How can five people divide a bag of five diamonds equally without cutting them while still leaving one diamond remaining in the sack?
Give four of the lucky folks a diamond each, then give the fifth person the bag with the remaining diamond still inside.
Give four of the lucky folks a diamond each, then give the fifth person the bag with the remaining diamond still inside.
In a game of cards, GEORGE partnered with MARY, while TED had to choose a partner. He could have chosen ANN, EDNA, JOAN or ANGELA. Whom did he choose and why?
ANN. If you give each letter a number according to its position in the alphabet: TED = 20 + 5 + 4 = 29 ANN = 1 + 14 + 14 = 29
(George and Mary each add to 57)
ANN. If you give each letter a number according to its position in the alphabet: TED = 20 + 5 + 4 = 29 ANN = 1 + 14 + 14 = 29
(George and Mary each add to 57)
Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English word.
BSAINXLEATNTEARS
The familiar English word that remains is BANANA after removing the phrase “SIX LETTERS”.
The familiar English word that remains is BANANA after removing the phrase “SIX LETTERS”.
I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns.
Stove, fire, smoke.
What does this rebus represent?
Dancing Queen
A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 25th floor of a skyscraper when he slips and falls. He has no safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall, yet he is not hurt. How can this be?
He was cleaning the inside of the window.
He was cleaning the inside of the window.
HIJKLMNO
What 5-letter word does this represent?
Water. Or literally, H to O, which sounds the same as H2 O.
Water. Or literally, H to O, which sounds the same as H2 O.
There is a seven-letter word in the English language that has ten total words without rearranging any of its letters.
What is the word?
Therein
1. the 2. there 3. he 4. in 5. rein 6. her 7. here 8. ere 9. herein 10. therein
Therein
1. the 2. there 3. he 4. in 5. rein 6. her 7. here 8. ere 9. herein 10. therein
What do the following words have in common?
far blow bacon lather fasting wariness pacemaker
Each of these words becomes a new word when the letter ‘e’ is placed after the first letter.
far = fear blow = below bacon = beacon lather = leather fasting = feasting wariness = weariness pacemaker = peacemaker
Each of these words becomes a new word when the letter ‘e’ is placed after the first letter.
far = fear blow = below bacon = beacon lather = leather fasting = feasting wariness = weariness pacemaker = peacemaker
I go up, but at the same time go down, Up toward the sky and down toward the ground, I’m present tense and past tense too, Come for a ride, just me and you.
What am I?
A see-saw.