| 21 SEP 2004 at 6:23am |
EvaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | 1) I know the answer, I guess I've seen it before.
2) 42?
4) vs. Because it's not a...title or measurement...I mean...argh...it's not something you...oh, you know what I mean...
5) Take a grapefruit from the box labeled 'pink & white'. Cut it. If it's pink, this box must be the pink batch. If it's white, the box is the white batch. Then, if it was pink, since all the boxes are wrongly labeled and need to be switched, take the pink&white label and put it on the box labeled white. The pink label obviously goes on the box you took a specimen from. The white label goes on the last box.(if the cut one was white, it's the other way around).
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| 21 SEP 2004 at 6:29am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Eva (21 SEP 2004 6:22am)
2) 42?
Yes.
4) vs. Because it's not a...title or measurement...I mean...argh...it's not something you...oh, you know what I mean...
I think I know, but that's not it.
5) Take a grapefruit from the box labeled 'pink & white'.
I guess that was too easy
I forgot my sig.
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| 21 SEP 2004 at 4:01pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Elfstone (20 SEP 2004 8:13pm)
Nice.
That's the one!
This means, there's just one left to hunt down from my batch. It's this one:
3) What is the difference between a teacher and a train?
The clue to this was:
Start with the train. Think of sounds.
Well trains go Choo-Choo but what that has to do with Teachers ???
I first thought it was that Teachers train the mind, but the second part doesn't fit (minds the train)
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 21 SEP 2004 at 4:13pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Lucien21 (21 SEP 2004 4:00pm)
Well trains go Choo-Choo but what that has to do with Teachers ???
"choo-choo", right
Now what?
Think about students, not teachers. That may be easier.
@Michal
#3 It will walk. Because that's a four-letter-word.
#4 oz. ? Because "z" is not in the word this abbreviation stands for? It's not the abbreviation of the English word? I think it's "ounces", right?
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| 27 SEP 2004 at 10:10pm |
GreySorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Eva (23 SEP 2004 8:28pm)
3) If you take 7, then 17, & then 8 from me, you have 160. But if you take 6, then 17, then 8 from me, you have 170... What am I?
7,178,160
Finally, if you take 1, then 4, then 1 from me, you have 762.
Oh well. So much for that theory.
Am I on the right track?
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| 28 SEP 2004 at 6:18am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Andromus (26 SEP 2004 11:24pm)
Some lateral thinking is required for this one, yes.
Any hints?
Anyways here's a few rhyming ones. For each phrase, find a two-word phrase with matching meaning. Example: unhappy father - sad dad.
1. white bear's tooth
2. child bed
3. intense illumination
4. prison correspondence
5. fine liqueur
6. rotund southpaw
7. small dock
8. animal burrow
9. snack sauce
10. very happy extremist
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| 28 SEP 2004 at 7:47am |
EvaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Grey (27 SEP 2004 10:10pm)
7,178,160
Am I on the right track?
Yes.
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| 28 SEP 2004 at 10:40am |
AnneGuild Master
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Status : Online | May I just send 1/2 dozen of the descriptions?
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| 28 SEP 2004 at 12:04pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MichalN (28 SEP 2004 6:18am)
Any hints?
OK. A certain sport holds the answer to this one.
Anyways here's a few rhyming ones. For each phrase, find a two-word phrase with matching meaning. Example: unhappy father - sad dad.
1. white bear's tooth
2. child bed
3. intense illumination
4. prison correspondence
5. fine liqueur
6. rotund southpaw
7. small dock
8. animal burrow
9. snack sauce
10. very happy extremist
1. polar molar
2. tot cot
3. bright light
4. jail mail
5. dandy brandy
6. hefty lefty
9. chip dip
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| 28 SEP 2004 at 12:53pm |
GreySorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (28 SEP 2004 6:18am)
1. white bear's tooth
2. child bed
3. intense illumination
4. prison correspondence
5. fine liqueur
6. rotund southpaw
7. small dock
8. animal burrow
9. snack sauce
10. very happy extremist
7. mere pier
8. mole hole
10. glad rad?
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| 29 SEP 2004 at 1:53am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Andromus got all his answers right. Grey's #8 is also correct, and #10 sounds good to me even if there's another possible solution (think three-syllable words). #7 is wrong though, a pier isn't really the same as dock.
I forgot my sig.
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| 29 SEP 2004 at 2:06am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Ah, now I think I know:
7. short port
10. ecstatic fanatic
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| 29 SEP 2004 at 2:28am |
GreySorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (28 SEP 2004 6:18am)
10. very happy extremist
gay McVeigh
Sorry. I'm sure that's not what you had in mind.
