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Puzzle 197 


A woman had three old coins: a silver dollar, a quarter, and a dime. Each coin was a little battered and had a piece missing. She found that exactly the same fraction had broken away from each coin.

What fraction of each was missing if the value of the remaining bits of coins was now exactly one dollar in total?

For this puzzle it can be assumed that 1/2 a coin is worth 1/2 of its value.

Based on a puzzle by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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Puzzle 198 


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

The contest consisted of a Morse code transmission where the spaces between the letters and words were missing.

Can you decipher the sequence and find the well known proverb?

.--.-.-..----........--...--.-.-..---..--....-.-.....--..-----.-.-.....
Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:

A .-B -...C -.-.D -..E .F ..-.G --.H ....I ..J .---K -.-L .-..M --N -.O ---P .--.Q --.-R .-.S ...T -U ..-V ...-W .--X -..-Y -.--Z --..

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 199 


In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.

The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.

This sentence contains exactly ? E's and not one more.
However, this sentence contains exactly ? S's, with a single Z.
Finally, to finish, this sentence has exactly ? I's.

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Puzzle 200 


What letter comes next in this sequence:

J · F · M · A · M · J · J · ?

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