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Puzzle 197 


Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.

These chunks have been mixed up, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine the 10 original words?
rbr tim sag tel lig ent
hea dli ble whi htn fer
car age esc ing ind wat
til hai ush dif eta new
rlw all erf ope ent ght

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Puzzle 198 


What is the next number in the sequence:

32 · 35 · 40 · 44 · 52 · 112 · ?

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Puzzle 199 


How many squares of any size on this chessboard do not contain a rook?

Rooks On C2, E5, F3, G8

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Puzzle 200 


Snail RaceAll Logic Puzzles

At last year's BrainBashers snail race, 10 fine snails completed the tabletop course.

Predictably, as per every year, the results mysteriously went missing.

However, various spectators remembered the following snippets of information:

Orange Berry lost to Zebra Wings.
Zebra Wings beat Orange Berry, Frog Flippers and Apple Pie.
Fizzy Pop lost to Minty Mouth, Orange Berry and CD Player.
Frog Flippers beat Windy Hill, CD Player and Orange Berry.
Top Hat lost to CD Player, Kipper Slippers and Apple Pie.
CD Player beat Top Hat and Fizzy Pop.
Apple Pie lost to Zebra Wings and Orange Berry.
Kipper Slippers lost to Apple Pie and Frog Flippers.
Frog Flippers beat Fizzy Pop, Minty Mouth and CD Player.
CD Player lost to Frog Flippers, Kipper Slippers and Apple Pie.
Top Hat beat Fizzy Pop and Windy Hill.
Minty Mouth lost to Windy Hill and Orange Berry.
Windy Hill lost to Apple Pie and CD Player.
Can you work out who finished where?

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