Welcome to this week’s brain teaser.
Brain Teaser 67 (04/05/2013)
Mice are famous for their ability to multiply at breakneck speeds. You pick up a baby mouse from the pet store the day after it was born. The type of mouse you bought gives birth once a month, birthing 12 babies each time. Baby mice mature and can give birth two months after they are born. 12 months after it is born, the mouse will die.
In 10 months from now, how many mice will you have?
The answer will be available next Saturday – have fun!
Here are previous weeks teasers – with the answers though!!
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Nothing is in it
But something is in it
Nobody is in it
But somebody is in it
If you have it
You and I are in it
What is it?
Answer: A Dictionary
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What phrase does this represent?
Answer: Around the World in 80 Days
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The following word pairs are anagrams which can be combined to form the name of an animal or insect.Try to figure it out.
1.Log, Rail
2.Lone, Tape
3.Cot, Soup
4.Moral, Dial
Answer: 1.Gorilla. 2.Antelope. 3.Octopus. 4.Armadillo.
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Add together each of the defined words to get a whole new word.
Example: to shout + what you say when you feel pain = a color = yellow.
1) A light brown color + to leave = a dance.
2) A store’s announcement + a type of women’s clothing = a building’s location.
3) A vehicle + an animal pal = a floor covering.
4) The ocean + a father’s boy = part of the year.
5) Another name for dad + a yellow veggie = a white fluffy snack.
Answer:
1) tan + go = tango.
2) ad + dress = address.
3) car + pet = carpet.
4) sea + son = season.
5) pop + corn = popcorn.
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You are an expert on paranormal activity and have been hired to locate a spirit haunting an old resort hotel. Strong signs indicate that the spirit lies behind one of four doors. The inscriptions on each door read as follows:
Door A: It’s behind B or C Door B: It’s behind A or D Door C: It’s in here Door D: It’s not in here
Your psychic powers have told you three of the inscriptions are false, and one is true. Behind which door will you find the spirit?
Answer: The spirit lies behind Door D.
If the spirit is behind Door A, then both B and D are true.
If the spirit is behind Door B, then both A and D are true.
If the spirit is behind Door C, then A, C, and D are all true.
If the spirit is behind Door D, then the statements on all the doors are false, except for that on Door B. This matches the rules, and therefore, the resort hotel spirit lurks behind Door D.
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A potato’s key tool, I have all the power. I am generally used on the half or full hour. If my cells were deceased or lost or the such, My partner would only respond to your touch.
What am I?
Answer: A television remote control. Often used by a “couch potato”. Channels are most often changed between programs, which end on the hour or half-hour. If you lose the batteries, the only way to control the TV is by hand.
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A man left his house to go to work. When he got home he saw that his house had been broken into. The robbers had taken everything in his house except for 2 one hundred dollar bills that were in plain sight.
Why weren’t the one hundred dollar bills taken?
Answer: Because they were an electricity bill for one hundred dollars and a phone bill for one hundred dollars. In spite of what your eyes are telling you, the smaller off-center circle is actually perfectly round.
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Small grey dots should appear at the intersections of the squares, but if you look directly at the intersection, the grey dots will disappear.
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After a long day of work, I was relieved. I had been working since 4pm in a circuitry lab, working on the next big project. I observed the sun just starting to descend as I start to walk out to my car. All of a sudden, however, I had an urge to sneeze furiously! If it’s the middle of January on a windy day, what’s happening here?
Answer:I have what’s called the photic sneeze reflex.
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The following not only describes a famous monument, but is an anagram for its name. What is it?
Built to Stay Free
Answer: The Statue of Liberty
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Which of the following words does not belong in the list, and why?
Reappear Caucasus Inefficiencies Signings Arraigning Horseshoer Intestines Appeases
Answer: The odd word out is INEFFICIENCIES
In all the other words, each of the letters in the word appears twice.
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A monk has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First he climbs up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces east until he hears a bird singing. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the remaining steps three at a time which only takes him 9 paces. How many steps are there?
Answer: There are 49 steps.
