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How Many?
If you have a candy jar in which the candy can be divided equally between 5, 7, or 13 people, without
cutting the candy into pieces, what's the least amount of candy that the jar could contain?
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How Many?
If you wrote all the numbers from 5 to 83, how many times would you write the number 4?
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Who Does What?
Everyone on Sara's family has a different job. Her mother, father, aunt, uncle, grandmother and grandfather are a barista,
a doctor, a mayor, a nurse, a postman, and a veterinarian, not in order of what they are. John isn't Sara's
father, the mayor's husband is the postman, Hattie runs the dairy farm, the barista is the doctor's niece, the nurse is
the daughter of the mayor and the wife of the doctor, and Sara's father is terrified of dogs and will faint if he sees one.
Who does what?
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How Many?
In the toy box, Billy has six blocks, five crayons, four pixie sticks, three tops, and two feathers. If you now call the blocks
-> pixie sticks, and call the crayons -> tops, and the pixie sticks -> feathers, the tops -> blocks, and the feathers -> crayons.
How many of which types of toys are in the toy box?
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What is Common?
What is the commmon link between these words:
threshold, taciturn, signature, redress, misspelling, lambaste, hockey, decoration
(The answer is at the Zebug site.)
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What is the fewest?
What is the fewest number of colors you can use to color a map of the U.S. without using any of the same colors on
connecting states - no border lines have the same color on both sides?
(The answer is at the School Fundraiser site.)
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What is it?
A tiger, a snake, a moose , a bear, and a turtle have one. An eagle, a walleye, and an elephant have two.
Humans don't have any. What is it?
(The answer is at the Pillows site.)
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Complete the sentence.
There are 106 E in the P T.
(The answer is at the Lawsuit Funding site.)
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What doesn't belong and why?
pail, knife, suitcase, doorbell, skillet
(The answer is at the Beds & Bedding site.)
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How?
Two men climb two ladders, each at the same speed, but they are getting farther apart. How?
(The answer is at the Free Travel, Vacations & Entertainment site.)
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What rule can you apply to each of the following words to make new words of them all?
adds, ants, inks, ohms, sheer, star
(The answer is at the Free Camera, Phones, Computers,
etc. site.)
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How many socks?
Janice is getting dressed but the light went out so she cannot see in her sock drawer.
How many socks does she need to take out so that she can be assured of a pair of the same color, if she has seven different
colors of socks in the drawer?
(The answer is at the Free Samples site.)
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True or False?
At a party (of something more than two people), at least two of the people will have the same number
or friends present - true or false?
(The answer is at the Free Food site.)
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Wrong Labels
You are given three jars that contain gumdrops, candy-coated chocolate drops, and the third jar has a combination of these. You
are told that every label is wrong on the jars, and the jars are not transparent. What is the
least number of candies you must test in order to re-label them correctly?
(The answer is at the Outlet Shopping site.)
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Who Got What Lunch?
Five people order lunch one after another. Their names, not in order, are Carol, Donald, Joey, Rachel and Sven.
These are what they ordered,
but not according to their names: cheeseburger, salad, chicken sandwich, hamburger and fish & chips. Each asks for
an extra sauce - ketchup, mustard, barbeque sauce, mayonnaise and ranch dressing. Who got
what lunch and in what order were they standing in line? Your clues are:
The first customer (not a girl) is not the one who ordered the salad.
The salad didn't have barbeque sauce on it.
Carol ate chicken for lunch and was not the last one in line.
The person who asked for ketchup had a cheeseburger.
Joey didn't eat the fish which was smothered with mustard.
Donald was in the very middle of the line.
Sven was in line after the salad-eater but before the mayonnaise lover.
(The answer is at the Sales site.)
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Falling Piano
Someone was moving a piano into a 5 story apartment. It needing a crane to lift the piano up high to be
put through a window. Unfortunately, a cable breaks and the piano falls and lands on a man walking by on
the sidewalk. A few moments later, the man gets up and is ok, but the piano is a loss. How did he not
get hurt?
