Puzzle 109
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 110
How many animals can you find in this rather curious poem:
A person, so simple we are.
Catch the kid o'er the bridge.
Follow the chief, oxtail soup we like.
Anagram ANPI gives us PAIN, cower under a ridge.
Can you find at least eight?
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Puzzle 111
My BrainBashers calculator is low on batteries again, and the following multiplication is wrong. Can you correct it?
Each of the numbers has the correct digits, but they have been mixed up.
Luckily, the solution is correct, which makes the task a little easier.
2471
3725 x
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22084429
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Puzzle 112
A trout's tail weighs eight pounds.
Its head weighs as much as the tail and one-half of the body combined, and the body weighs as much as the head and tail combined.
What does the whole trout weigh?
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