Riddles and Puzzles
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classic33
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I am a famous Shawnee. Remove my 3rd to last letter, and then read the remaining last 3 letters backward, and you have an edge, rim or border. My first letter is the last letter in a word for ice cream in a glass with syrup and whipped cream (are you hungry yet? Are you?). Tell me:
1. Who I am and
2. What the "ice cream in a glass" word indicated above
I am a famous Shawnee. Remove my 3rd to last letter, and then read the remaining last 3 letters backward, and you have an edge, rim or border. My first letter is the last letter in a word for ice cream in a glass with syrup and whipped cream (are you hungry yet? Are you?). Tell me:
1. Who I am and
2. What the "ice cream in a glass" word indicated above
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classic33
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Your new to this, aren't you?
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Going For A Stroll.
On a warm spring day in 1944, a man strolled from his apartments on the 4th floor of the building he was living in and proceeded up the avenue toward the giant archways at the end. The building he left was near the opposite end of the avenue by the rail station. In the middle of his walk he stopped for a seat beneath a large chestnut tree that lined the wide through-fare (indeed he believed it to be the widest in the city) and pondered the following bit of interesting information. The building he was staying at was on a street with more then twenty addresses but certainly fewer then five hundred and all numbered one, two, three, four, etc from start to finish. The sum of all the addresses from one right up to, and including, his were exactly half of the sum of all the addresses from one up to, and including, the last.
What is the man's name?
Going For A Stroll.
On a warm spring day in 1944, a man strolled from his apartments on the 4th floor of the building he was living in and proceeded up the avenue toward the giant archways at the end. The building he left was near the opposite end of the avenue by the rail station. In the middle of his walk he stopped for a seat beneath a large chestnut tree that lined the wide through-fare (indeed he believed it to be the widest in the city) and pondered the following bit of interesting information. The building he was staying at was on a street with more then twenty addresses but certainly fewer then five hundred and all numbered one, two, three, four, etc from start to finish. The sum of all the addresses from one right up to, and including, his were exactly half of the sum of all the addresses from one up to, and including, the last.
What is the man's name?
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Arrange The Letters
How should the top set of letters be arrainged over the lower set of letters?
A B C D E F G
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Even with the lower set this way, the answer remains the same.
It will appear slightly different though
A B C D E F G
A A D F J J J M M N O S
Arrange The Letters
How should the top set of letters be arrainged over the lower set of letters?
A B C D E F G
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Even with the lower set this way, the answer remains the same.
It will appear slightly different though
A B C D E F G
A A D F J J J M M N O S
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classic33
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Water Way To Measure
Given three bowls: bowl A (8 litres capacity) filled with 5 litres of water; bowl B (5 litres capacity) filled with 3 liters of water; and bowl C (3 litres capacity) filled with 2 litres of water.
How do you measure exactly 1 litre, by transferring the water only 2 times?
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Measure exactly 2 Pints of water if you have:
1. 4 and 5-Pint glass
2. 4 and 3-Pint glass
Water Way To Measure
Given three bowls: bowl A (8 litres capacity) filled with 5 litres of water; bowl B (5 litres capacity) filled with 3 liters of water; and bowl C (3 litres capacity) filled with 2 litres of water.
How do you measure exactly 1 litre, by transferring the water only 2 times?
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Measure exactly 2 Pints of water if you have:
1. 4 and 5-Pint glass
2. 4 and 3-Pint glass
AndyRM
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1 - Pour one litre from A into C. There are 4 litres left in A and C is full with 3 litres.
2 - Pour two litres from C into B. B is now full and you've exactly 1 litre left in C.
AndyRM
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Is there some kind of trick in the wording here? Because that's never happened in the Grand National.
I think I suggested AP McCoy when you first posed the question as he's the only jockey I can think of who's managed this.
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classic33
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Inspired by your own pub quiz answer. I thought I'd include one from a pub quiz.
Quick clue
It did happen and was caught on camera.
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AndyRM
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An argument.
AndyRM
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At the Grand National? I'll have to re-read the book I skimmed through.