He hears the bird singing on step 33. He picks up the pebble on the 21st step and tosses it on the 22nd step. The remaining 27 steps are taken three at a time which is 9 paces.
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Answer the clues with a pair of rhyming words. (plump feline = fat cat)
1. unadorned necklace 2. happy fellow 3. old story 4. dim enamel 5. timid gnat 6. colorless shellfish 7. big boat
Answer:
1. plain chain
2. glad lad
3. stale tale
4. faint paint
5. shy fly
6. drab crab
7. large barge
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A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same, if it’s turned back-to-front. The names Bob, Eve, and Otto are all palindromes. So is the name of the pop group Abba. Try to identify palindromic words from the following clues. Good luck!
Example: Part of the body Answer: Eye
1. Midday 2. A young dog 3. Flat 4. Word for addressing a lady 5. An Eskimo canoe 6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc. 7. An action 8. Pieces of music for one person 9. Grass that grows on the seashore 10. In music, half a semibreve 11. Doctrine 12. Restorer
Answer:
- Midday – Noon
2. A young dog – Pup
3. Flat – Level
4. Word for addressing a lady – Madam
5. An Eskimo canoe – Kayak
6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc. – Radar
7. An action – Deed
8. Pieces of music for one person – Solos
9. Grass that grows on the seashore – Marram
10. In music, half a semibreve – Minim
11. Doctrine – Tenet
12. Restorer – Reviver
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Henry and Gretchen are going to play a game. Henry explains, “You and I will take turns saying numbers. The first person will say a number between 1 and 10. Then the other person will say a number that is at least 1 higher than that number, and at most 10 higher. We will keep going back and forth in this way until one of us says the number 50. That person wins. I’ll start.”
“Not so fast!” says Gretchen. “I want to win, so I will start.”
What number should Gretchen say to start?
Answer: She wants to say, “6.” The series of numbers she will say is 6, 17, 28, 39, 50.
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Someone has stolen Beethoven’s Wig and has put it in one of four locked boxes. The boxes are numbered from 1,2,3,4 in that order. There are four different keys that each has their own color. Use the clues below to figure out which key goes in which box and to find the box where Beethoven’s wig is being kept.
1. The green key goes to the third or fourth box 2. The wig is to the left of the fourth box 3. The wig is to the right of the first box 4. The yellow key is to the left of the wig 5. The blue key is to the right of the yellow key and to the left of the green key 6. The red key goes to the first box
Answer:
The wig is in the third box
The red key goes to the first box
The yellow key goes to the second box
The blue key goes to the third box
The green key goes to the fourth box
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In your future and in your past
I come and go so senseless and fast
My purpose is unknown to all
Remembrance seems to drift then fall
I travel by night and fade by day
Because that is my common way
What am I?
Answer: Dreams
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What is the last country in the series?
Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Persia, Greece, ???
Answer:Egypt.
These were the countries in which the seven world wonders (of the ancient world) were built, in order of their completion dates.
1) Great Pyramid of Giza – 2500 B.C.
2) Hanging Gardens of Babylon – 600 B.C.
3) Temple of Artemis – 550 B.C.
4) Statue of Zeus – 435 B.C.
5) Mausoleum of Maussollos – 351 B.C.
6) Colossus of Rhodes – 292 B.C.
7) Lighthouse of Alexandria – 253 B.C.
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A clock has 60 lines on it; one at each minute interval. Everyone knows that the hour and minute hands point to the same line at 12:00. Can you figure out what time it is for these situations?
1. The hour hand is exactly on one line, and the minute hand is exactly on the NEXT line.
2. The hour hand is exactly on one line, and the minute hand is exactly on the PREVIOUS line.
Answer:
1. The time is 2:12.
2. The time is 9:48.
The hour hand is exactly on a line every 12 minutes, so we only need to look at times ending in 00, 12, 24, 36, and 48.
The hands exactly overlap at 12:00. They are 5 lines apart at 11:00 and 1:00, and farther apart at other hours.
At times ending in 12, the hands are closest at 2:12, where they are 1 line apart.
At times ending in 24, the hands are closest at 4:24, where they are 2 lines apart.
