Charming Inscription

This charming inscription is carved into a stone tablet, and sits above my throne (euphemism for toilet)

What does it say?

NUFSURO
RSETSYT
AERHETS
ETEAHEI
LOWTCAH

- Karl Sharman

Guess the Picture

Here is the next drawing puzzle, Guess the picture !

Photo Emotions

Can you find 5 simple emotions hidden in these rectangles

A Christmas Puzzle

How long does Santa take to deliver his presents to all the children under the age of 12yrs on Christmas Day.

- Karl

Liquid Assets

At the reading of their father's will, 3 sons of a wine merchant learn their father left them:

7 full barrels of wine
7 half barrels of wine
7 empty barrels

The will stipulates that each son receive the same number of full barrels, half full barrels, and empty barrels.
The lawyer, reading the will, exclaims "Oh my goodness ... how is this possible?"

- Zaux

Chess Squares

What is the probability to randomly chose any 3 squares on a chess board, and they would form a continuous diagonal?

You don't hold a chess board in your hands to solve this one. simply think.

Bicycle Pedal

A wire is tied to a cycle pedal that is stationary at the bottom of its arc. If someone pulls this wire backwards (while another person lightly holds the seat to keep the bike balanced), will the cycle move forward, backward or not at all?

Give reasons !

Insects on scale

There is a 100 cm long scale with 100 insects on it. At time t = 0, each starts moving either towards 0 or towards 100 at a speed of 1 cm/s. They fall off the scale when they reach any one of the ends.

You have to tell me this: what is the minimum time at which I can be sure that the scale has no insects left.

About Arrows

What makes arrows fly straight ?

12 = M in a Y

OK that works out to MONTHS in a YEAR.

Now, all the polymaths out there solve the following

1) 54 = C in a P (with J)
2) 13 = P at the L S
3) 15 = M on a D M C
4) 29 = D in F in a L Y
5) 80 = F S
6) 10 = P B
7) 100 = N in B T
8) 28 = N of D in the L C
9) 5 = P on a P
10) 4 = R of P in the O T
11) D = 500 in A N
12) 13 = C in O S
13) 21 = P in a N D
14) 0.81818181 . . . = F
15) 26535 = The N five D of P.

* There’s also one trick one and one reverse one

Candle Problem

You are in a dark room and seeing a lighted candle at 6-to-8 meters distance. Slowly move towards it till the candle is right in front of your eyes (a mm or two away). As you move towards the candle the eye stars accommodating to keep it in focus. This it can do to a certain maximum point beyond which the flame goes out of focus. Since the candle is still moving closer to the eye, its focus which till now was on the retina will keep going backwards, so much so that an inverted image formed on the retina should at one point become upright. Then why don’t we see objects which are very close to the eye, upside down?

WARNING: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, YOU CAN BURN YOUR EYE BROWS OR WORSE LOSE YOUR SIGHT

Dice Drama

There are six squares marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. You are invited to place your money as you wish on any one square. Three dice are then thrown.

The Rules
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If your number appears on one dice only, you get your money back plus the same amount.
If two dice show your number, you get your money back plus twice the amount you placed on the square.
If your number appears on all three dice, you get your money back plus three times the amount. Of course if the number is not on any of the dice, the operator gets your money.

Now, you might reason: the chance of my number showing on one dice is 1 : 6, but since there are three dice, the chances must be 3 : 6 or 1 :2, therefore the game is a fair one. Of course this is the way the operator of the game wants everyone to reason, because it’s quite fallacious. But is the game favourable to the operator or the player, and, in any case, just how favourable is it ?

Unique Poem

This poem is actually very gimmicky.
It is an attempted attempt at fusion.
Cause and result have been made to occupy a common plane.
Enough to drive me insane.

The author has tried to analyse
Some not yet existing lines

In a vaguely sonnet form.
But in that case result has pre-
Ceded cause because the poem

Only comes into existence on comple
Tion of the analysis. What then
Was the poet analysing?

