Whoever makes me can hear me, but to all others I’m silent. What am I?
A thought in your head. You can hear it, but no one else can. Unless you read minds, but then you’d have bigger problems, like figuring how how to remain sane in large crowds.
A thought in your head. You can hear it, but no one else can. Unless you read minds, but then you’d have bigger problems, like figuring how how to remain sane in large crowds.
Say my name and I disappear. What am I?
Silence.
An alternate version is, “What is so fragile it breaks when you say its name?”
Silence.
An alternate version is, “What is so fragile it breaks when you say its name?”
Get from the word FISH to SEAL by changing one letter at a time and forming another English word in each step.
1. FISH
1. FISH
1. FISH
What question can you never honestly answer yes to?
Are you asleep? (or dead, or conscious, or being silent).
Are you asleep? (or dead, or conscious, or being silent).
Find a single letter that replaces the first letter in the two words of each row to make two new words. What word is formed by combining the new letter of each row?
For example: PLANK _ BRISK
The new letter is F, making FLANK and FRISK. And F would be the first letter of the answer.
AMBER _ KNITS
1. U – UMBER and UNITS
The new word is USED.
1. U – UMBER and UNITS
The new word is USED.
What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
A staircase. They go up and down, but you’re the one moving.
A staircase. They go up and down, but you’re the one moving.
My letters become three faces,
What are the three words?
Sailed, ideals and ladies.
Sailed, ideals and ladies.
If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance that you will be correct?
a) 25%
This is becomes a self-referential paradox. Both A and D would be correct if there were four unique answers, but since A and D are the same answer, the chance that you would choose a correct answer is 50%, which makes B correct. But if there’s only one correct answer, the odds of choosing the correct one at random goes back to 25%. And around and round you go.
There’s a lot of discussion at Richard Wiseman’s blog and more at Lifehacker , where I first saw this.
This is becomes a self-referential paradox. Both A and D would be correct if there were four unique answers, but since A and D are the same answer, the chance that you would choose a correct answer is 50%, which makes B correct. But if there’s only one correct answer, the odds of choosing the correct one at random goes back to 25%. And around and round you go.
There’s a lot of discussion at Richard Wiseman’s blog and more at Lifehacker , where I first saw this.
A flock of birds are trapped in a delivery truck. When would the truck weigh the most?
a) When the birds are resting on the floor
c – The weight doesn’t change since it’s a closed system.
c – The weight doesn’t change since it’s a closed system.
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.