If you have three, you have three.
What am I?
Choices.
If you carried my burden, you would be crushed.
What am I?
A snail. They carry their homes on their back, and a house would crush a person (even the tiny houses). And the trail of silver is a bit of a stretch, but it’s the slimy, gooey substance snails leave behind them.
A snail. They carry their homes on their back, and a house would crush a person (even the tiny houses). And the trail of silver is a bit of a stretch, but it’s the slimy, gooey substance snails leave behind them.
What plant becomes the name of a star by removing the first letter, becomes a number without the last letter and becomes a bird if the first and last letters are taken away?
Ivy
VY = VY Canis Majoris , one of the largest known stars
Ivy
VY = VY Canis Majoris , one of the largest known stars
Forward I’m heavy, but backwards I’m not. What am I?
Ton.
Three rooms contain:
If all three rooms catch fire, which room will the ambulance pour water on first?
An ambulance doesn’t pour water.
An ambulance doesn’t pour water.
Round she is, yet flat as a board
The moon.
I grow in trees, eat living things but have no teeth and give birth to something that looks nothing like me. What am I?
A bird. They are hatched and raised in trees (nests), don’t have teeth in the traditional meaning of teeth and they lay eggs, which look nothing like a bird.
A butterfly / caterpillar could also work.
A bird. They are hatched and raised in trees (nests), don’t have teeth in the traditional meaning of teeth and they lay eggs, which look nothing like a bird.
A butterfly / caterpillar could also work.
Donald and Regan are married with four children, named Michael, Farley, Solomon and Larry. They just had a baby girl and are picking the name. It’s down to Olivia, Tiffany and Jasmine. Donald’s brother, a piano teacher, tells them only one of the names would be correct. Which name is it?
Tiffany. The rest of the family’s names start with solfège syllables: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La. The last syllable is Ti, for Tiffany.
Tiffany. The rest of the family’s names start with solfège syllables: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La. The last syllable is Ti, for Tiffany.
It can be cracked,
What is it?
A joke.
You have two buckets. One holds exactly five gallons and the other three gallons. How can you measure exactly four gallons of water into the five gallon bucket?
Assume you have an unlimited supply of water and that there are no measurement markings of any kind on the buckets.
Fill the 3-gallon bucket.
Pour the 3 gallons of water into the 5-gallon bucket
Fill the 3-gallon bucket again.
Fill up the 5-gallon bucket with the 3-gallon bucket, leaving you with 1 gallon left in the 3-gallon bucket.
Empty out the 5-gallon bucket.
Pour the remaining 1 gallon of water from the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket.
Fill the 3-gallon bucket.
Pour the 3 gallons of water from the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket leaving you with 4 gallons of water in the 5-gallon bucket.
Alternate solution:
Fill up the 5 gallon bucket
Pour it into 3 gallon bucket, leaving 2 gallons
Empty out the 3 gallon bucket
Pour the 2 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket into the 3 gallon bucket
Fill up the 5 gallon bucket and pour it into the 3 gallon bucket until it’s full, leaving 4 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket.
Fill the 3-gallon bucket.
Pour the 3 gallons of water into the 5-gallon bucket
Fill the 3-gallon bucket again.
Fill up the 5-gallon bucket with the 3-gallon bucket, leaving you with 1 gallon left in the 3-gallon bucket.
Empty out the 5-gallon bucket.
Pour the remaining 1 gallon of water from the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket.
Fill the 3-gallon bucket.
Pour the 3 gallons of water from the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket leaving you with 4 gallons of water in the 5-gallon bucket.
Alternate solution:
Fill up the 5 gallon bucket
Pour it into 3 gallon bucket, leaving 2 gallons
Empty out the 3 gallon bucket
Pour the 2 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket into the 3 gallon bucket
Fill up the 5 gallon bucket and pour it into the 3 gallon bucket until it’s full, leaving 4 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket.