Solve this

WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM

Realizing ofcourse that values of M and E could be interchanged.
No leading zero's are allowed.
it is => wwwdot minus google equal to dotcom

each letter is a number

Flags, ropes, roofs - oh my!

This is a riddle of two flags on flagpoles on houseroofs
You have a rope to assist you
You are only human so there're no poofs
You can't tie the rope on flage poles and pull across
Because then you would surely fall
You can't reach across roofs
Because you're just not that tall
You can't swing on the rope
Because then you will meet your death
You can't be on the ground
Because then you will be in enemy's grasp
If you can make a road
Then you'll cross without a yelp
Mind that glue gun in your pocket
Because it will come to help
Oh and with infinite amount of rope
How would you get to the other flag?
But don't worry if you have no hope
Because it won't cost you an arm nor leg
Try this, if you can, without your glue.

(sorry, I'm not really a poet)

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 ?

A flipping fortune

You begin flipping a coin. Each time it comes up heads you double your money . You stop when the coin lands tails up. How much money do you expect to make before you throw a tails? You start with $1. I've no idea where the money is coming from.


Addendum, 10/10/09. The expected value is the same as the average value. To measure it, you would have to observe an infinite number of trials.

You cannot lose in this game. If you threw 10 heads, then a tail, you'd walk away with $1024. The probability of doing that is 1/2048. If you threw a tail on your first flip, you'd still have $1. The probability of doing that is 1/2.

Favorable Bet

Let’s say you get into an quarrel with a friend as to who owns the more expensive canine and decide to settle the spat by checking with the pet store where the two whelps were bought.

Meanwhile you also agree on a bet whereby the person who wins (owns the more expensive one) will give it to the loser. Thereafter you’re both tickled pink with this arrangement, because you’re both thinking, "If I win I’ll lose my hound, but if I lose I get a pricier pooch. And as the chances are obviously equal, the bet’s clearly to my advantage."

The problem is, how can a bet be favorable to both parties?

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?

Time Turn

At this moment the time is 9:00 PM. Can you tell me what time it will turn, 23999 999 992 hours later ?

On Solving Problems

Tom appeared for a maths exam. He was given 100 problems to solve. He tried to solve all of them correctly but some of them went wrong. Any how he scored 85.
His Score was calculated by subtracting two times the number of wrong answers from the number of correct answers.

Can you tell how many problems he solved correctly ?

Help

This is Ragknot and I am alone on strange flying ship.
I can't move because I am tied up. I can see a guage that
reads "Acceleration".

The ship just began to move and the guage moved to 200 miles
per hour-minute and it's holding steady now. How long do I
have until the ship escapes Earth's orbit?

Clock Crypt

"Well I was proceeding down Lettsby Avenue," said Police Constable Klepto, "and had just turned around into Silent Mews."

"And what time was this" asked Queen's Counsel Casey,

"Well I don't remember, but the hour hand and the minute hand were exactly on minute divisions of the clock face and the minute hand was exactly 13 minute divisions ahead of the hour hand."

Luckily Dr. Chronos was in the court. What time did he suggest the recorder record?

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 ?

Time Stop

"Well, in that case, what time is it now?" asked the striker, noting that the wall clock said 2:00 PM.

"Time to be off," replied Chronos, picking up his cuckoo clock from the seat beside him and tucking it under his arm. "It's Thursday, and I have an appointment this afternoon in town. My seven-hour clock stopped this morning and I have to take it to the repair shop. Look it says 1:00 now." With this he swept out, making a timely exit.

When had the time stopped in his clock ?

What ?

ToM said he has joined 12345. Now some 123 in their 12533244 may say that it 12534 that he is lacking in 423424, because no 4532 153 would do that. We all knew that what ToM had was bigger than a 424512 and this news confirms the 4512.

If you are not all at 425 and the 534. comes to you, please congratulate him!

Copy Paste

Copy: You and I are twins and today is our birthday. If you multiply our ages together you get the same number that you would get if you added them instead and turned the result upside down.

