Trick of Mind

The Third hand

2010-04-29T18:27:00.000-07:00

This is not my ToM. I hope the supplier of this becomes a new member.

What is the third hand called?

But first, you have to figure out this. Third hand of what?

A * B = 100,000

2010-04-25T18:12:00.000-07:00

Two numbers with no zeros in their make-up can be multiplied
to create 10,000. They are 625 and 16. It is also possible to have two
numbers multiplied together with no zeros that equal 100,000 and
1,000,000? What are each of these pairs?

Davy Crockett

2010-04-24T18:22:00.000-07:00

The famous song of Davy Crockett says he was born on a mountain top in Tennessee, but that is wrong. In what state was he born?

Milk Cartons

2010-04-24T00:38:00.001-07:00

Why did the mathematician plant in garden in milk cartons?

Anyone to make a run for four 3's?

2010-04-20T19:21:00.000-07:00

Construct four three to make equations equaling 1 up to ?
Three's will be slightly more difficult that 4's were.

1= 33/33
2= 3/3+3/3
3= -3-3+3*3

Four fours

2010-04-19T15:42:00.000-07:00

You can make 4 fours equal one like this

1 = 4 / 4 + 4 -4
2 = ?

Can you make a 2? Can you make 3?
See if you can make more.
Can you make 15 at least?

Change one letter at a time

2010-04-18T20:09:00.000-07:00

Change one letter, and use the clue to go from top word to bottom word.

THINK
_________ A form of gratitude
_________ Something that’s bad to do in golf
_________ A dangerous fish
_________ Bare or harsh
_________ To begin
SMART

Far out of the box

2010-04-18T16:12:00.000-07:00

This is a far out one. I didn't make it up.
I read it in a kid's math book.
I didn't know. The answer caught me by surprise.

When does 5 + 3 = 1?

What is the number?

2010-04-17T22:56:00.001-07:00

If you divide the number by 2 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the number by 3 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the number by 4 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the number by 5 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the number by 6 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the number by 7 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the number by 8 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the number by 9 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the number by 10 there will remainder of 1.
If you divide the Number by 11 there will remainder of 0.

Classic - hens and eggs

2010-04-16T21:05:00.000-07:00

This is a classic puzzle with different twist.

A chicken farmer has figured out that a hen and a half can lay an egg
and a half in a day and a half.

How many hens does the farmer need to produce 30 dozen eggs in 2 weeks?

What's wrong here?

2010-04-10T18:52:00.000-07:00

Is ToM on Vacation?

How Rong Am I?

2010-04-03T13:18:00.000-07:00

There are five 'f's in the next sentance, and they're two errors in this one. - "It's often easy for folk to miss the finer points of life." - How many errors are there in the first sentence?

Karl

9

2010-04-03T13:17:00.002-07:00

A new street in Puzzlaria is built with one hundred new houses, numbered 1 to 100. How many number 9's are required to number all the houses? And what will the street be named?

- Karl

Bus Stop

2010-04-03T13:17:00.001-07:00

Ragknot took the bus every weekend to go fishing either to the lake or the river. Initially he tried to guess which would offer the best conditions, but frequently guessed wrong. So he decided that as the buses to each place ran every ten minutes, and from the same bus-stop, he'd simply leave it to fate, and jump on the first bus that came along. After several weeks he was puzzled that he hardly ever got to go to the lake - in fact it was only about one week in ten - despite the fact that he got to the bus-stop at all different times, and that all the buses to both places ran on time (this is Puzzlaria...). So why was this?

Karl

Another Sequence

2010-04-03T13:16:00.000-07:00

OMG - Another Sequence

A - J - ? - 11 - 3 - ? - 4 - 13 - ?

What should replace the question marks? Not the one after the word marks, but the three in the sequence....

Karl

Something You Can Do

2010-03-30T20:31:00.001-07:00

What is something you can do in New York, NY, but not in Charlotte, NC.

You can do it in Chicago, Atlanta, and Oakland, but not in Little Rock, Oklahoma City or Montpelier.

You can also do it in Miami, Pittsburgh and Montreal, but not in Salt Lake City, Montgomery or Vancouver.

-- Brian Myers

Time Spent In Jail

2010-03-30T20:30:00.001-07:00

Ragknot has been imprisoned in a jail cell with no windows, he needs to tap out a message on the wall for Zaux in the other cell next to him to help plan their escape.

The problem is that he has to do it at exactly 9:15 PM, when the guard outside is switched, so the noise won't be noticed. He can't hear the switching of the guards through the walls, and he has no clock.

There is a faucet with water dripping very consistently from it in the corner, he can just make out the chiming of a church bell, but it chimes just once at the top of each hour, so he can't tell the time from that. He can feel the wall facing west start to cool after the sun sets, but he doesn't know what time the sun is setting, and this isn't very precise in any case.

His dinner is always passed into your cell between 6:15 and 6:45. How does he determine when it is exactly 9:15 PM?

- Karl Sharman

A Simple Equation

2010-03-27T20:36:00.000-07:00

Something for the Weekend:-

1 + 23 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 78 + 9 = 106

The digits 1 through 9 are used in order to arrive at 106.

Using 1 through 9 in order, and using only addition or subtraction, create an equation that equals 100.

