Simple game, not simple questions. Let's see how many of these, if any you can actually answer. All answers need a complete reason, not just an answer. Let's see how well you all actually think.

(1) In Florida, if you drop a steel ball weighing five pounds from a height of 45 inches would it fall more rapidly through water at 20 degrees Fahrenheit or through water at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or will it make any difference?

(2) What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

(3) Sam Slug just got out of jail and carried his hat to the St. James Place Hotel. When he arrived he realized he had just went bankrupt. Can you explain how this financial disaster occured?

(4) I live in the town of Beverly. It's a fact that 5% of all phone numbers in my town are unlisted. Knowing this, on average if I selected 100 names at random from the town phone directory how many would be unlisted?

(5) A horse is tied to a five meter rope, but the bale of hay he wants to get to is six meters away. How is it that the horse can reach the hay without breaking the rope?

(6) There is a cage in my towns zoo that contains both peacocks and wild pigs (don't ask why). If there is a total of 30 eyes and 44 feet how many of each are inside the cage?

(7) If you were to take two apples from three apples how many would you have?

1. 40 Degrees. At 20 it's ice.
2. Shorter. (short + er = shorter)
3.
4. 0. If it's in the directory, it's listed.
5. The rope isn't tied to the post.
6.
7. Two apples. I took two and left one, after all.

Sorry for the double post. Didn't want to edit.

3. He's playing Monopoly.
6. 7 boars, 8 peacocks There are fifteen animals in total, as 15 animals * 2 eyes per animal is 30. 7 boars * 4 legs per boar is 28 legs. likewise, 8 peacocks * 2 peacock legs is 16. 16 + 28 = 44 legs.

>.> I'm going to make a limit of being able to answer 2 questions at a time. Too make sure everyone can play.

(1) There are seven coins which look indentical. One of the seven coins weighs slightly less than the other six. Using a blance scale, how could you determine which is the light coin in just two weighings?

(2) Two mothers and two daughters are fishing. If each one caught a fish how did they each take one home?

(3) Which of the following does not belong with the others and why?
Father : Aunt : Sister : Cousin : Mother : Uncle

(4) Using one set of letters in the same order can you fill in the blanks to make a normal sentence?
A _o_a_l_ doctor had _o _a_l_ and therefore, was _o_ a_l_ to operate.

(5) A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towareds the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver seen the dog in time?

(6) An old beggar collects cigarette ends from ashtrays and sidewalks and uses the tobacco to roll his own. He knows fom experiance that it takes 7 ends to make one cigarette. Since he collected 49 ends, how many cigarettes can he make?

(7) If a block weighs 8 kilograms plus half a block what is the weight of a block and a half?

Beaudoin ~ 6

(4) Notable - No Table - Not Able

6: 8. Initially he has enough for 7 cigarettes. However, with those 7 cigarette ends (assuming he didn't smoke them completely) he has enough for one more. 7 + 1 = 8.

7: The total weight is 24 kilograms. The block weights 16 kg (the only possible way a block can weight X + half itself is if it weights 2X). 16 + 8 = 24

um, Aunt? because it has only one syllable...

All are correct except for aunt.

(1) There are seven coins which look indentical. One of the seven coins weighs slightly less than the other six. Using a blance scale, how could you determine which is the light coin in just two weighings?

(2) Two mothers and two daughters are fishing. If each one caught a fish how did they each take one home?

(3) Which of the following does not belong with the others and why?
Father : Aunt : Sister : Cousin : Mother : Uncle

(4) ) A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towareds the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver seen the dog in time?

(5) A woman from New Tork married ten different men from that city, yet she did not break any laws. None of the men died, and she never divorced. How was this possible?

(6) A jury was trying two men for murder. While one was convicted the other was found no guilty. The judge said to the guilty man "Even though your guilt has been established, the law compels me to set you free." Why would the judge say that?

(7) How many grooves are there on each side of a standard 33 1/3 record album that has six songs on each side?

Beaudoin ~ 8
Vilmer ~ 1

(3)Cousin, they aren't the father/mother's brother/sister(uncle/aunt) >.O
(5)The dog barks.

Whoops, I just realized I didn't type #2 correctly, it has been fixed now. >.>

While cousin is correct, that's not the reason I was looking for. Oh, and the dog didn't bark. Look a little bit closer at the question and remember not to assume anything.

