Puzzle 17
I was quite bored yesterday, so I visited my local animal sanctuary.
To pass the time, I counted 612 legs.
This came from an equal number of beetles, spiders, and mice.
Can you work out the total number of animals I counted?
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Puzzle 18
Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.
These chunks have been mixed up, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.
Can you determine the 10 original words?
rbr tim sag tel lig ent
hea dli ble whi htn fer
car age esc ing ind wat
til hai ush dif eta new
rlw all erf ope ent ght
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Puzzle 19
Place letters into the grid such that every row, column, and 2x2 block has letters (in any order) that form a common word. Each letter is only used once, and no letter is repeated in the rows / cols / blocks.
Letters allowed: T U R K E Y
| O | C | S | |
| L | D | ||
| A | K | B | |
| S | I |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.
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Puzzle 20
During the recent BrainBashers Football Competition, 5 teams were competing.
Each team played each other just once, with 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.
However, the rain damaged the final scoresheet, and this is all that could be read of the final points after all of the matches:
Rugby 6
Grimsby 5
Hereford 4
Lichfield 2
Reading ?
Can you work out how many points Reading ended the season with?
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