Daily Brain Teaser for 12/31/2012

Everyone knows that both Christmas Day and New Year's Day always fall on the same day of the week. However, in 1939, the year of the outbreak of World War II, Christmas fell on a Monday and New Year's fell on a Sunday. Why?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/28/2012

What are these?

1st January 2010 800 x 600 pixels
1st January 2011 1280 x1024 pixels
1st January 2012 1600 x 1200 pixels
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/27/2012

New Years Quiz

1. What is the most common New Year’s resolution made by people in the United States?

2. What popular New Year’s custom helps ensure a good relationship and affection throughout the New Year?

3. Richard Wagstaff, born on November 30th, 1929 is better known by what name?

4. In what movie did Debbie Reynolds dance with a very inebriated Fred Astaire on New Year’s Eve?

5. What parade is held each year on New Year’s Day?

6. In “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year,” who was the voice of Father Time?

7. What day marks the beginning of the New Year for followers of the Jewish religion?

8. What is the translation of the title of the traditional New Year’s song “Auld Lang Syne”?

9. Though Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote “Auld Lang Syne,” who made it the most popular New Year’s song in the U.S.?

10. Which city hosts the first major New Year’s Eve celebration in the world each year?

11. What symbolic New Year’s character is often adorned with a top hat and sash?

12. At what time does the New Year’s Eve ball begin its descent in Time’s Square?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/26/2012

These words belong to the same logical family:
CALCIFEROUS
CUPELLATION
EDUCATION
LACTIFEROUS
OUTDISTANCE
PNEUMONIA

Which of these words does too?
ZYMOTICALLY
ABSTEMIOUS
UNAPOSTOLIC
MEDALLION
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/24/2012

I can help with special occasions,
Birthdays, Christmas, all celebrations.
You need scissors and sticky tape,
Brains and fingers.
Make sure you have something inside of it.
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/21/2012

I have been called many names,
through the course of years.
I may have been a real person,
but I always bring lots of cheers.

I am known all over the world,
and I come on a winter's night,
to spread joy and holiday spirit,
and to set children's faces right.

If you still don't know my name,
just read on a little more,
I live in a house on top of the world,
and little children I adore.

Who am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/20/2012

Alan Greenspan loves Christmas, but when he goes caroling, no one understands what he's saying. Can you decipher what Christmas lyric he's crooning?

"I am currently indulging in a fantasy concerning a profundity of hexagonal crystals of dihydrogen monoxide upon the Yuletide."
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/19/2012

Brain Teasers - Books and more...

I have, in a sense, everlasting life.
My brothers grow old and brittle while I stay ripe.
I am greatly appreciated and adorned with jewels,
and my head has a crown, it's beautiful.
For most of my life I have braved cold, or heat,
but where I am taken it's always warm,
But my fame cannot last.
The jewels are taken off, along with my crown,
and I am shunned until my successor arrives
in one year.
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/18/2012

Help Beethoven use these clues below to decipher these popular Christmas/Holiday tunes.
Example: A Triad of Monarchs
Answer: We Three Kings

1. Shiny grey chimes
2. Cherubim from areas of splendor
3. O petite metropolis where Jesus was born
4. The infant Saint Nick
5. It occurred on the bewitching hour
6. Chant we now of Jesus's birthday!
7. One little newborn
8. Seraphim we have perceived on elevation
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/17/2012

Fictional Christmas Characters

Think about all the interesting fictional characters that are part of the Christmas season as you decode this cryptogram list.

LXAGGYD
AQMGBVE
UAL.   XBKQL
SNOW  SNU
SEADD   TADOXE   EDOL
SED   YANOXE
XEKABND   HAGJO
YDGAYD  HKNBDW
MKLEDA
TAGLSW  SED  LOGJUKO
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/14/2012

Each of the Johnson brothers has as many sisters as he has brothers. Each of the Johnson sisters has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the Johnson family?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/13/2012

Tom is older than Sue, and Sue is younger than Mary, who is older than Tom. Who is the oldest of the three?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/12/2012

Homonyms are words that sound alike, though they are spelled differently. (Example: to, two, too) One pair of homonyms has meanings that are precisely opposite, and need not be stretched. What are the two spellings of this homonym?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/11/2012

Brain Teasers - Books and more...

