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Puzzle 165 



Can you place a different 4-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words.
  drift[----]wind    home[----]bench    foot[----]mother   court[----]stick    moth[----]room quarter[----]ground   space[----]yard    wild[----]span    your[----]less    back[----]fighter
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case

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Puzzle 166 



Many years ago, a cruise liner sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The castaways luckily landed on a remote desert island.

There was enough food for the 135 people to last four weeks.

Nine days later a rescue ship appeared, unluckily this ship also sank, leaving an additional 36 people stranded on the island to now share the original rationed food.

The food obviously had to be re-rationed, everyone was now on three-quarters of the original ration, so how many days in total would the food last, from the day of the original sinking?

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Puzzle 167 



At a recent BrainBashers party, I noted the ages of the children who attended.

Billie was 3, James and Keith were 4, Frankie and Rebecca were 5.

How old was Lara?

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Puzzle 168 



Which two letters come next in this sequence:

ME  VE  EA  MA  JU  SA  UR  {?}

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