Guess the Picture

Here is the next drawing puzzle, Guess the picture !

Photo Emotions

Can you find 5 simple emotions hidden in these rectangles

Hmmm ... what is it?

Things it's not:

liquid
gas
solid
animal
plant
mineral

Things it is:

transparent, but visible
always in motion
man's best friend or worst enemy

Additional hint:

it has no gender, but reproduces itself

What is it?

Settling the Account

A man ordered dinner at an expensive restaurant. When the meal was brought to him, he looked at it, wrote the following note for the waiter, and left the restaurant:

1 0 2 0 0 4 1 8 0

The waiter took the note to the cashier, who understood its meaning and placed it in the cash register.

Can you determine what the note meant?

News

First the good news: There is no bad news !
Bad News: There is no good news !

How many good news/bad news are there ?

Treasure hunt

A man has a treasure map. It shows an island with a gallows, an elm tree and an oak tree. The map has instructions. They say go to the gallows and walk to the elm tree, counting your paces. Then turn 90 degrees right and walk the same number of paces as you had just counted. Mark that spot. Go back to the gallows. Now walk to the oak tree, counting your paces. Turn 90 degrees left and walk the same number of paces as you had just counted. Mark that spot. The treasure is buried halfway between the two marked spots.

When he got to the island, he could find the trees, but not the gallows. How can he find the treasure?

There are quite a few ways to answer this problem. One is partly outside the box. It is a famous problem.

The bare facts of the naked truth

I hope this one isn't too well known.

A man died and went to heaven. When he got there he found that everyone was naked. A man and a woman walked over to greet him. The (newly dead) man said to them, "Hello Adam, hello Eve".

How did he know who they were?

A Circle Mystery

From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
"Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?"
"...a circle has no beginning," Luna Lovegood once cleverly said.

But really, does a circle have no beginning?
I mean, there has to be something that begun the circle,
or else there would be no circle at all..........

What do you think?

An Automatic Siphon?

I installed an "automatic" siphon spillway tube in my pond. When it rains, the siphon draws the water back down to the proper level.

How does an "automatic siphon" get started?

World Record

The current world record in the men's and women's Discus Throw stands at 74.08 and 76.80 metres respectively. All other records in athletics including shot put, javelin and hammer throw is better for males.

So what's happening here ? What's the explanation ?

A zebra?? and water??!!

There are five houses.

The Ukrainian drinks tea.

The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.

The Spaniard owns the dog.

Coffee is drunk in the green house.

An Englishman lives in the red house.

Kools are smoked in the yellow house.

The Old Gold smoker owns snails.

Milk is drunk in the middle house.

An Englishman lives in the red house.

The Norwegian lives in the first house.

Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.

The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.

Kools are smoked in the yellow house.

The Japanese smokes Parliaments.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.

Now, if it is given that a resident drinks water and the same OR another has a zebra, which one is it?(or which ones are they)

PS: I hope this is good enough... the standard has gone down a little.

Compass Problem

How can you draw an Oval on the paper using a compass ?

No Kill

A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for five minutes. Then finally she hangs him. Later they go out and enjoy a wonderful evening together. How is this possible?

- Ryan Lane

Turtle's Phone

What kind of phone a Turtle have ?

Snow and Bang

A man is looking out the windows of his home he see's that everything outside is covered with snow. He goes out of the room to tend to something more important. After a while he hears a loud bang, runs to the window and see's that all the snow has melted. What happened?

- Edward Novyk

More You Take

What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?

Chris Azarian

240 Cigarettes a Day

Colonel Plantpott-Smythe is about to doze off down at the old india club when he notices Cruddington settling down in a neighbouring armchair. Knowing that the man is trying to give up Smoking Cigarettes, he passes him a note on a napkin:

Cruddinton sighs, scrawls a reply on the back of the napkin and returns it. When old Plantpott reads the message, he is quite taken back, Holy Smokes,

240 Cigarettes !

Untill he realizes his mistake. what was his mistake ?

