Brainteasing Again

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:08 pm

Easy ones, oldies but goodies, feel free to add your own

1) How many months in this year have 28 days?

2) What do you get if you divide 20 by half then add 10?

3) A farmer has 15 sheep. All but 6 of them die. How many sheep are left?

4) Can a man in England legally be buried in Scotland?

5) What was the British Prime Minister's name in 1980?

6) There are three apples and you take two away, how many are you left with?

7) Two men play five games of chess. All games are completed. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no draws. How did this happen?

8) How many animals of each species did Moses bring with him onto the Ark?

9) A butcher is 5'10" tall. What is he most likely to weigh?

10) It's very cold and you have only one match. You enter a room where there is a candle, an oil lamp, a dry rag and a wood burning stove. Which one would you light first?

Scayde · Post by **Scayde** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:24 pm

Originally posted by Yshania
Easy ones, oldies but goodies, feel free to add your own

1) How many months in this year have 28 days?

2) What do you get if you divide 20 by half then add 10?

3) A farmer has 15 sheep. All but 6 of them die. How many sheep are left?

4) Can a man in England legally be buried in Scotland?

5) What was the British Prime Minister's name in 1980?

6) There are three apples and you take two away, how many are you left with?

7) Two men play five games of chess. All games are completed. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no draws. How did this happen?

8) How many animals of each species did Moses bring with him onto the Ark?

9) A butcher is 5'10" tall. What is he most likely to weigh?

10) It's very cold and you have only one match. You enter a room where there is a candle, an oil lamp, a dry rag and a wood burning stove. Which one would you light first?

@ Ysh:...Hmmmmmmm...I am wondering if I play and give the obvious answers......how much of a fool I will look like ........You know, you are getting quite the reputation for being evil

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:27 pm

Re: Re: Brainteasing Again

Originally posted by Scayde

@ Ysh:...Hmmmmmmm...I am wondering if I play and give the obvious answers......how much of a fool I will look like ........You know, you are getting quite the reputation for being evil

LOL!

be brave

it takes someone to start...

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:33 pm

right, I've got some of them, but a couple are really annoying

(highlight to read)

1)all of 'em
2)50
3)6

9)meat?
10) the match!

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:35 pm

My answers:

1) All of them.

2) Either 20 or 50 (20/2 + 10=20, 20 divided by 1/2 + 10=50), depending on how you word it.

3) 6

4) Maybe, but only if he's dead.

5) ???

6) two

7) They didn't play each other. They played other people.

8) two of each

9) Whatever a man his size would weigh, I suppose...

10) The match.

Nice ones.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:39 pm

5: Tony Blair, innit?

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:39 pm

ah, I get 5 - Tony Blair, of course

edit - curses, too late

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:40 pm

Pwned by a couple of seconds

Scayde · Post by **Scayde** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:43 pm

Originally posted by Yshania
Easy ones, oldies but goodies, feel free to add your own

1) How many months in this year have 28 days?

2) What do you get if you divide 20 by half then add 10?

3) A farmer has 15 sheep. All but 6 of them die. How many sheep are left?

4) Can a man in England legally be buried in Scotland?

5) What was the British Prime Minister's name in 1980?

6) There are three apples and you take two away, how many are you left with?

7) Two men play five games of chess. All games are completed. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no draws. How did this happen?

8) How many animals of each species did Moses bring with him onto the Ark?

9) A butcher is 5'10" tall. What is he most likely to weigh?

10) It's very cold and you have only one match. You enter a room where there is a candle, an oil lamp, a dry rag and a wood burning stove. Which one would you light first?

LOL..OK...here goes........

1. one

2. 20

3. 6

4. Is he alive?

5. Margaret Thatcher

6. one

7. LOL..Damned if I know

8. None

9. Meat

10. The match

OK....Laugh you sadistic tavern wench you

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:43 pm

And Robnark's answer for #9 is right, I think. Nice.

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:47 pm

1. Alll Months
2. 50
3. Six
4. Dead sure. Alive nope
5. Blair
6. 2
7. Didnt play each other
8. dos
9. Meat
10. Match

Askal · Post by **Askal** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:00 pm

1) How many months in this year have 28 days?
ANS: 12, because all twelve have at least 28 days in them.

