I'm posting one puzzle, riddle, math, or statistical problem a day. Try to answer each one and post your answers in the comments section. I'll post the answer the next day. Even if you have the same answer as someone else, feel free to put up your answer, too!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Get a Little Exercise Today
Bill and Judy set out to cover a certain distance by foot. Bill walks half the distance and runs half the distance. Judy walks half the time and runs half the time. Bill and Judy walk and run at the same rate. Who will reach the finish line first?
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Flower Anagrams
Which of the following anagrams is not a flower?
- piltu
- cridoh
- nanitraco
- nejirup
- airadneg
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Wibs and Wobs
Let's say 26 zips weigh as much as 4 crids and 2 wobs. Also, 8 zips and 2 crids have the same weight as 2 wobs.
How many zips have the weight of 1 wob?
How many zips have the weight of 1 wob?
Monday, January 28, 2008
Additional Puzzles Are Required
What number should I put in for the question mark?
6 5 9 2 7
1 4 3 5 ?
8 0 2 8 1
6 5 9 2 7
1 4 3 5 ?
8 0 2 8 1
Friday, January 25, 2008
Words to Live By
Can you translate the following into their more common utterances?
- Superfluous chronological dispatch institutes riddance of valued effects.
- There’s no value to be derived from demanding attention by loud screeches over fallen white liquid derived from the lactic glands of a female bovine.
- An excess of culinary experts impairs the quality of a thin derivative of meat.
- A body of persons abiding in a domicile of silica combined with metallic oxides should not carelessly project small geological specimens.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Common Phrases
These may be common phrases, but how can you tell?
- If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.
- Each vaporous mass suspended in the firmament has an interior decoration of metallic hue.
- It is not advantageous to place the sum total of your barnyard collections into the same wicker receptacle.
- Feathered bipeds of a kindred mind in their segregated environment associate with a high degree of amiability.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Math Can Be Fun
Take your age and multiply it by 2.
Add 5.
Multiply this sum by 50.
Subtract 365.
Add the amount of loose pocket change, but do NOT count change totalling $1 or over (i.e., must be less than $1)
Add 115
Notice anything special?
Add 5.
Multiply this sum by 50.
Subtract 365.
Add the amount of loose pocket change, but do NOT count change totalling $1 or over (i.e., must be less than $1)
Add 115
Notice anything special?
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