My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/10/2012

Four people can sit at a table in twenty-four different arrangements. How many arrangements are possible for seating eight people?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/7/2012

A man driving through the woods hit a rabbit. Quickly stopping his car he pours a bottle of liquid over the rabbit. The rabbit jumps up and walks back into the woods waving goodbye all the way. What was in the bottle?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/6/2012

It's All About Years

1. What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?

2. What occurs four times in every week, twice in every month, only once in a year but never in a day?

3. What year comes next in this sequence:
1973, 1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999, _____
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/5/2012

Two Series Puzzles

1. What are the next two letters in the following series and why?

W A T N T L I T F S _ _

2. What letter is next in the series?

U, D, T, C, C, S, S?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/4/2012

Brain Teasers - Books and more...
I know what my job is,
The point has been made.
You say I have a big head,
And you're right, I'm afraid.
Put me in my place,
And then leave me alone.
What I need most,
Is someone to drive me home.
What am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/3/2012

Think of words ending in 'gry'. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."
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From the list of special days (below), only 5 occur in the month of December.
Do you know which ones they are?

1. BOXING DAY
2. THANKSGIVING
3. NEW YEAR'S EVE
4. HOLI
5. SHORTEST DAY
6. ST PATRICK'S DAY
7. YOM KIPPUR
8. ST STEPHEN'S DAY
9. EID-UL-ADHA
10. NEW YEAR'S DAY
11. FATHER'S DAY
12. GOOD FRIDAY
13. LONGEST DAY
14. CHRISTMAS DAY
15. SHROVE TUESDAY
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/30/2012

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"One Word Solutions"

1. What demands an answer, but asks no questions?
2. What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?
3. What can be seen and fills a room but doesn't take up any space?
4. What is long and slim, works in light; has but one eye, and an awful bite?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/29/2012

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all letters, the first of all figures,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/28/2012

Do you know?

1. Which are there more of: millimeters in a mile or seconds in a month?
2. Which is heavier: 1000 kilograms or 1 ton?
3. Which is longer: 250 centimeters or 8 feet?
4. Which is larger: 3 raised to the 5th power or 5 raised to the 3rd power?
5. Which are there more of: ounces in a ton or inches in a kilometer?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/27/2012

Eight and five, last name and given,
We are one six six six even;
The first in cow, the last in oxen
Three in damsel, three in vixen.
What are we called?

Hint:
One of five, I the only one,
One in cat, two in mitten,
Two are odd, five are even
Seven in all, one in seven.
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/26/2012

The Number 8

1. Can you add eight 8's together so they add up to an even one thousand?

2. Without using the + or - signs, arrange five 8s so they equal 9.

3. What is the smallest integer, which, when multiplied by 2 gives a number consisting of only 8's?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/22/2012

Thanksgiving Anagrams
Rearrange the letters to reveal words and phrases connected with Thanksgiving. Spelling counts!
1. g r i m l i p s
2. v e r s a t i l e
3. M e n o v e r b
4. M r. S i d T u c k
5. O h, m e!
6. e a r c l o s e s
7. b o w s h i n e
8. p r a t t l e
9. D e a r P a
10. b e a r d
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/21/2012

The local McDonald's restaurant is giving away Thanksgiving dinners.
To help stimulate business, they are offering :
Big Mac = 32¢
French Fries = 57¢
Quarter Pounder = 74¢
What will a Happy Meal cost?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/20/2012

Uncle Clarance ate more turkey than Uncle Ethan.
Uncle Ethan ate less turkey than Uncle Morton.
Uncle Pete is a vegetarian.

Write "T" if the statement is true, "F" if it is false, and "C" if you cannot tell.

___Uncle Morton ate more turkey than Uncle Ethan.
___Uncle Clarance ate the most turkey.
___Uncle Morton may have eaten more turkey than Uncle Clarance.
___Uncle Pete ate less turkey than Uncle Ethan.
___Uncle Pete ate ham instead of turkey.
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/19/2012

Use a common phone keypad to decode all of these Thanksgiving words.
Example: 887539 = TURKEY

9267___________
74547467_________
33278 __________
47289__________
629356937__________
84265385___________
7867546 743 ______________
533868377______________
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/18/2012

Two quick ones to start the week....

1. You are female. What relationship to you is your father’s only son-in-law’s mother-in-law’s only daughter?

2. How many 9’s do you pass when you start at 1 and count up to 100?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/09/2012

The Number 6

1. Which is correct: Six and six IS eleven or six and six ARE eleven?

2. How many times can you subtract 6 from 36?

3. A: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,19
B: 12,18,20
What are the groups and why is the number 6 not included?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/08/2012

I'm a 5 digit number,
the first and last digits are the same and add up to an even number.
Multiply that number by its self and the number is under 10 and odd.
That will be the fourth number.
Subtract five from it and it will be the second number.
Divide it in half and that is my third number.
What am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/07/2012

Four men and four women are shipwrecked on a desert island. Eventually each one falls in love with one another, and is himself  loved by one person. John falls in love with a girl who is in love with Jim. Arthur loves a girl who loves the man who loves Ellen. Mary is loved by the man who is loved by the girl who is loved by Bruce. Gloria hates Bruce and is hated by the man whom Hazel loves. Enigma: Who loves Arthur?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 11/06/2012

There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?
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Karen has four children that are different ages: 13, 7, 6 and 2. Each of the children has a favorite toy: a robot, cars, Lego's, and blocks. Also each of the children has a favorite holiday: Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving and Mother's Day.

Based on the clues below who likes Thanksgiving?

1. Shaun is not old enough for school. She's also the youngest.
2. Dashun does not understand Valentine's Day.
3. Lego's are great for six year olds.
4. Kris prefers cars.
5. Marcy is in love for the first time, which means she loves February 14th.
6. Kris is one of the middle children.
7. Blocks are fun for toddlers.
8. Thanksgiving is the best holiday for the six year old.
9. The second child loves Christmas.
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The 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch cubes that do not have any pink paint on them will be at the core of the wooden block. This core will be 1 inch x 8 inch x 11 inch, and will contain 88  cubes. Out of a total of 390  cubes, there are 88 cubes without any pink paint on them. Therefore, the remaining 302 cubes will have one, two or three sides with pink paint on them [depending on whether they were at the face, edge or corner of the wooden block].
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Daily Brain Teaser for 10/15/2012

There are many different world records out there held by many extraordinary people. Like the worlds fastest baked bean eater or the worlds tallest woman. There is a record however that we have ALL held at one point. What is it?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 10/12/2012

When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, "In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago." How old is she?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 10/11/2012

We capture light, and yet we don't.
We reflect rays of sun, and yet we don't.
Without us all the world is gray and dull for everyone.
What are we?
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Can you find a five digit number which has no zeros nor ones in it and no digit is repeated, where the following is true:
The fourth digit is a quarter of the total of all of the digits.
The second digit is twice the first digit.
The third digit is the largest.
The last digit is the sum of the first two digits.
Solution

1. How would you rearrange the letters in the words new door to make one word?

2. Can not be bought, can not be sold, even if it's made of gold. What is it?
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David is throwing Robert a surprise birthday party but he has to stay within his budget. He spent half of his money plus $2.00 on the cake. Half of what he had left plus $2.00 was spent on balloons and streamers. Then he spent half of what he had left plus $1.00 on candy. Now he is out of money, how much did he start with?
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When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, "In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago." How old is she?
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What Is It?
1. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

2. It is weightless, you can see it and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel lighter? What is it?

3. What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
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A block of wood in the form of a cube 3" x 10" x 13" has all its six faces painted pink. If the wooden block is cut into 390 cubes of 1" x 1" x 1". How many of these would have pink paint on them? Click Here To Submit Solution++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Last Months Stats:Winner- John Frick Submitted: Right Solutions 396 / Wrong Solutions 188 / Winning Number 97 Last Month's Solution---Three View Past Winners, Teasers and Rules