Draw Blank

How can someone draw a blank?

3 + 3 = 4

How can you make this possible ?

Hair Problem

What is the probability that, at least two people in the world have exactly same number of hairs ?

Box illusion

Which box is darker ? Why?

Open Top Box

An open box with a square bottom is to be cut from a piece of cardboard 10 feet by 10 feet by cutting out the corners and folding the sides up.

Find the dimensions that will result in the largest volume.

Geometry and the Globe

You draw two circle one in a plain paper and the other on a north pole, with the pole as a center. Which circle will have a bigger area and Why ?

Mysterious Dancer

The dancer is turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

"Easy" One

Can you Join Seven spots by drawing straight lines, such that each spot is joined to all others and no lines intersect ?

Broken keyword

The Author suddenly had an epiphany, when he realized that he can only write using the first line of letters in his keyboard.

What can you write with one line of a broken keyword ?

Rooster's Dilemma

A young rooster perches on the ridge of a roof, the sides of which slope down at angles of 30 degree and 45 degree to the horizontal, respectively. If the rooster lays an egg, will the egg roll down the side with the steep slope or the side with the gentler slope?

End of Days

21 ^ST December 2012 is the End of Days according to Mayan Calendar. It also mention about that the turning point would be a year with minimum number of days.

Starting on Jan 1 and ending on Dec 31, what is the minimum number of days in ten years before 2012? How about in any given ten years ?

The Headless Man's Letter

A headless man had a letter to write;
It was read by a man who had lost his sight.
The dumb repeated it word for word;
And deaf was he who listened and heard.

- abdeali kothari

Double Proposition

In a small town, a person decided to open up a liquor shop, which was right opposite to a church. The church & its congregation started a campaign to block the liquor shop from opening with petitions and prayed daily against his business.
Work progressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the liquor shop and it was burnt to the ground.
The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the liquor owner sued the church authorities on the grounds that the church through its congregation & prayers was ultimately responsible for the destruction of his liquor shop, either through direct or indirect actions or means.
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons for the act of God.

If you were Judge, How will you decide ?

Numeral Sequence

What comes next in the following sequence ?

1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, ??

Next Number

What is the next number in the following sequence

1, 8 , 11, 69, 88, 96 ...

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

Wooden Rubik's Cube

A Carpenter wants to cut a Wooden Cube into 27 equal cubes.

what is the minimum number of cuts required for the process ?

Hardware Special

The following board was seen on the hardware store window.

HARDWARE SPECIAL

$ .25 each
---------------------------------
100 for $ .75
1000 for $ 1.00
10,000 for $ 1.25

What are they selling ?

Where am I?

I traveled 500 miles due north, then 500 miles due east, then 500 miles due south and ended up where I started. Where am I?

Wrong date?

Nero and Gregor have been good friends for many years. Nero had some tendency to be absent-minded. In order not to forget his friend Gregor's anniversary (birthday), he had written it down on his handkerchief, so that he would never forget it. Therefore at the january 7 he had bought a nice present for Gregor and decided to come to his party.

Upon arrival he knocked on the door of Gregor's house. Gregor opened the door and Nero shouted: "Happy birthday!" and tried to give Gregor his present. However, Gregor was astonished and mumbled: "but.. it is not my birthday, my anniversary is on the second of april!"

What was written on Nero's handkerchief?

Time is Money

A man give 10 cents to one son and 15 cents to another son; what time is it?

btw this is a funny one ;)

The sky is the limit

Sorry for the disappearance but I'm back with a toughie:

Where is the world is the sky no more than three yards wide?

Effervescent Nectar

"Could I induce you to imbibe an effervescent nectar infused with the savory fluid of cacao ?"

"NO -- AND SHUT UP "

"Thats a perfect example of your obtuse mentality"

?

Numbers Series

Find the next set of numbers.