At times ending in 36, the hands are closest at 7:36, where they are 2 lines apart.
At times ending in 48, the hands are closest at 9:48, where they are 1 line apart.
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Black as night I can be, Until my Mother sits on me; Then clear as ice I become In the rough, thank you Mum.
What am I?
Answer: Coal
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A rich old lady died and left all her money to her grandchildren and her
children. At the end of the will she stated that she had one last thing to give
away: her precious diamond. She gave a clue to where it might be. She said
“it’s in a cylinder surrounded by a thousand squares.” One grandchild
said, “I know where it is,” and found it. Where was it?
Answer: In a roll of toilet paper.
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What comes next in this series?
0, 3, 8, 15, 24, 35, 48…….
Answer: 63
1X1-1:0
2X2-1: 3
3X3-1: 8
4X4-1: 15
5X5-1: 24
6X6-1: 35
7X7-1: 48
*8X8-1: 63*
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Mac’s new house number has three digits. When she challenged her friends to guess it, they tried: 135, 780, 785, and 732.
“That’s amazing,” Mac said. “You’ve each guessed exactly one digit correctly and in its right place!”
What is Mac’s house number?
Answer: 182
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A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie and Lara.
What will she name her next child? Jessica, Karen, Abby or Tilly?
Answer:Tilly. She seems to follow the scale Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti.
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A man in a restaurant asked a waiter for a juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a match, and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water onto the plate to cover it.
“If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or moving this plate, I will give you £100,” the man said. “You can use the match and lemon to do this.”
A few minutes later, the waiter walked away with £100 in his pocket. How did the waiter get the water into the glass?
Answer:First, the waiter stuck the match into the lemon wedge, so that it would stand straight. Then he lit the match, and put it in the middle of the plate with the lemon. Then, he placed the glass upside-down over the match. As the flame used up the oxygen in the glass, it created a small vacuum, which sucked in the water through the space between the glass and the plate. Thus, the waiter got the water into the glass without touching or moving the plate.
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Some people believe that January 1, 2000 is the first day of the 21st century. Other people believe that the honor belongs to January 1, 2001. But everyone should agree that January 1, 2002 is the first “sum-day” of the new century- when you write out that date in standard notation, it becomes 01/01/02, and 1+1=2. More generally, a sum-day is a date in which the day and month add up to the year. With that in mind:
A) What is the last sum-day of the 21st century?
B) How many sum-days are there in the 21st century?
Answer:
A) The last sum-day of the 21st century is December 31, 2043, because 12+31=43, and both the month and day are as big as possible.
B) This one is much easier than you might think. The correct answer is 365, because every day in a standard (non-leap) year is part of a sum-day for some year. For example, November 26 is a sum-day for the year 2037, because 11+26=37. The only date for which this principle doesn’t work is the leap day, February 29. That’s because 2+29=31, but 2031 is not a leap year.
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Camp Pineveiw’s cook, Margaret Johnson, was just about to begin preparing the picnic lunch for all the campers. She already knew she needed to fill 55 bowls of the same size and capacity with the same amount of food. When she was done, she decided to read the guidelines for the picnic, just out of curiosity. The guidelines said:
1. Every camper gets their own bowl of soup. 2. Every two campers will get one bowl of spaghetti to share. 3. Every three campers will get one bowl of salad to share. 4. All campers are required to have their own helping of salad, spaghetti, and soup.
After some rapid calculations, Margaret was able to figure out how many campers were going to the picnic. Can you?
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She so peaceful, yet causes fear
Him so bright and full of cheer
She rests the body, he wakes the soul
Him so light, she black as coal Her with mole and tiny bright freckles
He covers us with tiny tear speckles
She hides us, he beams with pride
He her husband, she his bride
He in bright silk, her all in velvet
A yin-yang marriage as they tell it
Two lovers who meet but twice a day
When he must go, she need stay
Now I ask you, who are they?
Answer:Day and night
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What comes next?
0, 15, 30, 40, __
Answer: Game! It’s a tennis thing!
