BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

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Puzzle 1

Below, you will find 10 seven-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
----igy ----aoh ----erg ----ynx ----lth ----mox ----ovy ----esh ----awe ----ipt

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Puzzle 2

Starting with SOFT, change one letter at a time until you have the word LENS.

Each change leaves the other letters in their original places and must result in a proper word.

What is the minimum number of steps required to achieve this change?
SOFT
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LENS

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Puzzle 3

My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.

I listed five countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Australia     500 miles
Peru        8,000 miles
India       4,500 miles
Scotland    9,500 miles
France        ? miles

Can you work out the distance to France?

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Puzzle 4

Boat Club Boats – Logic Puzzles

At the local model boat club, four friends were talking about their boats.

There were a total of eight boats, two in each colour: red, green, blue, and yellow.

Each friend owned two boats, and no friend had two boats of the same colour.

Alex didn't have a yellow boat.
Billie didn't have a red boat, but did have a green one.
One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat.
Another friend had a green boat and a blue boat.
Charlie had a yellow boat.
Drew had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.
Can you work out which friends had which coloured boats?

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