- Karl

Train Your Lateral Lobes

2010-03-27T20:33:00.000-07:00

The strongest chains will not bind it
Ditch and rampart will not slow it down
A thousand soldiers cannot beat it
It can knock down trees with a single push
The one who made it
Didn’t want it
The one who bought it
Didn’t need it
The one who used it
Never saw it
Buckets, barrels, baskets, cans;
What must you fill with empty hands?
Every creature in the world has seen it
But to their dying day they’ll never see
The same one again
Look in my face
I am somebody
Look at my back
I am nobody
A man leaves home and makes 3 left turns.
When he returns home he is met by two men
one of whom is wearing a mask. Who are they?
We love it more than life
We fear it more than death
The wealthy want for it
The poor have it in plenty
The light one breaks but never falls
His brother falls but never breaks
Which four letter sport begins with a ‘T’ ?
Assume there are approximately 6,000,000,000 (6 billion) people on
Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply
together the number of fingers on every person’s left-hands? (For the
purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, for five fingers
per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number then try to guess how long
the number would be.
An archeologist proudly told that he had found four silver coins which, according to the inscription “649 B.C.”, should now be 2720 years old. The press considered him a fraud and a dreamer. Why?
He got it in the woods
And brought it home in his hand
Because he couldn’t find it.
The more he looked for it
The more he felt it. When he
finally found it he threw it away.
This wondrous thing, though not
An herb, can help comfort the weak
And the dying. It can even be used to
Rally the troops, or make one start
Laughing or crying
A New York city hairdresser recently said that he would rather cut the hair of three Canadians than one New Yorker. Why?
This sparkling globe
Can float on water
And weighs no more
Than a feather
Yet despite its weight
Ten giants could
Never pick it up
How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live?
Whoever has it is angry
Whoever loses it is even angrier
Whoever wins it has it no more
This engulfing thing
Is strange indeed
The greater it grows
The less you see
It can pierce the best armor
And make swords crumble with a rub
Yet for all its power
It can’t harm a club
Today he is there to trip you up
And he will torture you tomorrow
Yet he is also there to ease the pain
When you are lost in grief and sorrow
She has tasteful friends
And tasteless enemies
Tears are often shed on her behalf
Yet never has she broken a heart
What goes with a wagon that
doesn’t benefit the wagon
but the wagon cannot move without it?
Passed from father to son
And shared between brothers
Its importance is unquestioned
Though it is used more by others
Never resting, never still
Moving silently, hill to hill
It does not walk, run nor trot
All is cool where it is not
Though easy to spot
When allowed to plume
It is hard to see
When held in a room
Brought to the table
Cut and served
Never eaten
Has feather
But can’t fly
Rests on legs
But can’t walk
This side of a cat
Has the most hair
What has keys that open no locks
space but no room
and you can enter but not go in
I am slim and tall
Many find me desirable and appealing
They touch me and I give a false good feeling
Once I shine in splendor
But only once and then no more
For many I am “to die for”
This old one runs forever
But never moves at all
He has not lungs nor throat
But still a mighty roaring call
What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
You are visiting an island on which two tribes of natives live. One tribe has black soles and always lies; the other tribe has white soles and always tells the truth. There are three natives standing near you. You can’t see the bottoms of their feet, and indeed you find out it is extremely rude to look at another’s soles, but you are curious so you ask the first man, “Sir, what colour are your soles?” Now he happens to understand English, but he can’t speak it, so he replies in his native tongue, “Glub Glub.” You turn to the second man and ask, “Sir, what did he say?” The second man replies, “He said he has white soles.” Now to be sure, you turn to the third and ask, “Sir, what colour soles does this second man have?” The third man replies, “Sir, he has black soles.” Now the question is, what colour are the third native’s soles?

A man lives in the penthouse of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. Upon his return, however, he can only travel halfway up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way – unless it’s raining.

A police officer saw a truck driver clearly going the wrong way down a one-way street, but did not try to stop him. Why not?

There was once a recluse who never left his home. The only time anyone ever visited him was when his food and supplies were delivered, but they never came inside. Then, one storm winter night when an icy gale was blowing, he had a nervous breakdown. He went upstairs, turned off all the lights and went to bed. Next morning, he had caused the deaths of several hundred people. How?

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will,
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.

-- Karl Sharman

Who called the police ... ?

2010-03-27T13:54:00.000-07:00

A burglar brought into a house .... shortly after going upstairs to the 2nd story, he phoned the police.

Why?

An Obvious Crime

2010-03-27T04:34:00.000-07:00

It was a very cold afternoon, and not much happening at Puzzlaria's Police Station. The officer behind the desk was working a puzzle when the door opened. In a came a woman, wearing a coat buttoned from top to bottom. Following the lady was a man with his hand in her coat pocket.

The lady said. "Arrest this man ... he tried to pick my pocket."

Why had the pickpocket not simply run away?
(this was a true story)

Why'd you do that ...?

2010-03-26T22:14:00.000-07:00

A man pulls a gun ... aims it at a law-abiding citizen ... he pulls the trigger. CLICK! Apparently, the gun was empty. At least 10 people saw the whole incident and were outraged ... at the man to whom the pistol was aimed.

Why?

Arrest who ...?

2010-03-26T20:57:00.000-07:00

Knightmare looked around and picked up a tire tool ... he smashed the tail lights of a car. A police officer, walking his beat, saw what happened ... the officer arrested the driver of the car?

Why?

The Autograph

2010-03-26T11:16:00.000-07:00

Why does the value of a famous person's autograph change continuosly?

Two Burglars

2010-03-25T20:14:00.000-07:00

Two burglars enter a wealthy neighborhood and take all the goodies they can get their hands on. A police officer is watching, but does nothing ...

Why doesn't the officer arrest them?