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Find the synonymous word for each word in the following pair. For each pair, the words you find should rhyme with each other, the first word being an adjective and the second a noun. Some of these are easy, others are more challenging. Good luck!
For example: angry father= mad dad
sneaky insect humorous rabbit happy boy muscular tune close fright
Answer:
sneaky insect= sly fly
humorous rabbit= funny bunny
happy boy= glad lad
muscular tune= strong song
close fright= near fear
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Answer: There isn’t one! Just your preception.
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At what time after 4pm are the minute and hour and second hand of a standard clock perfectly aligned on top of each other?
Answer: 4;21 and 21 seconds
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Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast – Hip, move the ‘s’ from ‘Boast’ to ‘Hip’ creating two synonyms: Boat – Ship.
1. Rode – Can 2. Font – Farce 3. Tory – Stale 4. Dire – Cash 5. Self – Shill
Answer:
1. Rod – Cane 2. Front – Face 3. Story – Tale 4. Die – Crash 5. Shelf – Sill
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WHAT DOES THIS EQUAL?
12=DD + 11=PP + 10=LL + 9=LD + 8=MM + 7=SS + 6=GL + 5=GR + 4=CB + 3=FH + 2=TD + 1=PPT = ?
Answer: 12DC / The Twelve Days Of Christmas
12=DD = 12 drummers drumming 11=PP = 11 pipers piping 10=LL = 10 lords ‘a’ leapin’ 9=LD = 9 ladies dancing 8=MM = 8 maids ‘a’ milkin’ 7=SS = 7 swans ‘a’ swimmin’ 6=GL = 6 geese ‘a’ layin’ 5=GR = 5 golden rings 4=CB = 4 calling birds 3=FH = 3 french hens 2=TD = 2 turtle doves 1=PPT = partridge in a pear tree
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Which letter comes next in the series?
S, M, H, D, W, M, ?
Pick from:
L V Y T D
Answer: Y Second Minute Hour Day Week Month Year
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A shop sells apples at £1 each. Each of these apples are wrapped in a special wrapper. You can trade 3 of these wrappers for 1 apple. If you have £15, how many apples can you get altogether?
Answer: 22 apples. Firstly, you can get 15 apples. Trade the wrappers to get 5 more apples. Trade again and you’ll have 1 more apple and 2 leftover wrappers. Trade the remaining wrappers to get 1 more apple. 15 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 22 You will get 22 apples altogether.
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast – Hip, move the ‘s’ from ‘Boast’ to ‘Hip’ creating two synonyms: Boat – Ship.
1. Our – Start 2. Strip – Tumble 3. Clause – Idea 4. Cash – Broom 5. Plight – Lam
Answer:
1. Sour – Tart 2. Trip – Stumble 3. Cause – Ideal 4. Crash – Boom 5. Light – Lamp
You are a prisoner sentenced to death. The Emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls. He then says, “Divide these 100 marbles into these 2 bowls. You can divide them any way you like as long as you use all the marbles. Then I will blindfold you and mix the bowls around. You then can choose one bowl and remove ONE marble. If the marble is WHITE you will live, but if the marble is BLACK… you will die.”
How do you divide the marbles up so that you have the greatest probability of choosing a WHITE marble?
Answer: Place 1 white marble in one bowl, and place the rest of the marbles in the other bowl (49 whites, and 50 blacks).
This way you begin with a 50/50 chance of choosing the bowl with just one white marble, therefore life! BUT even if you choose the other bowl, you still have ALMOST a 50/50 chance at picking one of the 49 white marbles.
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Which one of the following does not belong with the others?
Binoculars, eyeglasses, goggles, handlebars, jeans, pliers, scissors, shoes, tweezers
Answer: The word “shoes” is the only “pair” that actually has 2 separate pieces.
Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1?
Answer:
We have to be careful what we are adding together.
Originally, they paid £30, they each received back £1, they now have only paid £27. Of this £27, £25 went to the manager for the room and £2 went to the bellboy.
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Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you’ll make a familiar phrase. For example, “Thighbone/Swallowtail” conceals “High & Low.”