(The answer is at the Bridal Registry site.)
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The Hunt
Six kids named Carla, Sara, Patty, Jeff, David and Doug - were on a scavenger hunt together as a team. Their last
names are Thomas, Loomis, Howard, Patrick, Davis, and Rogers - but not in the same order as the first names.
They had to find 6 items, so they split up - each to look for one item. They needed a gold plated button, a travel
brochure of Hawaii, a clear marble, a parakeet feather, a peach pit, and a fluorescent light bulb. These items were
located at various apartments: 3307-G, 3201-C, 3311-A, 3307-B, 3201-F, and 3201-H. Figure out who found which item and where.
Your clues follow:
Carla, Howard, and the boy who was looking for the light bulb all found their items in the same apartment building.
Patrick found her marble in building 3307.
Sara and Davis found the pit and the marble in building 3307.
Doug, the girl who was looking for the pit, the boy who hunted for the brochure, the girl who found her item in
3307-B, the boy who found the feather, and the girl who found the button decribes the team.
Thomas, Howard, and Rogers are the boys who found the feather, the brochure, and the light bulb at apartments
A, F, and H.
Loomis found her button in the same building where Howard found his item at apartment F, and where Doug found his item.
Doug is not Thomas or Davis.
Sara's search was not for the pit.
Jeff didn't look for the brochure, and didn't visit apartment F.
Thomas did not look for the brochure.
Who found what item, what is his or her full name, and where was it found?
(The answer is at the Fun for Kids site.)
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One Letter Left?
What word can you remove one letter from it to make a new word, then take another letter off
and get yet another word, and so on until there is only one letter left, still making yet a different word?
(The answer is at the About Kids site.)
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How many?
There are 10 cargs in a blag, 6 blags in a shrip, 5 shrips in a flirp, and 7 flirps in a trog. What is the number of
cargs in a trog divided by the number of blags in a flirp?
(The answer is at the Summer Fun site.)
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What's the word?
What word has only 4 letters, and it ends in ENY?
(The answer is at the Need a Job? Need Beneifits? site.)
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What's the word?
What word, when you add more letters to it, becomes smaller?
(The answer is at the Entertainment Deals site.)
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What's the word?
What word has its first two letters that means a male, first three meaning a woman, first four meaning a great man,
and the whole word meaning a great woman?
(The answer is at the Advertising in Ezines site.)
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What's the word?
What word has only two letters, but repeated 3 times? _ _ _ _ _ _
(The answer is at the Funding Solutions Blog site.)
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What's the word?
What word begins and ends with UND? Und _ _ _ _ _ und
(The answer is at the Advertise via Classified Ads site.)
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What do you have?
When you take two dollars from three dollars, what do you have?
(The answer is at the Advertise by Blogging site.)
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What's that?
Unscramble the letters to make a word: PNLLEEEESSSSS
(The answer is at the Clothes for Women site.)
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Who?
Who was Shakespeare’s favorite actress?
(The answer is at the Clothes for Men site.)
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What's next?
What is the next letter in this sequence? W,I,T,N,L,I,T, ?
(The answer is at the Clothes for Teens & Kids site.)
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When's my birthday?
The day before yesterday I was 14 years old. Next year I'll be old enough to drive (at least in
most states) . What is today's date and when is my birthday?
(The answer is at the Uses of the LapGenie site.)
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What number?
What number is 4 times 1/10 the number that is 1/10 less than 3/13?
(The answer is at the LapGenie Testimonials site.)
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How?
Mr. Ott began each day with a lightly boiled egg and a slice of toast -
yet he never borrowed nor bought an egg, and he did not steal eggs or keep a chicken. How?
(The answer is at the Taxes site.)
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The cost?
Bottle and cork cost 21 pence and bottle costs 20 pence more than the cork - what does each cost?
(The answer is at the Free Promotion site.)
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Complete the phrases:
Fill in the words for the capital letters:
D. and N. of the G.F
D. in a Z.C.
H. in a D.
(The answer is at the Safety & Scam Alerts site.)
