Mind Puzzles
Alan Godfrey
themselves. I am in the process of writiing my own little web-site, but my
Lawyer-father tells me it is illegal for me to use any from magazines or
games. Does anyone here write or control a magazine that would let me
publish some of theirs????
Thank You
Alan
Jan Merolant
Alan Godfrey heeft geschreven in bericht
<9350ok$4h$1...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>...
Hi Alan,
Here are a few I wrote:
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If you take three from this lifeform,
The WORLD will find FUN.
If you take two,
When SHE FLED she would RUN.
If you take Four,
What you THREW I will LEND.
If you take one,
Not a word can be mend.
My name says it all,
In a storm I will bloom.
My second six is in its prime,
My first seven will boom.
What am I?
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These words are coded can you decode them?
59122
49128
21932
41992
12641992
71441
49126
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Find the eight missing letters and
straighten out the eight letter word
which can be made with those letters.
Each clue can be any type of puzzle!
1. BFJP?
2. HEEAARVTEH?
3. TNVRRNSBTTPR?
4. DNUOBTSE?
5. XS, ZQ, RY, WT, V?
6. PNUSJM?
7. OEOER?
8. GRNDDDNDDDCNBNNS
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odd one out
1. 12% - 34% - 56% - 64% - 78%
2. nose - ear - eye - knee - foot
3. doc - leg - tab - kay - god
4. Edison - Columbus - Bell - Franklin - Gutenberg
5. b - p - l - q - d
6. August - September - October - November - December
7. Lucifer - Old Nick - Prince of Darkness - Elckerlyc - Beelzebub
8. Gothic - Middle-ages - Classicism - Biedermeier
9. andante - staccato - allegretto - accelerando - allegro
10. Montreux - Cannes - Knokke - Luxembourg
11. Hamburg - Antwerp - Rotterdam - Berlin - Marseille
12. Dinant - lille - Rouen - Reims - Paris
13. ruby - amethyst - pearl - opal - diamond
14. Snow-white - Bluebeard - Tom thumb - Cinderella
15. The Temptations - Stevie Wonder - Junior Walker - James brown
16. Euwe - Spassky - Ceulemans - Fisher - Loyd
17. Mars - Diana - Mercury - Artemis
18. Copenhagen - Munich - Accra - Jerusalem
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A serie?
aT aN anE aS aS aF aF aT aH ?
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Can you read this word?
47, 4E, 49, 4C, 4C, 41, 44, 45, 50
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riddle:
A man went to a oracle and told the oracle that he realy loves
to eat a lot, but he does not like to get fat. How can I eat a lot of
normal food - so not just salads and fruit - and not get fat?
The Oracle said: "You should eat less instead of more, than you
most likely eat more than if you eat a lot".
How come?
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Naughty puzzle:
What is special about these text and can you
make another sentence like this?
Hi man, as 'I' left it back behind, I can not sell poor
Tommy's family jewels, but Willie knows, I 'can' sell
chest nails!
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Sorry, I messed up, I placed all Countries at the
wrong National Anthems. I can't do anything right. :-(
Can you put them right.
1. Oi Maamme, Suomi, Synnynmaa! - Colombia
2. Sojoes Njer Oesjimyj Respoeblik Sevobognych. - Poland
3. Kimi-Ga-Go. - Hungary
4. Ons Hemecht - India
5. Du Gamla, Du Fria, Du Fjallhoga Nord. - Italy
6. Gloria Al Bravo Pueblo. - Germany
7. Rufst Du, Mein Vaterland. - Finland
8. Istiklal Marsi. - France
9. Janaganamana. - Belgium
10. Hej Sloveni. - Egypt
11. Land der Berge, Land der Strome. - Luxembourg
12. Abhran Na Bh Fiann. - Ireland
13. Marcha Real. - Spain
14. Wilhelmus van Nassouwe. - Japan
15. Jeszce Polska Nie Zginela. - Venezuela
16. The Star-Spangled Banner. - Holland
17. La Brabanconne. - Austria
18. Biladi. - Russia
19. God Save The Queen. - Sweden
20. Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit. - Swiss
21. Inno di Mameli. Great Britain
22. Himno Nacional. - Yugoslavia
23. Isten Ald Meg A Magyart. - Turkey
24. La Marseillaise. - USA
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I have found a magic spell in an old book which tells
of five magic words that bring to live inanimate objects.
