How do you pronounce Ghoti?
Fish. The gh is pronounced as in tough, the o as in women and the ti as in nation. Ghoti is a constructed word to illustrate irregularities in English spelling.
Fish. The gh is pronounced as in tough, the o as in women and the ti as in nation. Ghoti is a constructed word to illustrate irregularities in English spelling.
I am a seed, three letters in the name,
Take away two and I sound quite the same.
What am I?
Pea.
The more there is the less you see. What is it?
Darkness. There more darkness there is, the less you can see.
Darkness. There more darkness there is, the less you can see.
The more you take from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
A hole.
This is quite similar to It Cannot Be Seen and Weighs Nothing .
We’re five little items of an everyday sort. You’ll find us all in a tennis court. What are we?
The vowels. The phrase “a tennis court” contains all five vowels sorted in alphabetic order: a, e, i, o, u.
The vowels. The phrase “a tennis court” contains all five vowels sorted in alphabetic order: a, e, i, o, u.
Which two of these rows can be reversed so the total of each row, across and down, equals 10?
A. 5 4 1
B. 6 1 3
C. 3 5 2
Rows B and C, becoming:
A. 5 4 1
B. 3 1 6
C. 2 5 3
Rows B and C, becoming:
A. 5 4 1
B. 3 1 6
C. 2 5 3
What does this represent?
APPLE
APPLE
APPLE
aPPLe
APPLE
I haven’t figured this out yet. Bad apple doesn’t really fit with the lowercase letters. They’re both vowels, but I don’t know if that’s relevant. The fourth one looks kind of like a hill, could it be apple hill?
I haven’t figured this out yet. Bad apple doesn’t really fit with the lowercase letters. They’re both vowels, but I don’t know if that’s relevant. The fourth one looks kind of like a hill, could it be apple hill?
A family photo has the following:
1 grandfather, 1 grandmother
2 fathers, 2 mothers
6 children, 4 grandchildren
2 brothers, 2 sisters
3 sons, 3 daughters
1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law
1 daughter-in-law
It could show 29 different people, but what is the smallest number of people if could have?
Eight. 4 children, their mother and father and one set of grandparents.
Eight. 4 children, their mother and father and one set of grandparents.
First, think of the color of clouds. Next think of the color of snow. Last, think of the color of the moon. Now, what do cows drink?
Water. If the teaser worked, you guessed milk.
Water. If the teaser worked, you guessed milk.
You could wait 27 days or you could see it everyday. What is it?
The moon. Even though the true moon cycle is about 29.5 days, it takes 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes for our Moon to complete one full orbit around Earth. Thus you can see the full moon every 27 days or you can moon yourself every day in the mirror. Not that you’d want to. Does anyone moon themselves? Can’t say as I’ve ever had the “pleasure”.
The moon. Even though the true moon cycle is about 29.5 days, it takes 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes for our Moon to complete one full orbit around Earth. Thus you can see the full moon every 27 days or you can moon yourself every day in the mirror. Not that you’d want to. Does anyone moon themselves? Can’t say as I’ve ever had the “pleasure”.