What 5 letter word is pronounced the exact same way if you remove the first four letters?
Aitch.
What 5 letter word is pronounced the exact same way if you remove the first four letters?
Aitch.
What can you break without touching it?
Promise.
if we cut it would cry and we would cry what is it?
onion
I am sometimes white and sometimes black. I'll take you there but never bring you back. What am i?
Hearse
What is the third and a half of 100?
50.
1/3 (100) = 33.33333 1/3 * 1/2 (100) = 1/6 = 16.6666 1/3 + 1/6 (100) = 50
There are seven holes in a gourd. What is it?
A head.
You have five pieces of chain, each consisting of three links. You want to make one long chain of these five pieces. Breaking open a link costs 1 euro, and welding an open link costs 3 euros. Is it possible to make one long chain of the five pieces, if you have just 15 euros?
Yes, this is possible. First, break open all three links of one of the pieces of chain. This costs 3×1 = 3 euros. Then join the remaining four pieces of chain with the three open links. Welding these links costs 3×3 = 9 euros. The total costs are 12 euros.
Of all the numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only of straight-line segments (for example, FIVE), only one number has a value equal to the number of segments used to write it. Which number has this property?
This is the only solution that satisfies the requirement that the capital letters shall consist only of straight-line segments:
TWENTY-NINE
A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meters deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night, it slides 4 meters back downwards. How many days does it take before the snail reaches the top of the pit?
The snail reaches the top of the pit on the 16th day!
On the first day, the snail reaches a height of 5 meters and slides down 4 meters at night, and thus ends at a height of 1 meter.
On the second day, he reaches 6 meters, but slides back to 2 meters.
On the third day, he reaches 7 meters, but slides back to 3 meters.
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Larry is standing behind Louis and at the same time Louis is standing behind Larry. How is this possible?
Larry and Louis are standing with their backs towards each other!
1 11 21 1211 1231 131221 What is the next term in this sequence?
132231
Each number (except the first one of the sequence) "describes" the previous number and the number of occurrences of each digit is counted.
So 1231 means one "2" and three times a "1", and 131221 means one "3", one "2", and two times a "1". The number following on 131221 is therefore 132231 (one "3", two times a "2", and three times a "1"). The complete sequence is as follows:
1 11 21 1211 1231 131221 132231 232221 134211 14131231 14231241 24132231 14233221 14233221 etcetera
My head and tail are both equal. My middle slender as a bee. Whether I stand on head or heels, quite the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off, the matter's true though passing strange. Directly to nothing I change. What Am I?
The figure eight.