Yet the poem
And its analysis
Exist occupying the same frame. That is,
The content and its criticism
Are actually one and the same.

What so unique about this poem ?

Wise Men

A king wanted to kick out all the wise men in his land but there was an old law he could not disobey which said there should always be

"Seven blind of both eyes:
Ten blind of one eye:
Five that see with both eyes:
Nine that see with one eye."

So how many wise men did he keep?

Shakespeare Quote

"Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes; today a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as floods of the fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast."

Concealed in it is a familiar quotation from Shakespeare, each word being buried in its proper order. Can you find it?

Space Elevators

Armstrong says space elevators must be built. He’s planning to build a carbon nanotube ribbon that is three feet wide, anchored somewhere in Ecuador, stretching a mind-numbing 62,000 miles upwards into space. The centripetal force of Earth’s rotation will keep the ribbon taut. The problem is – if I sneak on to the platform in Ecuador and snip off the ribbon at its base, what will happen?

On Logic

1) All of the humankind, other than my footmen, have a certain amount of common-sense;
2) No one, who lives on barley-sugar, can be anything but a mere baby;
3) None but a hopscotch player knows what real happiness is;
4) No mere baby has a grain of common-sense;
5) No engine-driver ever plays hopscotch;
6) No footman of mine is ignorant of what true happiness is.

What logical conclusions you can make from here ?

Mirror oh Mirror

How can you differentiate between a normal mirror and a 1-way mirror (used by spy and police interrogation work by CIA etc, where you can see through from the back) without turning the mirror over?

Lies and Statistics

An independent survey conducted in a large school indicated the lying habits of the students were as follows
category / percentage of students / percentage of lies told of all statements made): (A) Truthful students / 10% / 0%;
(B) Students who seldom lied / 20% / 20%;
(C) Students who evenly lied / 40% / 50%;
(D) Students who frequently lied / 20% / 80%;
(E) Students who were liars / 10% / 100%.

The same group of students were given a multiple choice questionnaire and were asked to indicate the category (A, B, C, D, or E) which they belonged to. Obviously students would indicate their category, depending upon their nature – eg: All truthful students would put themselves in category A, but Liars would never indicate category E.

The problem is, what would be the percentages of students in various categories as self indicated by the students? Further if a second self-assessment survey is conducted asking the students whether they had truthfully answered the first self assessment survey having only two categories (T) Told the truth, and (F) Lied, what would the results tell in percentage terms?

Eight Women

Eight women, including Ms Irwin, went into a department store to buy one item each. Each went directly to the floor where the item she needed was sold, made the purchase, and left immediately. Two items were sold on each of the store’s four floors (first floor through fourth floor). Can you find each woman's full name (one was named Gracie), the item she bought, the floor it was sold on, and, in the cases of the women who left the first floor and how each arrived at and left the floor of their purchase?

(1) The three women who used the escalator at least once were Eilsa, Ms Kring, and the woman who bought the oil painting;
(2) The dress and the radio were sold on the same floor;
(3) The three women who used the elevator to get both up and down were Dielia (who bought the lamp), Ms Loing, and the woman who bought the radio;
(4) Ms Nielson got her item on the fourth floor;
(5) Claria did not buy the ring. She and Beth went to the same floor;
(6) The three women who did not use the elevator at all were Eilsa, Ms Miller, and the woman who bought the coat;
(7) Helen used both the elevator and escalator;
(8) The woman who bought the linens went down by escalator;
(9) Ms Jonas and Alice took the elevator to their different floors. Flo and the woman who bought the books took the escalator up together, since they were going to the same floor. All four rode down on the elevator at the same time and met Ms Perkins as she entered it on the ground floor;
(10) The only woman to use the stairs was Ms Owens, who did not make her purchase on the third floor.

Four-stroke motorbike

In my four-stroke motorbike user’s manual something like this is written in the engine tuning section. "turn the air_fuel mixer control screw fully clockwise to make the mixture rich (with fuel). Now turn the screw anti clockwise two and a half times to make the mixture leaner. The engine RPM will increase. Adjust the idling speed just enough to keep the engine running . . .”

