Hidden Money
You and a group of your friends are in the library. One friend says there is a $100 dollar bill hidden between pages 75 and 76 of a book in the library. But you decide not to go and look for it. Why?
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Double Letters
What is the only word in the English language that has three double letters in succession?
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To Cross the Bridge
Four men want to cross a bridge. They all begin on the same side. It is night, and they have only one flashlight with them. At most two men can cross the bridge at a time, and any party who crosses, either one or two people, must have the flashlight with them. The flashlight must be walked back and forth: it cannot be thrown, etc. Each man walks at a different speed. A pair
must walk together at the speed of the slower man. Man 1 needs 1 minute to cross the bridge, man 2 needs 2 minutes, man 3 needs 5 minutes, and man 4 needs 10 minutes. For example, if man 1 and man 3 walk across together, they need 5 minutes.
The Question: How can all four men cross the bridge in 17 minutes?
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Who Is He Married To?
William is married to Veronica
Frank is married to Edna
Hank is married to Gloria
If he follows the same pattern, is Sam married to Helga, Ruth, or Tammy ?
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Ring Toss
You are playing ringtoss and the rings are valued at 16-17-23-24-and 29 points. You can toss as many rings of any value as you wish. What is the smallest number of rings you could toss to get exactly 100 points?
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In Need Of A Haircut
Captain Frank was passing through a small town when he decided to get a haircut.
There was only one barber shop in town, and it employed two barbers. One of the
barbers had a nice, neatly trimmed head of hair, and the other looked like his hair
had been cut with a pair of hedge clippers. Which of the two barbers should
Captain Frank choose to cut his hair and why?
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DIAMOND VALUE
You bought a diamond for one thousand dollars in 1985. By 1990 the
value had increased by 40%. Between 1990 and 1995, the value
decreased by 40%. You sold it for it's 1995 value.
How much did you get for your diamond?
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How Far Did The Bird Fly?
Consider a road with two cars, at a distance of 100 miles, driving towards each other. The left car drives at a speed of forty miles per hour and the right car at a speed of sixty miles per hour. A bird starts at the same location as the right car and flies at a speed of 80 miles per hour. When it reaches the left car it turns its direction, and when it reaches the right car it turns its direction again to the opposite, etcetera.
The Question: What is the total distance that the bird has traveled at the moment that the two cars have reached each other?
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Two Empty Jugs
A man is standing in a pond with two empty jugs. One jug holds EXACTLY 5 gallons and
the other holds EXACTLY 3 gallons. The man needs EXACTLY 4 gallons of water.
Using only these two jugs, how does the man get EXACTLY 4 gallons of water?
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Which Word Will Go?
Choose the word that would go with this group.
FIRST - CANOPY - STUPID - LAUGHING - CRABCAKE
CALMNESS
SMART
SHELTER
EXERCISE
COUNTER
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What Word?
What word, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards,
backwards and upside down?
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What is the only animal immune to all snake venom?
1.pig
2.mongoose
3.wart hog
4.king snake
5.vulture
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Two Hourglasses
You have two hourglasses--a 4-minute glass and a 7-minute glass. You
want to measure 9 minutes. How do you do it?
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Three Pills
A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How long would the pills last?
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Club Entrance
At the entrance to a members club stands a stranger seeking admission. A friend told him that it's easy to get in: You just have to answer a question corrcetly! Answering wrong, however, will result in being soaked with bucket a water!
The man waits in a back alley near the entrance for people to go in. After a while a man comes to the entrance. The door warden asks him: 'Twelve?' to which he replies 'Six!' and goes in.
'That's easy.' our friend thinks, but he waits a little longer.
Another man comes to the door. 'Six?' the door warden asks, to which he replies 'Three!'
and goes in.
'That's too good to be true' our friend thinks, and he was right. Because, when asked 'Four?',
he answered 'Two!' and was soaked with a bucket of water.
Why?
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Flea Circus
The population of the Venerable Vermin Flea Circus increases 50 percent every 50 years. If the population in 1950 was 810,000, in what year was the population 160,000?
(A) 1700
(B) 1750
(C) 1800
(D) 1850
(E) 1900
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What Sport Is It?
What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the team on defense,
and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
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What Fruit?
What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
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Above Average
In Poodle Grooming class, there are 12 boys and 18 girls.
If the class mean score on a test is 90, and the boys' mean
score is 87, what is the girls' mean score?
(A) 89
(B) 91
(C) 92
(D) 93
(E) 94
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Lakers
Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?
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"dw" Words
Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw".
They are all common. Name two of them.
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Pear Brandy
In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside
the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it
hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
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It's A...
These are terms for a group of birds or aminals. Can you identify them?
gaggle or skein .
mob
slueth
team .
drove
skulk
pod
parliment
warren
murder
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The Marrying Kind
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?
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Mathematical Signs
A problem which crops up quite often in puzzles is that of inserting mathematical signs wherever one cares to between the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9 to make the resulting expression equal in value to 100. The digits must remain in the same sequence. One of the numerous solutions to this problem is:
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+(8x9)=100 The problem becomes slightly more difficult if only plus and minus
signs are allowed. A typical solution to the problem now is this: 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100
In this solution, six plus and minus signs were used. Can you find a solution to this
plus-and-minus-only problem using as few signs as possible?
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