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?

Irish Bulls

I got an email from my network administrator saying "If you don't recieve this email, please let me know." An amusingly absurd statement, that almost made sense. Such statements, that makes no sense and often contradicts itself, are Irish Bulls. We hear then almost everyday.

• We are overpaying him, but he is worth it.
  
• It would be a lovely day if it wasn't for the weather
  
• Back to back, they faced each other.

Can you think of one ?

The Missing Link

Party (----) Sphere

The missing link is a word which somehow links both side words. Can you think of the missing link above ?

I Told You I Was Ill

A hypochondriac drinks his medicine until there is only one third left in the bottle. He then dilutes the rest with water until the bottle is two thirds full.

"This would be too light" he said to himself and tops the bottle with a mixture twice as strong as the original medicine.

He is still not sure if the resultant mixture is stronger or weaker than the original one, and by how much. Are you ?

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 ?

Punctuate

Can you make some meaningful statements from the following

• It was and I said not but
• Time flies you cannot they pass by at such irregular intervals

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 ?

Common Theme

Whats so common about the following words

Dresser
Grammar
Uneven
Voodoo
Revive

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 ?

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 ?

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 ?

Shrink Word

A Shrink Word is similar to change word* except that in each step , either you reduce a letter in the word or change a letter. For example PIN becomes IN which then becomes I

Can you Shrink the word T H A N K S


* example of a change word

Lions and Crows

Pride is to Lions as ____ is to Crows ?

Would you know ?

Word Puzzle

Which English 6 letter word can form 7 other words without rearranging the order of any of the letters?

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 ?

Puzzle

What number do you have to take out to get another number?

STEVWEENTNTYEOENNAENDAANQDUATATHIERRD

What is it?

"You throw away its outside, cook its inside, eat its outside, and throw away its inside."
What is it?

- pramsay13

Puzzle

Remove five letters from the word below to make the name of a fruit?

PFIIVNEEALEPTPTLERES

-pramsay13

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?



by world_pride

Longest Word !

Madam Query was late again. She saw always late chalked on the board. She became upset, "You all are very Impertinent and will not get any extra credits in English this year." She said.

"I can forgive you all in ONLY one condition. Tell me the longest word in English which does not repeat any letters?" Assume you were there, can you save your classmates ?

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?





by:world_pride

A Question

Hey everyone, I'm back. See if you can crack my homemade cipher.

Thew os hti rqaesi uf nhortiit? O khont yua nec rogafi ot uat.

Matthew Lauser

Figure it out

There is a single feature that unites all of these words, can you figure it out

Enumerate
Unoccupied
Onerous
Unusual
Bird

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?

Alphabetical Order

What is the longest English word which has its letters in alphabetical order ?

Ridiculous Riddle

This is one of the most ridiculous riddle i've heard but here it is....
cuz i gots nothing better to do...

You're trapped in a room with no doors or windows...
The only items in the room is a table, and a mirror...
how do you get out...


-Rx

Think Brain

What is the minimum steps required to go from

THINK -> BRAIN

* assuming you change one letter at a time and each step makes a meaningful word. Show the steps !

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 ?

Word fun

MILONELION ?

Another Word Puzzle

Which of these words doesn't belong in the list?

Cud
Thru
Dome
Hi
Kill
No
Hat
Men
Flag
Jack
Loam

-Matthew Lauser

Word Challange

Insert a long E sound after the first letter of "bond" and phonetically you get "be-ond" (beyond). Insert a long E sound after the first letter of "renter" and you get "re-enter" (reenter). Name something found in outer space. Insert a long E sound after the first letter, and you'll name a resident of a major American city. What are the words?

(Curtousy of NPR and Will Shortz puzzle master)

-Euclid's Brother

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 ?

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 ?

Johnny and the waitress

Remember the waitress ! Johnny quite impressed, came back to the restaurant. This time he thought of asking her out. "God ! I don't even know her name" he said to himself. When she appeared, he asked her, "Would you come with me for a dinner ?"

"Only if you can find out my name (hidden) in this !" and she gave him a piece of paper with the following note.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Can you help ?

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 ?

Nine Letters

There are at least two nine letter words that can be made from all of these letters:

E E I L N O S S S

What are they?

-Matthew Lauser

P.S. Extra points for people who figure out more than two. :)

NO COMPUTER PROGRAMS!!!

The Urban Riddle

Come near, o men of wisdom, an search you through
my ditty:
Four buried in this rubbish cities fair are lying low,
Search 'till on every line you see stand up a risen city.
'Till walls and arches, terraces and turrets, upward grow.

This is a toughie, lets see if you can find all of the cities in the lines (there are only four, the line below the first doesn't count)

Beheadments

In yon vast field of cultivated space,
I there am found with members of my race;
Decapitate me__if you've no objection_
You then will find what brings me to perfection;
Take one more cut, and then you'll plainly see,
What I am destined, day by day, to be

Run a program on that!

The Mystery Move

I'm sometimes white, but sometimes black, I take you there but I don't take you back.

What am I?

(and extra points to whoever can tell me the rhyme scheme of this question)

also, the answer is not micheal jackson

What The Doctor Said

A man goes to the doctor complaining about stomach problems. The doctor asks him what he's been eating.
  "I only eat pool balls," he says.
"Red ones for breakfast, yellow and orange ones for lunch, blue for afternoon snacks, and purple and black for dinner."
  "I see the problem," says the doctor.

"..........."

What did the doctor said ?

What is it?

John and James were talking to each other.
"Confound it!" says John, "My friend, Pablo, you know the one who works at A-1 Auto Repair, he says that there is an object in the world, which has the letters P, R, N, D, and then the numbers 2 and 1 on it . According to him, P,R,N, and D are all abbreviations of individual words, and this mysterious object is actually not so mysterious at all. He says we touch it every day multiple times. I have no idea what it is."
James replied, "I think I know what it is. It is ---------------

*********

James figured it out. Can you?


Hint: I have given you a hint.


-Paul