What number satisfies this requirement? Twice the number is 99 more than half of the number.
66.
2 × 66 = 132 and 132 – 66 / 2 = 99.
66.
2 × 66 = 132 and 132 – 66 / 2 = 99.
What breaks on the water but never on land?
A wave.
What word starts with the letter “I”, becomes another word by adding the letter “A” yet has the same pronunciation?
Isle, Aisle
What word comes next?
one three five four ______
Four. Each word is the number of letters in the previous word. And since four has four letters, it would continue with four forever after.
Four. Each word is the number of letters in the previous word. And since four has four letters, it would continue with four forever after.
As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, I am the partner of ready. Restore me, I become the domain of beasts.
Stable. A table is a place of meeting. Able and ready is a common phrase, and a stable is where beasts reside (beasts of burden, not beasts like the one in Beauty and the Beast who lived in a glorious castle but the west wing was forbidden to enter until Belle…I’ve said too much!).
Stable. A table is a place of meeting. Able and ready is a common phrase, and a stable is where beasts reside (beasts of burden, not beasts like the one in Beauty and the Beast who lived in a glorious castle but the west wing was forbidden to enter until Belle…I’ve said too much!).
Two women apply for a job. They are identical and have the same mother, father and birthday. The interviewer asks, “Are you twins?” to which they honestly reply, “No”.
How is this possible?
They are triplets.
What state is round on one side, high in the middle, and round on the other side?
Ohio. This one works a little better when spoken rather than read, but O is round, hi sounds like high and the last O is as round as the first.
Ohio. This one works a little better when spoken rather than read, but O is round, hi sounds like high and the last O is as round as the first.
Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white?” or “The yolk of the egg is white?”
Neither. Yolks are yellow.
Neither. Yolks are yellow.
Colored as a maiden tweaked, Time was naught when I began; Through the garden I was sneaked, I alone am the fall of man.
What am I?
An apple.
How could the 22nd and the 24th U.S. Presidents have the same parents, but not be brothers?
The 22nd and 24th U.S. presidents were both the same person – Grover Cleveland.
The 22nd and 24th U.S. presidents were both the same person – Grover Cleveland.