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RIDDLES

1) Riddle: It is in a rock but not in stone, It is in marrow but not in bone. It is in a bolster but not in bed. It's not in the living, and not in the dead. Answer: The letter R.

2) Riddle: Have you heard the saying what goes up must come down? Well what goes up and never goes down? Answer: Age.

3) Riddle: If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is a strong westerly wind, which way does the smoke from the train drift? Answer: It's an electric train, there isn't any smoke.

4) Riddle: This thing devours all, Birds, beasts, trees, flowers, Gnaws iron, bites steel, Grinds hard stones to meal, Slays kings, ruins towns, And beats high mountains down? Answer: Time.

5) Riddle: I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg, I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole, I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole, What am I? Answer: A snake.

RIDDLES

1) Riddle: What flies without wings? Answer: Time

2) Riddle: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour? Answer: The letter m.

3) Riddle: What time is it when 12 cats chase a mouse? Answer: Twelve after one.

4) Riddle: What has a tongue, cannot walk, but gets around a lot? Answer: A shoe.

5) Riddle: There's a one story house that's all blue inside. The floor was blue, the lamps were blue, the walls were blue,everything was blue. So what color were the interior stairs? Answer: There are no stairs, the house is only one story.

RIDDLES

1) Riddle: What turns everything around, but does not move? Answer: A mirror.

2) Riddle: While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people. Yet on the boat there wasn't a single person. Why? Answer: Everyone on the boat was married.

3) Riddle: What happens when you throw a white rock into the Red Sea? Answer: It sinks.

4) Riddle: What happens twice in a week, and once in a year, but never in a day? Answer: The letter e.

5) Riddle: What is half of 2+2? Answer: Half of 2 is 1. 1 + 2 = 3. Order of operations!

RIDDLES

1) Win-Win Situations: ___ ___ O ___ I ___ O ___ ___ You'll create a win-win situation if you're clever enough to fill the remaining six squares with four numbers to complete this unique crossword-style number puzzle. Clues: The numbers you position must be in the form of words. Answer: T W O W I N O N E

2) Double Trouble: 15X + 1Y --------- 1Z Here's a mathematical problem that has two correct and completely different solutions. You must solve for both solutions. In each case we're looking for fifteen of something (X) and one of something else (Y) that adds up to one of something else (Z). Example: If the problem were 3X+2Y=1Z, the answer could be 3 quarts + 2 pints = 1 gallon. Clues: In both solutions, you must deal with "change". Answer: 15 pennies + 1dime = 1quarter -or- 15 nickels + 1quarter = 1dollar

3) Riddle: What has six legs, two brains, and one tail? Answer: A man walking a dog. -or- A rider on a horse.

4) Riddle: It goes through an apple, It points out the way, It fits in a bow, Then a target, to stay. What is it? Answer: An arrow.

5) Riddle: Here on Earth it's always true, that a day follows a day. But there is a place where yesterday always follows today! Where? Answer: In a dictionary.

RIDDLES (September 29, 2002)

1) Pass Protection: In the city where I live, commuters on the mass transit system can use monthly passes or single tokens. Today, I saw long lines of commuters waiting to buy passes and tokens. Those people with passes or tokens were able to bypass the lines. However, even though I had neither a pass nor a token, I was able to walk right up to the turnstiles and pass through. How come? Clues: Other people could pass through in the same fashion that I did. As I looked at the people in line, I could see the frustration in their faces. I always buy a token for every journey. Extra Clue: I'm going one way, the frustrated people are going the other way. Answer: I am describing the end of my journey. My destination is a subway station that is a starting point for many commuters. I bought and used a token at the start of my trip. I simply exit through the turnstiles, passing the lines of commuters coming in.

2) Magic Word Squares: R A W B A T G A S N A P D A D P A N S A G T A B W A R Each letter in this puzzle represents a different number from zero to nine. It is your challenge to switch these letters back to numbers in such a way that each horizontal, vertical, and diagonal row of three words totals the same number. Your total for this puzzle is 1515. It is known that "T A B" is the highest scoring word, and "R A W" is the second highest scoring word. Clues: D A D = 5 0 5 Answer: A=0 , B=1 , D=5 , G=6 , N=3 , P=7, R=8 , S=4 , T=9 , W=2 . 8 0 2 1 0 9 6 0 4 3 0 7 5 0 5 7 0 3 4 0 6 9 0 1 2 0 8

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RIDDLES (September 16, 2002)

1) Replacing the Leaves: During fall, a little girl was in her backyard trying to stick the fallen leaves back onto the trees with glur. Why? Clues: The girl is very sad. She is trying to prevent something from happening. She is acting on something she heard. Extra Clue : The little girl is suffering from a disease. Answer: The girl has a fatal disease. She overheard the doctor tell hermother that by the time all the leaves have fallen from the trees, she will be dead.

2) The Ransom Note: A kidnapper sent a ransom note. He prepared it carefully and ensured that it contained no fingerprints. Yet it was used to prove his guilt. How? Clues: The police could glean no clues from the content, paper, or style of the ransom note. The ransom note was mailed, but the postmark gave no clues. There were no fingerprints, but the police were able to establish a unique match with the criminal. Extra Clue: It was mailed. Answer: The police were able to get a DNA trace from the saliva on the back of the stamp. This matched the suspect's DNA.

3) Assault and Battery: John is guilty of no crime, but he is surrounded by professional people, one of whom hits him until he cries. Why? Clues: John is healthy. The person who hits John does it to help him. It is a common occurence. Extra Clue: John is very young. Answer: John is a newborn baby. The doctor slaps him to make him cry and use his lungs.