A criminal is sentenced to death. Before his execution, he is allowed to make a statement. If his statement is false, he will be hanged, and if his statement is true, he will be drowned. What should he say to confuse the jury and thus save his life?
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FUN QUIZ:
Famous Last Words from Movies
Name the movies that end with the following dialogue:
1. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
2. "Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."
3. "'Twas beauty that killed the beast."
4. "I used to hate the water."/"I can't imagine why."
5. "There's no place like home."
6. "Tomorrow is another day."
7. "And her daughter, Gypsy."
8. "I am, George, I am."
9. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
10. "I was cured, all right!"
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If Boston is east of New York, cross out all the A's. If not, cross out the R's. If Paris is south of New York, cross out all the 0's. If not, cross out the I's. If Sri Lanka is in Asia, cross out the B's and U's. If not, cross out the C's. The remaining letters will tell you whether you've found the right answer.
CAAOIIABURRIAUEIBBCIAUT
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Jill offered Jack the following bet; she said she would toss 3 pennies in the air, and if they fell all heads or all tails she would give him $1. If they fell any other way, he had to give her .50¢. Should Jack accept?
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In this puzzle, the answer to each of the first parts is reversed to give the answer to each of the second parts.
a. reverse a card game to cloth
b. reverse a feast to prize
c. invert feet to exchange
d. invert praise and get twofold
e. invert disposition for judgment
f. invert growths and get fodder
g. reverse a pace and get the favorites
h. invert a first appearance and get piped
i. reverse a certainty for fasteners
j. invert malice to exist
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What is the value of one-half of two-thirds of three-quarters of four-fifths of five-sixths of six-sevenths of seven-eighths of eight-ninths of nine-tenths of 30?
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This is to be solved in the head, without paper and pencil.
If some coffee is "97 percent caffeine-free," how many cups of it would one have to drink to get the amount of caffeine in a cup of regular coffee?
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Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
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It takes twelve one-cent stamps to make a dozen. How many four-cent stamps does it take to make a dozen?
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These words follow a logical progression:
ACE
TAB
COG
ADD
EAR
RAF
GUT
UGH
IVY
TAJ
Which of these could be next?
KID
BOY
ASK
TOO
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My first is a number, my second another, And each, I assure you, will rhyme with the other. My first you will find is one-fifth of my second, And truly my whole a long period reckoned. Yet my first and my second (nay, think not I cozen), When added together will make but two dozen.
How many am I?
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I am a word of 12 letters.
My 12, 4, 7, 2, 5 is an Eastern beast of burden.
My 1, 8, 10, 9 is a street made famous by Sinclair Lewis.
My 11, 3,6 is past.
My whole is a person suffering from delusions of greatness.
So, who am I?
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John Peterson was born in Albany in 1938, on a date not divisible by 2, 3, or 5, and in a month that does not contain the letters "e" or "i". When does he become one year older?
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A racing driver drove around a 6-mile track at 140 miles per hour for 3 miles, 168 miles per hour for 1.5 miles, and 210 miles per hour for 1.5 miles. What was his average speed for the entire 6 miles?
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John wonders, "If Raymond's son is my son's father, how am I related to Raymond?"
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What is the next term in this series?
100   121   144   202   244   400 ...?
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How well do you know your geology and geography?

1. What two countries does Mt. Everest lie between?
a. India and Buhtan
b. Nepal and China
c. Nepal and India
d. It’s in India alone

2. Where is the lowest point of elevation on land?
a. Death Valley
b. Dead Sea
c. Sea level
d. The Great Rift Valley

3. What is the only man made structure that can be seen from space?
a. The Pentagon
b. The Egyptian Pyramids
c. The Golden Gate Bridge
d. The Great Wall of China

4. What is the oldest city in the United States?
a. St. Augustine, FL
b. Roanoke, VA
c. Plymouth, MA
d. New York, NY

5. What is the longest River in Europe?
a. The Rhine
b. The Danube
c. The Jordan
d. The Po

6. Which of these rives flows northward?
a. Amazon
b. Yellow
c. Nile
d. Columbia

7. What is the most expensive city in the world in which to live?
a. Tokyo
b. New York City
c. Paris
d. London

8. What’s the largest body of fresh water in the world?
a. Lake Superior
b. Caspian Sea
c. Black Sea
d. Lake Michigan

9. What is the driest place on Earth?
a. The Sahara Desert
b. Antarctica
c. Death Valley
d. The Atacama Desert
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It's All About Time

1. At what time after 4pm are the minute and hour and second hand of a standard clock perfectly aligned on top of each other?

2. How many times does a coin rotate in rolling completely about another coin, of the same size, without slipping?
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This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is wrong with it? It's so usual, you would think nothing is wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It's unusual, though. Study it. What is so unusual about it? Do you know?
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Farmer Brown came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon, and found that he had one whole melon left. How many melons did he take to town?
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1. The following number is the only one of its kind. Can you figure out what is so special about it? 8,549,176,320

2. Insert the missing letter:
J ? M A M J J A
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What Number?

1. What is the five-digit number, no zeroes, in which the second digit is three times the first, the third is one more than the second, the fourth is four times the first, and the last is one-half more than the second?

