Brain Teaser

OK, all your brainiacs, what is unusual about the following paragraph?

This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing is wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

Word "the" isn't used?

You're on the right track.........

No letter E?

You're no fun to play with! :rolleyes:


The letter 'e', which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the paragraph.

Ka-chow!

OK smart girl, ponder this! :P


Below you will find 10 well-known seven letter words, with only their endings remaining. Can you determine the words?

....igy
....aoh
....erg
....ynx
....lth
....mox
....ovy
....esh
....awe
....ipt

I figured out the first one pretty fast, but this one is making my head hurt. This is all I can come up with so far.

2. pharaoh
3. iceberg
5. stealth
10. receipt

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Originally Posted by rabernet

OK smart girl, ponder this! :P


Below you will find 10 well-known seven letter words, with only their endings remaining. Can you determine the words?

....igy Prodigy
....aoh
....erg
....ynx Pharynx
....lth
....mox
....ovy Anchovy
....esh Refresh
....awe
....ipt

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That's what I got. :)

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Originally Posted by rabernet

OK smart girl, ponder this! :P


Below you will find 10 well-known seven letter words, with only their endings remaining. Can you determine the words?

....igy



....aoh
....erg
....ynx
....lth
....mox
....ovy
....esh
....awe
....ipt

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Prodigy
Pharoah
Iceberg
Larynx
Stealth
Lummox
Anchovy
Refresh
...awe
Receipt

Still thinking.....

Dang I forgot the 7 letter rule...grrrrrr.........

The only word I could come up with for mox, is flummox, but that's not that common a word.

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Originally Posted by tigerlily

The only word I could come up with for mox, is flummox, but that's not that common a word.

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That is correct.

The only one not answered correctly so far is ....awe

Prodigy, pharaoh, iceberg, pharynx, stealth, flummox, anchovy, refresh, ....awe, receipt

overawe?

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

overawe?

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Winner, winner, chicken dinner!!!!

Next up for all you brainiacs.....


Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these words:

*e*er
**eue
**o
ma*
*p*a*e*
*erso*
***k*am*on
*ouse
*a*
*ur*
***igent

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Next up for all you brainiacs.....


Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these words:

*e*er

**eue
**o
ma*
*p*a*e*
*erso*
***k*am*on
*ouse
*a*
*ur*
***igent

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FeVer
QUeue
ZOo
maW
SpEaKeR
PersoN
BACkGamMon
House
TaX
JurY
DILigent

I think I only used every letter once.

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Originally Posted by ErikH

FeVer
QUeue
ZOo
maW
SpEaKeR
PersoN
BACkGamMon
House
TaX
JurY
DILigent

I think I only used every letter once.

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Bold are the only ones wrong - won't take you but a second to fix them! ;)

Technically, either answer would work. :-)

You are correct! Next up:


Jesse James' lesser known brother, Eddie has also decided to take up robbing banks for a living. He is unfortunately a little slow and has forgotten to bring the dynamite to blow open the safe!

Using logic, the following clues and a large amount of patience, can you figure out the 10 digit number to crack the safe?

*All digits from 0 to 9 are used exactly once.

*The sum of the 2nd, 5th, 6th and 8th digits is a single digit number.

*The 4th digit is a perfect square.

*The 3rd digit is 1.

*The sum of the 4th and 7th digits is a perfect square.

*The value of the 10th digit is twice that of the 2nd.

*The product of the 4th and 6th digits is equal to that of the 10th and 2nd digits.

*The 5 is is next to the 6 but not the 4.

8319427056

Well now, that wasn't very challenging for you now, was it? :P


Find five geographical terms by adding one of the given letters to each word and rearranging the letters. Each letter will be used only once.

F I O P Y

1. Steep + ? =
2. Raven + ? =
3. Store + ? =
4. Along + ? =
5. Serge + ? =

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Find five geographical terms by adding one of the given letters to each word and rearranging the letters. Each letter will be used only once.

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1. Steppe
2. Ravine
3. Forest
4. Lagoon
5. Geyser

(That last one was giving me fits! LOL)

my head hurts....

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Originally Posted by JLC

1. Steppe
2. Ravine
3. Forest
4. Lagoon
5. Geyser

(That last one was giving me fits! LOL)

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Ding, ding, ding!!!!!!!

Can you find the eleven hidden colours in the following paragraph:

Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth. The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own risk! Peac0cks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultraviolet torch.

*****personal note the filter censored the second half of Peac0cks! LOL So the 0 is not a hint to the teaser, simply me getting around the filter so the brainteaser doesn't look weird.