Paste: Yes that's true enough, But it was also true several years ago, and you didn't think to mention it then.

How old are Copy Paste now ? How old were they then ?

Johnny and the Waitress

When Johnny met the waitress the third time, He asked her what she did other than waiting table (part time), she replied with a smile that she was a

LATHEROSE CHOC

This puzzled him greatly until he learned what her first name was. What was her main occupation?

For the uninitiated here is another adventure of Johnny and the Waitress [^]

Right digits

It's pretty easy to approximate the value of 125!.
It is about 1.8827 * 10^209. Or it maybe be written
as 1.8827E+209 as computed in Excel.

But to get the last 32 digits (right most digits)
it takes some extra work.

What are the right most 32 digits?

3 + 3 = 4

How can you make this possible ?

0.767676... = ?

What is the EXACT value of the infinte series 0.767676.... ?

No approximations, please.

Boat Ride

How far can Wul Laker row into the Wular Lake ?

Spiders and Flies

If five spiders can catch five flies in five minutes.

How many flies would 100 spiders catch in 100 minutes?

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 ?

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.

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.

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.

Bermuda Triangle

The Journal of the Paranormal reported the following,

It happened on the morning of March 20, 1862 The Ship "Mulan" vanished at sea!

"Mulan" was 50 foot long merchant ship transporting industrial spare parts and headed towards Miami. The night before the incident the crew was relaxing, on the fore deck playing cards, smoking or looking at the Florida coast. The captain was quietly filling his log book in his cabin when he noticed the beams of the lighthouse. But "Mulan" never reached her destination and nobody heard any more from the ship or her crew. Surprisingly no evidence was found until now which could have explained this sudden disappearance.

"Something is not right here, Dr. Watson" said Sherlock Holmes, "Think !"

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 !

Silverfish on Diet

Silverfish found a wooden cube this time*. He starts crawling from one corner of the cube, and,  confining himself to its edges, which are all exactly one cm long, crawls as far as he can without retracting any part of his path.

How far does he crawls?

* Silverfish old adventure

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 ?

Fraction Counts

Where do you see the fraction 24/31 ?

Miles per Hour

If an electric train is going west at sixty miles an hour and the wind is blowing from north at thirty miles an hour, in which direction will the smoke from the engine blow and, at what Miles per Hour ?

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?

Nancy and Sluggo

Sluggo meets a new friend Irma at Nancy's party, where all were, either Truth Tellers or Liars. Irma tells Sluggo that she has overheard a conversation in which a girl revealed her identity, saying she is a liar. Now sluggo is thinking, Is Irma a Liar or a Truth teller ?

What will you tell, if Sluggo ask you ?

Common Theme

Whats so common about the following words

Dresser
Grammar
Uneven
Voodoo
Revive

My uncle

My Fathers brother knows the score of the game before it even starts how could this be?

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 ?

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)

Rendezvous

A Car in Los Angeles starts toward San Diego on I-5 South at 40 miles an hour. Fifteen minutes later a motor bike in San Diego starts towards Los angeles on I-5 North - 120 miles away - at 55 miles an hour.

Which vehicle is nearest to Los Angeles, when they meet ?

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 ?

Clock Chime

A tick-tock clock chimes every hour on the hour, and once each quarter hour in between. If we hear it chime once, what is the longest we may have to wait to be sure what time it is?

Wrong Number

Thirteen percent of the people in San Diego have unlisted phone numbers. You select three hundred names as random from the phonebook. What is the expected number of people who have unlisted numbers?

Multilingual

Steve was amazed by "the fact" that this is one thing in the world that can speak all languages ?

Would you know what ?

Persistence

A young salesman Good Benito was finally admitted to the office of the president, who chided him, "Young man, you should feel flattered that I allowed you to come in here. I turned down five salesman today.

"I Know" replied Good Benito . "_ ___ ___ ____ __ ____"

What did he said ?

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 ?

