Trick of Mind

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2009-07-04T19:09:00.000-07:00

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Eleven words from seven Letters

2009-07-03T22:28:00.000-07:00

Make eleven words from these seven letters.
(Each word uses all seven letters.)

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Hint: Two of the words are in the Sowpod dictionary only.

Word Fun

2009-07-01T13:15:00.001-07:00

Find me a word that contains 7 times as many consonants as it does vowels.

- Xavier

Another Odd Rafting Trip

2009-07-01T13:14:00.000-07:00

There are 8 people that need to cross the river on a raft.
Only 2 can be on the raft at a time.
There is a Red Indian Chief and his two daughters. A Cowboy with his two sons. A policeman with a criminal.
The Red Indian Chief cannot be with any of the Cowboy's sons or he will kill them, unless the Cowboy is present.
The Cowboy cannot be with any of the Chief's daughters or he will kill them, unless the Chief is present.
The policeman must be with the criminal at all times or the criminal will escape.
Only the Policeman, Chief and Cowboy know how to operate the raft.
Try getting everyone across.

SideNotes:
The Red Indian Chief and Cowboy will not kill each other. Well you can say they know they are evenly matched so fighting is pointless.
And when I mean they cannot be together, it means either together on shore or on the raft.

Well it will take a while but it is possible. Have fun. :D

~MadiLLusionist

So You Know Maths

2009-06-30T01:31:00.000-07:00

Can you think of a non prime number so that all its divisors is visible in the number itself ?

For example divisor of 13 is 1 and 13 so it satisfy the first condition but its a prime so not the second. You have to find a non prime. Your time starts now...

The Odd Rafting Trip

2009-06-28T12:51:00.000-07:00

There are 8 people that need to cross a river on a raft. Only 2 people can be on the raft at a time. There is the Mom, Dad, two sons, two daughters, a policeman, and a criminal. The Mom can't be left alone with any of the sons, for she beats them (its just the rules, go with it), and the Dad can't be left alone with any of the daughters (same reason). The criminal can't be left alone without the officer or else he hurts everyone. Only the Officer, the Mom, and the Dad know how to operate the raft. Get Everyone Across.

- Bren

House Of Night

2009-06-28T02:53:00.000-07:00

A woman walked to her apartment door. When she entered there were two men laying on the floor dead. They both had bullet wounds in their chests. And there were 53 bicycles sitting around them. What happened?

- House Of Night

How many planes ?

2009-06-27T16:21:00.001-07:00

If there are 66 people in each plane, there are 10 full planes and there are 630 passengers

Is this possible?

- matthew hinds

How did he survive?

2009-06-27T16:20:00.001-07:00

A man watched a horror movie in which there was a big pile of dead bodies, he had a drink and he noticed that there was something else in the cup besides the drink, he thought it was nothing. but when he went outside, he fell unconsious, he found himself on top of a big mountain, he fell off and died, he woke up in hospital a day later

how did he survive?

- matthew hinds

A zebra?? and water??!!

2009-06-25T02:53:00.000-07:00

There are five houses.

The Ukrainian drinks tea.

The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.

The Spaniard owns the dog.

Coffee is drunk in the green house.

An Englishman lives in the red house.

Kools are smoked in the yellow house.

The Old Gold smoker owns snails.

Milk is drunk in the middle house.

An Englishman lives in the red house.

The Norwegian lives in the first house.

Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.

The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.

Kools are smoked in the yellow house.

The Japanese smokes Parliaments.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.

Now, if it is given that a resident drinks water and the same OR another has a zebra, which one is it?(or which ones are they)

PS: I hope this is good enough... the standard has gone down a little.

Compass Problem

2009-06-23T22:12:00.001-07:00

How can you draw an Oval on the paper using a compass ?

A fox, hen and a basket of corn

2009-06-23T21:12:00.000-07:00

This is a very old logic puzzle. Maybe in will be fun for some newbies.

A man had a fox, a hen and a basket of corn. He came to a river. There was a canoe there, but he could only take himself and one other thing in the canoe. If left unattend, the fox would eat the hen, or the hen eat the corn.

How did he manage to get himself and all three items across the river?

Equation

2009-06-22T21:53:00.001-07:00

What is one thing you would do to make this question right?

81 X 9 = 801

-- Teddy Kumar

Cheesy

2009-06-22T21:52:00.001-07:00

What Cheese is made backwards?

- Amber Lewis

Minus One

2009-06-20T13:10:00.001-07:00

What is the square root of '-1'?

- Josh Mudie

No Kill

2009-06-20T12:03:00.000-07:00

A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for five minutes. Then finally she hangs him. Later they go out and enjoy a wonderful evening together. How is this possible?

- Ryan Lane

where would I eat my food

2009-06-19T15:29:00.000-07:00

after 7 hours and fifteen days where would I eat my food

Warning: puncuation omitted.

T Shape Number Grid

2009-06-17T19:27:00.000-07:00

if you have a ten by ten grid and you get a t shape of numbers out like this:

1-2-3
--12--
--22--

The t number is the number of the bottom of the t (22)
The t total is all the nubers in the t added together (1+2+3+12+22=40)

find the nth term (to get the t total when you are given the t number)

then do the same with a 9 by 9 and/or 11 by 11 grid and try to find the nth term to get the t total from the t number from any grid.

-- matthew hinds

Next Number

2009-06-16T18:34:00.001-07:00

Solve for the next number in the series:

1 = 7
2 = 16
3 = 27
4 = 40
5 = 55
6 = 72
7= ?

- Bobby Braun

Vicar's Dog

2009-06-15T20:39:00.001-07:00

Why did the vicar only want a black dog ?

Mega Hard Riddle

2009-06-12T16:38:00.000-07:00

There is more than 1 but 1 is too many but if you have too much you don't have any

Alice and Bob

2009-06-11T23:16:00.000-07:00

Today is Alice's birthday. She turned 24. Alice is twice as old as Bob was when Alice was as old as Bob now. How old is bob now ?

Free Fall

2009-06-09T22:51:00.000-07:00

Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?

- Chris Azarian

Hoover Dam Bridge 2

2009-06-09T22:43:00.000-07:00

This is a continuation of the previous item.

A steady convoy of cement trucks are dumping cement into two
hoppers that feed two pumps. The pumps put the wet cement flow
into an 8 inch diameter pipe. The pipe runs almost straight
down 300 foot to the arch footing. The pumps run at 200 psi.

How much cement (in cubic yards) will be pumped into the reinforced
form in the 12 hour period from dusk to dawn?

Hoover Dam Bridge

2009-06-08T22:19:00.000-07:00

Last week, I saw a extreme construction project called the Hoover Dam Bridge.
At both ends of the new bridge in the walls of the canyon were massive amounts of
concrete footings to mount the base of massive arches. They called each of these constructs "Million Dollar pours. During a one night period the block had to be poured into reinforced steel before the daylight so the desert heat could ruin the "pour". The concrete would be delivered by a continious stream of cement trucks and pumped down the wall 300 feet through 8 inch pipe. Twice the announcer said the amount of concrete poured in this one night was a cubic mile.

Could this be possible? One cubic mile of concrete? In one night?