Now the question is, why does the engine runs faster when you supply leaner mixture meaning fuel)?

The Mall Problem

8 small store occupy the new Great Mall in the shape of a 3x3 grid (with the centre square being an open area) numbered 1 to 8 clockwise from the top left square. They are a bookstore, flower shop, frozen yogurt shop, futon shop, painting and wallpaper store, pizza, photo studio, and shoe store. The 8 proprietors include five women – Eimma, Francis, Ruith, Vecke and Ziina – and three men – Alberto, Georgio and Lukio. The proprietors’ last names are Cole, Gallo, Hanley, Jackson, Klein, Martinez, Riley and Silver. Can you match each shop’s number with the full name of its owner and the kind of shop he or she runs?

(1) On the northern wall are (in no particular order) Eimma’s store, Lukio’s store, and Hanley’s store;
(2) Riley’s shop is situated directly opposite the florist’s, and isn’t adjacent to Cole’s place;
(3) Klein’s shop and the pizzeria aren’t both on the eastern wall;
(4) Francis and Gallo are the only two women who don’t have corner stores;
(5) Neither Alberto’s store nor Jackson’s is on the southern wall;
(6) Georgio’s shop is adjacent to the Bookstore;
(7) On the western wall are (in no particular order) Vecke’s shop, Martinez’s shop, and Ziina’s futon shop;
(8) The pizzeria and the frozen yogurt shop occupy opposite corners of the mall;
(9) The florist is adjacent to the photo developer;
(10) The paint and wallpaper store is adjacent to both Ruith’s shop and the shoe store;
(11) Lukio’s shop is adjacent to Silver’s.

"That's all the information I have Holmes" said Watson.

Super Women

What does a woman do everyday, that if a man does once, he dies?

-- Greets from Germany

Film Projector

In a film projector, the film travels at 24 frames/sec in an intermittent motion – ie, the film is absolutely stationary when light is allowed to pass through the picture frame onto the screen. The film is pulled down to the next frame only when the light path is totally cut off. Now, again the film is held rock-steady while the light path is reopened to form the successive picture on screen, and so on at the rate of 24 still pictures per second. The soundtrack of the film (which is imprinted at the side of the picture frames on the same celluloid film), also then moves in the same intermittent motion. Audible jerks should be expected, because we know that a soundtrack has to pass over the sound-head at a constant speed for faithful reproduction. Why don’t we hear them?

Pi Problem

A friend of mine is a crammer and a bragger. He claims he remembers the value of pi up to 100 places by heart. The trouble is I do not. And I am marooned with him on an island with no books, computers, mobile or calculator. The question is, how can I verify that the 100 digits he is rattling off is not gibberish?

Tape Recorder Trouble

Have you ever had a tape recorder and wondered, why it doesn't increase the speed and pitch of the sound while playing. if you are thinking because it's speed is constant, think again, while playing, one wheel becomes bigger and the other one smaller. Is it constant ?

Galileo's Principle

Air is a vapor (gas), which means that its atoms and molecules are not in such close proximity to each other as in a solid and liquid. So why don't air molecules just fall to the ground? After all, Galileo's principle states that objects should fall to the ground with equal acceleration independently of their size and mass.

Star Trek

I was researching for a new problem, but decided that the following link was more interesting: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.html

OK, I've thought of a question: how fast must the rocket be going in order that the microwave background temperature rises to 10000 Kelvin? Ignore GR considerations, treat it as a SR doppler shift problem, use simple black-body radiation concepts only (unless you can do better).

Favorable Bet

Let’s say you get into an quarrel with a friend as to who owns the more expensive canine and decide to settle the spat by checking with the pet store where the two whelps were bought.

Meanwhile you also agree on a bet whereby the person who wins (owns the more expensive one) will give it to the loser. Thereafter you’re both tickled pink with this arrangement, because you’re both thinking, "If I win I’ll lose my hound, but if I lose I get a pricier pooch. And as the chances are obviously equal, the bet’s clearly to my advantage."

