Puzzle 197
Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:
During the recent BrainBashers aquatic contest, the walrus struggled to finish, the sea lion finished second, and the penguin easily won!
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The country spans more than one word.
Answer
Guinea.
During the recent BrainBashers aquatic contest, the walrus struggled to finish, the sea lion finished second, and the penGUIN EAsily won!
Puzzle 198
Take a word from the first column, and a word from the second column.
You will now have 5 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of an animal.
What are the 5 animals?
soot tent
most then
much tire
area mare
leap pink
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Try: soot + tire, most + mare, much + pink.
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soot + tire = tortoise
most + mare = marmoset
much + pink = chipmunk
area + tent = anteater
leap + then = elephant
Puzzle 199
What comes next in this sequence:
jnry · fbrry · mrch · prl · my · jn · ?
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There are twelve items in the full sequence.
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Jly.
From the months with their vowels (AEIOU) removed. January, February, March, April, May, June, July.
Puzzle 200
What are the next two numbers in this sequence:
202 · 122 · 232 · 425 · 262 · 728 · ? · ?
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293 031: these are the numbers 20, 21, 22, 23 etc grouped into three digits.