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Wednesday
09/06/06 |
The following is a new variation of an old friend. Though it looks rather complicated and difficult, it is absurdly easy if properly attacked. If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half; how many and a half who lay better by half will lay half a score and a half in a week and a half?
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Tuesday
09/05/06 |
The same seven letters, rearranged into two different words, can be used to fill in the blanks below. Fill in the blanks to complete the sentences.
"What happened to your constant
_ _ _ _ _ _ _?" asked the lady with the parasol, having the driver stop her carriage to ask this most indiscreet question. "Well," said the lady in the bustle gown who had just returned to town for a visit, "Didn't you hear? We _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ."
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Monday
09/04/06 |
Here is a very simple puzzle, yet I have seen people perplexed by it for a few minutes. A miller was accustomed to take as toll one-tenth of the flour that he ground for his customers. How much did he grind for a man who had just one bushel after the toll had been taken?
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Sunday
09/03/06 |
What word, expression, or name is depicted below?
79 S 34 A 92
F 185 E 376
7 T 27 Y 12
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Saturday
09/02/06 |
A correspondent (C. E. B.) sends the following. It is not diflicult, if properly attacked:
AxB=B, BxC=AC, CxD=BC, DxE=CH, ExF=DK, FxH=CJ, HxJ=KJ, JxK=E, KxL=L, AxL=L Every letter represents a different digit, and, of course, AC, BC, etc., are two-figure numbers. Can you find the values in figures of all the letters?
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Friday
09/01/06 |
A blind beggar had a brother who was killed in an automobile accident. At the funeral it came out that the deceased had no brother. What, then, was the relationship between the two?
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Thursday
08/31/06 |
Bill, John, and Fred are going to marry Betty, Joan, and Sally. Tell which girl is going to marry which man if the following facts are true: Bill is a lawyer. Betty is not engaged to the engineer. The doctor's future wife is not Joan. John is engaged to Sally. Fred is the engineer.
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Wednesday
08/30/06 |
Each of the Johnson brothers has as many sisters as he has brothers. Each of the Johnson sisters has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the Johnson family?
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Tuesday
08/29/06 |
These words belong to the same logical family:
CALCIFEROUS
CUPELLATION
EDUCATION
LACTIFEROUS
OUTDISTANCE
PNEUMONIA
Which of these words does too?
ZYMOTICALLY
ABSTEMIOUS
UNAPOSTOLIC
MEDALLION
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Friday
08/25/06 |
A fly is walking around the groove of a 33 r.p.m. record. The record is lying
flat on the floor, and when looked at from above, the fly appears to be
traveling clockwise. If it carries on in this way, will it eventually arrive at
the edge of the record or the center?
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Thursday
08/24/06 |
If 70 percent of the population have defective eyesight, 75 percent are hard of hearing, 80 percent have sinus trouble and 85 percent suffer from allergies, what percentage (at a minimum) suffer from all four ailments?
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Wednesday
08/23/06 |
A row of four figures in value will be
Above seven thousand nine hundred and three;
But when they are halved, you'll find very fair
The sum will be nothing, in truth I declare.
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Tuesday
08/22/06 |
There was a poor man called Johannes Bull,
Who children did possess, a quiver full;
And who yet managed somehow to scratch on,
By the true help of daughter and of son.
Six little workers had he, each of whom
Earned something for the household at the loom.
I will not tell you how much each did gain,
For I'm a puzzler, and I don't speak plain;
But, as I would you should possess a clew,
Some tell-tale facts I'll now disclose to you.
Week after week, Jane, Ann, Joe, Bet, Rose, Jim,
Earn ten and ten pence, father says, for him,
And in this way: The eldest daughter, Jane,
Gains seven pence more than sister Anne can gain;
Ann eight pence more than Joe; while Joe can get
By his endeavors sixpence more than Bet;
Bet, not so old, earns not so much as those,
But by her hands gets four pence more than Rose;
Rose, though not up to Jane, yet means to thrive,
And every week beats Jim by pennies five.
Now, say what each child worker should receive When father draws the cash on pay
day eve?
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Monday
08/21/06 |
1. In olden days, the student of logic was given this problem: If half of 5 were 3, what would one-third of l0 be?
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2. Place the nine digits, so that the sum of the odd digits may be equal to the sum of the even ones.
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Sunday
08/20/06 |
If a crab and a half weigh a pound and a half, but the half crab weighs half as much again as the whole crab, what do half the whole crab and the whole of the half crab weigh?
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Saturday
08/19/06 |
1. Tom is older than Sue, and Sue is younger than Mary, who is older than
Tom. Who is the oldest of the three?
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2. If you had a piece of paper that was 0.001 inch thick, how tall a
pile would it make if it was doubled fifty times?
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Friday
08/18/06 |
A man and a woman are walking along a railway track. A train passes the man in 10 seconds. Twenty minutes later, it reaches the woman. It passes her in 9 seconds. How long after the train leaves the woman will the man and woman meet if all speeds are constant?
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Thursday
08/17/06 |
Two years ago, a man was offered a motorcycle for $1024, but he declined to buy
it. A year later, he was offered the same motorcycle for $640, but again
decided not to buy it. A little while after that, he was again offered the
motorcycle, this time at $400. Again, he refused to buy it. Last week, he turned
the motorcycle down even though the price had now fallen to $250. If the owner
offers it for sale yet again, and he makes a consistent reduction, how much will
it be for sale for the next time?
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