2. A 3 digit number is such that its unit digit is equal to the product of the other two digits which are prime. Also, the difference between its reverse and itself is 396. What is the sum of the three digits?
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If it takes Alicia 3 hours to paint a fence, and it takes Mark 6 hours to complete the same job. How long would it take both of them working together at their normal paces to complete the same job?
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The old lady who lived in a shoe was having some real trouble buying Christmas presents for her enormous family. Although she bought the least expensive stocking stuffers she could find, the bill was high. Of course, both a 15 percent sales tax and a 5 percent luxury tax were added to the original price. She paid a total of $100. What was the cost of the stuffers before taxes?
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Three Points on a Hemisphere
Three points are selected at random on a sphere's surface. What is the probability that they all lie in the same hemisphere? Assume that the great circle, bordering a hemisphere, is part of the hemisphere.
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In order to win a free laptop computer, students had to guess the exact numbers of gumballs in a jar. The students guessed 45, 41, 55, 50, and 43, but nobody won. The guesses were off by 3, 7, 5, 7, and 2 (given in no particular order). From this information, can you determine the number of gumballs in the jar?
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A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
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Although I exist alone, I am often intertwined with others as
the threads of a spider web. When worn there's an expression
that signifies you shall not leave me. A man with a name meaning
knowledgeable one once said that I am part of a set of four and
that I have less than ten folds.
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A 30 year old man married a 25 year old woman. She died at age 50 and her husband was so devastated that he cried for years. Ten years after he stopped crying, he died. If he had lived to be 80, how many years was he a widower?
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If it takes Alicia 3 hours to paint a fence, and it takes Mark 6 hours to complete the same job. How long would it take both of them working together at their normal paces to complete the same job?
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George makes the following proposition to Mike:
"I will let you flip a coin 20 times. Each time the coin lands on heads, I will give you $2.00. However, each time the coin lands on tails, you must give me $3.00." Mike flips the coin 20 times and the end result is that no money is to change hands. How many times did the coin land on heads?
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I am periodically the number 79.
Long ago some attempted to make me from 29 but learned it couldn’t be done. If you add me to 80 I appear to be 47 temporarily.
What am I?
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Without looking at a calendar, within a minute name a boys name using 5 consecutive 1st letters of 5 consecutive months.
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If it takes Alicia 3 hours to paint a fence, and it takes Mark 6 hours to complete the same job. How long would it take both of them working together at their normal paces to complete the same job?
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Can you make this sentence into a phrase by only adding punctuation? You may not add, subtract, or rearrange the words.
that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
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8998971798998
What is so special about this set of numbers, aside from the fact that it is a palindrome?
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If 2 hours ago it was as long after one o’clock in the afternoon as it was before one o’clock in the morning. What time would it be now?
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If we tie a light oxygen tank to a bird so that it can breathe on the moon, would the bird fly faster, slower, or the same speed as it does on earth? (Remember that there is less gravity on the moon.)
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Rhonda will go see ballet but not opera. Her favorite number is eight and she doesn’t like nine. She likes salmon but not trout. She hates Mondays but likes Wednesdays. Does she use a comb or a brush?
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There is one in a minute and two in a moment, but only one in a million years. What is it?
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The following puzzle consists of a proverb with all its vowels removed. The remaining letters have been broken into groups of four. Put back the vowels to find the proverb.
FLND  HSMN  YRSN  PRTD.
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What number is missing from this series?
2  3  5  7  13  17
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There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?
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A man is asked what his daughters look like. He answers, "They are all blondes, but two, all brunettes, but two, and all redheads, but two." How many daughters did he have?
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What's the least number of chairs you would you need around a table to sit four fathers, two grandfathers, and four sons?
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Robert and David were preparing to have a water balloon fight. "No Fair" cried Robert, "You have 3 times as many as I do!" David said "Fine!" and gave Robert 10 more balloons. "Still not fair!" argued Robert, "You still have twice as many as I do." How many more balloons must David give Robert for them to have the same number?
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What's the least number of chairs you would you need around a table to sit four fathers, two grandfathers, and four sons?
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The time is twenty-six minutes to one in the afternoon.
The year is 1978, and the date is May 6th. What is the
significance of this?
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Replace the asterisks by the correct mathematical signs
to make the expression equal to 99.
16 * 12 * 2 * 3 = 99
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"My grandson is about as many days as my son is weeks, and my grandson is as many months as I am in years. My grandson, my son and I together are 140 years. Can you tell me my age in years?"
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"We were born on the same day of the same year," said Betsy.
"And we have the same mother and father," said Patsy.
"But we're not twins," said Betsy.
Can you explain?
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Two Quick Ones...

