BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

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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Puzzle 2

Take away eight of the sticks below, and leave one stick behind.

There are no hidden sticks.

Sticks Puzzle

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

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Puzzle 3

Here we have a rectangular room, measuring 30 feet by 12 feet, and 12 feet high.

There is a spider in the middle of one of the end walls, 1 foot from the ceiling (A).

There is a fly in the middle of the opposite wall, 1 foot from the floor (B).

What is the shortest distance that the spider must crawl in order to reach the fly?

The Spider and the Fly, The Canterbury Puzzles, Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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Puzzle 4

Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

If a Dalmatian dog can catch five balls in five minutes, four balls in four minutes, and three balls in three minutes, can a Dalmatian dog catch two balls in two minutes?

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