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Business is Good Yeah, they keep me locked up, but I guess I'm thankful, in short. I hand out the beatings, while my neighbors import and export. We make a good team, especially me as the muscle, But with two dozen guards, I'm glad we never tussle. But really, I got a lotta my own connections, Imports, exports, with thousands collectin'. But between us, there's really no competition, I call it

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Letter Juggle 5 Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship. 1. Pain - Nil 2. War -

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Slipped and fell off A man was washing windows on a high-rise office building when he slipped and fell off a sixty foot ladder onto the concrete sidewalk below. Incredibly, he did not injure himself in any way. How was this possible? (Scoll Down for Solution) \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ Solution He was standing on the bottom rung.

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Spazy Croonerisms 19 A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following

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Homonym Sentences Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters The blanks in the following sentences will be filled in with three different homonyms (words that are spelled differently but sound alike) to make valid sentences. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the words. Can you fill in the blanks? 1.

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Can You Find It? Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters There are so many words. If you take the letters found in the word VALENTINES, using the clues below, can you figure out the words that can be made? 1. A number between 8 and 10 2. A person owned by another person 3. An indigenous person 4. To express

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Decapitation Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement. Decapitate me and all becomes equal. Then truncate me and I become second. Cut me front and back and I become two less than I started. What am I? (Scoll Down for Solution) \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ Solution The word Seven. seven even (

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Forward and Back Each pair of hints below relates to two words. One of the words is the other one spelled backward. What are the ten word pairs? Example: married, moisture Answer: wed, dew 1. light source, rodents 2. dwell, wicked 3. retain, sneaking look 4. weapons, tight fit 5. portion, catching device 6. prize, furniture compartment 7. drinking aid, skin blemishes 8. stopper, big swallow 9

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  Old Mother Suzie Old Mother Suzie had but one eye, And a long tail that she would let fly. Every time she went over a gap, Part of her tail would get caught in a trap. Who is Mother Suzie? (Scoll Down for Solution)\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/Solution A Needle and Thread

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. Epitaphs . Below are four epitaphs (writing on gravestones). From the writings, can you tell the occupation of each person? 1. Here lies Mortimer Bibbs. He took part of ours and gave it to big brother, but he always had good form. 2. Here lies Dirk McDuff, who toppled giants with weapons of steel. If only he'd heard his partner's shout before the giants found their revenge. 3. Here lies

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Brain Teaser: Spazy Croonerisms 6Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and lettersA spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may

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. Grandmas and Trolls Math brain teasers require computations to solve. You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It's her birthday, and you want to give her the cakes you've made. Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly,

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Brain Teaser: Live Above a StarRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.I live above a star, and yet I never burn,I have eleven neighbors, and yet none of them turn,I am visited in sequence, first, last or in between,PRS (& sometimes Q) are my initials,Now, tell me what I mean.(Scoll Down for

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. Brain Teaser:  Behead G Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters. When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first. Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic Answer: The words are Start and Tart. 1. Firm earth ->

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Brain Teaser:  Live Above a Star Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement. I live above a star, and yet I never burn, I have eleven neighbors, and yet none of them turn, I am visited in sequence, first, last or in between, PRS (& sometimes Q) are my initials, Now, tell me what I mean. (Scoll

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Technobabble IThe following are colloquialisms/idioms written in their literal form. Try to find all four.Example: A Panthera Pardus is incapable of altering its texture. (A leopard can't change its spots)1. Revert to the first quadrilateral of equal sides and angles.2. One suffering from Macular Degeneration guiding one with less than 1/10 of normal vision.3. Restrain your multiple Equus

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Boxing match Two boxers are in a boxing match (regular boxing, not kick boxing). The fight is scheduled for 12 rounds but ends after 6 rounds, after one boxer knocks out the other boxer. Yet no man throws a punch. How is this possible? . (Scoll Down for Solution) \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ Solution They are female boxers.

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Puzzling Prattle Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning. Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before

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Double-Nitions IILanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and lettersMany of our everyday words have more than one meaning. Below are 13 pairs of definitions; both definitions in each pair fit the same word. When read down, the first letters of the word will spell out the name of the first person who invented the first modern

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Timepieces Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning. A sundial is a timepiece that has the fewest number of moving parts. Which timepiece has the most moving parts? (Scoll Down for Solution) \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ Solution An Hourglass

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Van Gogh's Relatives Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters. David Van Gogh (pronounced "Go") had many relatives. Can you guess by the clues who they are? Example: His dizzy Aunt? Answer: Verti-Gogh How many other relatives can you guess? A fruit loving cousin? The Grandfather from Yugoslavia? The cousin

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Beethoven's TeaserLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and lettersBeethoven was a lover of teasers of all kinds, and often submitted the following to his friends.What word can be created when following these directions?1) Start at D.2) Go up Eight.3) Go down Eleven.4) Go up Five.What word is it?(Scoll Down for Hint)\/\/\/

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Everybody Loves a Nut!We're all nuts .. can you name us?1. Big country in South America.2. A pod is my pad.3. This came down in Germany.4. Confection ingredient.5. Sneaking a look-on.6. Gorillas show dominance by beating this.7. May be found in the company of a witch.Scoring:1-3 right. Sorry, you're normal.4-5 right. I'm beginning to worry about you!6-7 right. Definitely certifiable nut expert!

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Jungle Case Study - Brain Teaser 1. How will you put an elephant in a fridge in 3 steps? 2. How will you put a zebra in a fridge in 4 steps? 3. The King of the Jungle, the lion, is having a wedding ceremony. All of the animals come to attend the ceremony except one. Which one is it and why doesn't it come? 4. A man has to desperately cross the river to get from one place to the other in a

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  Force Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases. A man wanted to encrypt his password but he needed to do it in a way so that he could remember it. His password is 7 characters long. The password consists of letters and numbers only (no symbols like ! or <). In order to remember it he wrote down "You force heaven to be empty."

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