Puzzle 1
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?
ely rec ant htn fer ort
ent cer por sin lig ian
lio row use rar lib ive
tfo sca ing ing far eth
som dif est dig imp mho
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Puzzle 2
Below are 8 Academy Award winners.
The letters of their names have been mixed up and put into alphabetical order.
The brackets contain clues to their names, the first letter and the length of each part of their name. For example, EEIKNNOSTV [K5 S5] = KEVIN STONE.
DEEFIJOORST [J5 F6]
EEELMPRRSTY [M5 S6]
ABEIJLORRSTU [J5 R7]
AABEEHHIKNNPRRTU [K9 H7]
CEEEGGLNOOORY [G6 C7]
ACCHIJKLNNOOS [J4 N9]
BDEEINOORRRT [R6 D2 N4]
AACCEEHIILMN [M7 C5]
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Puzzle 3
Starting in the bottom left corner and moving either up or right, adding up the numbers along the way, what is the largest sum that can be made?
| 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the numbers cannot be clicked.
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Puzzle 4
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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