Puzzle 109
Yesterday I went for a short bicycle ride around the local lakes. As the weather was very hot, I rode in shorter stages than I'd normally ride.
In Stage One, I rode half of the overall distance.
Stage Two saw half of the remaining distance plus 35 metres covered.
Stage Three covered three-quarters of the remaining distance.
Stage Four completed half of the remaining distance, plus 75 metres.
Stage Five completed the journey with a final burst of 150 metres.
How far did I cycle in total?
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Puzzle 110
During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a binary code contest took place.
The contest consisted of a binary code transmission where the spaces between the letters were missing and there was no punctuation.
Each letter of the alphabet was translated into its binary equivalent based on its position in the alphabet. The resulting code was then blocked in groups of five digits.
a=1, b=10, c=11, d=100, e=101, f=110, g=111, h=1000, i=1001, j=1010, k=1011, l=1100, m=1101, n=1110, o=1111, p=10000, q=10001, r=10010, s=10011, t=10100, u=10101, v=10110, w=10111, x=11000, y=11001, z=11010
Can you find 10 countries?
10101 10000 11110
10111 11100 10110 011
10000 11111 10011 11010 0
11010 01011 11011 101
11100 01001 11001 01
11011 11110 01011 11111 11111
11010 11101 10100 11
10100 11111 11011 11
10000 11110 11101 1
11011 11111 10111 11111 10010 011
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Puzzle 111
Santa's Reindeer – All Logic Puzzles
Santa always leaves plans for his elves to determine the order in which the reindeer will pull his sleigh. This year, for the European leg of his journey, his elves are working to the following schedule, that will form a single line of nine reindeer:
Comet behind Rudolph, Prancer and Cupid. Blitzen behind Cupid and in front of Donder, Vixen and Dancer. Cupid in front of Comet, Blitzen and Vixen. Donder behind Vixen, Dasher and Prancer. Rudolph behind Prancer and in front of Donder, Dancer and Dasher. Vixen in front of Dancer and Comet. Dancer behind Donder, Rudolph and Blitzen. Prancer in front of Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. Dasher behind Prancer and in front of Vixen, Dancer and Blitzen. Donder behind Comet and Cupid. Cupid in front of Rudolph and Dancer. Vixen behind Rudolph, Prancer and Dasher.
Can you help the elves work out the order of the reindeer?
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