The problem is, how can a bet be favorable to both parties?

17 (camels)

A father dies leaving instructions that his 17 camels are to be split up between his 3 sons as follows:
Half the camels are to go to the eldest son
a third of the camels are to go to the middle son
and a ninth of the camels are to go to the youngest son

Failing to think of a way of carrying out split, they sought help from their wise but poor uncle. Their uncle arrived on his tatty old camel. He said, "I'll lend you my camel, then you'll have 18, and you should be able to divide them up without difficulty." So the eldest son chose his 9 camels, the middle son chose his 6, and the youngest chose his 2 camels. The uncle then got back on his camel (which no-one wanted) and went home.

DUH!! and DUH!! ... or is it? ^^

Humphrey Thou Sand

A camel has to transport as many as possible of an available 3000 bananas. For every comlete mile it walks, it must consume 1 banana (regardless of its load). It can only carry up to 1000 bananas at a time. What is the maximum number of bananas it can transport to a place a 1000 miles away?

Literary Digest

Here’s a poem that was published by Adam C Orn in The Literary Digest of Chicago in 1906:

“Now I – even I – would celebrate,
In rhymes unapt the great,
Immortal Syracusan rivalled nevermore,
Who in his wondrous lore,
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance,
How to circles mensurate!”

What on earth does it mean?

Miller's Fee

In a Tennessee mountain community the miller retains as his fee one-tenth of the corn the mountaineer farmers deliver for grinding. How much corn must a farmer deliver to get 100 pounds of cornmeal back provided there is no loss ?

The bare facts of the naked truth

I hope this one isn't too well known.

A man died and went to heaven. When he got there he found that everyone was naked. A man and a woman walked over to greet him. The (newly dead) man said to them, "Hello Adam, hello Eve".

How did he know who they were?

Do you Know Gambling

With two dice getting a total of X is more likely than Y.
Can you tell for what value of X and Y this is true ?

Nobel Prize

Why there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics ?

Rectangle Tangle

A rectangle is cut out from another bigger rectangle. How can you divide the remaining portion into two equal parts ? Of-course, you don't have the measuring tape, where the heck these things are when you need them the most ?

World Record

The current world record in the men's and women's Discus Throw stands at 74.08 and 76.80 metres respectively. All other records in athletics including shot put, javelin and hammer throw is better for males.

So what's happening here ? What's the explanation ?

Compass Problem

How can you draw an Oval on the paper using a compass ?

Hoover Dam Bridge

Last week, I saw a extreme construction project called the Hoover Dam Bridge.
At both ends of the new bridge in the walls of the canyon were massive amounts of
concrete footings to mount the base of massive arches. They called each of these constructs "Million Dollar pours. During a one night period the block had to be poured into reinforced steel before the daylight so the desert heat could ruin the "pour". The concrete would be delivered by a continious stream of cement trucks and pumped down the wall 300 feet through 8 inch pipe. Twice the announcer said the amount of concrete poured in this one night was a cubic mile.

Could this be possible? One cubic mile of concrete? In one night?

Poles and Fence

A farmer built a fence around his cows, in a square shaped region. He used 27 fence poles on each side of the square.

How many poles did he need altogether ?

Bottle Trouble

So Mr. Ketuchky decided to double all the dimensions of a One Litre bottle, can you tell me what is the volume of the new bottle ?

Straight Time

There is a time between seven and eight when the two hands of the clock makes a straight line. Would you know ?

The Black Dog

A black dog stands in the middle of an intersecton in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?

- Chris Azarian

Pigs, Horses and a Cow

Mr. Tito was wandering (this time *) about little village with calculators and questionnaires in every hand. He came across a farmer, who was in a hurry. The census-taker asked him how any animals he had and of what sort they were.

"Well since you arsks me like thatrt..." answered the farmer, pausing to kick the rump of a recalcitrant pig, " all I has is pigs, bar two of 'em, and all I has is horses, bar two of 'em."
"Anything else?" asked Mr. Tito, scribbling away.
"No, just a cow," mused the a farmer, wandering off.