Alas, part of the page is missing and I can't read the last word.
However with the help of my crystal ball I learn that the last
word is a three letter word that uses only two letters of the
alphabet. None of the letters are found in the other four words
of the spell.
"Vriguwa Jakofix brucholqum patis ???"
What is the maximum number of times I need to say
the spell to find the right spell?
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Every word has one letter changed
can you put back the proverbs?
Miscretion in toe beater past if vapor
She pet as migutier that thy sworn
I tolling atone fathers to boss
Emery aloud his o salver dining
I foul add hen mosey pre toon pasted
O griend is feed it I griend inneed
Noshing it pertain bat heath any tales
Is it fiast sou to nut succend, cry toy amain
Fever cut oaf nil tomirrow weat yob cat go tokay
Absince takes tie hears prow folder
On owe jar ant put she ether
To now pat toe part becore she house
Newer book o lift worse is tee youth
Where in to foul live in odd tool
Lime end tike want far to can
It yob wait anytying bell dons, go in tourself
She carly bind patches toe warm
Ole mood tarn desertes snother
Ill pork ane do plan bakes Join o dill box
Two zany cools spool tho brith
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Can you read this
LOMEICWFN10EID
IF2FNI82CTV
INVUJ4UFN10EIDK
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Find the right car.
example: This Car is an artist => Citroen Picasso
This Car is an American state
This Car is a Greek letter 5x
This car maintains the security
This Car is a traveller
This Car is a Spanish city 3x
This Car is an heritage
This Car is a cavalryman
This Car is a phantom
This Car is an Earthy colour
This Car is an Gasious element
This Car is an escaping manoeuvre
This Car receives support
This Car is an insect
This car is a famous beach colony.
This car shoots six times.
This car is elegant and stylish.
This car is a total loss Oleander.
This car is part of France and Italy.
This car moves like a horse.
This car is often found in prisons.
This car is 100 years old.
This car is King Arthur's advisor.
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What trick can you make with MATCHES?
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Television.
At first contact X wishes you to state your intention.
If X does not need you, X will terminate the interaction.
If you are wounded X thinks you're damaged.
When dancing, X does not understand the function of this activity.
When X comes home X has arrived at designated location.
You have sufficient information!
Who is X, and what does X do to relax.
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Quiz
Try to come up with a plausible answer, and explain your
reasoning.
1. When it has been raining for a few days, is it busier at:
a) The butcher
b) The barber
c) The baker
2. What stone is said to protect against poison?
a) Diamond
b) Amethyst
c) Tombstone
3. Which technology on Star Trek is based on
Einstein's relativity theory?
a) Replicator
b) Heisenberg compensators
c) Long range scanners
4. What has GOD to do with diabetes?
a) GOD is a unit in which glucose concentration is measured.
b) GOD an enzyme which transforms glucose into hydrogen peroxide.
c) GOD is short for Glucose Oxide Defiancy.
5. How makes the butcher his meat look so fresh,
without sulfite?
a) By adding carotheen to the meat.
b) By making use of special lighting.
c) By soking the meat in blood over night.
6. On what subject did Ernst Mach and Ludwig
Boltzmann have a different opinion?
a) Whether or not suiside was an legitamate escape.
b) On the existance of atoms.
c) Wether or not Pluto was infact a planet or not.
7) What is remarkable about the name Atom?
A) The fact that it can be split.
b) That it is just like a small planet system.
c) The fact the it was renamed by John Dalton.
8. What does the word "Fūgeltsje" mean?
a) It means a small wing in Dutch
b) It means bird in Afrikaans
C) It means a shot glass in Friesian
9. How are typical sleeping eyes called.
A) Bells phenomenon.
b) Pupil-miosis.
c) Pupillary sphincter.
