Puzzle 1
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 10 related words?
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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Hints
The first letters of the words are: S, M, W, E, S, M, H, C, W, M.
Answers
Summer
Monday
Wednesday
Evening
Spring
Midnight
Hour
Clock
Week
Month
Puzzle 2
I am a 10-letter word.
My 9, 6, 1, 2 is something a swimmer might do.
My 5, 4, 4, 3 is not that hot really.
My 7, 4, 3, 2 is a long piece of wood.
My 7, 6, 8, 5, 10 is a small part of something.
My 3, 4, 1, 10 is a deep affection.
My 7, 6, 8 is something you can eat.
My whole is an old form of transport.
What am I?
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Hint
The answer has two wheels.
Answer
Velocipede.
The clues were: dive, cool, pole, piece, love, pie.
Puzzle 3
How many days before 17th August is it, if …
… 50 days before then, it was four times as many days since March 30th ?
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Hint
How many days separate the two dates?
Answer
18 days.
Reasoning
There are 140 days between the two dates, and these 140 days are split in the following way:
4 x Answer | 50 days | Answer
We already know about 50 days, so we have to split the remaining 90 days into the ratio 4:1, which is 72:18.
72 days | 50 days | 18 days
Puzzle 4
Which word is the odd one out?
erah reed yenkom tibbar tac tesomram gip
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Hint
Try reading the words backwards.
Answer
yenkom.
Reasoning
The others are the names of animals spelled backwards:
hare, deer, rabbit, cat, marmoset, pig.
But YENKOM is not quite the reverse of MONKEY.
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