Hold and Cold

Alone I am hot. Take two letters away and i am cold. Take another away and i am warm up a bit.

What am I?

Who Comes Next ?

Who/What comes next in the following perplexing sequence

QAZ, WSX, EDC, RFV, TGB, ?

Underwater Talking Apparatus

A revolutionary device Self Contained Underwater Talking Apparatus (SCUTA) was invented, which create a baloon of text of what you speak, much like a comic strip. A lot of people were tested with the invention under water. when a women was tested, the following apeared in the bubble

"itne verra insbu titpo urs"

So what language is she speaking and what country she is from ?

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."

Where

So now that you guys conquered who and what, we're now up to where.
I'll start with the easiest one. Good luck everyone!

A 12-year old girl walks into an establishment alone and picks up a small magazine to read. She is then cornered, led to the backroom and instructed to sit still and be quiet. Fearing for her safety, she obeys this request, but is attacked with a sharp object anyway. By the end of the ordeal, she feels no pain and actually pays money to a woman before she leaves the place.

Where is the girl and why does she pay the woman?
~as always hints are available.
~Good Luck
~Valerie

What 4

Michelle slowly slides her fingers against the silver blades in her hand to check their sharpness. Next, she glances in the mirror to see how she looks, Finally, she enters and area where a group of solemn people from around the world holds her in judgment. Michelle has not committed any crime nor has she entered a courtroom, yet the group's judgment may affect both her and her county.

What is Michelle doing and why is she doing it?

~As always I have clues if you need them. Good luck!
~Valerie

Puzzle

JBJBJATWOWFIITRIAOHOSOJBJBJATWOWFIITRIAOHOS.

Explain?

pramsay13

Belly Dancers

If seven belly dancers can lose a total of 20 pounds in eight hours of dancing, how many more belly dancers would be needed to lose a total of 20 pounds in only four hours of dancing provided the new dancers shed weight only half as fast as the original dancers

Bigger the Better ?

The bigger it is.
The less you see.
What is it ?

As Easy as A. B. C.

The math teacher Mr. Menon was not feeling well, so he asked the class to find out four numbers, a number in the spellings of English counting which has "A" in it, a number which has "B", a number which has C, and a number which has D in it.

The students were, sure busy for the whole period. What would you say ?

Ski Lift

From the time, you get on a ski lift to the time you get off what proportion of the chairs do you pass ?

Janet and Joan

Janet and Joan were found dead in a room which had an open window (it wasnt broken, just open). And, there were glass splinters in a puddle of water on the floor. How did they die?

The Missing Number

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

Friday

A person rides into a city, let's say Philadelphia. He arrives in Philadelphia on Friday. He stays there for only three days, and then rode back on Friday. How did he do it?

What did he say?

A man goes to his lawyer and says that he wants to end his marriage
because his wife has been throwing things at him for the last 30years!

The lawyer said, "So why did you wait all this time to come forward?"

What do you think was the man's reply?

-by gilumar-

10 birds

There is a hunter who sees 10 birds sitting on a branch of a tree.
He shoots and hits only 1 of them.

How many birds are left alive on the branch?

-by gilumar-

2007

How many men were born last year?

A Mile Long

How long does it takes for a mile long train to pass a mile long tunnel moving at 60 mph

Another Charlotte's Adventure

Joy is stuck on a middle of the wall of a room, one foot below the ceiling. Charlotte is in the middle of the opposite wall, a foot above the floor. What is the shortest path Charlotte can take to save his baby, if the room is 12 X 30 foot with a 12 foot ceiling ?

* Joy is the name of Charlotte's baby who is a barn spider, here is an old adventure

Lost "Love" Story

Four men and and four women are shipwrecked on a desert island. Eventually each one falls in love with each other, and is himself/herself loved by one person. Here are the equations.

David Taylor falls in love with a girl who is, unfortunately, in love with Jon Baker. Evan Jeffrey loves a girl who loves the man who loves Rebecca Russell. Megan Kelly is loved by Carl Duckinson . Rhonda French hates Carl Duckinson and is hated by the man whome Julie Margaret loves.