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211


by: Melanie

Odd number of Birds

Can you put 46 birds into nine cages so that each cage contains an odd number of birds.

What is it ?

I could not resist. It was just sitting there in the store, silent, waiting. Every day I would stop and look at it, with the freakish fascination of bystanders at the scene of an accident.

It kept calling to me. I kept coming back to it.

A friend was wondering what was wrong with me. "Why do you look at that? You don't even like it!". How could I explain to him the indifferent compulsion that drew me again and again? How could I explain that words such as "like" became meaningless, hollow noise when compared to the universe of my fascination?

And then one day, I bought it: ?

Alien Division

Alien's "calculator" scanned twenty humans in four houses, immediately six showed up in the "calculator's" display.

What will the "calculator" show if the number of humans are ten distributed in five houses?

Rock in the rowboat

A rowboat is floating in a swimming pool. Which will raise the water level more - dropping a rock into the water or putting the same rock into the boat? Or does it make any difference?

On Planting Trees

If you wish to plant some trees so that each is equal distant from every other tree what is the largest number you can plant.

By the way, Red Maple is one of the best tree to plant.

Interview @ Microsoft

I was at Microsoft for an interview. At the end they asked me, if I have any questions for them. I thought this is my chance and asked,

"What is the optimum size of a team in a project, so that if we add more members, they do not contribute productivity equivalent to the percentage increase in the staff size and why ?"

What do you think they said?

Wrong Time

At 16 minutes past 2, one afternoon a man, unaware of time checks his digital clock, it shows 2:17.

Its incorrect ! he knew, How ?

December Days

What is so unique about December, other than the Christmas. Something which you don't find in any other month ?

btw, Merry Christmas guys !

The Word Puzzle

Professor Nova, in the summer of 1798 invented a famous puzzle which goes like this...

99 + 9 = 9 ?

Now, all I need is to give a hint and ask you to solve it, right ? Right.

Mad Mathematician

"Your check this evening comes to $ 43.89 sir! " the waiter said.
"Nonsense, I'm on a diet ...100,4180" said the mathematician

The mad mathematician was so astonished over the bill that he has lapsed into number talk at the end of his reply. Can you find out what he means ?

Baffling Series

Which letter will come next in the series.


W, L, W, C, N, _

Cube Curious

A logician has two cubes on his desk with one number written on each face. Every day he arranges the cubes so that the front faces shows the todays date of the month. What numbers are on the faces of the cubes ?

Amazing arrangement

I have 8 cue sticks and while playing with billiard balls in three dimension, a strange question struck me. What's the maximum number of cue sticks you can put in an arrangement so that each of them touches every other.

As I started trying arrangements in incremental order, I amazed myself everytime, so when did I stop ?

Uncommonly common

What do the following words have in common ?

catalog, passing, canape, medallion, berate, foxnews

Saving Private Ryan !

"Take exactly one tablet of medicine A and one of medicine B each day, lest you will die from either disease or overdosage" were the exact words of the doctor. "These tablets must be taken together and you need all of these", the last sentence he said before parting.

"The doctor is gone but, i do have bottles for each" thought Ryan. He took one of the tablet A in his hand, while tilting the bottle of tablet B, two tablets accidentally fall out. Now there are three tablets in his hand. Because both types look identical, he cannot tell which is which.

Can you help Ryan save his dosage and his life?

Odd one out !

Find the odd one.
Guinea pig, catgut, shooting star, shortbread, lead pencil, firefly, law dictionary, and dry cleaning.

* For the creative in you, can you make a small story with the all but one words ? ofcourse the smallest story will be the winner

Something different ...

about this series. Can you tell me, what would be the next number ?

12, 14, 15, 20

and what is the value of x, if 1+x = b, b+x = c, c+x=d and d+x = 89

Donut for you !

A women have a donut, along with two "use and throw" knives. This time*, she decided to divide the donut among 5 children and you, only if you can help her do that?

* last time was different