Brain Teaser

27 Jul 2005

I love these things, my teacher in school used to give us one of these every week and the winner used to get a prize. Anyway, here is one to tax you all......
I am the world's greatest traveler. I have been transported by camel, dog sled, pony express, bicycle ,train, steamship, automobile/car, airplane, airship, and rocket. I have portraits of presidents, kings, queens, princes, princesses, shahs, sultans, tribal chiefs, adventures, explorers, patriots, martyrs, inventors, pioneers, artists, musicians, architects, poets, aviators, dramatists, novelists, painters, athletes, cardinals, saints, and sinners.
I have pictures of foreign beaches, rivers, lakes, sounds, waterfalls, geysers, mountains, monuments, castles, temples and ruins of temples, missions, bridges, harbors, docks, locks, locomotives/trains, balloons, rockets, zeppelins, windjammers, native canoes, modern seaplanes, and the world.
What am I? biggrin

27 Jul 2005

Quote by welshBIcouple
I love these things, my teacher in school used to give us one of these every week and the winner used to get a prize. Anyway, here is one to tax you all......
I am the world's greatest traveler. I have been transported by camel, dog sled, pony express, bicycle ,train, steamship, automobile/car, airplane, airship, and rocket. I have portraits of presidents, kings, queens, princes, princesses, shahs, sultans, tribal chiefs, adventures, explorers, patriots, martyrs, inventors, pioneers, artists, musicians, architects, poets, aviators, dramatists, novelists, painters, athletes, cardinals, saints, and sinners.
I have pictures of foreign beaches, rivers, lakes, sounds, waterfalls, geysers, mountains, monuments, castles, temples and ruins of temples, missions, bridges, harbors, docks, locks, locomotives/trains, balloons, rockets, zeppelins, windjammers, native canoes, modern seaplanes, and the world.
What am I?

A newspaper? Aah, maybe a mirror?

27 Jul 2005

Quote by welshBIcouple
I love these things, my teacher in school used to give us one of these every week and the winner used to get a prize. Anyway, here is one to tax you all......
I am the world's greatest traveler. I have been transported by camel, dog sled, pony express, bicycle ,train, steamship, automobile/car, airplane, airship, and rocket. I have portraits of presidents, kings, queens, princes, princesses, shahs, sultans, tribal chiefs, adventures, explorers, patriots, martyrs, inventors, pioneers, artists, musicians, architects, poets, aviators, dramatists, novelists, painters, athletes, cardinals, saints, and sinners.
I have pictures of foreign beaches, rivers, lakes, sounds, waterfalls, geysers, mountains, monuments, castles, temples and ruins of temples, missions, bridges, harbors, docks, locks, locomotives/trains, balloons, rockets, zeppelins, windjammers, native canoes, modern seaplanes, and the world.
What am I?

A postage stamp

27 Jul 2005

Quote by Wishmaster
I love these things, my teacher in school used to give us one of these every week and the winner used to get a prize. Anyway, here is one to tax you all......
I am the world's greatest traveler. I have been transported by camel, dog sled, pony express, bicycle ,train, steamship, automobile/car, airplane, airship, and rocket. I have portraits of presidents, kings, queens, princes, princesses, shahs, sultans, tribal chiefs, adventures, explorers, patriots, martyrs, inventors, pioneers, artists, musicians, architects, poets, aviators, dramatists, novelists, painters, athletes, cardinals, saints, and sinners.
I have pictures of foreign beaches, rivers, lakes, sounds, waterfalls, geysers, mountains, monuments, castles, temples and ruins of temples, missions, bridges, harbors, docks, locks, locomotives/trains, balloons, rockets, zeppelins, windjammers, native canoes, modern seaplanes, and the world.
What am I?

A postage stamp
your to quick for me thats my answer 2 :D

27 Jul 2005

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to the last letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? ..... rolleyes

27 Jul 2005

Quote by bigslut
There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to the last letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? .....

Restarted, Restated, Restate, Estate, State, Sate, Ate, At, A
also you can use...
Streambed, Streamed, Steamed, Teamed, Tamed, Tame, Tam, Am, A
also
Startling, starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I

27 Jul 2005

Quote by salt_n_pepper
There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to the last letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? .....

Restarted, Restated, Restate, Estate, State, Sate, Ate, At, A
also you can use...
Streambed, Streamed, Steamed, Teamed, Tamed, Tame, Tam, Am, A
also
Startling, starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I
Clever Bugger!!! ............ hehehe ..... I was starting from A and trying to work up.... too quick for me!

27 Jul 2005

Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.
This is this puzzle
This is is puzzle
This is how puzzle
This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is an puzzle
This is idiot puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle
biggrin

27 Jul 2005

Quote by salt_n_pepper
Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.
This is this puzzle
This is is puzzle
This is how puzzle
This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is an puzzle
This is idiot puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle

I don't understand... :shock:

27 Jul 2005

Quote by marmalaid
Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.
This is this puzzle
This is is puzzle
This is how puzzle
This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is an puzzle
This is idiot puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle

I don't understand... :shock:
Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line from the top.
sorry :D :D kiss

27 Jul 2005

Welldone Wishmaster !! very good, it is indeed a postage stamp
You win the prize of your choice lol

27 Jul 2005

Quote by salt_n_pepper
Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.
This is this puzzle
This is is puzzle
This is how puzzle
This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is an puzzle
This is idiot puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle

I don't understand... :shock:
Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line from the top.
sorry :D :D kiss

Reeled in and landed, hook, line and sinker ... I'm seriously pmsl here... hehehe

27 Jul 2005

Quote by Wishmaster
Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.
This is this puzzle
This is is puzzle
This is how puzzle
This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is an puzzle
This is idiot puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle

I don't understand... :shock:
Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line from the top.
sorry :D :D kiss

Reeled in and landed, hook, line and sinker ... I'm seriously pmsl here... hehehe
made me laugh :giggle:

27 Jul 2005

You have a barrel, filled to the top with water, which weighs 150 pounds. What can you add to the barrel in order to make it lighter?

