Chris's English Comprehension Test

Old and Young's ages total 48 years.

Old is twice as old as Young was, when Old was half as old as Young will be, when Young is three times as old as Old was, when Old was three times as old as Young.


How old is Old?


(just reading that ... :) ... gives me a headache ...)

Word Equations

You are probably familiar with word equations that work something like this:
29 = D in F in a L Y
This works out to 29 = Days in February in a Leap Year. Can you solve the 10 equations given below in a similar manner?

1.) 40= T with A B
2.) 20 = M T in H C
3.) 3 = W M in H B
4.) 17 = N of S in a H
5.) 5 = V in E A
6.) 33 = V in H S
7.) 7 = Y I
8.) 12 = E on a C
9.) 7 = D with S W
10.) 17 = S in a G (H P)

Charming Inscription

This charming inscription is carved into a stone tablet, and sits above my throne (euphemism for toilet)

What does it say?

NUFSURO
RSETSYT
AERHETS
ETEAHEI
LOWTCAH

- Karl Sharman

Complete the Words

Fill in the missing letters with a 2 word phrase which completes a 4 letter word in each column:
(you will place one word of the 2 word phrase in row 1, and the second word in row 4)

---- ? ---- ? ----- ? ---- ? ---- ? ---- ?

---- S ---- E ---- O --- A ---- L --- O

---- E ---- A ---- T --- C ---- S --- E

---- ? ----- ? ---- ? ---- ? ---- ? ---- ?

What Does It Mean?

The following each represent a different word or phrase, and they have a common theme.

1. + am

2. jojojof

3. $a$r$d$

4. in ... not out

What are the 4 words or phrases, and what is the common theme?

How Far?

You are a professional sign maker. The local government issues a requisition for you to paint a sign. The information to be displayed on the sign was given to you:

PUZZLETOWN -- 15 MILES

CONFUSEDVILLE -- 25 MILES

VILLAGE OF ILLOGICAL THOUGHT -- 50 MILES

At the last moment, you receive a phone call requesting you to add one more name:

TOWNSHIP OF MISCONSTRUED

You ask the caller how many miles ... she said just use the same logic as for the other names.

You look at the names and say "OK".

How many miles to the TOWNSHIP OF MISCONSTRUED?

Happy New Year

How many words can you make from the letters in the word 'Happy New Year'.

1. Keeping the sequence
2. Not keeping the sequence

and Happy New Year to all you ToM Puzzlers!

A Christmas Gift

It's Christmas, all merry and joyful
In me, the goodies are plentiful
If you know what's in me,
you'll get three,
with another for free
A third is yellow, with spikes for protection,
A third is red, with its seeds like perspiration,
A third is purle, with bitter peels as protection,
They're for Jesus' favourites, they say
But they're even on gingerbread house roofs that play
They're all sweet and tasty
But they might give you cavities, ouchy
They come from country of islands
near the most populous land
So go ahead and guess
or all you'll get is a mess!!!

So, what goodies are inside me??

(Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
to everyone ^^)

Body Parts

HEAD, HEART, EYES, TONGUE, LIPS, JAWS, HANDS, FINGERS, LEGS, FOOT, TOES, BLOOD, BONE, GUTS

these words are connected to each other in a very unique other than being body parts can you find that out ?

12 = M in a Y

OK that works out to MONTHS in a YEAR.

Now, all the polymaths out there solve the following

1) 54 = C in a P (with J)
2) 13 = P at the L S
3) 15 = M on a D M C
4) 29 = D in F in a L Y
5) 80 = F S
6) 10 = P B
7) 100 = N in B T
8) 28 = N of D in the L C
9) 5 = P on a P
10) 4 = R of P in the O T
11) D = 500 in A N
12) 13 = C in O S
13) 21 = P in a N D
14) 0.81818181 . . . = F
15) 26535 = The N five D of P.

* There’s also one trick one and one reverse one

Unique Poem

This poem is actually very gimmicky.
It is an attempted attempt at fusion.
Cause and result have been made to occupy a common plane.
Enough to drive me insane.

The author has tried to analyse
Some not yet existing lines

In a vaguely sonnet form.
But in that case result has pre-
Ceded cause because the poem

Only comes into existence on comple
Tion of the analysis. What then
Was the poet analysing?

Yet the poem
And its analysis
Exist occupying the same frame. That is,
The content and its criticism
Are actually one and the same.

What so unique about this poem ?

Wise Men

A king wanted to kick out all the wise men in his land but there was an old law he could not disobey which said there should always be

"Seven blind of both eyes:
Ten blind of one eye:
Five that see with both eyes:
Nine that see with one eye."

So how many wise men did he keep?

Shakespeare Quote

"Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes; today a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as floods of the fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast."

