Puzzle 197
Can you complete the following four 5-letter words?
The missing letters, in order, spell an animal.
--ute
c--el
st--g
car--
Puzzle 198
How many squares of any size on this chessboard do not contain a rook?
Puzzle 199
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.
I listed five countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Australia 500 miles
Peru 8,000 miles
India 4,500 miles
Scotland 9,500 miles
France ? miles
Can you work out the distance to France?
Puzzle 200
This BrainBashers safe has a rather unusual control panel.
In order to open the safe, you have to press every single square once only, in the correct sequence, ending on the square marked E.
Each square indicates which square to press next, for example, 2U means move up 2 squares and 3R means move right 3 squares.
Can you determine which square you must start with?
| 2R | 2R | 4D | 2D | 1R | 2D | E |
| 2R | 1U | 3R | 2D | 1U | 4L | 3L |
| 1U | 1R | 4R | 2D | 1U | 2D | 2U |
| 3U | 5R | 2D | 3L | 1U | 3L | 2U |
| 2D | 2U | 2L | 2L | 1U | 2D | 1D |
| 3U | 2R | 1D | 2R | 1U | 2U | 6L |
| 6R | 3U | 2R | 2L | 1U | 2L | 2U |
Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the safe buttons cannot be clicked.