1. Which is more, seconds in 100 hours or inches in 100 yards?

2. Complete the series by adding the next number:
0,0,1,2,2,4,3,6,4,?
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You have two pencils, a good one and a cheap one. The good one costs $1.00 more than the cheap one. You spend $1.10 for both. How much did the cheap one cost?
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Each of the Johnson brothers has as many sisters as he has brothers. Each of the Johnson sisters has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the Johnson family?
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My brother started out from Boston, and I started out from New York, to meet in New Haven for lunch. When we met in New Haven, which of us was farther from Boston?
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If SIX is TEN, ONE is HIS, and FIVE is LEGS, what is SEVEN?
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A history test had three questions on presidents of the United States. Here are the answers of six students:
1. Polk, Polk, Taylor.
2. Taylor, Taylor, Polk.
3. Fillmore, Fillmore, Polk.
4. Taylor, Polk, Fillmore.
5. Fillmore, Taylor, Taylor.
6. Taylor, Fillmore, Fillmore.
Every student answered at least one question correctly.
What are the correct answers?
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If today is Monday, what is the day after the day before the day before tomorrow?
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Which set of numbers would most logically fill in the blanks in the following series?
101 99 102 98 103 97 _ _ 105 95 104 94
(a) 101 98
(b) 104 96
(c) 106 99
(d) none of these
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In this type of verse, "first" and "second" and so on refer to the individual letters of a word. Find the correct letter for each definition or explanation, and complete the word.

My first is in sugar but not in tea
My second in swim but not in sea
My third in apple and also pear
My fourth in ring and also hare
My last in ten but not in herd
My whole a very complimentary word. 
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Each of the Johnson brothers has as many sisters as he has brothers. Each of the Johnson sisters has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the Johnson family?
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Patty doesn't feel she is really a child anymore. Ten years ago, her mother was five times her age. Now she is three­sevenths of her mother's age, and in five years she will be half her mother's age. How old will she be when she is half her mother's age? 
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Shopping can present a terrible dilemma, the new couple discovered. Three pounds of potatoes and two pounds of eggplants cost $2.25. Or they could just buy eggplants for the same amount of money and make a casserole out of all those eggplants. But potatoes are cheaper than eggplants. How much did potatoes cost per pound?
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What is the five-digit number, no zeroes, in which the second digit is three times the first, the third is one more than the second, the fourth is four times the first, and the last is one-half more than the second?
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The following is a new variation of an old friend. Though it looks rather complicated and difficult, it is absurdly easy if properly attacked. If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half; how many and a half who lay better by half will lay half a score and a half in a week and a half?
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Two cyclists are racing around a circular track. Pierre can ride once around the track in 6 minutes, Louis takes 4 minutes. How many minutes will it take for Louis to lap Pierre?
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Tom is younger than Rose, but older than Will and Jack, in that order. Rose is younger than Susie, but older than Jack. Jack is younger than Jim. Susie is older than Rose, but younger than Jim. Jim is older than Tom. Who is the oldest?
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Bill, John, and Fred are going to marry Betty, Joan, and Sally. Tell which girl is going to marry which man if the following facts are true: Bill is a lawyer. Betty is not engaged to the engineer. The doctor's future wife is not Joan. John is engaged to Sally. Fred is the engineer.
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Mary's husband's father-in-law is Mary's husband's brother's
mother-in-law, and Mary's sister-in-law is Mary's brother's stepmother. How did this happen?
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Last Week's Solution---If both the mother and father are alive, the family consists of ten people.
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In a grocery store down the block, the proprietor has decided to price his produce a certain way. A daffodil (he sells flowers too) is worth 10¢; a carrot is worth 8¢; a peach is worth 5¢; a zucchini is worth 10¢. What is a plum worth?
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How many 9’s do you pass when you start at 1 and count up to 100?
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A large family consists of seven sons and each one of them has one sister. How many people are in that family?
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Last Week's Solution---What ever color your eyes are as you are the driver of the bus.
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You're driving a bus that is leaving from Los Angeles and ending
in San Francisco.
To start off with, there were 32 passengers on the bus.
At the next bus stop, 11 people get off and 9 people get on.
At the next bus stop, 2 people got off and 2 people got on.
At the next bus stop, 12 people got on and 16 people got off.
At the next bus stop, 5 people got on and 3 people got off.
What color are the bus driver's eyes?
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You are female. What relationship to you is your father’s only son-in-law’s mother-in-law’s only daughter?
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There are three light switches on a wall, one of the switches controls a light upstairs, the other two switches control lights that you can not see. You can only go upstairs once. How do you figure out which light switch controls the light upstairs.
Solution

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all letters, the first of all figures,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
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You're driving a bus that is leaving from Los Angeles and ending
in San Francisco.
To start off with, there were 32 passengers on the bus.
At the next bus stop, 11 people get off and 9 people get on.
At the next bus stop, 2 people got off and 2 people got on.
At the next bus stop, 12 people got on and 16 people got off.
At the next bus stop, 5 people got on and 3 people got off.
What color are the bus driver's eyes?
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Last Week's Solution---IODINE; six-letter words with one, two, three, four vowels.
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Use the same five letter anagrams in four different words to fill
in the blanks in the sentence. What are the missing words?