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RIDDLES Weeks of August 25, 2002

1) The Shoplifter: A shoplifter starts stealing small items and over a period of time, steals larger and larger items, but then suddenly stops altogether. What is going on? Clues: She does not stop, because she is in danger of being caught. She steals under a certain guise that enables her to gradually steal larger items. She is recognized on her regular circuit, but is not known to be a shoplifter. Answer: The shoplifter is a woman who pretends to be pregnant. She has a whole range of false "bellies" under her coat. After nine months, she naturally has to stop.

2) Getting Away with Murder: A man shot his wife dead. She was not threatening him or anyone else. He then gave himself up to the police. They released him. Why? Clues: The man had a longstanding motive to kill her. He was clearly guilty, but had to be released under the law. He was punished for this crime. Answer: Many years earlier, the man's wife had faked her own murder and had run off with her lover. The man had had been tried for her murder and convicted. He had served a 20-year sentence. When released, he found her and shot her, but he could not be convicted of the same crime twice.

3) Bare Bones: During an examination, a medical student is handed a human femur (thigh bone). The examiner asks the student, "How many of these do you have?" The student replies,"Five." "Wrong," says the examiner,"You have two femurs." But the student was right. How come? Clues: The student was healthy and was not physically abnormal. She had never had any kind of medical operation. Every human being is born with two femurs. Answer: The student was pregnant. She had two femurs of her own, two of her unborn baby, and one in her hands.

4) Window Pain: A builder builds a house that has a square window. It is two feet high and two feet wide. It is not covered by anything. The person for whom the house is being built decides that the window does not give enough light. He tells the builder to change the window so that it gives twice the ammount of light. It must be in the same wall and it must be a square window that is two feet high and two feet wide. How does the builder accomplish this task? Clues: Both the windows are perfect squares. Their areas are different. They look different. Answer: Initially, the window has sides of about 1.4 feet and an area of 2 square feet in a diamond shape. The second window has sides of 2 feet and an area of 4 square feet in a square shape.

5) Fill Her Up!:
A woman bought her husband a beautiful new sports car
as a present. When he first saw it, he filled it with wet
cement and completely ruined it. Why?

Clues:

• He deliberately ruined the car,
  but later he deeply regretted
  his action.
• He was a jealous cement truck driver.

Answer:

The woman saved carefully and bought her husband the car as a surprise anniversary present. She had it delivered into their driveway and completed the paperwork with the salesman who brought it. Her husband was a cement truck driver. He was jealous and suspicious. He came home unexpectedly, and when he saw the new car in his driveway and his wife talking to a smartly dressed stranger, he assumed the worst. He reversed his truck and dumped his truck's load into the car.

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From Mystifying Math Puzzles by Steve Ryan) {3 points each}

1) SQUARE DEAL: 16 81 1 4 1 102 25 49 9 36 1 1 64 Take the numbers two through nine and square them (2 x 2, 3 x 3, etc.). Now place each of these squared numbers in the nine vacant squares so that each row of four squares totals 102. One squared number (1 x 1), which appears four times, has already been positioned. Hints: Each squared number you use can only be used once.

2) FIVE CARD DRAW: 9 17 14 2 6 11 5 20 10 18 1 13 15 8 16 3 12 4 7 19 To solve this puzzle, place two additional numbers on each of the five cards. The final solution must reveal the numbers one through twenty and each card must total the same number. (Meaning the numbers from one to twenty all has to be used and used only once.) Hint: Each card must total forty-two.

3) Matching 4sum: QQ Q.Q --------- ?? ? Illustrated above are two math problems in one. For one, you must add the numbers together. In the other, you must multiply them. Both problems must produce the identical sum and product. It is your task to determine the numerical value of "Q" and reveal the identical answers. Hint: Every "Q" is the same digit. And there is a decimal between the second pair of Q's. Answers: Q=1, identical answer=12.1

4) Case Closed: T T S E T S E F F Before you are nine cases labeled with the letters E, F, S or T. It is known that inside each case is a different number that begins with the letter seen on the outside of the case. Example: "T" could stand for two, three, ten, and so on. It is your challenge to determine all nine numbers to reveal a magic square in which each horizontal, vertical, and diagonal row of three cases totals exactly the same. Hint: Each row totals 36, the smallest number used is four, the largest used is twenty. Answer: 10 20 6 8 12 16 18 4 14

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WALLY Test I ANSWERS

"From the World Association of Learning, Laughter, and Youth (WALLY) comes the WALLY Test! It is a set of quick- fire questions. They may look easy, but be warned--they are designed to trick you. Write down your answers on a piece of paper and then see how many you got right." (from Lateral Thinking Puzzles by Paul Sloane and Des MacHale) Just neomail me your answers! {1 point each}

1) What is the last thing you take off before going to bed at night? Answer: Your feet off the floor.

2) What gets longer when it is cut at both ends? Answer: A ditch.

3) What was the first name of King George VI of England? Answer: Albert. (He deferred to Queen Victoria's wish that no future king be called Albert.)

4) What do you call a fly without wings? Answer: A walk.

5) How many squares are there on a standard chess- board? Answer: 204.

6) How many seconds are there in a year? Answer: 12 (second of January, second of February, etc.)

7) A man throws a ball three feet, it stops, and then returns to his hand without touching anything. How come? Answer: He throws it straight up.

8) What was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered? Answer: Greenland. Australia is a continental land mass.

9) Why can a policeman never open the door in his paja- mas? Answer: He does not have a door in his pajamas.

10) If 5 dogs kill 5 rats in 5 minutes, how long does it take 15 dogs to kill 15 rats? Answer: 5 minutes.

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