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Here's one of my favourites, Einstein's Puzzle:

 

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

 

The Brit lives in a red house.

The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

The Dane drinks tea.

The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.

The green house owner drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.

The Norwegian lives in the first house.

The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.

The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.

The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.

The German smokes Prince.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

 

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well done :thumbsup:

 

Nationality: Norweg Dane Brit German Swede

Colour : Yellow Blue Red Green White

Beverage : water tea milk coffee beer

Smokes : Dunhill Blend Pall Mall Prince Blue Master

Pet : cats horses birds fish dogs

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oh, and lexx, the paragraph with any e's... its called a 'lipogram'. another word to baffle people with and look intelligent :)

 

 

oh, and here's one that our maths c teacher set us a long time ago. took me about 20 minutes of solid working...

 

"In a "seven-eleven" (7-11) store, a customer selected four items to buy. The check-out clerk says that he multiplied the costs of the four items and obtained 7.11, the very name of the store! The customer calmly tells the clerk that the costs of the items should be added, not multiplied. The clerk then informs the customer that the correct total is also $7.11.

What are the exact costs these four items? "

 

 

If anyone can do it.... They'll get a special treat.

 

 

oh, and lexx.... BZZZZZZZZZZT! :p

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+Would you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?

 

+Which word, if pronounced right, is wrong, but if pronounced wrong is right?

 

+Everything Mr Red owns is red, he lives in a red bungalow and his chairs are red, his tables are red. His ceiling, walls and floor are all red. All of his clothes are red, his shoes are red, even his carpet, television and phone are red. What colour are his stairs?

 

+Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

 

+Can you find something which has keys that open no locks, with space but no room, and allows you to enter but not to go in?

 

+Can you guess what the following abbreviations mean ?

 

COM DRA ADV ACT SPO MUS HOR SCI

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Originally posted by GonkH8er

sq rt 16 = 4

sq rt 9 = 3

sq rt 4 = 2

sq rt 1 = 1

sq rt 0 = 0

 

whats the sq rt -1? and its possible :)

 

 

sq rt -1 = i

i² = -1, so sq rt i² = i

 

i got a lot off math at uni, so it aint hard for me.

 

riddle: which being walks on 4 at morning, 2 at noon and 3 at evening?

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haha, stumped ya!

 

 

 

I would rather the crocodile attack the alligator. Read the sentence again to see the double meaning. ;)

 

wrong

 

he lives in a bungalow, therefore, there are not stairs

 

Counterfeit money

 

A keyboard

 

Movie types: comedy, drama, adventure, action, sports, musicals, horror, science fiction

 

:D

 

 

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Originally posted by Padanime

 

 

sq rt -1 = i

i² = -1, so sq rt i² = i

 

i got a lot off math at uni, so it aint hard for me.

 

riddle: which being walks on 4 at morning, 2 at noon and 3 at evening?

 

Easy,man.

 

4 Legs at morning,I.E. baby crawling

2 Legs at noon, I.E. teen or adult standing upright

3 Legs at Evening, I.E. Old man with a cane to make it 3 legs.

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