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 ?

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

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?

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

Wall-E

Early 22nd century! A city in space without gravity. 

Wall-E* following EVE on his escape-pod reaches a place which looks like a parking area. Fortunately he got a parking spot. The numbers on the left read 16 , 06, 68, 88 and one on the right says 98. What number he parked his pod ?

*For the uninitiated "Wall-E" is an Earth Robot and "EVE" state of the art feminine robot from space.

Not for the Queen

In chess, there is one specific type of move, the Queen is unable to make but all the other pieces can.

And you thought you know chess, huh !

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 ?

Last Year

What was the last year in which someone could have been born, in order to live in a year which was the square of their age ?

Fair Enough

Two brothers had a flock of sheep which they sold getting as many dollars, for every sheep as there were sheep in the flock. Intending to share the amount equally, the older brother and then the younger brother, took from it $ 10 each, alternately in succession.

At the last stage, when it was the turn of the younger brother, there remain less than $ 10. the younger brother took this amount and the elder one gave him his new knife for the sharing to be fair.

Now ! YOU tell me, What's the question to be asked, and what is the Answer?

Square in Rubik's Cube

How many squares can you perceive in a Rubik's Cube and how many of them are visible ?

By perceive, I mean you can assume a square, if you can join four co-ordinates to form a square.

Do Something

What do creating robots, flying rockets and crime scene investigation have in common ?

Cosmic Addition

If (Venus + Earth) x Neptune = 40 ,

How much is (Jupiter - Mercury) x Pluto ?

Hot

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

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.

Chance of a Century

What are the chances that the first day of the new century is a working day?

The Joy of Lex

"One hug?" smiled Alice.
"Enough !" said Bob.

What about, "a decimal point?" added Alice
"I'm a dot in place." Bob answered.

"the Mona Lisa ?" asked Alice.
What did Bob said ?

2 + 2 = 2 x 2

Simple and unique equation !

Can you tell any similar equations, involving two or more numbers on each side of the equation?

One would be 1/1/1 = 1 * 1 * 1

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?

Cattle Case

An old farmer died leaving three sons. He bequethed the first son half of his cattle, the second one third and to the third son one ninth.

He had a total of 12 cows and 5 buffalows ! Can you solve the case ?

Odd Sequence

8, ?, 4, ?, 1, ?, 6, ?, 2

Add some odd numbers to make the odd sequence logical (pun intended)

Força !

What is the most powerful force in the universe ? Why ?

Coin Conundrum

The chances of a tossed coin falling head or tails is almost 50-50 with an extremely small chance of it falling on its edge.


How will you make a coin so that it has a probability of 1/3 to fall heads, 1/3 to fall tails, and 1/3 on its edge?

SUM of the Series

Will the SUM of the following series ever reach 100 ?

1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + 1/6 + 1/7 + 1/8 . . .

Number Story

The first digit will tell you how many zeroes are there in the story, the second digit will tell you how many one's are there in the story and so on.

How long your story can be and what's the story ?

Face Value

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

Murder Mystery

One the morning of July 17 The body of Rick litopale was found on his apartment floor; there were only 3 suspects Julie Litopale, his wife, Felix roberston, a friend, and Lynda litopale, his mom. Here are their allibi's

Julie was trying to remember as she was looking at her shoes to her left, Well I came home from work, as usual, and I found my husbands body on the floor, I check and he wasn't breathing, so I called the Police, he had told me before I left, Felix and his mom was coming over later.

Felix came over after I had called him, he said, Well I had come over and had a few beers and I left

His mom said well I had just come over to see my son after a couple of years when I went to Europe.

Well everyone's allibi seems air-tight, can you help solve the murder?

Alphabet Soup !

When the junior Einstein saw a series of G along with the following alphabets in his soup.

   A B C D E
           F
 -----------
 G G G G G G

His mind created an amazing calculation. If you would have known the
operation, you might have known the numbers which each alphabet
represent. Don't you ?

Unique Problem !

The problems says, re-arrange numbers one through eight, in the grid so that no two consecutive digits are adjacent horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

1

2 3

4 5

6 7

8

Can you do that ?

Basic Arithmetic

Using only "arithmetical" signs, complete the following equation correctly

10 10 10 = 9.50

Time Sequence

23 minutes past one, 26 minutes to one...

What is the next item in the sequence.

Who Comes Next ?

Who/What comes next in the following perplexing sequence

QAZ, WSX, EDC, RFV, TGB, ?

Bottles

if 5 empty botlles is equal to 1 full bottle,
how many full bottles in total will you get if you have 77
empty bottles?


-Rx

Peculiar Groups

Mrs. Connar wrote the following letters in the board

1 2 3 4
5 7 8 9


and said to the class.

"I want you to arrange the eight numbers I have written on the board into two groups of four numbers each. When you add up each group, the sums must be the same.

Your time starts now."

Fill in the Blank

The sentence has ______________ letters.

There are atleast three ways to fill in the blank and make the statement correct. Can you tell them ?

Still Got Friday

I got on scooter within ten minutes after I got your letter. When I got to Carlsbad, I got a taxi for town. But I got wet through before I got to Carlsbad, and I have got such a cold as I shall not be able to get rid of in a hurry. I got to bank about noon, but first of all I got shaved and dressed. I soon got into the secret of getting a petition before the board, but I could not get an answer then, however I got intelligence from the agent that I should most likely get one the next morning.

As soon as I got back to my hotel, I got my dinner, and got to bed, it was not long before I got to sleep. When I got up in the morning, I got my breakfast, and then got myself dressed, that I might get out in time, to get an answer to my petition. As soon as I got it, I got into the taxi, and got to Carlsbad by three: and about tea time, I got home. I have got nothing particular for you and so Adieu.

What's wrong in the above paragraphs ? Can you fix it ?

QWERTY

Robert Wordsworth said
"SAD can be one of the word, TRY is another one, SAW is not and neither is ZEBRA, Nor you can count LION, but LAD yes, LAD can be one of the word, TIE is in but TIME is out"

"Thats confusing Robert, can you be more specific?" asked Appleseed.

"Well! If the word must have a vowel you cannot have any word starting from Z,X,C,V,B,N,M " added WordsWorth. "What is the biggest word which can be made with the logic given ?"

Any Clue ?

The Missing Number

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
20
22
24
31
100
?
10000
1111111111111111

A Civil Code

Can you decode the following message which was sent, undetected, in 1862 during the American Civil War? Who sent the message?

Burnside, Acquia creek:
Can Inn Ale me with 2 oar our Ann pas Ann me flesh
ends N.y. Corn Inn our with U cud Inn heaven day nest
Wed Roe Moor Tom darkey hat Creek Why Hawk of
abbot inn b chewed i if-Bates

The Carpet Factory

A factory creates carpet with size in the range of length 10-15 foot and breadth 5-10 foot. One of manufacturing machine went bad and started creating a 8 x 1 foot hole in the middle of 9 x 12 foot carpet.

Alex Rogo, the plant manager responsible, when came to know about the problem the machine already created 1000 unit with holes. "I am going to lose my job for this," he thought, "Wait ! I have an idea to reduce the loss."

A week later he was promoted ! What did he do?

Adam & Eve

An explorer comes across two bodies frozen in ice that are perfectly preserved. He takes them to his laboratory, thaws them out and examines them thoroughly. He claims to know beyond any doubt that the bodies are Adam and Eve. How can he be so sure?

Ross Fraser