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What Has Four Legs and Flies?

What has four legs and flies?

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A horse with bugs or two pairs of trousers. The four legs should be obvious and the flies are the zippers.

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What Do You Serve?

What do you serve that a polite recipient would immediately send back?

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A ball, when you’re playing tennis, volleyball, table tennis, etc.

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Lighter Than What I’m Made Of

Lighter than what
I am made of,
More of me is hidden
Than is seen.

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An Iceberg.

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The Average of Three

There are three numbers. The first two are 2/3 and 3/4.

What does the third number have to be to make the average of all three be 2?

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4 7/12

In order for the average of three numbers to be 2, they must all add up to 6. That gives you this equation:
2/3 + 3/4 + n = 6

Solve for n = 55/12, or 4 7/12.

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A Head, One Arm and Round Bottom

What has a head, one arm, one leg and a round bottom?

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A handicapped parking sign.

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Numbers Map

Arrange the numbers from 1 to 8 in the following sequence.

     a
  b  c  d
  e  f  g
     h

Each number must not be diagonally or directly adjacent to any number directly before or after it.

For example, 2 can only be placed in one spot.

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Here are two solutions (there might be more).

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What Is The Longest Word With Horizontal Symmetry

A word with horizontal symmetry is one whose letters are a mirror image of themselves. If you drew a horizontal line across the word and folded it over, it would overlap on itself. For example, EXCEEDED and ICEBOX have horizontal symmetry, but VERTICAL and SIMPLE do not.

What is the longest word with horizontal symmetry?

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CHECKBOOK.

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Builds Its Table On My Shelf

From that which comes within itself,
it builds its table on my shelf.

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A spider. The silk comes from within the spider, and the “table” (web) is often built in corners like there are on a bookshelf.

By Sef Daystrom

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A Red Drum

A red drum which sounds
Without being touched,
And grows silent,
When it is touched.

What is it?

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Your heart.

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Picking Red Balls

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?

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59. The first 56 balls could all be non-red colors. If that happened, you’d have to choose from the 8 remaining balls, all of which would be red.

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