Thinking caps on??

[MBrevard]

Do you enjoy puzzles? Here are a few to kick off your weekend. Share your solutions, if you wish.

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
   
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
   
3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?
   
4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
   
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
   
6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. How did sloppy die?
   
7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?
   
8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question, but the location is in Canada?
   
9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
   
10. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
    
11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?
    
12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
    
13. Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?
    
14. What has four legs but only one foot?
    
15. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
    
16. Kindly old Grandfather Lunn
    Is twice as old as his son
    Twenty-five years ago
    Their age ratio
    Strange enough was three to one
    When does Grandfather celebrate his centenary?
    
17. Said a certain young lady named Gwen
    Of her tally of smitten young men
    "one less and three more
    Divided by four
    Together give one more than ten"
    How many boyfriends had she?
    
18. There was a young fellow named Clive
    Whose bees number ten power five
    The daughters to each son
    Were as nineteen to one,
    A truly remarkable hive.
    How many sons (drones) were in the hive?
    
19. A team's opening batter named Nero
    Squared his number of hits, the big hero!
    After subtracting his score
    He took off ten and two more
    And the final result was a "zero".
    How many hits did Nero make?
    
20. Some freshman from Trinity Hall
    Played hockey with a wonderful ball;
    Two times its weight
    Plus weight squared, minus eight,
    Gave "nothing" in ounces at all.
    What was the weight of the ball?
    
21. The Bar Z ranch was a dude ranch. One day a new "dude" asked one of the stable hands how many men were tending the horses in the corral. Having a mischievous sense of humor, he replied, "I saw eighty-two feet and twenty-six heads". He then walked away, leaving the dude scratching his head trying to figure it out. How many men were tending the horses?
    
22. One morning as Paul was getting his newspaper, he noticed on his new house something that needed to be fixed. Heading over to the hardware store, he spoke to the manager, describing his problem. The manager said, "I know just what you need". He led Paul down some aisles and stopped in front of some bins. Digging down into some of the bins, he set something up on the shelf. "I saw your house when it was built", the manager said.
    
    Here's all that you'll need and how much it'll cost...
    five will be 15 cents while fifty will be 30 cents,
    250 will be 45 cents, while 2507 will only cost you 60 cents.
    One lady, about 20 blocks from your house, bought 30247 and only paid 75 cents!
    These are black, but they also come in gold and silver.
    What was the manager selling?
    
23. If it takes 3 people to dig a hole, how many does it take to dig half a hole?
    
24. What is the beginning of eternity. The end of time and space. The beginning of every end. And the end of every place.
    
25. Read this sentence:
    
    Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years.
    
    Now count aloud the F's in that sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE; do not go back and count them again.

Have fun! You'll probably get them all, but just in case, I'll post the answers for everyone on Monday morning.

Love,
MB
xxx

[Rob The Badger]

1= Incorrectly
4= North Pole. White?
5= Trick question, they are both correct. (2+2)/2=2. Whilst (2/2)+2 = 3.
There needs to be a comma to specify.
6= There is a hurricane. The window blew in.
7 = None, it's a hole.
11 = 1.
12 = A wave.
13= Paul is an actor.
14= A bed
15 = Moses did not build an Ark. That was Noah.
25= There are four "f's", people generally overlook the f in "of."

[tukayaway]

Owwwwwwwwww, my head hurts:

1.Incorrectly
2.Whatever time it is that you read the question.
3.3
4.White
5.3
6.A hurricane smashed the window
7.None
8.No difference
9.12:34 5/6/78
10.Umbrella
11.1
12.The sun / A wave
13.He's an actor
14.Bed
15.0
16.He's already reached it.
17.42
18.10000
19.4
20.2 ounces
21.11
22.The numbers to go on front doors.
23.1
24.E
25.6

I think 20 of them are right.Even more impressive was that I had had a few beers while thinking.

[original sin]

I may have to come back to this as I only came on here 'cos I couldn't sleep!!!

