bakes he thank if toe money what thee bake. Money bakes me roast lice.
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Hint
In each word, exactly one letter is wrong.
Answer
I like bees. When I see a bee, it makes me think of the honey that they make. Honey makes my toast nice.
Puzzle 3
Which word is the odd one out:
seventy
brawl
clover
proper
carrot
swing
emerged
crafty
travel
sacred
stone
plunge
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Try removing some letters.
Answer
Carrot.
Reasoning
Each of the other words remains a real word if you remove the first and last letter:
s-event -y
b-raw -l
c-love -r
p-rope -r
c-arro -t *
s-win -g
e-merge -d
c-raft -y
t-rave -l
s-acre -d
s-ton -e
p-lung -e
Puzzle 4
My trustworthy (?!) BrainBashers word processor is playing its silly tricks again.
This time, it has replaced all of the consonants with random ones.
I can at least be thankful that it has left the vowels (AEIOU) untouched.
Can you find all of the animals?
fahjec
qsaxe
eep
zoth
epessawx
feyuv
zowqud
pol
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The first letters of the words are: B, S, E, W, E, L, P, C.
Answers
Any animal that fits is correct, but these are possible answers:
fahjec = badger (barbet, gannet, marten)
qsaxe = snake (crane, skate, whale)
eep = eel
zoth = wolf (fowl, lory, moth, pony, worm)
epessawx = elephant
feyuv = lemur (xerus)
zowqud = possum
pol = cow (cod, dog, fox, hog)
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