BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 197

Take a word from the first column, and a word from the second column.

You will now have 6 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of something that lives in water.
dish         leek
tray         shoe
raft         sign
cram         golf
ears         fern
loud         hiss

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Puzzle 198

If York is 9 miles away, London is 14 miles and Manchester is 23 miles away.

How far away is Leeds?

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Puzzle 199

Add lines to this grid and create five areas that each have 4 letters, to spell five 4-letter words.

Puzzle Copyright © Elliott Line
This puzzle appeared in Mensa's EnigmaSig (194.34) and is used with permission.

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Puzzle 200

Sports Day – Logic Puzzles

During the recent BrainBashers school sports day, four students were competing in the 400 metres hurdles.

Official figures mysteriously went missing just after the event, however, various spectators could remember the following information.

Alex won and wore red.
The student wearing number 1 came third.
Billie beat the student in yellow, but wasn't wearing number 2.
Only one student finished in the same position as the number they wore, but they didn't wear red.
Emery beat the student wearing number 3, and Glen wore yellow.
The student in green wore number 2.
A spectator remembered that one student wore blue, but couldn't remember anything else about them.
Can you determine the positions the students finished in, along with the numbers and colours they wore?

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