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 ?

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.

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 ?

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

Incomplete Equation

A^x = A⁵

then x = 5. This is incomplete ?

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 ?

SCUTA

Remember the Self Contained Underwater Talking Apparatus SCUTA which create a balloon of text, of what you speak. A scientist when trying the apparatus, the following bubble showed up:

Oyo is an imyant y in Yugal which exys y

Whats wrong ?

A.B. and C.

AABB = CC²

???

* No marks without explanation

The Magic Trick !

I was in Disneyland last weekend, and came across this Magician.

"I had on the stage," the magician's story went, "a small iron box with a handle on top. I invite a strong man to step forth. In response an Arab of medium height but sturdily built, a sort of local Hercules, came up. He walked up cheer-fully, grinning slyly the while, and stopped opposite me.

"Are you strong? " I asked, looking at him from tip to toe.
"Yes," said he.
"Are you sure you will always be strong?"
"Certainly," came the answer.
"You are Wrong" I said "In the twinkling of an eye I can rob you of your strength and you will grow as weak as a child"
"The Arab gave a disbelieving grin"
"Come here," I said, "and lift up this box."
The Arab bent over, lifted it up and then inquired: "Is that all?"
"You just wait a moment" said I. "Assuming a serious mein, I made a commanding gesture and solemnly uttered:
"You are now weaker than a woman. Lift that once again"

This time the Arab failed to pick it up, no matter how hard he tried. What happened ?

Hot

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

Fraction Counts

Where do you see the fraction 24/31 ?

Three Gems

There are only three Real Gems* in the world which sustain our life ; the water, the food and the ______

*Assume you are left alone in an island what is the third thing you would ask for ?

Rubik's Cube Solution

A Rubik's Cube is considered solved when each face has the same color of cubes. How may possible solutions are there for a Rubik's Cube

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.

On Arriving Early

Bob always arrives at the train station at exactly five o'clock to pick up his wife Betty and drive her home. One day Betty arrives an hour early, and starts walking home, and is eventually picked up. Betty arrives home twenty minutes earlier than usual.

How long did she walked, before she met her husband ?

It's Murder, Watson!

The facts are these my dear Watson

"One member of the family murdered another member, the third member witnessed the crime, and the fourth member was an accessory after the fact." said Holmes.

On the scene, Inspector Lestrade was found, who added the following.

• Accessory and the witness were of opposite sex


• The oldest member and the witness were of opposite sex


• The youngest member and the victim were of opposite sex


• The accesory was older than the victim


• The father was the oldest


• The murderer was not the youngest

Hah ! cried Sherlock Holmes. Lestrade, still confused, what about you ?

Miles to go before I sleep

Assume you walk at a speed of three miles an hour. If a two-mile-wide forest has a two-mile trail leading directly through it, how far into the forest can you go in half an hour?

Antigrams

The "real fun" is what you don't have in a "funeral". Well ! Antigrams are anagrams with a difference: the new word have opposite meanings.

Santa, misfortune, violence and evangelists are four potential candidates.

What do you say ?

Color and Fun

So the interviewer at microsoft told her " If you could form a sentence using the words that I give you, then may be I will give you the job."


"The words are GREEN, PINK, YELLOW, BLUE, WHITE, PURPLE and BLACK ."

Can you help her ?

Designs of Nature

When I look at sun and moon I see orange and white Circles, when I look at mountains I see scalene Triangles. When I see a shooting star I see a straight line. The designs of nature are so accurately geometrical !

Can you think of three other natural items which are geometrical?

About Finding Things

Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed ?

Funny as Tautonyms

Tautonym is a word or name made of two identical parts or repeated words, example TOMTOM, MAMA, BYE-BYE. Do you know any Tautonyms ?

Normally a Tautanym is pronounced same word twice, but there is a special Tautonym _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ which is pronounced differently. But ofcourse, you never listened to your English teacher, did you ?

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?

Beautiful Geometry

Sir Ramanujan said "The sides of the triangle is given. You have to find out the radii of the three circles inside the triangle, the three circles touches each other as well as each touches two side of the triangle as shown in the figure."



Take a = 507,
b = 375 and
c = 252

"You have got all of the weekend and the week after to solve the problem"

Can you ?

Magnetic "Perpetual" Motion

In attempts to invent a "perpetual motion" machine the magnet and its power have played a role of no mean magnitude. Ill-starred "perpetual motion" machine inventors have tried might and main to apply the magnet to this end. Here is one such project described back in 17th century by Englishmen John Wilkins, the Bishop of Chester.

A Powerful magnet A is placed on the top of the pillar leaned against which is two inclined grooves M and N, one above the other. The upper groove M has a small hole C at the top, while the lower groove N is curved.



The inventor claimed that the arrangement would operate as follows. A small iron ball B was to be placed on the upper groove. Attracted by the magnet A, it ought to roll upwards. On reaching the hole, it should roll down, be carried up by inertial along the curve D, and find itself again on the upper groove M, from whence, again attracted by the magnet, it should again roll up and drop through the hole, roll down and on to the upper groove, ad infinitum.

This the inventor conjectured, would produce "perpetual motion".

What do you think ? Will it ?

Why does Rocket Go Up ?