(1) There are seven coins which look indentical. One of the seven coins weighs slightly less than the other six. Using a blance scale, how could you determine which is the light coin in just two weighings?

(2) Two mothers and two daughters are fishing. If each one brought a fish home, how did they catch only 3 fish??

(3) Which of the following does not belong with the others and why?
Father : Aunt : Sister : Cousin : Mother : Uncle

(4) ) A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towareds the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver seen the dog in time?

(5) A woman from New Tork married ten different men from that city, yet she did not break any laws. None of the men died, and she never divorced. How was this possible?

(6) A jury was trying two men for murder. While one was convicted the other was found no guilty. The judge said to the guilty man "Even though your guilt has been established, the law compels me to set you free." Why would the judge say that?

(7) How many grooves are there on each side of a standard 33 1/3 record album that has six songs on each side?

Beaudoin ~ 8
Vilmer ~ 1

Let me take a wild guess...

(3) Which of the following does not belong with the others and why?
Father : Aunt : Sister : Cousin : Mother : Uncle

Cousin, because we don't know it's gender?

Father = Man
Aunt = Woman
Sister = Girl
Mother = Woman
Uncle = Man

A wild guess...

(2) It was a girl, her mother and then her grandmother(mother's mother)

(3) It was daytime?

2, 3, and 4 are correct.

(1) There are seven coins which look indentical. One of the seven coins weighs slightly less than the other six. Using a blance scale, how could you determine which is the light coin in just two weighings?

(2) My father bought two cigars for $1.10 One cigar cost a dollar more than the other. How much did each cost?

(3) A hotel manager realized he had overcharged some of his geusts. When they originally paid $30 they were only supposed to pay 25. He called his bellhop and told him to return $5 to the three men he overcharged. The bellhop decided to keep 2 of the 5 to himself and give each man $1 back. So no each man paid $9 instead of the original 10 and the bellhop has 2. But doesn't 9x3=27 and then 27+2=29? What happened to the missing dollar?

(4) I was interested in joining the army awhile back so I went to the library to see what books they had about volunteering. While I was there I saw a book that said VOLIX on the spine. Confused I asked the librarian how to pronounce the title. She laughed, what did she tell me?

(5) A woman from New Tork married ten different men from that city, yet she did not break any laws. None of the men died, and she never divorced. How was this possible?

(6) A jury was trying two men for murder. While one was convicted the other was found no guilty. The judge said to the guilty man "Even though your guilt has been established, the law compels me to set you free." Why would the judge say that?

(7) How many grooves are there on each side of a standard 33 1/3 record album that has six songs on each side?

Beaudoin ~ 8
Kewne ~ 2
Vilmer ~ 1
Zenonix ~ 1

One costs .05 cents

The other costed 1.05 O_o

That's sooooo wrong but hey it's worth a shot no?

The missing dollar was a tip for the bellhop from the three men

she said it was Vol IX (volume 9). The title was put too close together and so it must of confused you.

Doesn't hurt to try

6. They were either Siamese or Identical twins. If they were Siamese, you couldn't put one in jail without putting the other, presumably innocent man in jail. If they were identical, you couldn't tell them apart. If I have to pick 1, I'd say Siamese twins.

5. The woman was the pastor who performed the marriages (an alternative meaning of "marry" means to oversee a marriage).

7. There is only one groove on each side of nearly any kind of record. If there were any more, then there couldn't be continuous music. If the record has *the* groove is a different story entirely.

[QUOTE](1) There are seven coins which look indentical. One of the seven coins weighs slightly less than the other six. Using a blance scale, how could you determine which is the light coin in just two weighings?
You weigh all seven find the weight and then put on oen penny at a time and see which of the coind doesn't add as much.

Wild guess but hey at reast I tried!

2,4,5,6,7 are correct. Winnie: The bellhop took the $2 as his tip and each man paid 9 so 9x3+2=29. The dollar is still missing.

(1) There are seven coins which look indentical. One of the seven coins weighs slightly less than the other six. Using a blance scale, how could you determine which is the light coin in just two weighings?

(2) A hotel manager realized he had overcharged some of his geusts. When they originally paid $30 they were only supposed to pay 25. He called his bellhop and told him to return $5 to the three men he overcharged. The bellhop decided to keep 2 of the 5 to himself and give each man $1 back. So no each man paid $9 instead of the original 10 and the bellhop has 2. But doesn't 9x3=27 and then 27+2=29? What happened to the missing dollar?

