Puzzle 129
My first is in bridge, but not in ridge.
My second is in awake, and in mistake.
My third is in danger, but not in ranger.
My fourth is in strange, and in orange.
My fifth is in spline, and in nine.
My last is in river, and in diver.
My whole likes the darkness.
What am I?
Puzzle 130
If you are running in a marathon, and you overtake the person in last place …
… what position are you now in?
Puzzle 131
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 find the ten boy's names?
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Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:
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Puzzle 132
Cake Theftall logic puzzles
During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try to identify who stole the prize cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:
Alex: it wasn't Emery
it was Billie
Billie: it wasn't Charlie
it wasn't Emery
Charlie: it was Emery
it wasn't Alex
Dale: it was Charlie
it was Billie
Emery: it was Dale
it wasn't Alex
It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?