1/ incorrectly
2/ currently 3.15am BST
3/ Is the boat anchored? if not it will not change 'cos boats float!
4/ white
5/ two
6/ his fish bowl broke when it was blown over!
7/ none, it's a hole!
8/ none
9/ 12345678
10/ an umbrella
11/ question reads:- how many haystacks can he get in the centre field, not the centre of the field. How can you have a centre field out of two?
12/ The Sun
13/ role play, acting
14/ a bed
15/ none, it was Noah
16/ he already has
17/ 42
18/ 5000
19/ 4
20/ 2oz
21/ what is a dude ranch this either involes one legged men or 3 legged horses, unless you discount the man asking the question losing 1 head & 2 feet which will give you 25 feet and 80 heads being men and 40 horses actually with the corral
22/ door numbers
23/ no such thing as half a hole! a hole is a hole as soon as you start it
24/ e
25/ 4 - unless i can come back and find the catch hee hee hee found the catch now! there are no F's in "that sentence"

[Rob The Badger]

Arrgh! I can't believe I overlooked the "f" question. . . I'm so ashamed. . .

*Eyeore walks off head hung*

[original sin]

eyeore, we shall see...........

[Chris]

1. Incorrectly

2. 19:20

3. 4

4. White

5. 3 - Under mathematical rules, without brakcets etc, division takes priority over addition. Therefore it is half of 2 then add the two.

6. Sloppy is a fish, his bowl fell over hence the water and glass.

7. None

8. 45'F bucket as 30F is below freezing point therefore water is solid ice. Ditto for canada

9. 12345678 (assuming american m/d/yy)

10. Umberella

11. Two fields, No centre field

12. Temperature

13. Actor

14. Bed

15. None, Noah took them on.

16. I dunno!!!!

17. 42 (can i have her phone number please!)

18. 5000

19. 4

20. Dunno

21. Pass

22. Door numbers

23. Define half a hole!!

24. E

25. 6

[Taipan]

3 - none, cause the ladder's in the boat

[Jen]

3 - Assuming the load of the boat stays the same, the bottom rung would remain the same distance from the water as the boat would rise with the tide.

[Bren]

1. incorrectly
2. what ever time it is now
3. boat would float so it would stay the same
4. white
5. 3
6. tidal wave smashed the windows and deposited sloppy the fish on the floor, the water receeded and sloppy died. (thats my theory and im sticking to it!)
7. none its a hole
8. same
9. 12345678
10. umbrella
11. no centre field
12. temperature
13.an actor or hes lying
14. bed
15. none noah did it
16. hes 100 now
17. 42
18. none
19. 4
20. kilograms?
21. 15 horses 11 men
22. house numbers each costing 15 cents
23. 3
24. e
25. none if its a trick 6 if not

joint effort here
logical ones by me - ones needing a brain by meshurp werfifer(blame her if they are wrong!!)

[Chris]

25. none if its a trick 6 if not

It's not a trick. It is a standard catch-you0out sort of question. The human brain ahs great difficulty spotting and registering f's when in a word such as of. There is a reason why but it is too late to try and find it!!!!!

[MBrevard]

Wow! You guys are great! Sorry for the confusion on that last question. Maybe it was the way I presented it.

Here are the answers for you:

1. Incorrectly.
   
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
   
3. None, the boat rises with the tide.
   
4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the north pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
   
5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition. So... half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.
   
6. Sloppy is a goldfish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him.
   
7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt. (And those of you who said 36 cubic feet are wrong for another reason, too. You would have needed the length measurement too. So you don't even know how much air is in the hole.)
   
8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down...
   
9. The time and month/date/year are 12:34, 5/6/78.
   
10. An umbrella.
    
11. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
    
12. The temperature.
    
13. The years are in B.C., not A.D. as you probably assumed. Based on the system we use to number the years, the years counted down in B.C. (but they weren't counting backwards back then).
    
14. A bed.
    
15. None. Moses didn't take animals on the ark. Noah did.
    
16. This year. He is 100, and his son is 50.
    
17. Gwen had forty-two boyfriends. 42-1=41. 41+3=44. 44/4=11. 11-1=10.
    
18. Five Thousand. Ten power five = 100,000. Divide that out (it was a 19:1 ratio) and you get a ratio of 95,000:5,000 (daughters:sons).
    
19. Four. If you square it, you get 16. Subtract his number of hits and you get 12. Subtract 10 and then 2 more and you get 0.
    
20. Two ounces. (Beach ball, or ping-pong ball?) 2x2=4. 4+2^2=8. 8-8=0.
    
21. Eleven men (and 15 horses). 11 (men) x 2 (feet per man)=22, 15 (horses) x 4 (feet per horse)=60, and 22 (men's feet) + 60 (horse's feet) = 82 feet. Also, 11 (men) + 15 (horses) = 26 (total heads).
    