27 Jul 2005

a hole..

27 Jul 2005

Quote by bigslut
a hole..

yep well done was a easy one though biggrin

27 Jul 2005

my turn .............
10 10 10 ................ add one straight line anywhere to make !!!
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

27 Jul 2005

10 TO 10

27 Jul 2005

Quote by marmalaid
10 TO 10

Off back to my blonde corner !!!

27 Jul 2005

Right,
I have a friend that has difficulty with the distinction between dream and reality, everything he experiences whilst asleep is false, whereas his experiences whilst awake are obviously true.
One night he experienced that both he and his girlfriend were asleep.
Was he asleep? Was his girlfriend asleep?

27 Jul 2005

Quote by marmalaid
Right,
I have a friend that has difficulty with the distinction between dream and reality, everything he experiences whilst asleep is false, whereas his experiences whilst awake are obviously true.
One night he experienced that both he and his girlfriend were asleep.
Was he asleep? Was his girlfriend asleep?

He doesn't have a girlfriend.

27 Jul 2005

Quote by Wishmaster
Right,
I have a friend that has difficulty with the distinction between dream and reality, everything he experiences whilst asleep is false, whereas his experiences whilst awake are obviously true.
One night he experienced that both he and his girlfriend were asleep.
Was he asleep? Was his girlfriend asleep?

He doesn't have a girlfriend.
Good one, but in this instance he does have a girlfriend. Now answer the flippin' question!

27 Jul 2005

Quote by marmalaid
Right,
I have a friend that has difficulty with the distinction between dream and reality, everything he experiences whilst asleep is false, whereas his experiences whilst awake are obviously true.
One night he experienced that both he and his girlfriend were asleep.
Was he asleep? Was his girlfriend asleep?

If everything he experiences when he's asleep is false, then he was asleep and his girlfriend wasn't............ possibly..............maybe.............my brain hurts now :confused:

27 Jul 2005

Quote by marmalaid
Right,
I have a friend that has difficulty with the distinction between dream and reality, everything he experiences whilst asleep is false, whereas his experiences whilst awake are obviously true.
One night he experienced that both he and his girlfriend were asleep.
Was he asleep? Was his girlfriend asleep?

He doesn't have a girlfriend.
Good one, but in this instance he does have a girlfriend. Now answer the flippin' question!
If he was awake then he couldn't have been asleep coz everything he experiences whilst awake is true... So he is asleep..... his girlfriend is not covered by the same parameters though.. so she is awake.

27 Jul 2005

Quote by Wishmaster
Right,
I have a friend that has difficulty with the distinction between dream and reality, everything he experiences whilst asleep is false, whereas his experiences whilst awake are obviously true.
One night he experienced that both he and his girlfriend were asleep.
Was he asleep? Was his girlfriend asleep?

He doesn't have a girlfriend.
Good one, but in this instance he does have a girlfriend. Now answer the flippin' question!
If he was awake then he couldn't have been asleep coz everything he experiences whilst awake is true... So he is asleep..... his girlfriend is not covered by the same parameters though.. so she is awake.
Your answer is right but your logic isn't quite there.
He can't be awake because he experienced being asleep.
He experienced that BOTH he and his girlfriend were asleep.
This is one fact that must be wrong because he is asleep.
So they can't both be asleep, thus his girlfriend must have been awake.
Maybe his snoring kept her awake biggrin

27 Jul 2005

Quote by marmalaid
Right,
I have a friend that has difficulty with the distinction between dream and reality, everything he experiences whilst asleep is false, whereas his experiences whilst awake are obviously true.
One night he experienced that both he and his girlfriend were asleep.
Was he asleep? Was his girlfriend asleep?

He doesn't have a girlfriend.
Good one, but in this instance he does have a girlfriend. Now answer the flippin' question!
If he was awake then he couldn't have been asleep coz everything he experiences whilst awake is true... So he is asleep..... his girlfriend is not covered by the same parameters though.. so she is awake.
Your answer is right but your logic isn't quite there.
He can't be awake because he experienced being asleep.
He experienced that BOTH he and his girlfriend were asleep.
This is one fact that must be wrong because he is asleep.
So they can't both be asleep, thus his girlfriend must have been awake.
Maybe his snoring kept her awake biggrin

Erm...... 'scuse me ... nowt wrong with my logic..... I ran this past my good mate Spock before posting and he said ..... 'seems logical to me!' .... hehehe

27 Jul 2005

Quote by Wishmaster
Erm...... 'scuse me ... nowt wrong with my logic..... I ran this past my good mate Spock before posting and he said ..... 'seems logical to me!' .... hehehe

Was that Doctor Spock or Mister Spock?

27 Jul 2005

waiting for wishmaster to have his turn as he got the last one right biggrin

27 Jul 2005

Quote by salt_n_pepper
waiting for wishmaster to have his turn as he got the last one right

Me too,come on Wishy, get weaving!

27 Jul 2005

This one is probably far too easy, but here goes:
A frog is sat, dead in the centre of a circle that has a diameter of 6 12 feet. How far does the frog have to jump to be clear of the circle?