10. America made a detailed map of the entire Venus surface.
How many photo's do you think are there made of Venus?
A) more than 1 but less than B
b) more than 100 but less than C
c) more than 1.000.000
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Here are five behead me puzzles
As a whole, I am bursting into flower
Behead me, I am the best time of youth.
Behead me again, and I appear very large.
Restore me, and I'm efflorescent.
As a whole, I make things lighter.
Behead me, and I gradually penetrate.
Behead me again, and I mean apiece.
Restore me, and things turn colorless.
As a whole, I am used by a mason.
Behead me, and I behave violently.
Behead me again, and I am a nucleotide in muscle cells.
Restore me, and I'm a painful contraction.
As a whole, I'm outside all day, it's my job.
Behead me, and I wander outside without a bob.
Behead me again, and I'm really terminated.
Restore me, and my hand can be hired.
As a whole, I am like Henry Morgan.
Behead me, and I am feeling extreme anger.
Behead me again, and I am relative speed of progress.
Restore me, and I take your car by force.
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Can you read these QWERTY keyboard typings?
1. hlj blg kg fkbng kv hlj fdzc gnkxq
2. I4 I9 I2 II1 III6 II3 II9 I3 I5 I5 I3 I4 III6 I7 III7 III5 I3 I4
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Sherlock Jones and his trusty companion Wattsoff were once
again investigating some mysterious case. They had entered
an old warehouse and just as they were about to discover some
evidence, two shots sounded and made them take cover. When
they heard running footsteps Jones immediately took after the
shooter with Wattsoff on his trail. When they got outside they saw
two men in the distance quietly walking away. One was walking north
and the other was walking south.
"Which one was it Jones?", Wattsoff asked, still a little out of breath.
"I'm almost 100% sure it couldn't be the one walking to the north,
because he is harmless", Jones jested as he started walking to
the south. "How do you know?", Wattsoff hesitated, "He could have
thrown it away." "You misunderstood Wattsoff, but look at his
silhouette, it's elementary", Jones replied, "now make haste,
or the other one will get away!".
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In this riddle three things need to be solved.
I have taken some data from an old source,
Changed and mystified it, to bring you off course.
No math is needed to make nothing out of six,
And to make ten from nine you'll need no tricks.
A smelly duo wrongly uses the inventer's name,
Can you say who I am, and the numbers explain.
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thedoorisopened
Who is there?
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Can you read these words:
1 CZWUOZOEHU
2 HZZOUWZUW
3 UOEECZHOZ
4 MUOZOEHNW
5 NCUUIHZH
6 CZHOZHNW
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Try to find the cities from the clues and letter length (x).
1. Sounds like this city takes a girl on a boottrip. (8)
What city am I?
2. This city is a drawn ghost. (6)
What city am I?
3. This city make you think of Spain and a car. (7)
What city am I?
4. This city is a cocktail you should not drink. (7)
What city am I?
5. Sounds like this city targeted an alcove in the war. (6)
What city am I?
6. This city is Noah's greatest work. (6)
What city am I?
11. This city is the best but not without tea. (6)
What city am I?
7. This city is called City of Bridges. (6)
What city am I?
8. This city is a honeybee if it last letter becomes the first. (4)
What city am I?
9. This city make you want to go eat in Germany. (5)
What city am I?
10. This city has the same name as the poet with the first name Jean. (6)
What city am I?
11. This city has the name of the puzzle-maker in it. (8)
What city am I?
12. This city is also known as the windy city. (7)
What city am I?
13. This city is a span after a rotating mechanism. (9)
What city am I?
14. This city gives its name to a cabbage. (8)
What city am I?
15. This city sounds like half a chocolate. (4)
What city am I?
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You can use any operator you like
but you must keep the four digits in order.
The best solutions are those that use the simplest
operations.
Every next sum shifts one digit to the right
the sum must always equal 24.
Every number may only be used once.
1 2 3 4 =
2 3 4 5 =
3 4 5 6 =?