1. Skyrocketing/Trolleyman 2. Thermometer/Apoplexy 3. Delaware/Bordering 4. Surprised/Trashiness 5. Throughout/Stumblebum
Answer:
1. Rock & Roll 2. Mom & Pop 3. Law & Order 4. Rise & Shine 5. Rough & Tumble
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What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 1/2 goat?
Answer: Chicago
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Brothers and sisters I have none but this man’s father is my father’s son. Who is the man?
Answer: The man is my son
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Slice the square into 4 identical sections, so that in each section there is 1 caterpillar with its leaf. One caterpillar will not have a leaf, she is taking a diet.
At what time after 4pm are the minute and hour and second hand of a standard clock perfectly aligned on top of each other?
Answer: 4;21 and 21 seconds
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Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast – Hip, move the ‘s’ from ‘Boast’ to ‘Hip’ creating two synonyms: Boat – Ship.
1. Rode – Can 2. Font – Farce 3. Tory – Stale 4. Dire – Cash 5. Self – Shill
Answer:
1. Rod – Cane
2. Front – Face
3. Story – Tale
4. Die – Crash
5. Shelf – Sill
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WHAT DOES THIS EQUAL?
12=DD + 11=PP + 10=LL + 9=LD + 8=MM + 7=SS + 6=GL + 5=GR + 4=CB + 3=FH + 2=TD + 1=PPT = ?
Answer: 12DC / The Twelve Days Of Christmas
12=DD = 12 drummers drumming
11=PP = 11 pipers piping
10=LL = 10 lords ‘a’ leapin’
9=LD = 9 ladies dancing
8=MM = 8 maids ‘a’ milkin’
7=SS = 7 swans ‘a’ swimmin’
6=GL = 6 geese ‘a’ layin’
5=GR = 5 golden rings
4=CB = 4 calling birds
3=FH = 3 french hens
2=TD = 2 turtle doves
1=PPT = partridge in a pear tree
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Which letter comes next in the series?
S, M, H, D, W, M, ?
Pick from:
L V Y T D
Answer: Y
Second
Minute
Hour
Day
Week
Month
Year
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A shop sells apples at £1 each. Each of these apples are wrapped in a special wrapper. You can trade 3 of these wrappers for 1 apple. If you have £15, how many apples can you get altogether?
Answer: 22 apples.
Firstly, you can get 15 apples.
Trade the wrappers to get 5 more apples.
Trade again and you’ll have 1 more apple and 2 leftover wrappers.
Trade the remaining wrappers to get 1 more apple.
15 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 22
You will get 22 apples altogether.
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast – Hip, move the ‘s’ from ‘Boast’ to ‘Hip’ creating two synonyms: Boat – Ship.
1. Our – Start 2. Strip – Tumble 3. Clause – Idea 4. Cash – Broom 5. Plight – Lam
Answer:
1. Sour – Tart
2. Trip – Stumble
3. Cause – Ideal
4. Crash – Boom
5. Light – Lamp
You are a prisoner sentenced to death. The Emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls. He then says, “Divide these 100 marbles into these 2 bowls. You can divide them any way you like as long as you use all the marbles. Then I will blindfold you and mix the bowls around. You then can choose one bowl and remove ONE marble. If the marble is WHITE you will live, but if the marble is BLACK… you will die.”
How do you divide the marbles up so that you have the greatest probability of choosing a WHITE marble?
Answer: Place 1 white marble in one bowl, and place the rest of the marbles in the other bowl (49 whites, and 50 blacks).
This way you begin with a 50/50 chance of choosing the bowl with just one white marble, therefore life! BUT even if you choose the other bowl, you still have ALMOST a 50/50 chance at picking one of the 49 white marbles.
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Which one of the following does not belong with the others?
Binoculars, eyeglasses, goggles, handlebars, jeans, pliers, scissors, shoes, tweezers
Answer: The word “shoes” is the only “pair” that actually has 2 separate pieces.
Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1?
Answer:
We have to be careful what we are adding together.
Originally, they paid £30, they each received back £1, they now have only paid £27. Of this £27, £25 went to the manager for the room and £2 went to the bellboy.