What had he ?

* Mr. Tito's Old Adventures

What ?

Bigger than the Biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact. really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow that's big," time It is so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really tiny. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

The Refrigerator

One day, Dr. Nova arrived in a laboratory to find that his technician had left the refrigerator's door open.

When he pointed this out, that man coolly replied, "It was such a hot day and I wanted to lower the temperature of the room a bit."

Dr. Nova was amused. Why ?

Cuckoo Clock

At this moment the conversation was interrupted by a loud "Cuckoo" Dr. Chronos had just entered with a large cuckoo clock under his arm.

"Your clock is not exactly right," said Stars.

"Well It's not exactly wrong either," said Chronos, sitting next to Mr. Striker, who was puffing away on a cigarette. "You see, this is a very special clock: the hands shows the right time, but the cuckoo only emerges when the hands on the clock coincides."

If the bird was on time and the time was roughly 2:00 PM, what time was it exactly ?

Telephone Dial

Speaking of numbers on the telephone dial, which of the digits 0 to 9 appears least and which appears most in the numbers from 1 to 100 inclusive ?

Copy Paste

Copy: You and I are twins and today is our birthday. If you multiply our ages together you get the same number that you would get if you added them instead and turned the result upside down.

Paste: Yes that's true enough, But it was also true several years ago, and you didn't think to mention it then.

How old are Copy Paste now ? How old were they then ?

Weighty Problem

What is the minimum number of weights you need to weigh any number of pounds from one to forty ?

T, V or Y

A wire is tied between two trees at distance D, and the ends are at a common height above ground. A weight is suspended midway between the trees at distance 'd' below the height at which the ends are attached to the trees.

Which configuration -- T, V or Y-shaped will minimise the total length of wire needed?

Horse Racing

There is a Horse Track that's betting station has the slogan of "We'll take any bet".

A man is down on his luck, but he is very smart, so he decides to go to this Horse Track to try and make some money.

When he gets there, he sees this slogan and comes with an idea on what to be on.

The question is, what does he put his money on?

Black Light

Why don't we have black light? A torch with black light will give a black beam. It will darken the surface of whatever object it strikes. What prevents us from doing this? Or is it not possible at all?

- Hitendra Joshi

Keyboard Question

Why is our keyboards "QWERTY" and not "ABCDE" ?

Plane and Space

Visualize !
One plane divides space into two parts. Two planes passing through a point divide space into four parts. See it with your two palms as two planes.

The question is to find out, How many parts three planes passing through a point divides the space ? What about four planes ?

Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang is one of the world's oldest religious symbols. 



Do you know there is an elegant way of drawing one straight line across the circle so that it exactly bisects the areas of the Yin and Yang?

Doomsday

The Planets Zylon, Tylon and Fylon moved in a circular orbit around the dwarf star Celion, with orbital period of three, four and two earth years respectively. In the year 2001, the four celestial bodies all lies along the straight line.

The next such event would cause a doomsday for these planets. When do you think this will happen.

Elementary, My Dear Watson

"Watson the facts are the killer began to climb the Mammoth mountain exactly at sunrise, the narrow path is, no more than a foot or two wide, spiraled around the mountain to the glittering hotel."

But remember Sherlock, "the killer might have ascended with varying rates of speed, stopping occasionally along the way to rest." added Watson.

"Thats right and he reaches the summit shortly before sun set."

"But, even if we say that, at night he does his job and come sunrise, he starts his journey back.", "how can you assume that there is a spot along the path that the killer will occupy on both trips at precisely the same time ?"

"Elementary, My Dear Watson !"

It might be elementary for Sherlock holmes but can you prove that ?

Oxygen

What happens to the ratio of oxygen in the air, as altitude increases ?

Perpetual Motion

There is a Swinging Bird Toy which is suppose to be in Perpetual motion. See Figure.