(3) Jed Recluse lived alone and liked it that way. He had supplies delivered to him once a week to the top of the cliff that he went on. One day Jed lost his senses, he turned off all the lights and went to bed. When he woke up in the morning he discovered that he had caused the death of several people. How?

(4) There is a train one kilometer long, traveling through a 1 kilometer tunnel and 1 kilometer per hour. How long would it take to get completely through the tunnel?

(5) A pair of twins is how many people?

(6) What word stats with is ends with nd and has la in the middle?

(7) Picture in your head three different boxes that you can not see what they contain. The boxes are labled bananas, cherries, and bananas and cherries. The only problem is each label is incorrect. By only selecting one piece of fruit from one box how can you fix these lables?

Beaudoin ~ 10
Kewne ~ 2
Vilmer ~ 1
Cassini ~ 1
Winnie ~ 1
Midnight Star ~ 1
Zenonix ~ 1

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Think about that first one MS. How many socks do you have if you have a pair of socks?

(1) There are seven coins which look indentical. One of the seven coins weighs slightly less than the other six. Using a blance scale, how could you determine which is the light coin in just two weighings?

(2) A hotel manager realized he had overcharged some of his geusts. When they originally paid $30 they were only supposed to pay 25. He called his bellhop and told him to return $5 to the three men he overcharged. The bellhop decided to keep 2 of the 5 to himself and give each man $1 back. So no each man paid $9 instead of the original 10 and the bellhop has 2. But doesn't 9x3=27 and then 27+2=29? What happened to the missing dollar?

(3) Jed Recluse lived alone and liked it that way. He had supplies delivered to him once a week to the top of the cliff that he went on. One day Jed lost his senses, he turned off all the lights and went to bed. When he woke up in the morning he discovered that he had caused the death of several people. How?

(4) There is a train one kilometer long, traveling through a 1 kilometer tunnel and 1 kilometer per hour. How long would it take to get completely through the tunnel?

(5) A pair of twins is how many people?

(6) Picture in your head three different boxes that you can not see what they contain. The boxes are labled bananas, cherries, and bananas and cherries. The only problem is each label is incorrect. By only selecting one piece of fruit from one box how can you fix these lables?

(7) During WWII, several British naval spies on the lookout for enemy ships and activities, posed as Canadian lobster fishermen. They had large numbers of plastic, orance-colored lobsters made for their covert operations. These lobsters came in various sizes with all the authentic markings. At night, the spies loaded the lobsters into traps and threw them overboard. At daybreak they would hoist the traps aboard the ship. The locals spotted them as frauds instantly from quite a distance. How?

Beaudoin ~ 10
Kewne ~ 2
Vilmer ~ 1
Cassini ~ 1
Winnie ~ 1
Midnight Star ~ 1
Zenonix ~ 1

Going out on a limb here I'm going to say he was in a car.. Sad guess I know but ahh well.


2 then

Let's take a different approach when we look at this.

Each man gives the manager $10, so the manager has $30. He gives $5 to the bellhop, leaving him with $25. The bellhop gives $1 back to each man and keeps $2 for himself.

So.

Each man has $1. ($3)

The bellhop has $2.

The manager has $25.

Hmm. It adds up to $30. Interesting.

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It's all in the wording, you see.

Would that be because he lived in a lighthouse?

Might as well do another. xP



Two hours, I believe.


Edit: Quotes, quotes I say! Misplaced forum code.

7. Lobsters are not orange until the are cooked. Live, they are usually a grey color.

You take 6 of the 7 coins and weight 3 on each side. If they balance then the remaining coins is the lighter one. If they don't then one side will definetely weight more. Take the 3 coins that weight less and out of that 3 weight 1 one each side. If they balance then the last coins is the lighter coin. If they don't then you can see which is lighter obviously.

Very good everyone. Pen your the first person who has ever really gotten the hotel one, everyone else keeps thinking the dollar is actually missing somehow. MS got 5, Pen gets 2 and 4, THoT gets 3, Beaudoin gets 7, and Daydreamer gets 1.

(1) Picture in your head three different boxes that you can not see what they contain. The boxes are labled bananas, cherries, and bananas and cherries. The only problem is each label is incorrect. By only selecting one piece of fruit from one box how can you fix these lables?

(2) Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?


(3) While taking a walk through a large field I found a dead body. As it was winter the entire field was covered with snow but there were no tracks leading to or from the body. The only thing the body had on him was a half open bag on his back. But I instantly knew how he died. How did he?