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Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you’ll make a familiar phrase. For example, “Thighbone/Swallowtail” conceals “High & Low.”
1. Skyrocketing/Trolleyman
2. Thermometer/Apoplexy
3. Delaware/Bordering
4. Surprised/Trashiness
5. Throughout/Stumblebum
Answer:
1. Rock & Roll
2. Mom & Pop
3. Law & Order
4. Rise & Shine
5. Rough & Tumble
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What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 1/2 goat?
Answer: Chicago
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Brothers and sisters I have none but this man’s father is my father’s son.
Who is the man?
Answer: The man is my son
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Slice the square into 4 identical sections, so that in each section there is 1 caterpillar with its leaf. One caterpillar will not have a leaf, she is taking a diet.
Answer:
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You will know that I am coming
From the jingle of my bell,
But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell.
Children, they adore me
for they find me jolly,
but I do not see them when the halls are decked with holly.
My job often leaves me frozen,
I am a man that all should know,
But I do not do business in times of sleet or ice or snow.
I travel much on business,
But no reindeer haul me around,
I do all my traveling firmly on the ground.
I love the time of Christmas,
But that’s not my vocational season,
And I assure that is because of a sound economic reason.
Answer: An Ice Cream Man!
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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?
Answer: Turn on the first switch and leave it on for about a minute then turn it off, then turn on the second switch and immediatly go upstairs, if the light is on it is the second switch, if the light is off, feel the lightbulb if it is hot, then it was the first switch, if it is not hot then it is the third switch.
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A man from Gloucester married ten different women from that city, yet he did not break any laws. None of these women died and he never divorced. How was this possible?
Answer: The man was a vicar
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You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It’s her birthday, and you want to give her the cakes you’ve made.
Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.
How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arrive at Grandma’s with exactly 2 cakes?
Answer: 2 At each bridge you are required to give half of your cakes, and you receive one back. Which leaves you with 2 cakes after every bridge.
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What do the following sentences have in common?
Tracy, no panic in a pony cart!
But not now a wonton tub!
Marge let a moody baby doom a telegram.
Answer: They are all palindromic sentences, sentences that read the same backwards as they do forwards!
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2.Joe buried Weetabix 3.Sarah threw Rice Krispies off a cliff
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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?
Answer: The letter ‘e’
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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?
Answer: A Nail
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What does a church have but not the steeple, the pastor have but not the people?
Answer: The letter R
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Jake and his friend Paco had very famous challenge sessions at their school. One would suggest something they could do, and the other would prove it wrong somehow.
One day, Jake surprised Paco by stating: “I can answer any question in the world.”
Sure that he would win the challenge, Paco accepted the task of proving it wrong. He wrote up a test full of impossible questions. After a while, Jake returned the test. Paco unbelievably lost the challenge and told Jake he could indeed answer any question. How did Jake win?
Answer: For all the impossible questions, Jake simply wrote “I don’t know”.
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A sundial is a timepiece that has the fewest number of moving parts. Which timepiece has the most moving parts?
Answer: An hourglass – full of grains of sand! Simples!! 
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Your last good ping-pong ball fell down into a narrow metal pipe imbedded in concrete one foot deep.
How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tennis paddle, your shoe-laces, and your plastic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?
Answer: All the tools are random things that are not going to help you. All you have to do is pour some water into the pipe so that the ball swims up on the surface. And if you say that you don’t have any water, then think about what you drank today and if you can use that somehow
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How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn’t bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.
Answer: Throw the ball straight up in the air!
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What word has three of itself?
Answer: ‘Syllable’
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If you throw me from the window,
I will leave a grieving wife.
Bring me back, but in the door, and
You’ll see someone giving life!
What am I?
Answer:
The letter ‘n’.
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A girl was offered a drink of water with ice-cubes at a party. She narrowed her eyes and said, “This is part alcohol.” How did she know?
Answer:
The ice-cubes were floating in the middle of the drink. Since alcohol is less dense than ice-cubes, it floats to the top and the ice-cubes go to the middle, above the water where water stays at the bottom.
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Thanks, there are some new puzzles I can share with my kid