The Bird dips its beak in the water and having "drunk its fill" swing back into its upright position. After a while it slowly leans over to dip its beak in the water again, "drinks" and swings back.

Is this really Perpetual Motion ? How this "Perpetual" Motion works ?

What does this means ?

Sherlock Holmes when trying to solve a mystery says the following:

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

Till today, I am not able to comprehend this. Can You ?

Clock Work

At precisely 6:00 AM the angle between the minute and hour hand of a clock is 180 degrees. To the nearest second, what time will it be when the angle between the two hands is again 180 degrees.

The Secret

A young reporter was given the opportunity to interview a very successful, very wealthy banker. The reporter asked him, "Sir, What is the secret of your success?"

He said "Two words, young man."
"And, Sir, what are they?"
"Right decisions."
"But how do you make right decisions?"
"One word." he responded.
"And, sir, What is that?"
"Experience."
"And how do you get Experience?"
"Two words"
"And, Sir, what are they?"

now! that is the question of the day

Unique Distance

It takes three days to go from X to Y, but four days to go from Y to X.

Can you think of X and Y ?

Golden Apple

In a marble hall white as milk
Lined with skin as soft as silk
Within a fountain crystal-clear
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in to steal its gold.

MatheMagic

Which number when reversed and squared will give its own squared value in reverse.

If the wrong answer is one what is the right answer ?

Two's Company

Some words go together as if they have no identity of their own. They are called twosomes. If you reverse the order its almost like murder. Here are some from my observations. Try reversing the order and see it scream.

* law and order
* mix and match
* fast and furious

Tell me three of the twosomes you know?

The Code *

"Four have only one", and "Three have two."
"What about eight" asked the student.
"It has three."
"and Eleven"
"Well! Eleven has eight"

What's going on here ?

* Changed due to an email from a ToM User

Incomplete Equation

A^x = A⁵

then x = 5. This is incomplete ?

Question Island

In the weird Question Island, people are as weird as the members of trick of mind.

Answers are not allowed. If the first person begins with a question, the other(s) reply with another question, the first person puts a third question, the opponent responds with a fourth. If you cannot ask the question, you don't speak. Repeated questions not allowed. No multiple questions. If you are wondering how the conversation goes, here is the first ever talk between Adam and Eve of Question Island.

Adam: What time is it?
Eve: Why do you want to know?
Adam: Why do you ask that?
Eve: Why can't you answer a civil question?
Adam: Why can't you look at your watch and tell?
Eve: When are you going to get yourself a watch?
Adam: What's that got to do with it?
Eve: Who do you think you are talking to me like that?
Adam: Where can i find someone who will tell me the time?
... so on. Know, what I mean ! So...

What is the Question ?

SCUTA

Remember the Self Contained Underwater Talking Apparatus SCUTA which create a balloon of text, of what you speak. A scientist when trying the apparatus, the following bubble showed up:

Oyo is an imyant y in Yugal which exys y

Whats wrong ?

A.B. and C.

AABB = CC²

???

* No marks without explanation

The Magic Trick !

I was in Disneyland last weekend, and came across this Magician.

"I had on the stage," the magician's story went, "a small iron box with a handle on top. I invite a strong man to step forth. In response an Arab of medium height but sturdily built, a sort of local Hercules, came up. He walked up cheer-fully, grinning slyly the while, and stopped opposite me.

"Are you strong? " I asked, looking at him from tip to toe.
"Yes," said he.
"Are you sure you will always be strong?"
"Certainly," came the answer.
"You are Wrong" I said "In the twinkling of an eye I can rob you of your strength and you will grow as weak as a child"
"The Arab gave a disbelieving grin"
"Come here," I said, "and lift up this box."
The Arab bent over, lifted it up and then inquired: "Is that all?"
"You just wait a moment" said I. "Assuming a serious mein, I made a commanding gesture and solemnly uttered:
"You are now weaker than a woman. Lift that once again"

This time the Arab failed to pick it up, no matter how hard he tried. What happened ?

Hot

Is boiling water always hot ? If not, why not ?

