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Old 06-29-2012, 02:19 PM   #1
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aw crap!
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Old 06-29-2012, 02:38 PM   #2
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You know this one too?

ARGHHHH.

I don't know which ones are well known or easy or hard...
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Old 06-29-2012, 02:45 PM   #3
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Is Joseph a counterfeiter, and the machines are all printing presses, and the dollar was the first bogus bill he printed?
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Old 06-29-2012, 02:50 PM   #4
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Yes.

I'll try to find trickier ones. They're all tricky to me.
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Old 06-29-2012, 02:52 PM   #5
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You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It's her birthday, and you want to give her the cakes you've made.

Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.

How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arrive at Grandma's with exactly 2 cakes?
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Old 06-29-2012, 03:23 PM   #6
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Another one:

A palindrome is a word that reads the same when spelled backwards (eg rotavator).
How could the following word be considered a palindrome?

FOOTSTOOL
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Old 06-29-2012, 03:59 PM   #7
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Another one:

A palindrome is a word that reads the same when spelled backwards (eg rotavator).
How could the following word be considered a palindrome?

FOOTSTOOL
FOOTSTOO╘



...that's probably wrong
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Old 07-02-2012, 03:32 PM   #8
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I know this one but I'm not gonna give an answer. My parents sprung this one on me a couple of months ago. It'd feel like cheating.
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Old 06-29-2012, 03:40 PM   #9
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Old 06-29-2012, 03:40 PM   #10
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You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It's her birthday, and you want to give her the cakes you've made.

Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.

How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arrive at Grandma's with exactly 2 cakes?
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Old 06-29-2012, 03:42 PM   #11
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and I didn't even cheat. I started thinking I'd go backwards from the last troll... and then oh, duh.
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Old 06-29-2012, 03:44 PM   #12
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What's funny is I would've been stumped for hours. My mind isn't even remotely logical.
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Old 07-02-2012, 04:09 PM   #13
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What's funny is I would've been stumped for hours. My mind isn't even remotely logical.
Wish I'd had the chance on the logic ones
But I am willing to admit I cannot think outside the box.
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Old 07-03-2012, 08:27 AM   #14
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A palindrome is a word that reads the same when spelled backwards (eg rotavator).
How could the following word be considered a palindrome?

FOOTSTOOL
When written in morse code?
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Old 07-03-2012, 11:05 AM   #15
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..-. --- --- - ... - --- --- .-..

DING!
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