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Puzzle 57 


Can you find the encoded countries?

The letter indicates the first letter of the country, and the number represents the number of letters in the country.
H5 V9 D7 J7 F6 N6 P4 Z8 R7 Q5

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Puzzle 58 


By changing the second letter of each of the words below, can you make another valid word?

You have to change each word such that the second letters will reveal a ten-letter word when read downwards.

Therefore, what now reads 'craihruane' will be a real word.
icon crew farm oily chop arid fund wait gnat tear

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Puzzle 59 


At the recent BrainBashers code-breaking convention, Billie Brisk won the speed contest.

The following sentence was deciphered in a record time of 123 seconds.

What was the well-known saying, and how has it been encrypted?
MOOT CYNA SKOO IOPS EHTL TORB YCBH

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Puzzle 60 


What is it that goes up and goes down …

… but does not move?

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