Fraction Counts

Where do you see the fraction 24/31 ?

Three Gems

There are only three Real Gems* in the world which sustain our life ; the water, the food and the ______

*Assume you are left alone in an island what is the third thing you would ask for ?

Rubik's Cube Solution

A Rubik's Cube is considered solved when each face has the same color of cubes. How may possible solutions are there for a Rubik's Cube

Canned

You have two Cans !
That's right, you have two Cans filled with water and a large empty container.

Now you must be thinking that this guy is going to ask you to make some calculations and pour waters from one to another, right ? Wrong. I am going to ask you a completely different question so listen(listen !) carefully.

"Is there a way and Can you put all the water into the large container so that you Can tell which water came from which Can ?"

Now there are three can's in the above sentence you of course have to be very careful.

On Arriving Early

Bob always arrives at the train station at exactly five o'clock to pick up his wife Betty and drive her home. One day Betty arrives an hour early, and starts walking home, and is eventually picked up. Betty arrives home twenty minutes earlier than usual.

How long did she walked, before she met her husband ?

It's Murder, Watson!

The facts are these my dear Watson

"One member of the family murdered another member, the third member witnessed the crime, and the fourth member was an accessory after the fact." said Holmes.

On the scene, Inspector Lestrade was found, who added the following.

• Accessory and the witness were of opposite sex


• The oldest member and the witness were of opposite sex


• The youngest member and the victim were of opposite sex


• The accesory was older than the victim


• The father was the oldest


• The murderer was not the youngest

Hah ! cried Sherlock Holmes. Lestrade, still confused, what about you ?

Miles to go before I sleep

Assume you walk at a speed of three miles an hour. If a two-mile-wide forest has a two-mile trail leading directly through it, how far into the forest can you go in half an hour?

Antigrams

The "real fun" is what you don't have in a "funeral". Well ! Antigrams are anagrams with a difference: the new word have opposite meanings.

Santa, misfortune, violence and evangelists are four potential candidates.

What do you say ?

Color and Fun

So the interviewer at microsoft told her " If you could form a sentence using the words that I give you, then may be I will give you the job."


"The words are GREEN, PINK, YELLOW, BLUE, WHITE, PURPLE and BLACK ."

Can you help her ?

Designs of Nature

When I look at sun and moon I see orange and white Circles, when I look at mountains I see scalene Triangles. When I see a shooting star I see a straight line. The designs of nature are so accurately geometrical !

Can you think of three other natural items which are geometrical?

About Finding Things

Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed ?

Funny as Tautonyms

Tautonym is a word or name made of two identical parts or repeated words, example TOMTOM, MAMA, BYE-BYE. Do you know any Tautonyms ?

Normally a Tautanym is pronounced same word twice, but there is a special Tautonym _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ which is pronounced differently. But ofcourse, you never listened to your English teacher, did you ?

Honey Combs

Why do honey bees create hexagonal shapes for Honey Comb ? Why don't they build cylinders or prisms with triangle or square or other cross sections?

Beautiful Geometry

Sir Ramanujan said "The sides of the triangle is given. You have to find out the radii of the three circles inside the triangle, the three circles touches each other as well as each touches two side of the triangle as shown in the figure."



Take a = 507,
b = 375 and
c = 252

"You have got all of the weekend and the week after to solve the problem"

Can you ?

Magnetic "Perpetual" Motion

In attempts to invent a "perpetual motion" machine the magnet and its power have played a role of no mean magnitude. Ill-starred "perpetual motion" machine inventors have tried might and main to apply the magnet to this end. Here is one such project described back in 17th century by Englishmen John Wilkins, the Bishop of Chester.

A Powerful magnet A is placed on the top of the pillar leaned against which is two inclined grooves M and N, one above the other. The upper groove M has a small hole C at the top, while the lower groove N is curved.



