August 30, 2010

There was a man climbing a ladder to somebody's house, to the nearest window. He broke into the house and took what was most precious to the family. He climbed down, and the police were there waiting for him. He returned what he took, and the police let him walk away. Why?
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #55

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #55

Farmer Higgs owns three pink pigs, four brown pigs, and one black pig. How many of Higgs's pigs can say that it is the same color as another pig on Higgs's farm?
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August 28, 2010

Kate and Shireen have completed their model of the solar system. The model looks great hanging in the classroom. But before they can get a grade for their project, their teacher has one more assignment for them. "We know," she says, "that you had to use one scale for planet sizes and a much smaller scale for showing distances of the planets from the sun. If you had used the larger scale for the distances, your model would not have fit in the classroom, because the distances are so immense. Can you show the class just why the model wouldn't have fit? If you had used the same scale for distance that you used for planet sizes, how far from your model sun would Pluto have to be placed?" Well, for the planet sizes the girls had used a pea measuring 0.5 cm in diameter for their model of Mercury. The real Mercury has a diameter of 4800 km. The real Pluto is nearly 5900 x 106 kilometers from the sun. How far, in miles, from their model sun would Kate and Shireen have had to place a model of Pluto?
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August 27, 2010

In a certain village there is a man, so the paradox runs, who is a barber; this barber shaves all and only those men in the village who do not shave themselves. Query: Does the barber shave himself?
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August 26, 2010

What saying is depicted below?

Hair - bubbling
Forehead - boiling
Eyes - boiling
Nose - bubbling
Mouth - foaming
Chin - bubbling
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August 25, 2010

A couple that owned a mansion came home from church to find that their safe had been robbed. They gathered all of their hired services for questioning. The cook was questioned first and she said that she was busy preparing the Sunday dinner. Next was the butler but he said that he was setting the table for the Sunday dinner. Then they questioned the maid and her excuse was that she had been cleaning the dining room along with the butler. So they moved on and asked the groundskeeper and he stated that after finishing the pruning he went out to get the mail. The couple, stumped by the reasonable alibis soon found that they had the answer. Who was it?
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August 24, 2010

A piece of firewood is standing on end. Which is more likely to knock the piece of wood over - a lead bullet fired from a gun or a rubber bullet of the same mass traveling at the same speed (and hitting the same spot)?
Assume that the rubber bullet does not disintegrate on impact.
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #54

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #54

Only five of the words in the riddle-line below are common names (bird-types; subspecies) of gulls. The remaining one is a gull, too, but not a bird. Which one is the oddity?

Herring, California, Pigeon, Western, Iceland, Laughing
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August 21, 2010

Rearranging any two letters, what is the longest word you can make within this group of letters? The letters of the word formed must all be together and in order after the two are switched. As an example, you could switch the "Q" and the "O" to form the word "rows".

FDRQWSYLPTOMBINEXACHUGKZJV
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August 20, 2010

A piece of firewood is standing on end. Which is more likely to knock the piece of wood over - a lead bullet fired from a gun or a rubber bullet of the same mass traveling at the same speed (and hitting the same spot)?
Assume that the rubber bullet does not disintegrate on impact.
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August 19, 2010

How many days before the 17th of August is it, if 50 days ago, it was four times as many days since March 30th?
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August 18, 2010

If Susan is 10, Arabella is 20, and Jim and Neal are both 5, but Richard is 10, how much is Jennifer by the same system?
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August 17, 2010

A woman depended on a public telephone to make her calls, but it was usually out of order. Each day she reported this to the phone company, but nothing was done. Finally she came up with a fib that she told the phone company. The phone was fixed the next day. What did she tell them?
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #53

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #53

Sarah went to get her drivers license. When asked her age, she replied: "My age today is three times what it will be three years from now minus three times what my age was three years ago." How old is Sarah?
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August 14, 2010

I come during winter,
But leave during summer.
You'll see me at night,
And maybe during day,
But one time you'll never see me,
Is without heat in my bay.
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August 13, 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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August 12, 2010

Matthew walks up and down a hill which is three kilometers each way. His dog, being slower, walks at half the speed. When Matthew reaches the top of the hill he turns around and walks down to meet his dog part way. Matthew continues walking to the bottom of the hill maintaining his speed. The dog follows him, also maintaining his speed. How far does the dog walk?
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August 11, 2010

A couple that owned a mansion came home from church to find that their safe had been robbed. They gathered all of their hired services for questioning. The cook was questioned first and she said that she was busy preparing the Sunday dinner. Next was the butler but he said that he was setting the table for the Sunday dinner. Then they questioned the maid and her excuse was that she had been cleaning the dining room along with the butler. So they moved on and asked the groundskeeper and he stated that after finishing the pruning he went out to get the mail. The couple, stumped by the reasonable alibis soon found that they had the answer. Who was it?
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August 10, 2010

What row of numbers comes next? 
1 
11 
21 
1211 
111221 
312211 
13112221
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #52

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #52

There are twelve eggs in a regular dozen. There are thirteen rolls in a baker's dozen. How many one and a half cent stamps are there in a regular dozen?
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August 07, 2010

At the height of the Cold War, a U.S. racing car easily beat a Russian car in a two-car race. How did the Russian newspapers truthfully report this in order to make it look as though the Russian car had outdone the American car?
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August 06, 2010

It was Diane's first day at school. The teacher suggested that it would be a good idea for each child to meet every other child in the class. The teacher said, "When you meet, please shake hands and introduce yourself by name." 
If there were 8 children in the class, how many total handshakes were there?
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August 05, 2010

What's so peculiar about this sentence? 
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.
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August 04, 2010

If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question, but the location is in Canada?
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August 03, 2010

LETTERS w/Logic?
1. 100 Z in a G
2. 100 T in a G of S
3. 6= S of a H
4. 1 = P of P P that P P P
5. 1 F T M 2 F T S
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August 02, 2010

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #51

Between two and three o'clock, someone looked at the clock and mistook the minute hand for the hour hand. Consequently the time appeared to be fifty-five minutes earlier than it actually was. What time was it?
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