22. House numbers. Each digit costs 15 cents.
    
23. It's impossible to dig a half of a hole. Either you have a hole, or you don't.
    
24. The letter E.
    
25. There are six F's in the sentence. One of average intelligence finds three of them. if you spotted four, you're above average. if you got five, you can turn your nose at most anybody. if you found all six, you are a genius. There is no catch. Many people forget the "OF"s. The human brain tends to see them as "Vs" instead of "F's".

Glad you had some fun with it over the weekend.

Love to all,
MB
xxx

[Bren]

MB, question 11 ?

There is NO centre field!
it does not say "in the centre of the field", it says " in the centre field"
the farmer has two fields so how can there be a centre field?
i was originally going to say one haystack, until i read the question carefully.

[original sin]

hear hear Bren I its the play on words which is usually the thing in these same as No. 2 , 5 & 25............either that or it's the twisted slant my brain takes on these


Here's a few more to keep you all going

1/ Dave ran halfway into the forest in half an hour, Steve claimed to have gone two-thirds of the way into the forest in the same time, but dave said that it was impossible. Why?

2/ When asked who a certain photograph was of, the owner replied " I have neither sister nor brother, but my mother's daughter is that man's mother". Who was in the photograph?

3/ What occurs once in June, once in July, but twice in August?

4/ A bookworm chewed his way through a three volume encycolpedia set. If the covers of each volume are 2.5mm thick and the pages are 310mm thick, how far did the worm travel, as it made its way from the first page of volume one to the last page of volume three?

5/ You enter a deserted house late at nigh. Inside there is an oil lamp, a gas fire and a stove full of wood. you only have one match however, so which should you light first?

6/ A horse ploughs a field all day. if he takes twenty four steps to reach from one edge of the field to the other, how many hoof prints will the horse leave in the last furrow?

7/ Why are 1984 bottles of whiskey more valuable than 1977 bottles of whiskey?

8/ A snil crawls slowly up a garden wall 48cms high. If it crawls forward 8cm a day and slips back 3 cm each night, how long will it take to reach the top of the wall?

9/ a woman has to cut a roll of ribbon into one metre lengths. If it takes her two seconds to measure and cut a length and the whole roll is fifty metres long, how long will it take her to do it?

10/ When the police discovered the body of Colonel Reginald Smith, they found a tape recorder and a gun at his side. One starting the tape they heard a suicide message, closely followed by the sound of a pistol being fired. Without hesoitation the police handed over the case to the murder squad. Why?

11/ The maker does not need it, the buyer does not use it and the user uses it without knowing. What is it?

12/ A vinyl record measures 32cm across. there is a 1cm margin round the edge and a centre label which measures 10cm across. There are 30 grooves per cm. How far does the needle travel if the record is played from start to finish? (to the nearest cm.)

13/ In five years time, I will be three times as old as I was three years ago, how old am I now?

14/ I'm really tired, really tired, so I set my alarm clock for noon, wind it up, and go to bed when the evening news finishes at 10:30. How much sleep will I get?

15/ If a man's mother-in-law can marry his son, and a woman's father can marry her sister-in-law, can a man marry his widow's sister?

16/ A car is driven from A to B at an average speed of 60mph and is then driven back from B to A along the same route at an average speed of 40 mph. What is the average speed of the car for the whole journey?

[Bren]

1-because you can only go halfway into the forest, if you went two-thirds ,yuo'd actually be coming back out.
3- the letter u
5- the match

too tired and it's too late at night to do the others

[Chris]

1/You can only go halfway in before coming back out again

2/ His son??

3/ U

4/ 320mm - When books are on a shelf, the first page is at the right hand side and the last page is on the left. Therefore he only has to go through one complete book and two bindings

5/ The match

6/ none, furrow is between footprints

7/ There are 7 more bottles

8/ 9 days, (5cm per day for 8 days and 8cm on last day!)

9/ 98 seconds (does not ahev to measure last one)

10/ he was poisoned (or gun was not a pistol)

11/ A Coffin

12/ 10cm

13/ 7

14/ 13.5 hours

15/ PASS

16/ Zero, average speed requires a distance and journey started and finished at A so average distance is zero!!