Professor Feynman was teaching the class.
"Even from students of physics one may often hear a totally wrong explanation of a rocket's flight. They claim that it goes up by thrusting itself away from the air with the help of gases formed from gunpowder combustion. That incidentally is what ancients thought-rockets are invented long, long ago."

He added "But if we were to fire a rocket in an airless void it would fly, and even better than in the air."

What's the right explanation ?

Analogy

Complete the analogy. Example High is to low as sky is to /e/a/r/t/h/.
Skull is to brain as shell is to / / / / /.

A Traveler

A female traveler got lost in a jungle and was caught by a tribe of cannibals. As they tied her up, the cannibal leader said
"All right. We will let you say your last words.If your last words are a LIE, we will eat you ALIVE If your last words are TRUE, we will eat you COOKED"
And with that, the leader roared with laughter.
Now the witty traveler thought for a while and said her last words. After hearing the traveler's statement, the leader had no choice but to let her go. What did the traveler say?



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Face Value

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

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov had a 30 years correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Pauling read Isaac's science articles in Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine regularly and wrote Isaac whenever he found an error. Here is an interesting excerpt.
From Pauling to Isaac:

I am writing now about your article in the September 1978 issue. On page 123, you say that Amontons and Guy-Lusac observed that if a gas at the freezing point of water, 0 degree Celcius, is decreased in temperature to -1 degree Celcius, then both the volume and the pressure of the gas will decline by 1/274 of the temperature. This is wrong. What you should have said is that _ _ _ I hope you are keeping busy as ever.

What was the explaination?

The A to G puzzle

Work out the numbers of A to G if...

A+B+C+D+E+F+G=340
3A+7B-4C-13D+E-6F+2G=219.25
2A-7B+9C-4D-3E+2F+3G=82
ABC=21,150
DE=1225.25
FG=3,145
BDF=11,544

Also C is the smallest number, and E is the biggest number. F is the middle number.

~Alexander

Minutes To Noon

How many minutes is it before 12 noon, if 55 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past 9 AM.

Fatal Attraction !

In the autumn of 1912, the ocean linear Olympic, one of the world's biggest ships at the time, was steaming ahead out in the high seas, when another much smaller ship, the cruiser Hawk, rapidly approached it on a parallel course a hundred meters away.

As soon as the two ships took up a position where one pointed the other, a surprising thing happened. the Hawk sharply veered off its course, as if obeying some invisible force, turned the big liner and heedless of the helm rammed into it.The impact was so great that it made a big gash in the Olympic's hull.

A tribunal examined this queer case and found the Olympic's Skipper guilty, as, according to its ruling, he had failed to issue orders to yield the right of passage to Hawk. Consequently, the tribunal, as you can gather, saw nothing extra ordinary about it at all, attributing the the accident to the skipper's negligence.

Actually this was the result of a totally unforeseen cicumstance, a case of mutual attractions of ships at sea and the answer lies in basic physics.

Why do ships attract one another ?

The train to clarksville

Mr. Moody grumbles about bad time-keeping trains from morning till night!.
On one particular morning he was quiet justified.
His train left on time for the one hour journey, to Clarksville, and it arrived 5 minutes late.
However, Mr. Moody 's watch showed it to be 3 minutes early, so he adjusted his watch by putting it forward 3 minutes.
His watch kept time during the day, and on the return journey in the evening the train started on time, according to his watch, and arrived on time, according to the station clock.
If the train travelled 25 percent faster on the return journey than it did on the morning journey, was the station clock fast or slow, and by how much?




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an eggy breakfast

Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exatly three eggs, each person had an egg. how is this possible?







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a horse race

a wealthy father had 2 sons. each son had 1 horse so when the father died in his will he wrote " all my wealth goes to the son whos horse comes second" . so the brothers started the race but by midday they still hadn't got out of the gate. so a stranger comes by and asks why they are moving so slow so they tell him the story. so the stranger tells them something and they jump on a horse and start racing as fast as they can. what did the stranger tell them?





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Junior Einstein

Further eating the Alphabet Soup, Junior Einstein came up with another cool calculation.

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

You know which digit among 0-9 is missing here ?

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 ?

The Free Travel !

In his satirical History of Lunar States and Empires(1657), the witty 17th century French writer Cyrano De Bergerac describes an amazing thing which had supposedly happened to him. Experimenting one day, he was lifted up in the air with all his retorts. On landing several hours later, he was astonished to find himself not in his own land of France nor even in Europe, but in Canada.

Strangely enough Cyrano De Bergerac believed his transatlantic flight quite possible, claiming that while he was up in the air, the earth had continued to rotate eastwards which is why he had landed in North America and not France.

A very cheap and simple mode of travel, I must say ! Just ascend and stay suspended for a few minutes and you'll return to a totally different place much further westwards. why tie yourself globe-trottin? Simply hover in mid air and wait till your destination reaches you.

What do you say ?

Chess Tournament

At an international chess tournament the four semi-finalists, Zena Le Vue, Dr. A. Glebe, Rob E. Lumen and Ann Ziata, each represented one of four continents: Europe, Africa, the Americas and Austrailia. Can you correctly match each of the four chess masters with the continent which of the four chess masters with the continent which they represented?