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Puzzle 17 


Jam Making Contestall logic puzzles

At the recent interdepartmental jam making contest, four lucky candidates took part to make the juiciest strawberry jam.

As it happens, the person who came last was the oldest.
Glen was three years older than the person who came second.
Drew was neither the oldest nor the youngest.
Emery finished ahead of the 27-year-old, but didn't win.
Alex was also unlucky this time, and didn't win either.
The ages of the contestants were 24, 27, 30 and 32.

Can you work out who finished where, and how old they were?

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Puzzle 18 


Can you find anagrams of the following words?

coagulate cavitates bacterial balancers headlamps milestone telephony dignifies unnoticed

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Puzzle 19 


Four friends were discussing the colours of the flowers they had for the local flower show, from this year, and last.

There were four different colours: red, green, blue and yellow.

No-one entered the same colour flower twice.
The entrant who currently has the green flowers, used to have yellow.
Betty, who is not Mrs Long, currently has the blue flowers.
Mrs Kipper, who now has yellow flowers, used to have blue.
Neither Mrs Annie Ford, nor Mrs Jester, have ever owned yellow flowers.
Cybil is not Mrs Kipper.
Diane and Annie have entered four different colours in total.
Can you determine the full names, and colours of the flowers the ladies currently have, and previously had?

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Puzzle 20 


At the recent BrainBashers code-breaking convention, Billie Brisk won the speed contest.

The following sentence was deciphered in a record time of 123 seconds.

What was the well-known saying, and how has it been encrypted?
MOOT CYNA SKOO IOPS EHTL TORB YCBH

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