4 5 6 7 =?
5 6 7 8 =?
6 7 8 9 =?
7 8 9 10 =?
8 9 10 11 =?
9 10 11 12 =?
10 11 12 13 =?
11 12 13 14 = ?
12 13 14 15 = ?
13 14 15 16 =?
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Let's see how many tv series you remember
I only listed the series with one or more persons name
in it.
Example: S and S (5, 5) Simon and Simon
B H (5,4)
L G (3,5)
P M (5,5)
B J (7,5)
M M (4, 6)
M F (6,6)
M P (5,4)
D T (4,6)
D and M (7,9)
C and L (6,5)
B R (4,6)
D W (2, 3)
S and H (7,5)
D B (6,5)
M H (4,6)
M and M (4, 5)
R and H (d) (7,7,8)
L B (4,4)
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Below you see five equations .
Where 5 different numbers, which together use all
digits (0123456789) once, are showed as ??
Where 5 different operators are showed as #.
Where x is one and the same digit in every equation.
?? # x = 2476099
?? # x = 51
?? # x = 32
?? # x = 140
?? # x = 10
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Below you see some English words whose
letters can be formed into a pair of words,
which somehow belong together.
Because I haven't found many words that work
I'll give an Example whith Dutch words:
KNIPTEN = PEN & INKT
WHEREON = ? & ?
EYEHOOK = ? & ?
NUTWOOD = ? & ?
IMAGINATE = ? & ?
NOTICING = ? & ?
FATHERLESS = ? & ?
FAINEST = ? & ?
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Number description
The value of the third cubed, is equal to the value
of the first. The value of the second is worth half of
the first. The total value is more than 999 and less
than 1999.
What is the number?
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keyboard decryption
Two phrases:
38625386 2183: 593 3932 695 0916 3833.
39148 51593 2183: 4416896 76 3314 8 3965 5843 1 3176.
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How many able-body creepy crawlies are in
this room. There are three species. 21 heads
and 100 feet. None of the creepy crawlies
belong to mammals, birds, fish, amphibians
or reptiles. None of the three species have 0
feet and none have more than 8 feet.
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With this puzzle the aim is to convert the example
sums into a sum with written out numbers, but the
written number has to have as many letters as the
value of the given number of the sums.
Example: 3 + 3 = 6 is equal to six + six = twelve.
The order and operators may not be changed.
Multiple answers are possible.
4 + 9 - 3 = 10
12 + 6 - 9 = 9
(5 * 6) / 3 = 10
(3 + 9 + 8) / sqrt(4) = 10
(3 / 4) * 8 +5 = 11
(6 / 4) * (6 + 10) = 4!
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Once two Turkish fashionable flies saw six English
noodles to eat. Then the first fly said "Shucks,
Erim, NO TOMATOES!!! Then Tamar tasted the tantalising
tidbit that tasted terribly tart.
What's remarkable about this paragraph?
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Alan Godfrey
copied I could get sued.
Would it also be possible to get the right answers, preferably sent just to
me to let everyone else sweet a little.
If these are all your own work, and you send me an e-mail consent that I can
use them then I will be sure to give you full credit for them on the web
site.
Thank You,
Alan Godfrey
Jan Merolant <jan.me...@smallhand.com> wrote in message
news:CXt56.54028$Es2.1...@zwoll1.home.nl...
Carl G.
Alan Godfrey wrote in message <9350ok$4h$1...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>...
Below are a few of the original puzzles and riddles that I have contributed
to this newsgroup over the last year or so. You may use them on your site
as long as your site doesn't include any offensive material (e.g., dirty
jokes).
First, it is a place to stay.
Second, it is a place to dive.
Last, it's what appears on an old car's door.
In all, it's something to declare.
What is it?
You may think I mean husband, except,
You may think I mean shield, except,
You may think I mean free, except,
You may think I mean hoard, except,
I mean something else: except.
What am I?
Quickened by a quibble,
Quartered in a quiver,
Quiescent when quashed,
Quest of this query.