Who Loves Evan Jeffrey ?

Gadget Update Version 1.5

Hey Guys !

There is a new version of the Sidebar gadget Download Version - 1.5

The new version has the following updates

• You can see the Number of comments, question have, in the Fly-out window
• Question will have tool tip which will say either TOM puzzle or Shared Puzzle(shared by web users)
• Keyboard accessibility, yes you can access all the features using keyboard
• New wall papers

To access the Gadget using keyboard use the following shortcuts

1. Press Windows key + tab-space to get Sidebar in front
2. Press Windows key + G to tab across each gadget
3. Press Tab to go through each of the questions
4. Press Enter key to open the question in the Fly-out window
5. Press Enter when close link is selected to close the Fly-out

If you have any suggestion for future upgrades , add your comments here !

Red

There was this guy. He was addicted to red. He had everything that's related to red. He used everything that was red except this red comb, this red pair of scissors and this red blade.Why didn't he use these?


kyelc

Cat 'n' Mouse

If seven cats can catch seven rats , seven ways in seven days, how long will it take ten cats to catch ten rats ten ways ?

Equation equalization

This is equation is obviously illogical:

26=74

The question is, can you turn this equation into a sensible equation without adding any type mathematical signs or numbers or anything like that?

Cube Corner

A four-inch cube of solid-white material is painted black on all six faces, and then cut into one-inch cubes. Some of the small cubes will have three black faces, some will have two black faces, some one, and some none.

How many will there be each ?

Grandmother and the Crocodile

Once in ancient Egypt, an old woman was washing clothes in the Nile while her grandson was playing on the river bank. Suddenly a crocodile leaped out of the river and grabbed the boy between the teeth. The old woman ran towards them shouting, “Leave the child alone, you selfish crocodile”.

Much to her surprise the crocodile looked at her and said, “Selfish? I am hungry and must eat! Would you call me selfish for following the laws of nature?” With no time to wonder at a crocodile talking with his mouth full, the grandmother said, “Then eat me, but leave the child!”

The crocodile would have rather eaten the juicy child than the bony old woman, but feeling obliged by his own words, he replied, “Very well, I will eat you instead of the child if you answer me one simple question correctly. My question is this: "which of you will I eat?”

What should the old woman answer?

mo

Railroad Crossing

RAILROAD CROSSING -- LOOK OUT FOR THE CARS

Can you spell it without any R's

Cut the Cake

What is the maximum number of parts you can cut a circular cake by using a knife 4 times. How about maximum number of equal parts?

* Assume your knife only goes in a straight line and you don't move the parts of the cake between the cuts.

Annual Review

Here is the score board for Tom's Annual review

Core Competencies = Weight  40.0%
Title                     Score Expectation   
-----------------------------------------
Communication             4.0/5 - Exceeds 
Results Focus             3.0/5 - Meets 
Teamwork                  3.0/5 - Meets 

Job Specific Competencies = Weight 60.0%
-----------------------------------------
Creativity/Innovation     4.0/5 - Exceeds 
Dependability             3.0/5 - Meets 
Initiative                3.0/5 - Meets 
Integrity/Ethics          3.0/5 - Meets 
Job Knowledge             2.0/5 - Needs 
Problem Solving/Analysis  3.0/5 - Meets 
Productivity              3.0/5 - Meets 
Quality                   2.0/5 - Needs 
-----------------------------------------

So, What's Tom's overall SCORE ?

More Birds

Twice four and twenty black birds
Were sitting in the rain
I shot and killed the seventh part,
How many did remain ?

Odd number of Birds

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

Tie Trick

I have all but two Red Tie
I have all but two Blue Tie
I have all but two Green Tie

How many Ties do I have ?

The Truth is out there

Alice and Bob are talking.

"I'm Bob," says the one with black hair.
"I'm Alice", says the one with red hair.

If atleast one of them is lying, who is who ?