Concealed in it is a familiar quotation from Shakespeare, each word being buried in its proper order. Can you find it?

Animal Instinct

Rearrange the following words to give the name of an animal.
(1) Corona; (2) Cabaret; (3) Paroled; (4) Retirer; (5) Lesions; (6) Someday; (7) Chained; (8) Untrace; (9) Alpines; (10) Outhears; (11) Orchestra; (12) Californian

Another sequence?

87
104
97
116
32
105
115
32
116
104
101
32
110
117
109
98
101
114
32
116
104
97
116
32
98
101
103
105
110
115
32
116
104
105
115
32
115
101
113
117
101
110
99
101
63

Opposite of itself

here are few words which also means opposite of itself !

LEFT: 'remaining' as well as 'having gone'
CITATION: Award for good behavior as well as penalty for bad behavior
FAST: 'moving rapidly'; also 'fixed in position'
OVERLOOK: fail to notice; as also disregard deliberately or indulgently.

What kind of contranyms you come across everyday and understand it without any confusion?

Even upside down?

What word, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upsidedown?

So long since anyone made a post, I thought I would add this one.

Palindromic Fun

1. Mischievous children of celebrities.

2. What did I see ? was it a rodent ?

3. Mother is as self - sacrificing as myself

4. All inhabitants of ancient Rome were smart ; not stupid

5. All chieftains moan

repeat

accdginor ot eht cehhhiikrst degiu foorttuwy is eht ilnoostu

Eleven words from seven Letters

Make eleven words from these seven letters.
(Each word uses all seven letters.)

aeinrst

Hint: Two of the words are in the Sowpod dictionary only.

Turtle's Phone

What kind of phone a Turtle have ?

Devoid

DEVOID OF WATER, A STAR IN THE SKY.

DIVERSE, VARIOUS. WHAT'S THE WORD - TRY

Sides

This Side or That Side, Half of this is a Bird
There comes the day break light, its not so hard

What's the eight letter word ?

What ?

Bigger than the Biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact. really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow that's big," time It is so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really tiny. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

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 [^]

Draw Blank

How can someone draw a blank?

Set of Four Letters

How many set of 4 letters that can be changed in order ( so something like b-o-o-k and k-o-b-o) are there if they are used to fill in the blanks and made a sentence that make sense?

A _o_a_l_ doctor had _o_a_l_ and therefore was _o_a_l to operate.

-James Yu

Word Shift

Very few people know that Dr. Watson, companion of the famous detective Mr. Sherlock Holmes had a secret passion for words and practically invented the Word Shift* game for the first time, or so I think.

Here are two gems from the WORD SHIFT  game.

SPOT -> CLUE
SEEK -> FIND

* Shift one letter making meaningful words at each step.

Musical Instruments

GROAN
PRESENT
ARTIST
MARASCHINO

Find !

Missing Link

Missing Link is the word which is somehow related to both the words on both sides.

For example HAND_ _ _PIPE, the missing link can be BAG.

See how many missing links can you find ?

FOOT_ _ _ _SHOP
BACK_ _ _ _BELT
TREE_ _ _KNOT
HAIR_ _ _BOARD

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 ?

Hungry and Angry

Think of words ending in "-gry". "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?

- Diana Remington

Pun Intended

William Shakespeare had made use of puns in his works. In Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio says while he was lying, bleeding and dying:

"Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man."

Another one: An ambassador is a man who lies abroad for the good of his country. 

My favorite is: "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" - Title of a popular book on punctuation.

So, what do you know ?

Two Words

Can you think of two words which are spelt differently but pronounced the same.

Self Contained

Remember SCUTA*, the chinese women was trying to say some thing and the following appeared.

FLND HSMN YRSN PRTD

in the bubble. What's Wrong this time ?

* SCUTA is an invention of ToM, a Self Contained Under Water Talking Apparatus, which creates a bubble of what you talk under water, much like Comicstrip. Here is an old Adventure.

Consecutive double letters

Recently, I found a unique word which contains unique Three consecutive set of double letters. Can you think of one?

Once And Only Once

What is the longest word in English you can come up, in which each letter comes once and only once.

Word with Letter Sequence

Can you find words which contains the following letters ?

XYG, XOP, WKW, YZY

How about the if i say in the same sequence too ?

Can you find the states

If "work yen" is in "New York" then where are the following ?

Or can i fail
lewd area
oil is nil
my, go win!

Funny Side of English

Word Pyramids: When a word become shorter and shorter by one letter, making meaningful words at each step. An example : Short becomes an "O" as shown

O
TO
HOT
SHOT
SHORT

Now let's test the Grey cells of ToM users, the words are BEFRIENDS, DRAFTING and FLIRTERS. Can you make word pyramids out of any of these ?

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

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"

?