What am I? (Hint: I start with the letter Q)
There was an amazing word I saw,
it was a job for those that draw,
Take one of the those letters far away,
and it's what the stock market did today.
Take away a letter more,
and you'll get a type of score.
Remove a letter with a whack.
and hopefully you'll be on track.
Lose another and you will see,
Someone speak most violently.
If another you should lose,
you'll be seeing in brown hues.
Delete another, we're almost done,
it's has two letters that means just one.
Remove one more to end the quest,
it always comes before the rest.
Use me when you have no luck,
or get me off a baby duck.
Go my way to a miner's claim,
or see me at a football game.
Mr. and Mrs. White decided to have a baby. After nine months Mrs. White
gave birth to a baby boy. One day Mrs. White had to take her baby to the
emergency room at the local hospital. As soon as she entered the door, she
saw a nurse. The nurse took one look at the baby and said, "That is my
baby!". Mrs. White didn't disagree and immediately handed the baby over to
the nurse. Then the nurse left the building with the baby and drove away.
Can you explain what is going on?
Identify these common office items:
1. Duel wedge insertion and crimping device.
2. Polymerized latex binding toroid.
3. Flatbed fibrous surface subdivider.
4. Spherical prominence letter delivery device.
5. Xylem supported inscriber conic enhancement machine.
6. Seated attendant support unit.
I make pictures to view,
I hold forks and knives too,
And when on your form,
I keep your seat warm.
What am I?
I am someone who explores the ocean blue,
and I also mean more than two.
What am I?
I come when you are weeping,
I come when you are stressed,
I come when you are going to pieces,
or traveling with great zest.
What am I?
1. Hi, I'm Amber. People may think I'm too negative because I make light of
situations. What am I?
2. Hi, I'm a cousin of Marten. I'm the largest in my family. Michigan is my
kind of place. What am I?
3. Hi, a lot of people call me Art. I think I am famous even though I sit
around all day with my right elbow on my left knee. What am I?
4. Hi, I'm Selene. I am supposed to drive people crazy. Maybe it's because
I have been around for ages, but was never over a month old. What am I?
5. Hi, I'm Tip. Even when I'm in the center of things, I stick out. Perhaps
it is because of the way I smell. What am I?
6. Hi, I'm Terry. Although I've got some faults, I've got a magnetic
personality. Selene and I like to travel together. What am I?
7. Hi, you may call me Douglas. Right now I may be a little crude, but
after some refinement, I hope to ease friction in sticky situations. What
am I? (and why would you call me "Douglas"?).
8. Hi, I'm sometimes called Sandy. I can be your reward, a complete waste,
or I can leave you behind. What am I?
9. Hi, my name is often backwards. I am driven to succeed in my job. When
you are feeling run down you can wind up inside of me. What am I?
10. Hi, I'm Mark. When I see important documents I like to get to the
bottom of things. I like to think I am unique. In at least one way I am
like a pig. What am I?
11. Hi, I don't know if you should call me Mr. Black or Mr. White. My
personality changes greatly depending on how I am currently organized. I
can be adamant or a real softy. Every living thing knows me. What am I?
12. Hi, I'm Penelope, but you probably know me by my shorter name. There
are two sides to my personality. I help people make decisions and I can
change the outcome of financial transactions. What am I?
It is the middle of the year 1900 and a time traveler builds a time machine.
The machine has four buttons, a direction switch, and a "return" lever. The
direction switch sets the direction of travel (forward or backward in time).
Each of the four buttons selects a different number of years (whole
numbers). The machine is used by setting the direction switch and pressing
one of the four buttons. Then the machine makes a "time hop" equal to the
number of years selected by the button. The traveler can then set the
direction switch again and chose another button. There is enough power in
the machine to make three jumps through time before the traveler has to
return (which he does by pulling the return lever). What is the maximum
number of contiguous years that the traveler can visit, and what number of
years should each of the buttons be set for to achieve this maximum?
