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Post subject: Riddles and brain teasers  Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:58 |
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1. When asked how old she was Lucy replied ... “In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago, How old am I?”
2. In a family there are children, both boys and girls. Each of the boys has the same number of brothers as sisters. Each of the girls has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many boys and how many girls in the family?
3. You have a chicken, a fox and a bag of grain. You need to get all three across the river, you only have one boat. Of you leave the chicken with the grain, the chicken will eat the grain, if you leave the fox with the chicken, the fox will eat the chicken. How do you get all three across the river unharmed?
4. What is once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?
5. If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
6. A blue house is made of blue bricks. A red house is made of red bricks. A yellow house is made of yellow bricks. What would a green house be made of?
7. When john was six years old he hammered a nail into a tree to mark his height. At sixteen, ten years later john returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimetres each year, how much higher would the nail be?
8. How many times can you subtract 5 from 25.
9. What is it, the more you take the more you leave behind?
10. Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?
11. There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
12. It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
13. what is black when you buy it, red when you use it and grey when you throw it away?
14. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday or Sunday?
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 05 Oct 2009 20:29 |
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i think i know the answers to 4 and 6... the rest iv not idea and my brain is now hurting after just reading the others!! lol lol
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 06 Oct 2009 00:43 |
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TB, post your answers here and ill let you know when a correct one comes up
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 06 Oct 2009 10:49 |
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okedoke....
q3... take the chicken over, go back, get the fox, take the chicken back with you, leaving the fox on the island, leave the chicken at orig point and take the grain over, leav the grain and the fox on 2nd island, go back and get the chicken??
q4.... m
q6... glass
q14.. im not totaly sure about this but think its... yesterday, today, tomorow???
rest of them im not sure!! but will keep trying....
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 06 Oct 2009 10:57 |
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 06 Oct 2009 18:18 |
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TB you are correct for 3,4,6 and 14
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 06 Oct 2009 21:01 |
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ooohhh im gonna have to have a go at the rest of them now... ta cm!! lol xx
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 06 Oct 2009 23:25 |
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13.... coal?
8...... 5?
3........ 3 boys and 2 girls?
7...... 50cms?
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 07 Oct 2009 02:51 |
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Sarah - Q13 correct
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 08 Oct 2009 20:31 |
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is that it and there was me thinking i was clever lol!!
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 08 Oct 2009 21:30 |
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7- nail will still be in same position
8 - once
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 08 Oct 2009 22:38 |
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 08 Oct 2009 22:48 |
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Q11. Fishing?
Q12 - Lettice?
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 09 Oct 2009 09:08 |
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angel correct for 7 and 8.
TB, s***y no q1 is not 8.
TB, q 11 no, q12 correct.
Your doing good!!
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 09 Oct 2009 12:43 |
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ooohhh!!! im winning!! lol
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 09 Oct 2009 19:59 |
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well im losing this is doing my head in lol just call me brain d**d.he he he
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 12 Oct 2009 20:44 |
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aww ellie.. your not brain d**d!!!... far from it!!!! xx
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 10 Dec 2009 21:44 |
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Q1 - 12
Q2 - 2 boys, 1 girl
Q5 - 1 cat
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 10 Dec 2009 23:15 |
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Post subject: Re: Riddles and brain teasers Posted: 12 Dec 2009 15:31 |
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Sparkie -
Q1 correct
Q2 nope
Q5 nope
Thunderbird -
Q10 Correct
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