2) What do you get if you divide 20 by half then add 10?
ANS: 20 or 12, depending if the guy who asked you is a grammar cop...(I'd go with 12)

3) A farmer has 15 sheep. All but 6 of them die. How many sheep are left?
ANS: 6...duhh....

4) Can a man in England legally be buried in Scotland?
ANS: not unless he's already dead.

5) What was the British Prime Minister's name in 1980?
ANS: Blair (the current one would still have had the same name in 1980)

6) There are three apples and you take two away, how many are you left with?
ANS: One

7) Two men play five games of chess. All games are completed. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no draws. How did this happen?
ANS: The two men played did not have to play all five games against each other. They could each have played their fifth game against a third man and it would not contradict any of the previous statements given. Or they could have just played with several other people.

8) How many animals of each species did Moses bring with him onto the Ark?
ANS: none, Noah was the ark dude.

9) A butcher is 5'10" tall. What is he most likely to weigh?
ANS: meat

10) It's very cold and you have only one match. You enter a room where there is a candle, an oil lamp, a dry rag and a wood burning stove. Which one would you light first?
ANS: The match

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:07 pm

actually, I believe #6 is 2 - if someone else took the apples, you would only have one, but you're the person taking the two apples, therefore you have two.

Askal · Post by **Askal** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:09 pm

I swear I didnt scroll down to see Scayde's answers.

I got another one:

You've been sentenced to death in an obscure foreign country which has a strange law. Before the sentence is carried out, two papers -- one with "LIFE" written on it and one with "DEATH" written on it -- are folded up and placed in a hat. You are permitted to pick out one of the papers (without looking), and if you choose the one with "LIFE" written on it, you are set free. Otherwise, the death sentence is carried out. On this occasion, a mean-spirited acquaintance of yours, bent on your demise, has substituted the paper with "LIFE" written on it with another one with "DEATH" written on it. This person gleefully informs you of what he has done and that you are doomed to die. You are not permitted to speak to anyone about this misdeed, nor will you have a chance to switch the papers or the hat yourself in time.

How will you avoid certain death?

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:15 pm

Originally posted by Yshania
Easy ones, oldies but goodies, feel free to add your own

Okay, here's my answers...

1) All

2) Half of what?

3) 6.

4) Huh?

5) Margaret Thatcher.

6) Two.

7) It didn't.

8) Moses wasn't around then, silly.

9) Meat.

10) Why, the dry rag.

VonDondu · Post by **VonDondu** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:39 pm

Here are my answers:

1) All twelve of them.

2) Fifty.

3) Six.

4) Not if he isn't dead.

5) Tony Blair.

6) Two (the ones I took).

7) The two men didn't play against each other.

8) None.

9) Meat.

10) The match.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 1:49 am

Originally posted by Yshania
Easy ones, oldies but goodies, feel free to add your own

1) How many months in this year have 28 days?

2) What do you get if you divide 20 by half then add 10?

3) A farmer has 15 sheep. All but 6 of them die. How many sheep are left?

4) Can a man in England legally be buried in Scotland?

5) What was the British Prime Minister's name in 1980?

6) There are three apples and you take two away, how many are you left with?

7) Two men play five games of chess. All games are completed. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no draws. How did this happen?

8) How many animals of each species did Moses bring with him onto the Ark?

9) A butcher is 5'10" tall. What is he most likely to weigh?

10) It's very cold and you have only one match. You enter a room where there is a candle, an oil lamp, a dry rag and a wood burning stove. Which one would you light first?

1) 1

2) 50

3) 6

4) A man in England cannot be buried in Scotland at all, legally or no. If you took him to Scotland, however, I don't think the law would stop you from burying him there, assuming he is dead.

5) Tony Blair

6) 2

7) This is impossible

8) None that I know of

9) Meat

10) The match [I'd heard that one before

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Askal · Post by **Askal** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:33 am

Originally posted by Osiris
Solution to Askal's problem:
Remove one paper from the hat and eat it (or otherwise detroy it). Say that the paper you chose can be determined by looking at the paper still left in the hat. Since it says "death" the paper you chose must have been "life".

Uhuh...congrats

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:15 am

Another brain-teaser....... yes and no questions can be saked..

"A man run down a corridor with a piece of paper in his hand, then suddenly the light flickers and he bursts out in tears"; what happened?

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:45 am

Vondondu got all correct - well done!

@Garaz The man was carrying a reprieve note, but was too late