For example, the buttons could be set to 1, 2, 3, and 10 years. With three
jumps the traveler could reach plus or minus thirty years (three jumps of
ten years each), but the range of contiguous years would be only plus or
minus 23 years. This is because it is possible to travel 0 to 23 years in
three or less jumps but not 24 years.
Second puzzle (perhaps easier):
Assume that there are five buttons, but only two jumps can be made.
Note: Waiting around for the years to change is not an acceptable way to
travel into the future, you have to use the machine.
Here is a cute puzzle based on those little faces drawn with keyboard
characters (they are sometimes called emoticons because they are icons used
to display emotions when communicating on the Internet). To view a face,
you turn your head 90 degrees counter-clockwise (or tip your monitor 90
degrees clockwise). Here
is a sample:
(:-D)
The parenthesis form the top and bottom of the head, the colon the eyes, the
hyphen the nose, and the "D" the open mouth.
Now, here is the puzzle:
Every year a group consisting of identical twins gets together for a New
Year's Eve party. During the party, everyone gathers together for a group
photo. The party gets bigger every year. Here is 1998's photo:
(BvD)(=vI)(=^{)(:v,)(Bv{)(;-I)
(8c*)(8*\)(:v,)(BvD)(:c\)(=vI)
(:c\)(=^{)(=cD)(;-I)(8c*)(Bv{)
(;-I)(=cD)(8*\)(;v])(B^b)(B^b)
(Turn your head to see a group of faces bunched together)
One person is missing his twin. There is also one set of triplets. Can you
show us what they look like?
The next year the party was bigger. Here is 1999's photo:
(B*\)(Bc/)(8^{)(BvT)(=<<)(;>*)
(B<,)(B*\)(B</)(8c*)(B<,)(8^{)
(;c\)(:-,)(=v{)(=*\)(:<D)(;>\)
(:*\)(;^P)(=<<)(8c*)(B</)(8c*)
(;>\)(:<b)(;cT)(=^T)(:<b)(:*\)
(;^P)(=v{)(8cT)(8oI)(BvT)(=ob)
(:-,)(8^D)(8oI)(;c\)(=ob)(=*\)
(=o>)(8c>)(Bc/)(8cT)(;>*)(=o>)
(;cT)(=^T)(8c>)(8c})(8c})(:<D)
Again, exactly one person came without his twin, and exactly one set of
triplets showed up. Can you show us what they look like?
Last year the party got almost a little too big. Here is 2000's photo:
(:oP)(8**)(;vT)(;v>)(:^>)(;vI)
(8**)(=<>)(8>o)(B<>)(:vI)(:o})
(:*P)(Bco)(;<})(:ob)(B^,)(=<*)
(:-P)(;-b)(8<T)(B*T)(:v*)(:-b)
(:*,)(=^})(=c*)(=o/)(B<,)(;v>)
(8oD)(;vD)(=c\)(Bo,)(8>>)(;>T)
(8v,)(;o])(:c<)(:-b)(8^{)(:o{)
(B<>)(:v*)(=-{)(:o{)(8-o)(8vb)
(;>D)(B>,)(8oD)(=^/)(=-{)(:>T)
(8c>)(:-})(B-b)(8oT)(:^b)(8-o)
(;<])(:^>)(8<])(:*,)(8vb)(8<T)
(=vD)(=vD)(:>})(8oT)(=^])(=^})
(;>D)(;**)(=*I)(=-])(8>>)(=<*)
(=^])(;-b)(:oP)(B^,)(=<>)(:v/)
(8-\)(:*P)(B*T)(8^{)(B>,)(8><)
(8v,)(;v\)(:>})(B-b)(;**)(:v/)
(;cI)(8-\)(=oT)(;v\)(B<,)(:o})
(8<])(:-})(:^b)(:vI)(;<])(:ob)
(=o/)(;vI)(=^/)(=oT)(B-*)(;vT)
(;cI)(=-])(=*I)(=cD)(:-P)(;o])
(:-b)(;c<)(:c<)(B-T)(;c<)(8-/)
(=co)(Bo,)(;vD)(8><)(:>T)(=cD)
(;>T)(=c\)(B-{)(B-T)(8-/)(=co)
(8>o)(=c*)(B-*)(;<})(8c>)(B-{)
Even with all these people, there was only one without his twin and only one
set of triplets.