(4) There is a word in the english language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?

(5) When can you add 2 to 11 and get 1?

(6) You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

(7) A man left home one morning. He turned right and ran straigh ahead. Then he turned left. After awhile he turned left again, running faster than ever. hen he turned left once more and decided to go to home. In the distance he could see two masked men waiting for him. Who were they?

Beaudoin ~ 11
Kewne ~ 2
Penguin ~ 2
Midnight Star ~ 2
Vilmer ~ 1
The Hero of Time ~ 1
Daydreamer ~ 1
Cassini ~ 1
Winnie ~ 1
Zenonix ~ 1

(6) You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

An Egg?!

(7) A man left home one morning. He turned right and ran straigh ahead. Then he turned left. After awhile he turned left again, running faster than ever. hen he turned left once more and decided to go to home. In the distance he could see two masked men waiting for him. Who were they?

Umpire and a Catcher. =D

4) Heroine (He, Her, Hero)

6) Corn on the cob (you husk the corn, and throw away the husks. You then cook it, and eat the kernels, throwing away the cob)

Great to see you back around the trivia's Rudy. It is an ear of corn not an egg though.

(1) Picture in your head three different boxes that you can not see what they contain. The boxes are labled bananas, cherries, and bananas and cherries. The only problem is each label is incorrect. By only selecting one piece of fruit from one box how can you fix these lables?

(2) Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?


(3) While taking a walk through a large field I found a dead body. As it was winter the entire field was covered with snow but there were no tracks leading to or from the body. The only thing the body had on him was a half open bag on his back. But I instantly knew how he died. How did he?


(4) When can you add 2 to 11 and get 1?

(5) What is the one thing that the wisest people regardless of their religion, ethnicity or political agenda agree is between heaven and earth?

(6) There have been many admendments to the constitution, almost all have been debated upon. But none so much as the transfer of power should one of the heads of state die. Who would become president if the Vice-President, and the speaker of the house, the second and third in line die?

(7) In our calender some months have 30 days and some months have 31 days. How many of them have 28?

Beaudoin ~ 13
Kewne ~ 2
Penguin ~ 2
Midnight Star ~ 2
Rudy06 ~ 1
Vilmer ~ 1
The Hero of Time ~ 1
Daydreamer ~ 1
Cassini ~ 1
Winnie ~ 1
Zenonix ~ 1

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(2) Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?


Well if you think out side the box then it is because there are more of them.
$1990>$1989

(3)Sky diving? He didn't open the safety bag in time to release the parachute, then he died?

(5)Life is unpredictable?

11'o'clock, add 2 hours to and you get 1'o'clock =P

Well, here's how I would do it: First, take a piece from the box of mixed. Whatever it is, that is what box it should be. Say it was a cherry. Then you know it should be the cherry box. Then you would be left with two boxes containing bananas in one, and the other would be mixed, though one would be labeled as bananas, and one as cherries. Well, the banana box couldn't have bananas in it, so it would have to be mixed, so the box labeled a cherries would be the mixed one.
If you instead picked a banana out first, switch the words banana and cherry, 'cause I don't want to write any more.



The sky (or air, if you prefer).

Let me take wild guesses again...I'm not that smart, mind you..

(2) Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?
Because more money are made in year 1990 than in year 1989?

(5) What is the one thing that the wisest people regardless of their religion, ethnicity or political agenda agree is between heaven and earth?
My answer would be evilbob's, but I'll take another guess saying 'Death'.

6) The President, as he isn't dead yet.

I'll take a wild guess.


(2) Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?
Because the 1989 bills are outdated compared to 1990. ;-;

Good job all, you only missed one.

(1) What is the one thing that the wisest people regardless of their religion, ethnicity or political agenda agree is between heaven and earth?

(2) When my granfather was lying on his deathbed my grandmother was about to give birth. The Priest was at his bedside as my grandfather dictated his will. "I leave 2/3 of my estate to my child, should it be a boy, and 1/3 to my wife. If the child is a girl I want 2/3 to go to my wife and 1/3 to the child. " He passed on before knowing the gender of his child. As it turns out she had twins, 1 girl and 1 boy. How should the estate be split up between the three?


(3) I work as a magician as a part time job. One of my best tricks is to drop a raw egg 3 feet to the ground without it breaking. Without the aid of any other object how do I do it?


