Fair Enough

Bill Gates bets Warren Buffet 100 million dollars, that if Buffet gives Bill 200 million dollars, Bill will give 300 million dollars back. Every one knows that Warren has got 62 billion and Bill Gates 58 billion dollars.

Should Buffet make the transaction ? and who is going to gain and by how much ?

True Lies

"The other one says he is john !" A voice came from the corridor. Two guys were standing there, John who always lies and Jim who always tells the truth.

Who do you think said those word ?

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.

Can you find the states

If "work yen" is in "New York" then where are the following ?

Or can i fail
lewd area
oil is nil
my, go win!

Going in Circles

Bob: ToM Puzzles are not so difficult now a days
Alice: Are you guys able to solve it all
Ted: Except the one when I am too busy
Alice: I have heard that before, you are not busy now

The Circle have three distinct points P,Q, and R. Question is to find another point "S" in the circle so that another circle can be inscribed in the Quadrilateral obtained.

You only have a scale and a compass.

Number Cruncher

So the number X is of three digits and it is divisible by 11. With one more condition that X/11 is equal to sum of the squares of the digits of X.

What is X, won't be a surprise question will it ?

Silverfish and the Clock

Precisely when the big hand of the clock passes 12, Silverfish begins crawling counter clockwise around the clock from the 6 mark at a consistent speed. When reaching the big hand of the clock, the silverfish turns around and at the same speed starts marching around the clock in the opposite direction.

Exactly 45 minutes after the first meeting Silverfish crosses the big hand for the second time and stops. How long was he been crawling?

Bathtub misery

Hercule Poirot knows that his bath fills in three minutes if the cold tap only is turned on full, and in four minutes if the hot tap only is turned on full. With the plug out, the bath empties in two minutes.
One day he find o his horror that Mrs Lemon has mislaid the plug, but he is intelligent enough to realize that he can still manage to fill the bath with both taps on full.

The Island Country

I am a country rising faster and faster
But this was only after
A big war that was not meant to be
But it was our fault, which we escaped barely
In the end they ended up winning
by a bomb a german had been creating


_------_Eric_------_

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

Misplacable....

Lost again, again, again,
Yet always found right under chin.
My hair will soon be in the breeze,
But if I'm drunk, do take them please.

CodyC

Say queso!

Take me on your day of fun.
Shoot me, though I'm not a gun.
Point me at your best of pals,
In front of me, put pretty gals.
I see the early birthday cakes...
What a mess, for goodness sakes!
On all occasions, big and small,
From wedding days to trees in fall.
Memories you hold so dear
Should be around for many years.
I keep them fresh, since you cannot,
Or be, these memories, forgot.
So what am I; Do you not know?
Need a picture before I go?

CodyC

Her cup runneth over...

It's bound to be around forever,
On the ground and in the rivers.
Not like a wisp of water vapor
Or clothes or even toilet paper.
The earth may never overcome
This product of the human scum.
The need for this stuff soon must go....
As soon as I finish this cup of joe.

CodyC

The pig goes Ahnk

Three aligned with Orion's belt,
By many their mysticism been felt.
Around for eons, for many more they'll remain,
Waiting for countless more attempts to explain.

CodyC

Incompetent Challenge

In my pocket or in the dash,
Waiting to make a little more ash.
Just slightly warm and not much light,
But used by many, morning, noon and night


CodyC

The Oil Problem

An oil well being drilled in flat prairie country struck pay sand at an under ground spot exactly 21,000 feet from one corner of a rectangular plot of farmland, 18,000 feet from the opposite corner, and 6000 feet from a third corner.

How far is the underground spot from the fourth corner ?

Funny Side of English

Word Pyramids: When a word become shorter and shorter by one letter, making meaningful words at each step. An example : Short becomes an "O" as shown

O
TO
HOT
SHOT
SHORT

Now let's test the Grey cells of ToM users, the words are BEFRIENDS, DRAFTING and FLIRTERS. Can you make word pyramids out of any of these ?

what is he wearing

A man walks 1 mile south 2 miles east and 1 mile north what is he wearing

The Secret Password

A man wants to enter a private club, but the main door is guarded by a doorman who only lets people in who know the right password. The man hides in the bushes near the door and listens.

One patron approaches the doorman, who says, "12."
The patron replies, "6," and the doorman lets him in.

Another patron approaches the doorman who says, "6."
The patron replies, "3," and the doorman lets him in.

Thinking he has the code figures out, the man approaches the doorman.
The doorman says, "8," and the man replies, "4."
"I'm sorry sir," the doorman says, "This is a private club and only members are allowed."

What did the man do wrong?

Posted by Sammy's Dad on October 14, 2008.

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 ?

Brother

two men meet in a field. The first dosent know the second, but the second is positive that the first is his brother.

how is this so?

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.

Riddle

A guy lives in the 25th floor of a big building
Every morning after he finishes getting ready
he enters the elevator, presses the '1' button to get to the first floor
so he can go to work.
The thing is, when he comes back from work and enters the elevator,
he presses the '19' button, then gets out and goes up to the 25th floor using the stairs.
Why does he do it?

Tip: he doesn't want to excercise or anything of that style.

Puzzle of life

A simple question: Why do nuns have flat hair?

Poor Farmer

"You have four straight fencing of one yard, two yards, three yards, and four yards", "What ever area you can enclose in those four will be yours" said the King. The poor Farmer, if only he had listened to his maths teacher could have maximized this opportunity. Luckily he came to ToM. Now only YOU can help. Will you ?

* Assume: Nothing

A boy or a Girl

A newborn duckling just have been hatched.
How you determined which is a boy and which
is a girl???



By:Ripper2nite

What am I ?

Hint: I'm an object.

I wish I was black.
Blacks can glide through with speed and agility.
We browns can be much sharper than the blacks,
but not always.
We browns are less likely to bust
a cap because we have no cap to bust.
We are usually shorter than blacks but not always.
We get smaller with age.
The stereotypes are terrible for the browns just
because we travel in bulk and work at low prices.
We're not as strong as the blacks.
We have the advantage of covering our tracks in
white territory; the blacks are too messy.
We both are scared of the whites out
and most don't mind getting "high lit."
We both are made for doing lines.
Without us the whites would be blank of idea



So what am I???



By:Ripper2nite

Vehicles

Which is older???A car or A motorcycle???

By:Ripper2nite

Tricky...

Why there is a scarf,a hat,a carrot,two buttons and a puddle of water
at the open field???


This is a very hard question but I cannot tell you all the hint...GOOD LUCK

By:Ripper2nite

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 ?

Run Cat Boss

If 44 + 7 = RUN and 6 + 85 = CAT and 5 + 76 + 16 = BOSS

What does 35 + 33 + 6 equal ?

Four Wise Words

A long, long time ago, two Egyptian camel drivers were fighting for the hand of the daughter of the sheik of Abbudzjabbu. The sheik, who liked neither of these men to become the future husband of his daughter, came up with a clever plan: a race would determine who of the two men would be allowed to marry his daughter. And so the sheik organized a camel race. Both camel drivers had to travel from Cairo to Abbudzjabbu, and the one whose camel would arrive last in Abbudzjabbu, would be allowed to marry the sheik's daughter.
The two camel drivers, realizing that this could become a rather lengthy expedition, finally decided to consult the Wise Man of their village. Arrived there, they explained him the situation, upon which the Wise Man raised his cane and spoke four wise words. Relieved, the two camel drivers left his tent: they were ready for the contest! What were the words?

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