The inventor claimed that the arrangement would operate as follows. A small iron ball B was to be placed on the upper groove. Attracted by the magnet A, it ought to roll upwards. On reaching the hole, it should roll down, be carried up by inertial along the curve D, and find itself again on the upper groove M, from whence, again attracted by the magnet, it should again roll up and drop through the hole, roll down and on to the upper groove, ad infinitum.

This the inventor conjectured, would produce "perpetual motion".

What do you think ? Will it ?

Why does Rocket Go Up ?

Professor Feynman was teaching the class.
"Even from students of physics one may often hear a totally wrong explanation of a rocket's flight. They claim that it goes up by thrusting itself away from the air with the help of gases formed from gunpowder combustion. That incidentally is what ancients thought-rockets are invented long, long ago."

He added "But if we were to fire a rocket in an airless void it would fly, and even better than in the air."

What's the right explanation ?

Analogy

Complete the analogy. Example High is to low as sky is to /e/a/r/t/h/.
Skull is to brain as shell is to / / / / /.

A Traveler

A female traveler got lost in a jungle and was caught by a tribe of cannibals. As they tied her up, the cannibal leader said
"All right. We will let you say your last words.If your last words are a LIE, we will eat you ALIVE If your last words are TRUE, we will eat you COOKED"
And with that, the leader roared with laughter.
Now the witty traveler thought for a while and said her last words. After hearing the traveler's statement, the leader had no choice but to let her go. What did the traveler say?



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Face Value

Why is 2008 quarters (25 cent coins) worth more than 2007 quarters?

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov had a 30 years correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Pauling read Isaac's science articles in Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine regularly and wrote Isaac whenever he found an error. Here is an interesting excerpt.
From Pauling to Isaac:

I am writing now about your article in the September 1978 issue. On page 123, you say that Amontons and Guy-Lusac observed that if a gas at the freezing point of water, 0 degree Celcius, is decreased in temperature to -1 degree Celcius, then both the volume and the pressure of the gas will decline by 1/274 of the temperature. This is wrong. What you should have said is that _ _ _ I hope you are keeping busy as ever.

What was the explaination?

The A to G puzzle

Work out the numbers of A to G if...

A+B+C+D+E+F+G=340
3A+7B-4C-13D+E-6F+2G=219.25
2A-7B+9C-4D-3E+2F+3G=82
ABC=21,150
DE=1225.25
FG=3,145
BDF=11,544

Also C is the smallest number, and E is the biggest number. F is the middle number.

~Alexander

Minutes To Noon

How many minutes is it before 12 noon, if 55 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past 9 AM.

Fatal Attraction !

In the autumn of 1912, the ocean linear Olympic, one of the world's biggest ships at the time, was steaming ahead out in the high seas, when another much smaller ship, the cruiser Hawk, rapidly approached it on a parallel course a hundred meters away.

As soon as the two ships took up a position where one pointed the other, a surprising thing happened. the Hawk sharply veered off its course, as if obeying some invisible force, turned the big liner and heedless of the helm rammed into it.The impact was so great that it made a big gash in the Olympic's hull.

A tribunal examined this queer case and found the Olympic's Skipper guilty, as, according to its ruling, he had failed to issue orders to yield the right of passage to Hawk. Consequently, the tribunal, as you can gather, saw nothing extra ordinary about it at all, attributing the the accident to the skipper's negligence.

Actually this was the result of a totally unforeseen cicumstance, a case of mutual attractions of ships at sea and the answer lies in basic physics.

Why do ships attract one another ?

The train to clarksville

Mr. Moody grumbles about bad time-keeping trains from morning till night!.
On one particular morning he was quiet justified.
His train left on time for the one hour journey, to Clarksville, and it arrived 5 minutes late.
However, Mr. Moody 's watch showed it to be 3 minutes early, so he adjusted his watch by putting it forward 3 minutes.
His watch kept time during the day, and on the return journey in the evening the train started on time, according to his watch, and arrived on time, according to the station clock.
If the train travelled 25 percent faster on the return journey than it did on the morning journey, was the station clock fast or slow, and by how much?




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an eggy breakfast

Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exatly three eggs, each person had an egg. how is this possible?







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