A farmer with hundreds of _ _ _ _ _ , deeply _ _ _ _ _ about the
amount of rainfall, and _ _ _ _ _ around with watering the ground
because it is dry enough to _ _ _ _ _ him about the possibility
of crop failure.
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A child is born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents who were both born in Boston, Massachusetts. The child is not a United States citizen. How is this possible?
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A woman from New York married ten different men from that city, yet she did not break any laws. None of these men died and she never divorced. How was this possible?
Solution

Four men sat down to play. They played all night ‘till break of day. They played for gold and not for fun with separate scores for everyone. When they came to square accounts, they all had made quite fair amounts. Can you the paradox explain, If no one lost, how could all gain?
Solution

Think of words ending in 'gry'. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."
Solution

Cat and Dogs

1. The ___________ is the most intelligent breed of dog.
a. Border Collie
b. Bloodhound
c. Poodle
d. Lhasa Apso

2. The most popular name for a male cat is ___________.
a. Fluffy
b. Tiger
c. Jinxy
d. Ralph

3. The dumbest dog in the world is the ___________.
a. Afghan Hound
b. St. Bernard
c. Norfolk Terrier
d. Bulldog

4. An average city dog lives approximately ___________ an average country dog.
a. three years longer than
b. three years less than
c. the same amount of time as

5. In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately ___________ purring.
a. 2,045 hours
b. 7,350 hours
c. 10,950 hours
d. 14,110 hours

6. Most domestic dogs are able to reach speeds of ____ mi/hour.
a. 10
b. 19
c. 24
d. 35

7. The average cat has ____ whiskers.
a. 10
b. 24
c. 32
d. 50

8. At least ____ of dog owners admitted to kissing their dogs.
a. 7%
b. 21%
c. 44%
d. 63%

9. Americans spend almost ___________ a year on cat food.
a. $4 million
b. $44 million
c. $444 million
d. $4 billion

10. The domestic cat can run as fast as ____ miles per hour.
a. 20
b. 30
c. 50
d. 60

11. The world's heaviest cat tipped the scales at ____ lb.
a. 20
b. 30
c. 45
d. 70
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Do you know?

1. Which are there more of: millimeters in a mile or seconds in a month?
2. Which is heavier: 1000 kilograms or 1 ton?
3. Which is longer: 250 centimeters or 8 feet?
4. Which is larger: 3 raised to the 5th power or 5 raised to the 3rd power?
5. Which are there more of: ounces in a ton or inches in a kilometer?
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At a summer camp, Marc bet his friends during our midnight feast that the weather in exactly one week's time would not be sunny. How can Marc be so sure?
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"One Word Solutions"

1. What demands an answer, but asks no questions?

2. What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?

3. What can be seen and fills a room but doesn't take up any space?

4. What is long and slim, works in light; has but one eye, and an awful bite?

Solution

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Blue always answers a question truthfully; a White always lies; a Pink, answering two or more questions, tells the truth and lies alternately; his first answer, however, may be either truthful or otherwise. A visitor to the islands approached a group of three natives, whose names were Mr. Pink, Mr. White, and Mr. Blue. One was known to be a Pink, one a White, one a Blue. Taking Mr. Pink aside, the visitor put some questions to him. "Mr. Pink," he said, "Are you the Pink, the White, or the Blue?" "I am the Pink, sir." "And Mr. White?" "He is the White." So Mr. Blue is the Blue?" "Obviously."  Is Mr. Blue the Blue? If not, what is he? Solution

What word in Group 1 should go into Group 2?  Group 1  BOARD  SQUARE  CHEESE  WINDMILL  Group 2  AISLE  SHOOT  BE  RAIN Solution

A group of soldiers were standing in the blistering sun  facing due west. Their sergeant shouted at them Right face! About face! Left face! In which direction are the soldiers now facing? Solution

