What is the longest word in the English Dictionary, that you can
type using only the top row of a "qwerty" keyboard?
TYPEWRITER.
Can you find a five
letter word, which, when typed in upper case, reads the same upside down?
SWIMS.
Would
you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?
I would rather the crocodile attacked the alligator, read it
again!
What
does this represent?
Knee
Light Light
Neon light!
You
are in a room with 2 doors leading out. Behind 1 door is a coffen
overflowing with jewels and gold, along with an exit. Behind the
other door is an enormous, hungry lion that will pounce on anyone
opening the door? You do not know which door leads to the treasure and exit,
and which door leads to the lion. In the room you are in are 2
individuals.
The first is a knight, who always tells the truth, and a knave,
who always lies. Both of these individuals know what is behind each
door.
You do not know which individual is the knight, or which one is
the knave. You may ask one of the individuals exactly 1 question. What
should you ask in order to be certain that you will open the door
with
the coffer behind it, instead of the hungry lion?
You ask one of the individuals what the other one would say if you
asked him which door is holding back the hungry lion and then open this
door.
Forward
I am heavy, but backwards I am not. What am I?
TON
What
shape completes the bottom line?
triangle pentagon square square hexagon hexagon square pentagon hexagon hexagon hexagon square triangle
hexagon octagon octagon octagon octagon ==?==
Square; consider the number of sides involved. Square the first
shape's sides and the remaining shapes add up to this number. hexagon = 6,
6 * 6
= 36, 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + square = 36.
Which
one of these sentences is the odd one out - the answer is nothing to do with food.
Jackals are mean, eager scavengers.
Koalas eat in the heat.
Sheep invariably munch old newspapers.
Seals are rare and hungry.
Foxes rich appetite never kicks.
Seals Are Rare And Hungry; the initial letters spell Sarah. All of
the
other sentences spell boys name.
Gib
is to llams as nepo is to desolc as pu is to ==?==
Nwod. Opposites reversed; big, small; open, closed; up, down.
Can
you calculate (clue!) which word is the odd one out:
giggle, soil, bells, gobble, gosh, hole, blesses, coil
Coil as this is the only word which cannot be spelled using a calculator. For example, enter 379919 into a calculator and look
at the number upside down, you can read giggle. The other words can be
spelled
using, 7105, 57738, 4509, 3704 and 5355378.
How
many letter S are there in the name of the longest river in the world?
None; neither the Nile nor the Amazon contain an S, both of which
can be classified as the longest in the world. You are tricked into
thinking of the Mississippi, which has 4.
A
slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of one optic to an equine quadruped utterly devoid of any
visionary capacity. Translate.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
By
changing the second letter of each word below, you can make
another valid word. Can you change each word such that the second letters
will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards. Therefore, what
now reads VOKAHLIUPPW will be a real word.
OVAL
POST
SKIN
MALT
WHEN
SLAB
MISS
FUND
APED
SPED
SWAY
Paperweight; opal, past, spin, melt, wren, swab, mess, find, aged,
shed, stay.
A
bookworm eats from the first page of an encyclopaedia to the last page. The bookworm eats in a straight line. The encyclopaedia
consists of ten 1000-page volumes and is sitting on a bookshelf in the
usual order. Not counting covers, title pages, etc., how many pages does
the
bookworm eat through?
He eats through 8,000 pages.
Can
you find two words that contain two consecutive Us?
Vacuum and Continuum.
Which
word of four letters can be added to the front of the following words, to create other valid words:
CARD, BOX, CODE, BAG, HASTE
POST
There
are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of
beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.
Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?
The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
Why did the inventor of man-hole covers choose round ones, since square
ones were easier to make?
A circular cover is the only shape that cannot fall through its own hole
and, therefore, cannot be accidentally dropped into the hole.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps
cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes
Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
This teaser is usually attributed to Einstein, who may or may not
have written it. The German owns the fish and the table below details
the full answer:
Nationality: Norweg Dane Brit
German Swede
Colour : Yellow Blue
Red Green
White
Beverage: water tea
milk coffee beer
Smokes: Dunhill Blend
Pall Mall Prince Blue Master
Pets: cats
horses birds fish
dogs
What
is represented by letters?
ABCDEFGHJMOPQRST UVWXYZ
Missing link.
Pear
is to apple what potato is to:
banana, radish, strawberry, peach, lettuce
Radish; both grow underground.
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A
well known seven letter word can be created, by starting with a
single letter and adding a letter, one at a time, then mixing the
letters, each time making a proper word. Using the clues below, which are not
necessarily in the correct order, can you find all seven words.
For example, A, AT, TAR, RATE, etc.
Expressing position within limits of space and time.
The subject of self-consciousness.
