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Puzzle 197

Can you calculate which word is the odd one out:
giggle, soil, bells, gobble, gosh, boss, hole, blesses, coil

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Puzzle 198

Golf House Mischiefall 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 199

Here is a set of five clues for five words that only differ by one vowel (vowels are AEIOU, but not necessarily in that order). What are the words?

small robot small part on the contrary nocturnal mammal wager
Here's another set of clues for five new words:

struck heated (archaic British) straw dwelling a head warmer not cold

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Puzzle 200

all matchstick puzzles

Can you make this equation correct by moving exactly one matchstick?

3 + 7 = 18

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the matchsticks cannot be moved. The matchstick layouts for each digit are:

Default Digits

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