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What year comes next in this sequence: 
1973, 1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999, _____
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Last Week's Solution---If the length of the rope + 2 yards = 3 times the length of the rope, then the rope is 1 yard long.
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Can you add eight 8's together so they add up to an even one thousand?
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Grandpa was feeling generous, so he gave a total of $100 to his 
five grandchildren. Starting with the youngest, each got $2.00 more
than the next younger one. In other words, the youngest got one 
sum, the next got $2.00 more, and so on. 
How much did the youngest grandchild get?
Solution

Eliminate all the days of the week except for one, and to be forthright 
about it, this day is NOT the day after Sunday or the day before Wednesday. It can't be that Saturday is tomorrow, nor can it be that Saturday was 
yesterday. It most certainly couldn't be two days before yesterday, and while we're at it, let's eliminate Thursday. 
What day is it?
Solution

A man driving through the woods hit a rabbit. Quickly stopping his car he pours a bottle of liquid over the rabbit. The rabbit jumps up and walks back into the woods waving goodbye all the way. What was in the bottle?
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How long is a rope that is 2 yards shorter than another rope that is three times times the length of the first rope?
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Last Week's Solution---Five cents. The expensive one was $1.05. If you thought the answer was $1.00 and .10¢, that does not meet the requirements. $1.00 is not $1.00 more than .10¢, it is .90¢ more.
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What occurs four times in every week, twice in every month, only once in a year but never in a day?
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What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?
Solution

A father took his sons to an amusement park one day. He told them to meet him at the entrance at 5:00 later that day. When the kids finally showed up at the end of the day, it was 5:30. The father said that he was angry and wouldn't take them again for a whole month. One of the boys said, "Wait, it wasn't our fault! We were on a roller coaster, but as we went down the first hill the engine blew out!" After thinking for a while, he grounded the boys. How did he know they were lying?
Solution

What letter is next in the series?

U, D, T, C, C, S, S ?
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You have two pencils, a good one and a cheap one. The good one costs $1.00 more than the cheap one. You spend $1.10 for both. How much did the cheap one cost?
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Last Week's Solution---None, they would all fly away.
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What are the next two letters in the following series and why?

W A T N T L I T F S _ _
Solution

I know what my job is,
The point has been made.
You say I have a big head,
And you're right, I'm afraid.
Put me in my place,
And then leave me alone.
What I need most,
Is someone to drive me home.
What am I?
Solution

The Number 6

1. Which is correct: Six and six IS eleven or six and six ARE eleven?

2. How many times can you subtract 6 from 36?

3. A: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,19
B: 12,18,20
What are the groups and why is the number 6 not included?
Solution

A farmer goes to the market with $100.00. He has to buy EXACTLY 100 animals and must spend the whole $100.00. He must buy at least one of each available animal. The animals for sale that day were

COWS.................... $10.00 each
PIGS.................... $3.00 each
CHICKENS................ $0.50 each

How many of each animal did he buy?
Solution

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Twenty-one birds are nesting in a tree. If a man shot into the tree and killed one-seventh of them, how many would remain?
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Last Week's Solution---D. The triangles and squares change place, and the vertical figure becomes horizontal.
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I'm a 5 digit number, 
the first and last digits are the same and add up to an even number. 
Multiply that number by its self and the number is under 10 and odd. 
That will be the fourth number. 
Subtract five from it and it will be the second number. 
Divide it in half and that is my third number. 
What am I?
Solution

Three Word Puzzles.....

1. What does:
T R U T H
represent? 

2. What does:
BASK.ET.BALL G.AM.E
represent?

3. What does:
FESSHARKTED H2O H2O
represent?
Solution

You are in a room that is an 8x8x8 perfect cube. There are no windows, or doors. In the center of the floor there is a 12 inch pipe that is sticking 6 inches out of the floor. In the bottom of the pipe is a ping pong ball with a diameter that is one millimeter smaller than the inner diameter of the pipe. You have a 12 inch piece of string, a match, a magnifying glass, a 6" ruler and a paper clip. How do you get the ping pong ball out of the hole?
Solution

What does a church have but not the steeple, the pastor have but not the people?
Solution

What is the only word in the English language that if you capitalize the word it changes the pronunciation and meaning of the word?
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Which one of the five designs makes the best comparison?


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A Train enters a tunnel at 7 o'clock, another train enters the exact same tunnel, also at 7 o'clock on the same day. The tunnel only has one track, and no other means for the trains to pass, around, over, or under. However both trains made it to the other end of the tunnel untouched. How could this be?
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