Can you find the eleven hidden colours in the following paragraph:

Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth. The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own risk! Peac0cks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultraviolet torch.


Found the color "red" twice....wasn't sure if that counted as two colors or one. There may be one more color hidden in there, but I couldn't find it. :confused:

Nope, there's one more color. Hint, it's in the first sentence.

Olive!

Bingo!


For each group below, fill in the blanks with two words that differ only by their first letter.

1. Stop thinking over here. Go _ _ _ _ _ _ over _ _ _ _ _ _.

2. An untrained person could be killed in these woods, but there is little _ _ _ _ _ _ for a _ _ _ _ _ _.

3. Writing an "A" on your dish rag would make it a _ _ _ _ _ with a _ _ _ _ _.

For each group below, fill in the blanks with two words that differ only by their first letter.

1. Stop thinking over here. Go ponder over yonder

2. An untrained person could be killed in these woods, but there is little danger for a ranger.

3. Writing an "A" on your dish rag would make it a towel with a vowel.

You're good! Let's see how this tides you over:


Can you name the salad veggies? Use synonyms of each word in the clue; put them together to sound out the answer.

EG. Clue: Dog Bloom
Answer: Cauliflower
Explanation: "Collie" "Flower"

1. Caution Groove
2. Rotate Bite
3. Fish-egg Hair
4. Allow We
5. Twirl Scratch
6. Taxi Shift
7. Animal-park Crucial Leg-joint
8. Signal Burden
9. Awesome Plate
10. Invigorate Each

Bonus:

-Room Jumble
-Compel Whip
-Not Age

1. Caution Groove Care-rut

2. Rotate Bite Turn-nip

3. Fish-egg Hair Roe-mane

4. Allow We Let-us

5. Twirl Scratch Spin-itch

6. Taxi Shift Cab-edge

7. Animal-park Crucial Leg-joint Zoo-key-knee

8. Signal Burden Cue-cumber

9. Awesome Plate Rad-dish

10. Invigorate Each Pep-per

Stumped on all the bonus ones, and not quite sure of 6 but can't come up with anything better. :-P

You got #6 correct - Cab-Budge


Do you want more time on the bonus, or should I reveal and move on to the next one?

Spill, I'm stumped. :-)

Bonus:
-Celery (Cell-lurry)
-Garlic (Gar-lick)
-Onion (Un-eon)


David Van Gogh (pronounced "Go") had many relatives. Can you guess by the clues who they are?

Example: His dizzy Aunt?
Answer: Verti-Gogh

How many other relatives can you guess?

A fruit loving cousin?
The Grandfather from Yugoslavia?
The cousin from Illinois?
His Mexican cousin?
His Great Grandfather who drove a stage coach?
The ballroom dancing aunt?
The bird lover Uncle?
A sister who loved disco?
And his niece who travels the country in a van?

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Bonus:
-Celery (Cell-lurry)
-Garlic (Gar-lick)
-Onion (Un-eon)


David Van Gogh (pronounced "Go") had many relatives. Can you guess by the clues who they are?

Example: His dizzy Aunt?
Answer: Verti-Gogh

How many other relatives can you guess?

A fruit loving cousin?
The Grandfather from Yugoslavia?
The cousin from Illinois?
His Mexican cousin?
His Great Grandfather who drove a stage coach?
The ballroom dancing aunt?
The bird lover Uncle?
A sister who loved disco?
And his niece who travels the country in a van?

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Man-gogh
U-gogh
chica-gogh
ami-gogh or duran-gogh???
wells-far-gogh or stop and gogh???
tan-gogh
flamin-gogh
go-gogh
winneba-gogh

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Originally Posted by ErikH

Man-gogh
U-gogh
chica-gogh
ami-gogh or duran-gogh???
wells-far-gogh or stop and gogh???
tan-gogh
flamin-gogh
go-gogh
winneba-gogh

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Well, that didn't take long! LOL Good job!

Let's see if this one holds you for awhile:

Oxymorons are words with opposite or incongruous meanings that when linked together, form a descriptive phrase.

Cryptography teasers are teasers in which a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way.

Cryptoxymorography teasers are teasers in which oxymorons are concealed in a cryptic mass of letters.

Can you decipher the oxymorons? They all use the same code.


