A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colors. There are eight of each color (including red). What is the smallest number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red balls?
A three-letter word I’m sure you know, I can be on a boat or a sleigh in the snow, I’m pals with the rain and honor a king, But my favorite use is attached to a string.
A bow. It has three letters, the bow of a boat is the front, bows are found on the presents on Santa’s sleigh, rainbows come with the rain, one bows before a king and a bow and arrow requires a string.
Fred was almost done packing for the day, with five packages left. Unfortunately, Fred dropped the labels and had no idea which label went to which package. What is the probability that Fred managed to correctly label exactly four of the five packages?
Zero. If Fred had correctly labeled four packages, the fifth label would belong to the fifth package and all packages would be correctly labeled. Therefore it is impossible to mislabel exactly four packages.
A man leaves home, turns left, goes straight, turns left again, goes straight and turns left once more then returns home and there’s another man with a mask on. What’s going on?
Use each clue to identify a famous person who last name ends in the letters T-O-N, like George Washington.
1. Friends star 2. Cotton Club bandleader 3. Batman and Beetlejuice lead 4. Blonde, buxom country music legend
Halfway there!
5. Steamboat developer 6. Author of The Age of Innocence 7. Found of a Kmart rival and a Club 8. She lead a news website called The (her last name) Post
Find the names of 10 gems or precious stones hidden in the following story. Each one spans at least two words.
Sir Gade rode toward a castle atop a zebra at a steady gallop, a long way from home. He arrived at the gate and the keeper knelt in shame. “Thy steed must be tired.” Sir Gade replied, “I am on direct orders from the King. Let me through.” A cougar, nettled by the noise, emerged from a shrub. “You must save me!” cried the gate man. Sir Gade, eyes filled with rancor, alighted and gazed toward the sky. An item fell from his cloak as drove his sword into the cougar’s spine. “Let me pass!” cried Sir Gade. The gate keeper, stunned from his saga, tentatively opened the gate, then retrieved the fallen item.
1. topaz – “atop a zebra” 2. opal – “gallop, a long” 3. amethyst – “shame. Thy steed” 4. diamond – “replied, I am on direct” 5. garnet – “cougar, nettled” 6. ruby – “shrub. You” 7. coral – “rancor, alighted” 8. kyanite – “sky. An item” 9. spinel – “spine. Let” 10. agate – “saga, tentatively”
Sir Gade rode toward a castle atop a zebra at a steady gallop, a long way from home. He arrived at the gate and the keeper knelt in shame. “Thy steed must be tired.” Sir Gade replied, “I am on direct orders from the King. Let me through.” A cougar, nettled by the noise, emerged from a shrub. “You must save me!” cried the gate man. Sir Gade, eyes filled with rancor, alighted and gazed toward the sky. An item fell from his cloak as drove his sword into the cougar’s spine. “Let me pass!” cried Sir Gade. The gate keeper, stunned from his saga, tentatively opened the gate, then retrieved the fallen item.
