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Puzzle 197 


At a recent BrainBashers party, I noted the ages of the children who attended.

Billie was 3, James and Keith were 4, Frankie and Rebecca were 5.

How old was Lara?

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Puzzle 198 


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

What is the answer to the question being asked?
11001 11010 01000 10011 00111 00110 01111 01101 01100 10110 01100 10011 10110 10011 11010 11100 10100 10000 10101 11010 11010 11001 01100 11010 01000 11111 01011 11100 01010 01001 10100 10111 11111 01011 10010 01000 10111 00100 00100 11101 00111 00111 01110 11001 10011 10011 10110 00011 00101 10001 10101 10110 01110 10010 01111 11110 10111 10001 10100 10011 00111 11111 10101 10000 11001 01011 00111 11111 10101

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Puzzle 199 


At a picnic recently, I noticed that:

Charles liked biscuits, but didn't like custard.
Mary liked quiche, but didn't like marshmallows.
Brian liked apples, but didn't like biscuits.
James liked chocolate, but didn't like jelly.
Did David like doughnuts?

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Puzzle 200 


My trustworthy (?!) BrainBashers word processor is playing its silly tricks again.

This time, it has replaced all of the consonants with random ones.

I can at least be thankful that it has left the vowels untouched.

Can you find all of the animals?
fahjec qsaxe eep zoth epessawx feyuv zowqud pol

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