1. szmkhr hskfs

2. ndsf ufi

3. nfphmk ufni

4. nzrf klaafsfmpf

5. nilww rhylmv

6. isdf wlfn

7. isdf nihsj

8. dmzppfcizuwf nhwdilhm

9. dmulznfk hclmlhm

10. ylsidzw sfzwlij

I wrote these down, but didn't get a chance to look at them until this morning. Here goes:





1. Random Order



2. Sure Bet



3. Second Best



4. Same Difference



5. Still Moving



6. True Lies



7. True Story



8. Unacceptable Solution



9. Unbiased Opinion



10. Virtual Reality

You got it!


Each of the following sentences has three missing words. The first missing word of each sentence is 6 letters long, the second missing word is 5 letters long, and the third missing word is 4 letters long. All the 6 letter words are anagrams of each other, as are all the 5 letter words, and all the 4 letter words. Can you fill in the blanks?

1) Nobody would ______ to the old pirate any more, because his _____ were far too ____.

2) The fans were ______ as the opposition managed to _____ the game from the home ____.

3) When he decided to ______, he did not expect _____ bread with his ____ every meal.

4) On many of the lake's ______ in the Spring, _____ will be out looking for a ____.

1. listen, tales, tame



2. silent, steal, team



3. enlist, slate, meat



4. inlets, teals, mate

Not very good at stumping you, I see! LOL


1. I am always excited
2. I tell people where things are at
3. You can play a game on me
4. I'm very rich
5. I give percentages
6. I am always looking up
7. And.........
8. I look like a light in the sky
9. I keep things arranged that are to my right
10. I keep things arranged that are to my left
What Are We?

Yahoo! and a traffic light?

I have no idea what the real answer is, but I'm pretty sure these aren't it. Got any other clues or instructions to go with this? :-P

1. I am always excited A puppy!
2. I tell people where things are at Google Earth
3. You can play a game on me Glow-in-the-dark action dice
4. I'm very rich Cheesecake
5. I give percentages A cross between hets
6. I am always looking up Bessie, this retarded chicken I used to have
7. And.........
8. I look like a light in the sky The sun, duh!
9. I keep things arranged that are to my right My right hand!
10. I keep things arranged that are to my left My left hand!

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

I have no idea what the real answer is, but I'm pretty sure these aren't it. Got any other clues or instructions to go with this? :-P

1. I am always excited A puppy!
2. I tell people where things are at Google Earth
3. You can play a game on me Glow-in-the-dark action dice
4. I'm very rich Cheesecake
5. I give percentages A cross between hets
6. I am always looking up Bessie, this retarded chicken I used to have
7. And.........
8. I look like a light in the sky The sun, duh!
9. I keep things arranged that are to my right My right hand!
10. I keep things arranged that are to my left My left hand!

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:stupidme: :stupidme: :stupidme: :stupidme: Duh! How could I have been so stupid! :)

Hint - 7 should have an answer as well. You see all 10 every day you are on BP.net (or you should)

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

I have no idea what the real answer is, but I'm pretty sure these aren't it. Got any other clues or instructions to go with this? :-P

1. I am always excited A puppy!
2. I tell people where things are at Google Earth
3. You can play a game on me Glow-in-the-dark action dice
4. I'm very rich Cheesecake
5. I give percentages A cross between hets
6. I am always looking up Bessie, this retarded chicken I used to have
7. And.........
8. I look like a light in the sky The sun, duh!
9. I keep things arranged that are to my right My right hand!
10. I keep things arranged that are to my left My left hand!

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Originally Posted by rabernet

You are correct! Next up:


Jesse James' lesser known brother, Eddie has also decided to take up robbing banks for a living. He is unfortunately a little slow and has forgotten to bring the dynamite to blow open the safe!

Using logic, the following clues and a large amount of patience, can you figure out the 10 digit number to crack the safe?

*All digits from 0 to 9 are used exactly once.

*The sum of the 2nd, 5th, 6th and 8th digits is a single digit number.

*The 4th digit is a perfect square.

*The 3rd digit is 1.

*The sum of the 4th and 7th digits is a perfect square.

*The value of the 10th digit is twice that of the 2nd.

*The product of the 4th and 6th digits is equal to that of the 10th and 2nd digits.

*The 5 is is next to the 6 but not the 4.

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well since no one answered this one right

5419237068

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Originally Posted by duffmanrc

well since no one answered this one right

5419237068

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Look back on page 2. :-P
The final requirement:
*The 5 is is next to the 6 but not the 4.

8319427056

oh nvm, what i messed up was the word product. for some reason i thought of addition instead of muliplication. that would make your's correct.

Thanks! It's ealy for me, and I was just going nuts squinting at the little numbers and trying rework it!