Alice and Bob

Alice and Bob were carrying pieces of timber to build a playhouse.

Alice said to Bob "Give me one of your pieces so that we shall both be carrying the same number of pieces"

"No" said Bob, proudly wanting to display his strength. "Give me one of yours and I shall be carrying twice your weight."

How?

Case of Two Clocks

Mr. Tito while collecting data for census came across this peculiar old lady, who was living alone in a very old and big house. She refuses to tell her age until, he answers her question correctly.

"I have two old clocks in my house, one of them does not run at all and the other always loses an hour a day." She said. "And since I don't have any other clock, I have to look into one of the two clocks. the question is, which one should I rely on for any particular week?"

Stumped by the question, Mr. Tito came back, and is having nightmares over the case of two clocks, can you help ?

Magic Square

Can you make a magic square that would add up to a smallest number, say n in every horizontal , vertical and diagonal direction with unique number in each series of three numbers.

What is the value of n ?

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 ?

Golden Question

What weighs more, a pound of gold or a pound of lead ?

Square piece of paper

You have a square piece of paper. How would you fold the paper so as to create the largest equilateral triangle? Ofcourse you have lost your geometry box.

Now start looking for a piece of paper !

Every minute counts

An analog clock reads 3:15. What is the angle between the minute hand and hour hand?

"Simple" Multiplication

Here is a simple multiplication , and believe me you can solve this

P Q R S T
      x M
----------
T S R Q P

x is a symbol of multiplication. The puzzle is to subsitute P, Q, R, S, T, & M with unique integers to make the above equation true.

Treasure chest

Two chest with title engraved, one with treasure. One title says "This chest has a snake", the other says "One of the two is correct"

Will you be doomed to oblivion bitten by the deadly snake or will you find the treasure?

Touchy billiard balls

A billiard ball can at most touch two other billiard balls in a single dimension. How many billiard balls a single billiard ball (no pun intended) can touch in two dimension and three dimensions ?

If you don't know what a billiard ball is, can you strike out 9 letters to reveal a short "phrase"

ANSIHNELOERTPTHTREARSES

Number doubles

Can you find a number such that if its last digit (unit's place) is moved to the first digit*, the number doubles ?

* for example , if the original number be 5678 new number will be 8567 so the new number should be equal to two times the original number.

Salesman and oranges

A salesman sold 1/2 of all his oranges and 1/2 an orange more to the first customer, same thing he did with 2nd & 3rd customer.

How many oranges he must have sold, if he had none left at the end ?

Make a 5 !

Can you take two 2's and make a 5 ^*

* using any mathematical operation(s)

Odd person out

I was at a party with a friend one evening where he got bored and started keeping track of the number of handshakes made by people. A person was called "odd person" if he made an odd number of handshakes, otherwise he was called "even person".

After some time my bored friend said to me, "Hey, do you know that there are an even number of odd persons?" I replied, "Big deal ! there will be always an even number of odd persons". But still he seemed confused ?

Can you explain in one line , why this is so ?

Find Phrases

"Life end lot five" & "Bust she joy" are two phrases if you replace one characters in each words.?

* There is some technical issue with blogger, so occasional hiccups. bear with me

The Year 1961

1961 is one of those years ... which can be written upside down and it still remains the same , I call it Year which is Similar Upside Down (YSUD) just for the sake of it.

Can you tell which was the last year which was YSUD before this one and which YSUD one is the next ? Can there be any formula to find out?

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

Julius Caesar loves me...

My First is a 100, My second is a zodiac sign
My third is hibernian, My fourth is an Egyption God of the Sun
& Julius Caesar loves my whole ,

WHO AM I ?

Unique Number

What is so unique about the number 8,549,176,320 ?

Tricks, Puzzles, and Riddles

These are some of the gems you will find in my website.

To start with

"As a slight trick of mind unfolds..."

the above lines are taken from a book. Name of this website is also inspired by the same book.

Can you tell who is the author of the book?