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A Blarmy Bridge

A boat full of people goes under a bridge and when it comes out the other side not a single person is on it. How can this be?

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All the passengers are married.

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If You Break Me

If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.

What am I?

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Hope.

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One Tooth To Bite

One tooth to bite,
He’s the forest’s foe.
One tooth to fight,
As all Norse know.

What is it?

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An axe.

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Tear One Off And Scratch My Head

Tear one off and scratch my head. What once was red is black instead. What am I?

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A match.

This is a duplicate of red black instead, but I’m leaving them both to avoid broken links.

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Its Own Past Tense

What common verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?

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Eat (ate).

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From Scraps to Pants

A tailor can make a pair of pants from the scraps left over from sewing up five pairs of pants. If he has twenty-five scraps, how many pairs of pants can he make?

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Six pairs of pants. He can make five initially, but once he’s done making five pairs of pants, he’ll have five remaining sets of scraps, meaning he can make an additional pair of pants, totaling six.

Six pairs of pants. He can make five initially, but once he’s done making five pairs of pants, he’ll have five remaining sets of scraps, meaning he can make an additional pair of pants, totaling six.

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Buying Chickens

You must buy 100 chickens for exactly $100, and purchase at least one chicken from each store. The first store charges 5 cents/chicken, the second charges $1/chicken and the third charges $5/chicken. How many chickens should you buy from each store?

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80 from store 1 = $4
1 from store 2 = $1
19 from store 3 = $95

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Beach Vogue

What word can be made from three letters of beach and another three from vogue?

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Gauche. The letters “ach” from beach and “gue” from vogue.

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I Hide In A Dark Tunnel

I hide in a dark tunnel awaiting my time.
I can only be released by pulling back.
Once released, I may do unspeakable damage.

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A bullet.

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Three Five Six To One Hundred

Without changing the order of these numbers, how can they equal 100?

3 5 6 2 54 5

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= 3 * (5 – 6) + 2 * 54 – 5
= -3 + 108 – 5
= 105 – 5
= 100

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