The Pithuans on Enigma 3 are divided into two races, Norliks and Ploots.
Five of the Pithuans decided to visit Earth in a flying saucer. Their names
were Aztorg, Blumitz, Choom, Durfim and Erzgt. They each had a different job
on the flying saucer. Here are a few other facts:
1. Choom and Blumitz have both been caught noozling on duty.
2. The Science Officer and the Doctor are the only two of the five who are
Norliks.
3. Aztorg and Choom are of the same race, and have zurlfed together only
once.
4. The Engineer and the Doctor are still too young to noozle, but often
bleegem together.
5. Durfim, who is a Norlik, and Erzgt, who is a Ploot, won't bleegem
together, but the Ship's Counselor keeps suggesting that they should.
6. The Captain was chosen for his trookling ability.
Determine who is a Norlik, who is a Ploot, and what each of their jobs were
on the flying saucer.
The Pithuan equivalent of our Olympic games were held recently. There were
four contests: Apoofling, Blarfing, Cloozing, and Dumphling. Each
competition is scored on a scale from one to eleven, with no fractions. None
of the winning scores were tied. The contest winners were Amaloot, Beezle,
Croofus, and Dlink. They each participated in all four contests.
1. Dlink was the only one to win by scoring a perfect "eleven" in one of the
contests.
2. Unfortunately, Dlink flimitzed while Apoofling and came in last in that
contest.
3. The twins, Beezle and Croofus got the same score in Blarfing.
4. Tired out by a long night of noozling, Amaloot got a lower score in
Apoofling than Croofus.
5. The winning scores in Blarfing and Dumphling were the same.
6. Croofus had one less point in Apoofling than Dlink had in Cloozing.
Who won which contest?
Here is a variation of the old river crossing brain teaser. If you cut out
some pictures of animals, or use stuffed animals, younger puzzle solvers may
have fun working out the solution by acting out the steps.
A man has five animals with him: a mouse, a cat, a dog, a cobra, and a
mongoose. He comes to a river and needs to take all of the animals across.
Fortunately, the river is shallow at one point and the man can wade across.
None of the animals will go across by themselves. To get the animals
across, the man has to carry them. He can carry up to two animals at a time
(one in each arm). Although the animals won't attack him, some of them will
attack each other if the man is not with them. The cat will attack the
mouse, the dog will attack the cat, the cobra will attack the mouse, cat, or
dog, and the mongoose will attack the cobra. How can the man get the
animals across safely? What is the fewest number of times the man has to
cross the river?
There is a pair of animals,
you call them just the same.
But if you wrote it out in pen,
they'd have a different name.
Both have tails and blood that's warm,
and when you count their feet,
The first has twice the second's,
whose feet are more petite.
The weaker's above the stronger,
if it desires it at the time,
so tell me what these creatures are,
and solve this riddle-rhyme.
I took four things into my hand
together they were wed,
I tried to cut just one thing off
but three fell off instead.
Then my eyes beheld a wonder
that filled my heart with glee,
For when I looked into my hand,
I saw five things, not three!
With logic you would find my first,
though you might rely on chance,
My second's in the mid of day,
and seen quickly in a glance.
My third's not found at home or school,
but always at work or church,
My fourth's in luck, but not a truck,
no matter how hard you search.
My All was given in the cradle,
with clarity, and I recall,
It was found on every parcel,
in my cereal, and in my crawl.
It's always in a clamor,
and in the Oracle it was expound,
that although it abides with rascals,
with chivalry it's always found.
Found within each miracle,
and also within each scholar,
If you think you've solved this riddle,
then give my name a holler.
Carl G.
webpuzzles-treasurehunt.com
under "Puzzle Treasurehunt Contest" but you must link back to my site
www.webpuzzles-treasurehunt.com
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