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Puzzle 197 


During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a binary code contest took place.

The contest consisted of a binary code transmission where the spaces between the letters were missing and there was no punctuation.

Each letter of the alphabet was translated into its binary equivalent based on its position in the alphabet. The resulting code was then blocked in groups of five digits.
a=1, b=10, c=11, d=100, e=101, f=110, g=111, h=1000, i=1001, j=1010, k=1011, l=1100, m=1101, n=1110, o=1111, p=10000, q=10001, r=10010, s=10011, t=10100, u=10101, v=10110, w=10111, x=11000, y=11001, z=11010

Can you find 10 boy's names?
11010 01011 11010 11

10101 11011 01100 11

10101 10011 11111 110

10011 10100 10110 11010 1

10011 01101 00110 0

10000 10110 10010 11001 0

11100 01001 01001 10011

10101 11111 110

10111 01101 10100 11110

10100 10100 11111 0

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Puzzle 198 


Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
a-a-e --ave -uie- --gon p--ot vi-e- -ac-t --met b--ep -u-ge -lan- -ra-e bon--

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Puzzle 199 


These words have had their vowels (AEIOU) removed, can you replace them to find some animals:

pnd frrt s ln hdghg chth tdpl ttr plr br lprd grff

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Puzzle 200 


Can you find every occurrence of the word OCTOBER that appears in this grid (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)?

The hint will reveal the number of times it occurs, but where are they?



Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the letters cannot be selected.

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