Riddles And Puzzles

[Peggy]

@englandboy – John wrote:

He takes the knife and cuts the cake in half, then he quarters the cake so he has four pieces of cake, then he cuts through the middle of the cake horizontally and so he now has eight pieces of cake :nana:

NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours. Why?

Birds unlike humans need gravity to swallow their bubble of water, while humans can even drink floating upside down. :nana:

Why can’t a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?

[lucky]

because premature burial is against the law !!

Figure out the word concealed in the following poem:

My first is in silly but not in fool
My second in pupil but not in school
My third in read and also in write
My fourth in glimpse and also light
My fifth in ten but not in three
My last in glad and also glee
My whole a season of the year
That’s clue enough to solve it here

NO GOOGLING :nonono:

[Peggy]

@lucky wrote:

NO GOOGLING :nonono:

👿 👿

[Peggy]

Figured it out anyways! :nana:

Spring!

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

[lucky]

😯 😯 😯 😯 😯

[Peggy]

:rofl: Come on Lucky, you can DO this! :nana:

[lucky]

this is gonna have to wait till after breakfast, at least !!

[lucky]

well, peg;
i surrender- i’ve tried lists, spreadsheets, and everything i cantry, and i can’t solve this’n- all the info just keeps me going in circles…………. 😥

[Peggy]

Did you try Googeling? I’ll give you more time on it if you want… 😥

[lucky]

i don’t like to google for an answer that should come from hard work and perserverance………………
i simply surrender…………………………..
when it comes to using your brain, “GOOGLE” is the devil!!
😈
thank you sir, may i have another………

[Peggy]

http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/recreational.htm

The answer is on this page, it’s a little too long to post here.

What always ends everything?

[lucky]

you know what!! i actually had the correct answer at one point, but thought i found a mistake in my logic…
RATZ !!

WHEW ! thanks for an easy one…

the letter g!!

You’re a bus driver. You stop on a corner and 3 people get on. Next stop …………2 get off and 5 get on. Next stop 7 get on and 9 get off. Next stop, 7 get on …………and 6 get off. Finally, 3 get on and 7 get off. How old is the bus driver?

[Peggy]

You did good if you got that far with that one!

Now you got me stumped on this one! 😥

[lucky]

read it carefully…………… the answer is in the question!

[Peggy]

Ahhhh… in my case, 50! I’m the bus driver right?

Which is correct: Five and four are eight, or five and four is eight?

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