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Here’s the puzzle again if you missed it yesterday:
What is the next letter in this sequence: SENTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT__?
ANSWER:
The correct answer is F, as in “Forty”. Forty is the next number to come in the sequence when you realize each letter abbreviates the first letter of the number it represents. For example, we began with S for Seventeen, then E for Eighteen, followed by Nineteen, Twenty, and so on until F for Forty was next.
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Which symbol is unlike all the others?
ANSWER:
The answer is A. It’s unlike all the others because it’s the only one that is not unique in any way, i.e., B is the only one without a border, C is the only white one, D is the only small one, and E is the only club.
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The faucet below is leaking. Which basin will fill up with water first?
ANSWER:
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Each set of tracks below was made by a different bicycle. Which direction was each bicycle traveling—to the right or to the left?
ANSWER:
Both went left. We are able to determine that because the fore wheel of a bicycle oscillates more than the rear one. To determine the direction, choose some points in the rear wheel’s trajectory and draw the tangents in those points. The distance between the forward and the back wheel is constant, so you just have to find out which of the segments determined by the tangent and the intersection with the other curve have the same length.
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ANSWER:
You need a total of three lines, as seen in the image below:
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If a cup of wine costs $5, a cup of beer costs $4 and a cup of water costs a quarter ($0.25), how many cups of wine, beer and water can be purchased with $100 to wind up with exactly 100 drinks total?
ANSWER:
15 cups of wine
1 cup of beer
84 cups of water
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Recreate the diagram below with any eight playing cards.
ANSWER:
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ANSWER:
The best deal is A because the area of one 16″ pizza is equal to 1.3x a 14″ pizza, 2.6x a 10″ pizza and four whole 8″ pizzas.
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At the Buck family reunion, five sets of twins from five different generations decide to have a bike race, with two teams and one sibling from each set of twins on each team. Each team sets off with all five cyclists in a line behind their “captain”. At any point in the race, the last person in the line can cycle to the front of the line to become the new captain. All five team members must cross the finish line to complete the race.
Both teams line up in age order but Team A starts the race with a little kid as their captain and Team B starts the race with an elderly woman as their captain. During the course of the race, the captains change six times between the two teams. When the teams cross the finish line, what are the odds that their captains will be the same age?
ANSWER:
100 per cent. Lets call the five sets of twins in age ascending order 1A and 1B, 2A and 2B, 3A and 3B, 4A and 4B and 5A and 5B.
So, Team A starts in this order 1A 2A 3A 4A 5A
Team B starts 5B 4B 3B 2B 1B
The last person replaces the first person six times. So either one team does it six times and the other zero, or five times and one time, or four and two, or three and three. You will see that in each case, the leaders of the teams are the same set of twins.
For example, let’s say Team A replaces its leader once. The order will then be 5A 1A 2A 3A 4A. And let’s say Team B replaces its leader five times. Which puts them back to the starting formation 5B 4B 3B 2B 1B. Twins 5A and 5B – who have the same age! – are the finishing captains for their teams.
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In case you missed the puzzle yesterday, here it is again:
Tom finds himself at a speed dating event. There are several tables arranged in a row. Each table is a different color and has one woman sitting behind it. Each of the women has a different name, a different job, a different kind of pet and a different kind of drink. Here are the facts:
1. There are five tables.
2. The nurse is sitting at the red table.
3. The rocket scientist owns a snake.
4. There’s a glass of tequila on the green table.
5. The lawyer drinks gin.
6. The green table is next to pink table.
7. Tanya has a hamster.
8. Donna is sitting at the yellow table.
9. There is a glass of wine on the middle table.
10. The doctor is sitting at the first table.
11. Gail is sitting next to the dog owner.
12. Donna is sitting next to the cat owner.
13. Laura drinks beer.
14. The chef is named Beth.
15. The doctor is sitting next to the blue table.
Which woman owns a fish and which woman drinks whiskey?
Answer: Beth owns a fish. Donna drinks whiskey.