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Puzzle 197

Customer services at BrainBashers headquarters received the following letter recently.

Luckily, our top puzzle solvers were able to determine the meaning and help Sam South.

Can you work out what the problem was?
D-a- K-v-n,

- ---ld l-k- -- c-m-la-n ab--- -h- --- --- -f m- ----------.

-h-s- l-----s d- n-- a---a- -- b- ---k-ng c----c-l-.

As --- can s--, -h-- a-- m-ss-ng f--m -h-s d-c-m-n-.

- ---ld b- v--- g-a--f-l -f --- c--ld c----c- -h-s ---bl-m -mm-d-a--l-.

K-nd --ga-ds.

Sam S---h.

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Puzzle 198

I was recently given a new watch for my birthday.

However, as usual with my presents, it was quite useless as it loses 6 minutes every hour.

I set it using my friend's accurate watch at midnight, and it now shows 10:39am.

I know that the watch stopped 21 minutes ago, so what is the correct time now?

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Puzzle 199

Place the following words into the grid:

MERCURY VENUS EARTH MARS SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO
Jupiter is NOT in the list.

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Puzzle 200

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

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 10 words are?
som one dbr pen rtm ber
nes ent ive eph eti ens
mes off eak eid sep win
erd tel day ter wed tem
aft apa own car ern oon

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