Letter Fun

Answers to the following are sole letters.

What letter...

1 Is a character on a popular sci-fi series?
2 Is your best friend?
3 Hates you?
4 Is plural?
5 Stinks when mixed with urine?
6 Is twice the man you are?
7 Is seventh in the alphabet?
8 Uses cones?

Four Letter Words

Little Joe was waiting for his mom outside the clinic. The compounder Miss Janet asked him, "Joe, do you know how many parts of the body can be spelled with four letters ?"

"Of course " said Joe and started counting. "Hair, nose, neck, skin.... god, they are more than I thought, let me write it down."

How many are there ?

lbs. of Riddle

Forward I am very heavy, backward I am not.

What am I?

Prudent Avis

That prudent avis which matutinally deserts the coziness of its abode will ensnare a vermiculate creature.

Keywords

These puzzles are letters replaced by numbers

I am eight letters long - 12345678.
My 1234 is an atmospheric condition.
My 34567 supports a plant.
My 4567 is to appropriate.
My 45 is a friendly thank-you.
My 678 is a canny name.

What am I?
I am seven letters long - 1234567.
My 123 is a vehicle.
My 2345 was a pop group
My 456 is a piece of luggage.
My 567 is a period of time.

What am I?
I am nine letters long - 123456789.
My 123 is a mischief.
My 3456 is to the left.
My 678 is a shade of brown.
My 789 is a social inssect.

What am I?

The Station Master

Johnny asked the Station Master Mr. Hebrew , how long the train would be in the station. The Station Master with a mathematical bend of mind answered , "222222."

When Johnny asked again, "what about the train on the next track?", "2222222." Mr. Hebrew said.

What does that mean ?

Rebuses

These next few puzzles are letters and numbers that are suppose to represent words or phrases

1. IIIIIIIIII
    SSSSSSSSSS

2.       I
        i
      i
    i
  i
i

3. TOCCDUN

4. MEAS

5. RACT

6.NEMT

7.HYDE
   HYDE

8.TUASPRF

9.AS TAT EOF

10. LIS


11. AALLLL

12. GNINWOD

- Eric

P.S. Please don't use anagram solvers for these it's no fun, and no one will think you're smart

Letter Conundrums

These 10 questions deal with similarities with letters and and words.

1. What letter is like an island?
2. What letter adds great value to a pear?
3. What letter has the same effect as thunder?
4. What letter is like a cow's tail?
5. What letter is like a selfish friend?
6. What letter is like a schoolmaster?
7. What letter comes once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?
8. What letter is like a scandalmonger?
9. What letter is like a guide?
10. What letter is like a mystery?

Poor to Rich

What is the minimum amount of logical and meaningful steps would you need to change

POOR to RICH

Assuming you change one step at a time and make meaningful state at every step.

Everybody wants to listen to a story of a poor man who became a millionaire

Changing Colors

What is the minimum amount of steps would you need to change the word,

GRASS to GREEN

Assuming you change one letter at a time and make meaningful words at every step.

Whodunnit !

One of the four criminals have done it. Their statements are as follows:

James: "It was Michael"
Michael: "Paul did it"
John: "I was not even there"
Paul: "Michael lied when he said I did it"

You are told that only one of the above statements are true. Who done it ?

The Mystery of Alphabet

I recently visited Legoland, in California. One of my interesting memories of the trip turned out to be the long and winding road to get there. The road where I also came across this unique mystery. I saw solid, single letters of the alphabet, firmly fixed on the side of the road.

First I saw the letter "L" almost as big as the height of a christmas tree, "this could be fun for kids" I thought. Then came equally big, the letter "E", and then to my surprise the letter "C" (!) and the "O".

"ok ! its the mystery of a broken letter G, for LEGO" , I told myself.

But as I went on and waited for another L or an I, my eyes grew wider and wider with suspense and surprise. It was nothing like I expected. What did I see ?

Grammar School

A 1,000 year old Celtic medieval manuscript was found in Ireland with the following written

    +h@+  +h@+  1$  1$

+h@+  +h@+  1$  n0+  1$  n0+

  1$  +h@+  1+  1+  1$

The archaeologist, Hell Raiser was first intrigued. After looking closely he smiled and said, "whoever wrote this, certainly didn't pass grammar school"

Well ! how would you write it ?

Solving Puzzles

Johnny walks into a restaurant for lunch. He asks the waitress if she is good at solving puzzles. She replies, "I am the best." So Johnny says he'll have "sausage and noodles drenched with ice cream, hashed" and adds, "if you bring me what I really want I'll leave you a $100 tip."

A few minutes later, she brought him exactly what he wanted, and he left her the large tip. What did Johnny really eat for lunch?

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, _

Hidden Word

Can you find the hidden word ?

E ( C/TA ) R