Frozen atmospheric vapour falling to earth. To utter musical sounds with the voice.
Cause to oscillate.
Scattering on the earth.
The breaking of divine law.
Snowing, sowing, swing, sing, sin, in, I.
A
man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What
time is it?
1:45. the man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between
two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two!
It
burns no coal, no oil, no nuclear fuels and has no need for electricity. It uses no man made explosions. Yet it is far hotter
than all ovens and fires and furnaces. What is it?
The sun.
Can
you find something, which has keys that open no locks, with space but no room, and allows you to enter but not to go in?
A keyboard
Whoever
makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?
Counterfeit money
Maggie
Mathematical has five sons. One is called Alpha, another is called Beta, the third is called Gamma and the fourth is called
Fred. What is the fifth son's name.
What; 'What is the fifth son's name' is a statement - so the fifth
son is called What!
A
man and his grandson have the same birthday. For six consecutive birthdays the man is an integral number of times as old as his
grandson.
How old is each at the sixth of these birthdays?
Grandfather 66, grandson 6.
You
have two ropes. Each takes exactly 60 minutes to burn. They are
made of
different material so even though they take the same amount of
time to
burn, they burn at separate rates. In addition, each rope burns
inconsistently.
How do you measure out exactly 45 minutes?
Take one rope and burn it at both ends. At the same time, burn one
end of
the other rope. When the first rope finishes burning, light the
other end
of the remaining rope. When it burns out, that's 45 minutes.
The results for a
recent Chess tournament between five close rivals is
described
below:
Dave finished before Adam. Eileen finished after Bernadette. Adam
finished before Charlie.
Eileen finished after Dave. Bernadette finished before
Adam. Dave finished after Bernadette. Charlie finished before
Eileen. Who finished where?
Bernadette won, then Dave, Adam, Charlie and Eileen.
You
look at the change in your piggy bank. It totals £58.29 and is
made up of an equal number of five coins. You have 67 coins of each
value.
Can you tell us what the coins are?
2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p.
Can you complete the following grid? Each
row and each column adds up to
290.
61
78 63 25 63
80 ?? ?? ?? 26
60 ?? ?? ?? 56
36 ?? ?? ?? 90
53 31 53 98 55
There are many solutions, this is just one:
61 78 63 25 63
80 10 75 99 26
60 78 47 49 56
36 93 52 19 90
53 31 53 98 55
I'm amazing 'cause I've got
the force To hold down a cow or a horse
As you've doubtlessly found,
I am always around,
And I'm constantly working, of course. What am I?
Gravity.
At a recent Pets Anonymous reunion, the attendees were discussing which
pets they had recently owned. James used to have a dog. The person who
used to own a mouse now owns a cat, but the person who used to have a
cat does not have a mouse. Kevin has now or used to have a dog, I can't
remember which. Becky has never owned a mouse. Only one person now owns
the pet they previously had. Rebecca kept quiet throughout the meeting
and nobody mentioned the hamster. Can you determine who owns which pet
and what they used to own?
Becky has a hamster and used to have a hamster. Kevin has a dog and used
to have a cat. James has a mouse and used to have a dog. Rebecca has a
cat and used to have a mouse.
Once upon a time, and old lady went to sell her vast quantity of eggs at
the local market.
When asked how many she had, she replied:
Son, I can't count past 100 but I know that...
If you divide the number of eggs by 2 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 3 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 4 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 5 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 6 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 7 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 8 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 9 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 10 there will be one egg left.
Finally...
If you divide the Number of eggs by 11 there will be NO EGGS left!
How many eggs did the old lady have?
25,201 eggs.
What starts with an E, ends with an E and usually contains only one
letter?
Envelope
Below you will find 15 well-known seven letter words, with only their
endings remaining. Can you determine the words?
....rem
....oct
....pso
....dma
....edo
....rre
....sfy
....ott
....hma
....dpa
Theorem, concoct, calypso, grandma, torpedo, bizarre, satisfy, boycott,drachma, grandpa.
Using the clues from below can you find ten words. Once you have placed
the words into the correct order you will find that each word is different from the previous word by only one letter. For example, DOG
may be followed by DIG, etc.
...in the back of the net
...sock material
...forest
...baby horse
...hooded robe
...spiral of wire
...not too hot
...roasting metal
...earthy ground
...not bad
Good, wood, wool, cool, cowl, coil, soil, foil, foal, goal.
How can you get 10 horses in to 9 stables, bearing in mind that each
horse must have its own stable?
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How many gifts, in total, did I receive during the Twelve Days of
Christmas - according to the song?
364; for example, on the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to
me: five gold rings + four calling birds + three French hens + two
turtle doves + a partridge in a pear tree.
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