December 31, 2010

Saturday and Sunday, I am big. 
Tuesday thru Thursday I am small. 
Monday and Friday I am non-existent. 
What am I?
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December 30, 2010

Ten $5.00 bills, ten $10.00 bills and ten $20.00 bills are in a box. 
A blind-folded person must remove the bills from the box. The contest ends when a person removes three same bills (example: Three $5.00 bills). What is the most amount of money a person can remove from the box?
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December 29, 2010

Three people split a $30 dinner tab paying $10 each. They do not include a tip. As they are leaving, the manager realizes that they should have only been charged $25 for their meal. He gives a $5 bill to their waiter and tells him to refund their money. The waiter decides, since he was not tipped, to keep $2 and give the 3 people back only $1 each. 
The three people have now paid a total of $27 for their meal (the original $30 they paid less the $3 they just got back from the waiter) and the waiter has $2 that he kept, for a total of $29. 
If they originally paid $30 for their meal, where did the extra $1 go?
Solution

December 28, 2010

What Christmas message is written here?
A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #72

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #72

Joe said to his friend at a New Year's Eve Party, "Yesterday I was twenty, but next year I will be twenty-two." When is Joe's birthday?
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December 24, 2010

Follow the steps to change one string of letters to a different one. The starting string is NONSPEAKINGSOLDIER, and your clue for the ending string's pun is "Christmas!"

1) Eliminate all 15's.

2) Eliminate all 14's.

3) Remove the summit.

4) Change "DIE" into its antonym.

5) Change the last five letters to "the opposite of day".

6) Eliminate the second 19.

7) Eliminate the first 7.

8) Insert 5-14-20-11 between the 12 and the 14.
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December 23, 2010

Father Christmas had a problem. He was making up a batch of dolls but could not remember exactly how many of each kind he needed. He knew that he needed 57 in total, that 27 had to have blue eyes, and 29 had to have fair hair. His assistant gnome pointed out that some had to have both features and remembered that 3 dolls were needed having blue eyes and fair hair, but which were not able to say 'Mama'. This prompted the old man to remember that he needed a total of 34 dolls able to say 'Mama', of whom 17 needed to have fair hair. The assistant was going around in circles juggling all this information but couldn't work it out. He pressed for any other bits of information that Father Christmas just might be able to manage, no matter how trivial. The only items he got were: "Every doll had at least 1 of the features named"; "That there was one combination of features not asked for at all" and "Several children had asked for all 3 features in the one doll". That was enough!

How many fair-haired, blue-eyed dolls saying 'Mama' were needed?
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December 22, 2010

Below are ten clues, each of which relates to the first line of a different Christmas carol or song. Can you figure out what songs they are?

1. CROAOF
2. IDOAWC
3. RTRNRHAVSN
4. GGROBAR
5. IHABCWY
6. ISMKSC
7. OTFDOCMTLGTM
8. FTSWAJHS
9. IBMBOJHSSOM
10. JBJBJBR
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December 21, 2010

I can help with special occasions,
Birthdays, Christmas, all celebrations.
You need scissors and sticky tape,
Brains and fingers.
Make sure you have something inside of it.
Solution

WEEKLY CONTEST TEASER #71

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #71

How many gifts, in total, did I receive during the Twelve Days of Christmas - according to the song?
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December 18, 2010

You are attending a business meeting which consists of only accountants and lawyers. From your previous dealings with these two professions, you know that accountants always tell the truth about everything and lawyers always lie about something.
Two gentlemen, Sam and Adam, approach you. Sam introduces himself and says, "I am a lawyer, but Adam is an accountant."
Based on what you know from your previous dealings, what are each of the men's actual professions?
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December 17, 2010

What six letter word in the English language contains ten other words without rearranging any of its letters?
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December 16, 2010

I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get involved with everyone's dirty business.
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December 15, 2010

A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?
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December 14, 2010

A man falls overboard and gets washed ashore on an island with nothing but sand. The island is 50 miles from the nearest land. He can't swim, the water's 100 feet deep, and the island has nothing to make a floatation device with. With no help from people, animals, fish, or machines he finds a way off the island. 
How does he do it?
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #70

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #70

Who is your father's only son's brother's uncle's wife's daughter's brother's father's son?
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December 11, 2010

A drug smuggler has been operating for some time, but Interpol thinks they know where to look for him next. He always brags after his exploits that he has spent a month in each town before moving on.
His most recent visits have been:
Helsinki
Melborne
Rome
Tokyo
Mexico City
Munich 
Where would you look for him next?
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December 10, 2010

Soon little Freddie will celebrate his tenth birthday. In 11 years Freddie will reach half the average age of his parents. His mother is only 17 years older than her son. How old are Freddie's father and mother.
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December 09, 2010

Fred went to the hardware store with Alex, Ben and George. He noted that a hammer cost ten times as much as a screw driver and a power saw cost ten times as much as a hammer. The storekeeper said that Ben could buy a power saw, George could buy a screw driver and Alex could buy a hammer. Based on this what would the storekeeper let Fred buy?
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December 08, 2010

Which three-digit number, made of consecutive digits, like 567, is 2 less than a cube and 2 more than a square?
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December 07, 2010

Jen gave birth to her daughter Caroline on the first of January in a year following a leap year. Starting in February, on the first of the month throughout that year, she made note of the day of the week. She noticed that the monthly anniversary of her daughter's birth fell on a Friday three times that year. On what day of the week was Caroline born? And how many months old was Caroline before her monthly "'birthday" fell on its original day for the third time (not counting her actual day of birth)?
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THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #69

THIS WEEKS CONTEST TEASER #69

Which of the following were not dances in the '60s?
The Frug 
The Watusi
The Twist 
The Mashed Potato
The Swim 
The Shaggy Dog
The Monkey 
The Jerk
The Skate
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Weekly Sudoku Contest #001

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December 04, 2010

A monk has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First he climbs up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces east until he hears a bird singing. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the remaining steps three at a time which only takes him 9 paces. How many steps are there?
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December 03, 2010

You're driving a bus that is leaving from Los Angeles and ending 
in San Francisco. 

To start off with, there were 32 passengers on the bus.
At the next bus stop, 11 people get off and 9 people get on.
At the next bus stop, 2 people got off and 2 people got on.
At the next bus stop, 12 people got on and 16 people got off.
At the next bus stop, 5 people got on and 3 people got off. 

What color are the bus driver's eyes?
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December 02, 2010

FOOD....
1. What food never goes bad by natural means?

2. A man named Tom walks into a restaurant for lunch. He asks the waitress if she is good at solving puzzles. She replies, "I am the best." So Tom says, "I'll have sausage and noodles drenched with ice cream, hashed. And if you bring me what I really want I'll leave you a $100 tip." A few minutes later she brought him exactly what he wanted, and he left her the large tip. What did Tom really eat for lunch
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December 01, 2010

Twice ten are six of us,
Six are but three of us,
Nine are but four of us;
What can we possibly be?
Would you know more of us?
Twelve are but six of us,
Five are but four, do you see?
What are we?
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