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| 29 SEP 2004 at 2:51am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Grey (29 SEP 2004 2:28am)
Sorry. I'm sure that's not what you had in mind.
No Andromus got it right.
And "short port" would work too, although the official solution is "dwarf wharf".
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| 3 OCT 2004 at 9:02pm |
EvaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Some answers for my old, un-guessed riddles:
Originally Posted By Eva (23 SEP 2004 8:28pm)
3) If you take 7, then 17, & then 8 from me, you have 160. But if you take 6, then 17, then 8 from me, you have 170. Finally, if you take 1, then 4, then 1 from me, you have 762. What am I?
17625.
In the first situation, you take 7, which leaves you with 1625 (taking the in the sense of removing it, & not subtracting it from the number as a whole), subract 17, & you have 1608, then take 8, which leaves you with 160. For the second situation, you take 6 from 17625, which leaves you with 1725. Subtract 17, & you now have 1708, & if you remove the 8, you have 170. In the last situation, remove 1, so you have 7625. Subtract 4, & you have 7621. Remove the 1, & you have 762.
4) For each of the following equations, letters have been substituted for the numbers. This substitution is consistent throughout all 4 of the equations. Determine what number (from 0-9) is represented by each of the 10 letters.
A. LFOH
B. LTEL + EMAO + LAHF MOST HOST
C. ELRO
D. OTTH + OLRF + LETH MORE FORE
This one is posed very strangely, the equals signs seem to be missing. So, can someone please figure out the correct question if I disclose the answer? Jeopardy! The answer is supposedly this:
R=0, L=1, O=2, H=3, F=4, T=5, E=6, A=7, M=8, S=9. The answers to the 4 equations were: A. 8295, B. 3295, C. 8206, D. 4206
The prize for the correct question is a tasty apple.
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| 3 OCT 2004 at 10:35pm |
EvaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Okay. No takers. I'll post a fresh batch then. I promise they're solvable....
1) If each letter in the following equations represents a number from 1 through 9, determine what number each letter represents.
A. A+A+B+C = 13
B. A+B+C+D = 14
C. B+B+C+D = 13
2) Should the letter I be on the top or bottom row?
A H J K
B C D E F G L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
3) A little girl is in Missouri, & her mother is in California. The little girl is in an accident, & has to be rushed to a nearby hospital. The little girl is the daughter of the nurse who assists her. How is this possible?
4) If a juggler juggles 4 objects, how many total throws must he or she make before the objects are returned to their original positions (i.e. the original 2 objects in each hand)? The juggler starts out with 2 objects in each hand, & throws 1 object from 1 hand, then another object from the second hand, then the remaining object from the first hand, & so on. Except for the first throw for each hand, there is a moment where the throwing hand no longer holds anything after each throw. You may wish to draw a diagram for this one.
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| 3 OCT 2004 at 11:49pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | 1) A=2, B=1, C=8, D=3
2) Bottom row (if the solution has something to do with pronunciation)
3) In this day and age, there's no reason why the girl couldn't have two moms... but I guess the nurse was her father
I forgot my sig.
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 12:21pm |
EvaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MichalN (3 OCT 2004 11:49pm)
1) A=2, B=1, C=8, D=3
2) Bottom row (if the solution has something to do with pronunciation)
3) In this day and age, there's no reason why the girl couldn't have two moms... but I guess the nurse was her father
All correct! There're in fact several solutions to the first.
And it was her biological parent I guess....
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| 7 OCT 2004 at 6:39pm |
EvaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Seems I'm all keeping this thread alive. Here's a bunch lateral thinking puzzlers:
#1 In the middle of the ocean is a yacht. Several corpses are floating in the water nearby.
#2 A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold and jewels on the floor, a chandelier attached to the ceiling, and a large open window.
#3 A man and his wife raced through the streets. They stopped, and the husband got out of the car. When he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car.
#4 A body is discovered in a park in Chicago in the middle of summer. It has a fractured skull and many other broken bones, but the cause of death was hypothermia.
#5 A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister. The judge declares, "This is the strangest case I've ever seen. Though it's a cut-and-dried case, this woman cannot be punished."
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| 7 OCT 2004 at 7:01pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Eva (7 OCT 2004 6:39pm)
Seems I'm all keeping this thread alive. Here's a bunch lateral thinking puzzlers:
Those work best in Q&A, but I try:
#1 the corpses are parachuters who just happened to land next to the yacht?
#2 no clue
#3 the stranger shot her from the backseat? this is very vague...
#4 he fell out of a plane? ok, forget that
#5 they are siamese twins
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