Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/01/2009

Carl Jones introduced Roger Smith to his friend as his ‘Uncle Roger'. Roger Smith introduced Carl Jones to his friend as his ‘Uncle Carl'. 
"If you are uncles to each other," queried one of the friends, "you must also be nephews to each other." 
"That's correct," replied Carl. 
Since there has been no breach of marriage law, how can you explain such a relationship?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/29/2009

A man was born in 1955. He's alive and well today at age 33. How is this possible?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/28/2009

Jack and Joe were on vacation and driving along a deserted country road from the town of Kaysville to the town of Lynnsville. They came to a multiple fork in the road. The sign post had been knocked down and they were faced with choosing one of five different directions. Since they had left their map at the last gas station and there was no one around to ask, how could Jack and Joe find their way to Lynnsville?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/27/2009

Allie takes fruit, cake, and cookies for her picnic. She has three boxes for them. One is labeled FRUIT. One is labeled COOKIES. One is labeled CAKE. But she knows her Mom likes to fool her and has put every single thing in the wrong box. The only other thing she knows for sure is that the fruit is not in the CAKE box.
Where is the cake?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/26/2009

FUN WITH WORDS....
1. If coast is spelled C-O-A-S-T and roast is spelled R-O-A-S-T and most is spelled M-O-S-T . Then how do you spell what goes into a toaster?

2. What is very unusual about the following words? 
BOUGH 
COUGH 
DOUGH 
ROUGH 
THROUGH

Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/25/2009

There are 16 books of the Bible in the following paragraph...can you find them? 
I once made a remark about the hidden books of the Bible. It was a lulu; kept people looking so hard for facts and for others it was a revelation. Some were in a jam especially since the names of the books were not capitalized, but the truth finally struck home to numbers of readers. To others, it was a real job. We want it to be a most fascinating few moments for you. Yes there will be some really easy ones to spot. Others may require judges to help them. I will quickly admit it usually takes a minister to find one of them, and there will be loud lamentations when it is found. A little lady says she brews a cup of tea so she can concentrate better. See how well you can compete. Relax now for there really are sixteen names of the books in the Bible in this story.
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/23/2009

TWO EASY ONES FOR THE WEEKEND...
1. You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove, but only one match. Which should you light first?

2. 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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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/22/2009

A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/21/2009

WHAT AM I???
1. I am the shortest complete sentence in the English language. What am I?


2. I am two-faced but bear only one, I have no legs but travel widely. Men spill much blood over me, kings leave there imprint on me. I have greatest power when given away, yet lust for me keeps me locked away. What am I?


3. I am the ruler of shovels 
I have a double 
I am as thin as a knife 
I have a wife 
What am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/20/2009

Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to z=26. Can you think of a familiar 7 letter word whose letter values total only 21?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/19/2009

A rich man's son was kidnapped. The ransom note told him to bring a valuable diamond to a phone booth in the middle of a public park. Plainclothes police officers surrounded the park, intending to follow the criminal or his messenger. The rich man arrived at the phone booth and followed instructions but the police were powerless to prevent the diamond from leaving the park and reaching the crafty villain. 
What did he do?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/18/2009

A man was going on a one-way bus trip. He intended to ride for a certain distance, get off the bus and walk back to town. If the bus travels at a rate of nine miles per hour and he was to jog back to town at a rate of three miles per hour, how far would he ride so that he'd be back in eight hours?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/15/2009

At a recent visit to the reptile house at the local zoo, I counted a total of 27 heads and 70 feet. I was counting snakes, lizards, and people. I know that there were exactly twice as many lizards as people. How many snakes did I count?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/14/2009

There is a well known story of a famous German mathematician, who showed his brilliance even as a young boy. While in elementary school, he was given the problem of finding the sum of all the whole numbers from one to 100. For most of use it would be a long and difficult task of adding "1=2=3=4 etc." This young lad, however, solved the problem in his head in just a few moments. What is the answer and how did he manage to do it in his head?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/13/2009

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?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/12/2009

It's all about words....
1. He starts and ends 2 common English words. One painfull in love, One painfull in everyday matter. Do you know what 2 words I must be?
2. Using the words DROVES and NEWS write seven words using each letter once.
3. There is a common English word that is seven letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains a common English word - from seven letters right on down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing a letter at a time?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/11/2009

Carl Jones introduced Roger Smith to his friend as his ‘Uncle Roger'.
Roger Smith introduced Carl Jones to his friend as his ‘Uncle Carl'.
"If you are uncles to each other," queried one of the friends, "you must
also be nephews to each other."
"That's correct," replied Carl.
Since there has been no breach of marriage law, how can you explain such
a relationship?
Solution

Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/09/2009

Each pair of definitions is for two words, where the second word is the first word with an extra letter added somewhere (example: band & brand).

1) a gemstone & a sport
2) demon & acquaintance
3) moment & three times
4) obvious & persevering
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/08/2009

Puzzles With Numbers....
1. If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?
2. If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door, how many moves will it take to reach the door.
3. If you drove a bus with 45 people on board you go to salmiya to drop 5 and pick 4 then you go to hawally to drop 8 and pick 10 more then you go to city to drop 3 and pick 7 more up then you go to khaitan to drop 8 and pick 9 more finally you go back to salmiya and reach there after 20 hrs. What is the age of the driver?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/07/2009

I shot a famous man today
He didn't seem to get upset
Even when I shot his wife
As she stepped out of the Corvette
Later I shot some people in fancy clothes
After that I shot a rose
Then I went down to the beach
And shot some children there
Their mothers watched me the entire time
They didn't seem to care
Shooting things is easy.
But can you identify me?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/06/2009

A quick test of intelligence. Don't cheat! Because if you do, the test will be no fun. 
There are no Tricks to the test. Read this sentence: 
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- 
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- 
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH 
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. 
Now count aloud the F's in that sentence. Important, count them ONLY ONCE: do not go back and count them again.
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/05/2009

Two Quick Ones Today....
1. What's so special about the following sentence? 
A big cuddly dog emitted fierce growls, happily ignoring joyful kids licking minute nuts on pretty queer rotten smelly toadstools underneath vampires who x-rayed young zombies.
2. What do these 3 have in common? 
Superman 
Moses 
The Cabbage Patch Kids
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/04/2009

A wealthy man named Richard Ellis had been counting his money. When he finished, he accidentally left a $100.00 bill on his desk. But when he returned for it a short while later, it was gone. Only two other persons could have seen the bill. One was the maid; the other was the butler. 
The maid told him that she had hidden it for safekeeping under a green book that was on the desk. But when they looked the bill was not there. 
The butler said he had found the bill where the maid had left it. He had placed it inside the book, where he thought there was less chance that somebody would find it. He had written down the page numbers so that he would not forget them. The bill was between pages 35 and 36, he said. But when they looked, there was no money in the book. 
After Mr. Ellis had talked to the maid and the butler, he called the police. He was sure he knew who had taken the money. Who was it, and how did he know?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 05/02/2009

Certain pairs of two-digit numbers can have
the same product when both numbers are reversed? For example:
12 X 42 = 21 X 24
12 X 63 = 21 X 36
12 X 84 = 21 X 48
23 X 96 = 32 X 69
24 X 63 = 42 X 36
24 X 84 = 42 X 48
26 X 93 = 62 X 39
46 X 96 = 64 X 69
There are six other set of numbers of this nature. What are they?
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