BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 17

Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:

We told Cliff to run, 'Run Cliff, run'. So Cliff ran, celebrating his recent victory in the inter-departmental relay race.

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Puzzle 18

Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to Z=26.

Can you find any common 6-letter words that have a total over 115?

For example, WIZARD = 23 + 9 + 26 + 1 + 18 + 4 = 81.

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Puzzle 19

Golf House Mischief – Logic Puzzles

Five men, whose names are Bob Edison, Tom Stevenson, Marty Brown, Jim Davis, and John Alberts were questioned by the police for a crime committed in their local golf house.

Detectives investigated, they questioned the suspects, the witnesses, and people who know the suspects, and they collected physical evidence from the crime scene.

They collected the following 14 clues, but have not been able to solve the crime.

So, they have called on you to help. Can you examine the clues, and solve the crime for them?

No two suspects have the same hair colour, weight, height, wife's first name, or colour shoes. Can you find the culprit?

The suspect who has red hair weighs 140 pounds.
Bob Edison is 5 feet 3 inches tall.
The culprit has a wife named Mary.
The suspect who weighs 150 pounds is not the one who is 5 feet 9 inches tall.
The suspect who has a wife named Pam is not the one who has blonde hair.
Jim Davis was wearing orange shoes.
John Alberts has black hair.
The suspect who has a wife named Betty weighs 200 pounds.
Tom Stevenson weighs 210 pounds.
The suspect who weighs 200 pounds has no hair.
The suspect who has a wife named Cathy weighs 140 pounds.
Marty Brown has brown hair.
The suspect who has black hair has a wife named Mary.
The suspect who has no hair is not the one who was wearing orange shoes.

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Puzzle 20

Can you find a three-letter word that completes these words?
b---
d---
m---et
p---ing
sh---

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