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Puzzle 153

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

Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?

Therefore, what now reads 'awpydnucepa' will be a real word.
bake swap opal dyed idle snow lump aces melt spun rant

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Puzzle 154

Bank Robbery #2 – Logic Puzzles

After a local bank robbery, four suspects were interviewed. Below is a summary of their statements.

The police know that each of them told the truth in one of the statements, but lied in the other.

From this information, can you tell who committed the crime?
Ashley said:
   It wasn't Drew
   It wasn't Billie

Billie said:
   It wasn't Casey
   It was Drew

Casey said:
   It was Ashley
   It wasn't Drew

Drew said:
   It was Casey
   It wasn't Ashley

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Puzzle 155

What number is …

… three-quarters of eight-ninths of one-half of 2001?

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Puzzle 156

Here is a well known proverb with the consonants removed. What is the proverb.
A -i-- i- --e -a-- i- -o--- --o i- --e -u--.

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