Brain Teaser 1/31/2013

Two easy one's today!

1. Double my number, I'm less than a score, half of my number is less than four. Add one to my double when bakers are near, days of the week are still greater, I fear. What am I?

2. Continue this pattern: 1, 2, 3, 5, ?, ?
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Brain Teaser 1/30/2013

2 For Fun...

1. How can a woman in New York, without getting a divorce or becoming a widow, or otherwise legally separated, legally marry 10 men?

2. Hi! Ma and Pa told me I'd better say that all the two-letter words in this paragraph have something in common ...... or else! What's the common factor here?
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Brain Teaser 1/29/2013

In the Smith family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters. Each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons and daughters are in the family?
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Brain Teaser 1/28/2013

I can be any color you can imagine.
You see me in everyday life.
I have been around for many, many years, look around... you can probably see some of me right now.
What am I?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/26/2013

TWO FOR THE WEEKEND....

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between
three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/25/2013

Mr. and Mrs. Jones were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Jones began to complain that his load was too heavy.  Mrs. Jones turned to her husband and said, "I don't know what you're complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels, I would have twice as many as you and if I gave you just one of mine, we would have equal loads."
How many parcels were each carrying?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/24/2013

A Couple Of Logic Teasers

1. There is a town in Texas where 5% of all the people living there have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?

2. One morning a man is leaving on business trip and finds he left some paperwork at his office. He runs into his office to get it and the night watchman stops him and says, "Sir, don't get on the plane. I had a dream last night that the plane would crash and everyone would die!" The man takes his word and cancels his trip. Sure enough the plane crashes and everyone dies. The next morning the man gives the watchman a $1,000 reward for saving his life and then fires him. Why did he fire the watchman that saved his life?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/23/2013

ALL ABOUT NUMBERS

1. Find a five-digit number in which the last number is the sum of the first, second, and third; the third is four less than the last; the fourth is two less than the last; and the first and fourth added are one less than the last. The last number is also three times the second.

2. What is the smallest integer that can be expressed as the sum of two squares in three different ways? The answer is less than 500.
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/22/2013

1. Inside the drawer of a dressing-table in a dark room, there are 28 black socks and 28 brown socks. What is the minimum number of socks that I must take out of the drawer to guarantee that I have a matching pair?

2. Timothy and Urban compete in a car rally, going several times around a closed circuit. Timothy can drive the circuit in 25 minutes, but Urban takes 30 minutes.
If the two drivers start at the same time, how long will it take Timothy to lap Urban?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/21/2013

In rush-hour traffic, I claim,
The signature of my last name
Appears in large size
To the road-weary eyes-
Of the thousands who say I'm to blame.
Who am I?
Solution

Daily Puzzle "Tatami"

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To solve a TATAMI puzzle, you must place in each puzzle cell, a number from 1 up to the numerical size of the puzzle tiles so that the following three rules are met:
1. The numbers within a tile must all be different.
2. Horizontally or Vertically adjacent puzzle cells must not contain the same number.
3. Each row and column of the puzzle must contain the same number of appearances of each number. 
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Utilities Puzzle
You have three houses or squares drawn on paper and below them three smaller squares representing gas, water, and electric.  Can you draw a line and get each utility into every house (9) total lines, without crossing over any line?

Brain Teaser 1/19/2013

DO YOU KNOW???

1. Can any creatures besides humans get a sunburn?
2. Do birds sing only in trees?
3. What is a nutria?
4. Do Siamese fighting fish fight?
5. Do fish sleep?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/18/2013

Very few people bother to determine what an amazing potential for overpopulation they have. Let us consider yours. If you and your wife have a meager two children, it would seem you are not adding much to the world. But let's suppose that in 5 years each of your children has two children. In another 25 years, each grandchild has two kids. In another 25 years, each great-grandchild has two offspring-and so on for a thousand years. How many descendants would you have?
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Match 3 Games aka Gem Matching
Players are supposed to swap one gem with an adjacent one to form a chain of three or more gems of the same color. When this occurs the gems disappear and a new bunch of gems which are randomly generated drop from above to fill up the empty space. When falling gems automatically line-up a chain reaction known as a cascade is caused. 100's to choose from.
Match 3 Games aka Gem Matching

Brain Teaser 1/17/2013

Johnny, despite his mother's objections, spent his whole allowance of $2.16 ($2.00, with 16¢ left from last week) on bubble gum. If the pieces of gum had been a penny cheaper, he would have received three more pieces than he did. How many did he actually buy?
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Brain Teaser 1/16/2013

1. A woman gave birth to two boys on the same date, within about twenty minutes of each other, and yet they were not twins. How could this be?

2. If 8-22-5-22-13 equates to seven, and 7-4-12 makes two, how would you write ten?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/15/2013

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.
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/14/2013

Two For Today

1. Joe said to his friend at a New Year's Eve Party, "Yesterday I was twenty, but next year I will be twenty-two." When is Joe's birthday?

2. What is the next number in this series;
18, 46, 94, 63, 52, ?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/11/2013

What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is one third the second, the third is the sum of the first and second, and the last is three times the second?
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Brain Teaser 1/10/2013

Somehow or other I got talked into buying something on the installment plan. I'm not sure I got a good deal. The payments to date, according to my checkbook, have reached $96. The second year cost $2.00 more than the first year; the third year cost $3.00 more than the second; and the fourth year cost me $4.00 more than the third. What were my payments the first year?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/9/2013

Cressida didn't like to tell her age, so when she was asked, her mother answered for her. Her mother said, "I'm just seven times as old as she is now. In twenty years, she'll be just half the age that I will be then." How old is clever little Cressida?
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Brain Teaser 1/8/2013

A total of 15 delegates from Africa, Asia, America, and Europe meet at an international conference.
Each continent sends a different number of delegates, and each is represented by at least 1 delegate.
America and Asia send a total of 6 delegates.
Asia and Europe send a total of 7 delegates.
Which continent has sent 4 delegates?
Solution

Brain Teaser 1/7/2013

A Set Of Random Brain Teasers

1. Can someone marry his brother's wife mother-in-law?

2. Place the nine digits, so that the sum of the odd digits may be equal to the sum of the even ones.

3. Add the figure 2 to 191 and make the answer less than 20.

4. If five times four are thirty-three, what will the fourth of twenty be?
Solution

Daily Brain Teaser for 1/04/2013

In olden days, the student of logic was given this problem: If half of 5 were 3, what would one-third of l0 be?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 1/03/2013

Why is the letter D like a hoop of gold?
Why is the letter F like a cow's tail?
Why is the letter T like Easter?
Which two letters are definitely not hard?
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what do half the whole crab and the whole of the half crab weigh?
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Brain Teaser 1/2/2013

If you had a piece of paper that was 0.001 inch thick, how tall a pile would it make if it was doubled fifty times?
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