April 01, 2010

I am a three digit number. 
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. 
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. 
What number am I?
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March 31, 2010

Unscramble the below 4 words. 
L A B O
Y E G B O
S I L F A C
S Y J M A T E
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March 30, 2010

Jason and Dean were brothers. Jason married Jackie, and Dean married Denise. However, Jason and Denise have the same wedding anniversary. Dean's wedding anniversary was one month before this date, and Jackie's was one month after it. There have been no divorces or remarriages. How do you explain this?
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #34

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #34

There are some errors in this teaser. Can you find them? The errors could be anywhere, but where are they? How many can you find?
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March 26, 2010

All these letters but one have something in common. What letter doesn't belong and what do the others have in common? 
AHIMORTUVWXY
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March 25, 2010

All About WORDS
1. What is the longest word in the dictionary?
2. What 7 letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?
3. What common English word will describe a person or thing as not being found in any place and yet with no changes other than a space between syllables, will correctly describe that person or thing as being actually present at this very moment?
4. I know a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be?
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March 24, 2010

Spain is a country whose name has only one syllable. Can you name four other countries whose names are only one syllable long?
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March 23, 2010

This thing all things devours, birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel; grinds hard stone to meal, slays king, ruins town, and beats high mountains down. 
What is it?
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #33

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #33

A lily pad doubles in size every day. If on the 60th day the pond is exactly filled with the lily pad, on what day is the pond exactly half covered?
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March 20, 2010

Solve the 10 clues. Take each initial letter, to form a new 10 letter word.

1. Polite greeting
2. Opposite of begin
3. It comes from a bulb
4. Eskimo's home
5. Another name for an axe (or ax)
6. Black Sabbath front man
7. Where a child may play
8. Large vessel for liquids
9. To change something
10. Neither left, nor wrong
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March 19, 2010

A cat had three kittens: Mopsy, Topsy and Spot. What was the mother's name.
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March 18, 2010

There's a land where there's mummies and daddies but no babies. Books but no libraries. Mirrors but no reflections. Kittens but no cats. Cattle but no cows. Lollipops but no candy and trees but no forests. It's the land of what?
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March 17, 2010

What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. 
Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows. 
What is it?
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March 16, 2010

When Ashley was six years old she hammered a nail into her favorite tree to mark her height. Ten years later at age sixteen, Ashley returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #32

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #32

Alice, Ben, Charlie, David, and Ed entered a contest to guess how many jelly beans are in a jar. Alice guessed 30, Ben guessed 28, Charlie guessed 29, David guessed 25, and Ed guessed 26. Two were off the mark by 1, one was wrong by 4, and one by 3. But one was correct. 
Who guessed right?

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March 13, 2010

In October you would do this once. In November you would do this twice. In December you would do this three times. You would never do it in January. What is it?
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March 12, 2010

Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?
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March 11, 2010

You have 10 trees you need to make 5 rows of 4. How do you do it?
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March 10, 2010

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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March 09, 2010

I'm one of five, I'm not alive. 
The one who sent me forth became king, 
The one who received me died. 
What am I?
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #31

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #31

Insert the missing letter:
J ? M A M J J A
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March 06, 2010

I caught ten fish without an I,
And nine without a tail.
Six had no head,
And half of eight
I weighed upon the scale.
Now who can tell me as I ask it,
How many fish were in my basket?
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March 05, 2010

A woman shoots her husband. 
Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. 
Finally, she hangs him. 
But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. 
How can this be?
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March 04, 2010

Under what conditions would a rope be most likely to break? 
a. 20 men of equal strength with 10 pulling on each end. 
b. 10 of the same men pulling on one end and the other end being fastened to a tree. 
c. It makes no difference.
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March 03, 2010

A horse is tied to a five meter rope, six meters away from it was a bale of hay. Without breaking the rope, the horse was able to get to the bale of hay. How is this possible?
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March 02, 2010

Two vertical 750 ft posts have a 1000 ft rope stretched between their top most points. The rope sags to within 250 ft from the ground. How far apart are the posts?
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