(4) A balance scale is perfectly balanced when there are three cans of beer on one side of the scale and one can of beer and a half pound of fold on the other. Since all the cans of beer are exactly the same size and weight how much does each can of beer weigh?

(5) Explain why or why not you would accept this bet: I will bet you $1 that if you give me $2, I'll give you $3 back.

(6) What crime when attempted is punishable but when commited is not punishable?

(7) A worm is at the bottom of a forty meter hole. It can crawl upwards at the rate of four meters in one day. But then at night it slides down 3 meters. At this rate how long will it take the worm to get out of the hole?

Beaudoin ~ 14
Kewne ~ 2
Daydreamer ~ 2
Penguin ~ 2
Midnight Star ~ 2
Evilbob ~ 1
Rudy06 ~ 1
ShiNoEnjeru ~ 1
Vilmer ~ 1
Unholy Sasuke ~ 1
The Hero of Time ~ 1
Aerith Gainsborough ~ 1
Cassini ~ 1
Winnie ~ 1
Zenonix ~ 1

(5)I will not accept, because he wins $1 in the end.
(6)Killing yourself.

(1) What is the one thing that the wisest people regardless of their religion, ethnicity or political agenda agree is between heaven and earth?

AND, of course.

I wouldn't bother with the bet cause in the end no one gains anything.

EDIT: Sorry I wanted to answer another one ^^;


Fouty Days because technically the worm is moving 1 meter a day.

EDIT AGAIN: Found another answer


The cans of beer are all a quarter of a pound!

The wife would have twice as much as the girl but the boy would have twice as much as the wife therefore...

twice of 1 is 2, twice of 2 is 4: 1+2+4=7

Boy: 4/7 ,Wife: 2/7, Girl: 1/7

7) 37. Most of the time, it is moving 1 meter per 24 hour cycle. At the beginning of the 37th day, however, he's moved 36 meters. At the end of the day, he will have crawled up the 40th meter, and will be out of the hole. You can't slide back down if you're not in, after all.

3) Perhaps because the egg isn't in its shell?

Good job all, you only missed one.

(1) I work as a magician as a part time job. One of my best tricks is to drop a raw egg 3 feet to the ground without it breaking. Without the aid of any other object how do I do it?

(2) There was an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the 'International Home Show'. One of them was the father of the other one's son. How could this be possible?


(3) My father was bragging about his old baseball team. He said "Three of our players hit home runs and two of those home runs were hit with the bases loaded. Our guys won 9 to 0 and not a single man crossed home plate." How is this possible?


(4) A child was born in Boston Massachusetts to parents who were born in Boston Massachusetts yet this child is not an American Citizen, how?

(5) What is the value of one-half of two-thirds of three-quarters of four-fifths of five-sixths of six-sevenths of seven-eights of eight-ninths of nine-tenths of one thousand?

(6) Can you answer this riddle?
My first is in blood and also in barrell,
My second in acorn oak and in apple,
My third and fourth are both the same
Found in the center of sorrow and twice in refrain
My fifth starts eternity ending here
My last is the first of last, oh dear.

(7) If a man and a half can eat a cake and a half in a half a minute and a half, allowing the same situation, how many men would it take to eat 60 cakes in 30 minutes?

Beaudoin ~ 15
Unholy Sasuke ~ 3
Kewne ~ 3
Daydreamer ~ 3
Penguin ~ 2
Winnie ~ 2
Midnight Star ~ 2
Evilbob ~ 1
Rudy06 ~ 1
ShiNoEnjeru ~ 1
Vilmer ~ 1
The Hero of Time ~ 1
Aerith Gainsborough ~ 1
Cassini ~ 1
Zenonix ~ 1

(4)The child was adopted?
(5)Simple, 100.(most likely)

I suppose I'll give these a shot, though I'm not good at them.



The egg is hard-boiled?


If the electrician is the father, then the plumber is the mother. Vice-versa, If the Plumber is the father, then the electrician is the mother.

Just some guesses. =\

4 - The parents are living in the U.S. illegaly? (I have heard this before but don't recall the correct answer.)

And um, half a minute and a half? Did you type that correctly? (It just seems...off.)

(Edit) Oh wait, weren't they all born before Massachusettes became a state or something like that?

(6) Can you answer this riddle?
My first is in blood and also in barrell,
My second in acorn oak and in apple,
My third and fourth are both the same
Found in the center of sorrow and twice in refrain
My fifth starts eternity ending here
My last is the first of last, oh dear.


BARREL?