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 Posted: 23:10 - 27 Feb 2006 Post subject: Some puzzles |
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There are three boxes containing 2 balls each. In one there are two white balls, in another two black balls, and in the third one ball is black, the other is white. Boxes have been labeled to indicate their contents. However, whoever did the job got all labels wrong. The task is to straighten things out. You may select only 1 box and blindly pick up a ball out of it. How can you be sure to label them correctly?
Though only five letters,
From my start to my end,
I can have the meaning,
Of "Gone out with a friend."
Add two letters of negation
If you follow this rhyme
And my meaning is now
"Not classified according to time."
Add two more letters in front,
Again that mean "Not"
Now my meaning is "flooded."
So the answer is what?
Can you give an English word with the same letter three times in a row? No hyphens are allowed, so bee-eater wouldn't do.
The sentence "The unclear creator is the course of chum peach greeny," can be anagrammed to "The nuclear reactor is the source of much cheap energy" anagramming each word of four or more letters of the original sentence.
Can you do the same with these 4 sentences (the anagrammed sentences must still be grammatically correct and make sense, as the example above)?
1. Do spoilt eden plaices silences to fly percussion panels?
2. Few enumerations veer adverb the eighths speak in the meteor anger.
3. Myna taste allegorists praise to be treasons in the optical.
4. The pertain dues his shrub to drapes stokers in clarets and magnate silo. ____________________ https://www.bikepics.com/members/fuzzbcf/
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| Quote: | There are three boxes containing 2 balls each. In one there are two white balls, in another two black balls, and in the third one ball is black, the other is white. Boxes have been labeled to indicate their contents. However, whoever did the job got all labels wrong. The task is to straighten things out. You may select only 1 box and blindly pick up a ball out of it. How can you be sure to label them correctly? |
Given that the labells are all wrong, open the one labelled mixed, this can only contain either two white or two black balls.
If the ball you pick is white, the white balls are in that box, the mixed ones are in the black box and the black ones are in the white box.
If the ball is black, the black balls are in that box, the mixed ones are in the white box and the white ones are in the black box. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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I got the first anagram:
Do pilots need special licenses to fly supersonic planes?
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Partially got the 2nd one:
Few enumerations veer adverb the eighths speak in the meteor anger.
Few mountaineers ever braved the highest peaks in the meteor range.
edit: REMOTE range.  |
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4th:
The pertain dues his shrub to drapes stokers in clarets and magnate silo.
The painter used his brush to spread strokes in scarlet and magenta oils. |
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You guys are good
I hadn't done the anagrams myself, but I've got the third, which is good for me as I'm crap at anagrams  ____________________ https://www.bikepics.com/members/fuzzbcf/
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| stinkwheel wrote: | | Quote: | Though only five letters,
From my start to my end,
I can have the meaning,
Of "Gone out with a friend."
Add two letters of negation
If you follow this rhyme
And my meaning is now
"Not classified according to time."
Add two more letters in front,
Again that mean "Not"
Now my meaning is "flooded."
So the answer is what? |
Dated, undated, inundated. |
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| Quote: | Can you give an English word with the same letter three times in a row? No hyphens are allowed, so bee-eater wouldn't do. |
The usual rules of English spelling outlaw triple letters. Hyphens are inserted into words such as bee-eater, bell-like, chaff-flower, cretaceo-oolitic, cross-section, egg-glass, joss-stick, off-flavour, hostess-ship, puff-fish, toll-lodge, and zoo-organic.
The complete Oxford English Dictionary does contain instances of frillless, bossship, countessship, duchessship, governessship, and princessship, and the county name Rossshire.
The only other word with a triple letter is the invented word Amerikkkan, which is intended to symbolize the racist aspect of American society by including the initials of the Ku Klux Klan.
Graphic representations of noises, such as brrr, shhh, and zzz, do not really count as proper words. ____________________ "Its Better To Burn Out Than Fade Away!!!!!!" "Lifes a bitch and then you Die"
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A few more
If the difference of two numbers is 8 and their product is 16, what is the sum of their squares?
There is a pole in a lake. One-half of the pole is in the ground, another one-third of it is covered by water, and 12 ft is out of the water. What is the total length of the pole in ft?
A cylinder 108 cm high has a circumference of 24 cm. A string makes exactly 6 complete turns round the cylinder while its two ends touch the cylinder's top and bottom. How long is the string in cm?
If you were to construct a 7 x 7 checkered square (i.e., a 7 x 7 chess board), how many squares would there be in total?
What about a 7x8 chessboard?
When I add 4 times my age 4 years from now to 5 times my age 5 years from now, I get 10 times my current age. How old will I be 2 years from now? ____________________ https://www.bikepics.com/members/fuzzbcf/
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is the string 180cm long?
i.e.
√((24x6)^2) + (108^2) = 180
√(20736 + 11664) = 180
√32400 = 180 |
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140 squares on a 7x7? |
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168 on a 7x8? |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 19 years, 299 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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