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Solutions to Brainteasers                           April 12, 2009

1. The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.

2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her
husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.

3. Freeze them first. Take them out of the jugs and put the ice
in the barrel. You will be able to tell which water came from
which jug.

4. The answer is Charcoal. In Homer Simpson's words:
hmmmm... Barbecue.

5. Sure you can: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow!

6. The letter "e", which is the most common letter in the
English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph
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Solutions to Puzzle                          April 10, 2009

The puzzle works by forcing you into the wrong arithmetic!

Correct arithmetic:  $300 (original payment) - $30 (returned to
guests) - $20 (pocketed by clerk) = $250 (what the tourists
should have paid)

Solutions to Cryptic Crossword #2       April 26, 2009


















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Scrabble Score Solution

The answer is Twelve

1+4+1+1+4+1 = 12
Yarborough's Wager Answer

No, you shouldn't accept. Surprisingly, the odds of receiving such a
hand are 1,827 to 1, overwhelmingly favoring the earl.

It's said that Charles Anderson Worsley (1809-1897), the second Earl
of Yarborough, made a considerable amount of money offering this
challenge to whist players. Even today such a hand in bridge is known
as a Yarborough.

Solutions to Cryptic Crossword #3       May 9, 2009


















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Quick Quiz  Solutions                                May 16, 2009

The Scrabble letters D and G.

A on the home keys row.

Dreamt is the only word in English ending in mt.

Solutions to Cryptic Crossword #4       May 23, 2009


















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Solutions to Quick Quiz                             May 24, 2009

  • The dot over the 'i' is called a 'tittle'.
  • Only the females.
  • Named after President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
  • Britain --- the Penny Black on May 1, 1840.

Solutions to Puzzle                                   May 31, 2009

Solution to the 13-Matches game:

To win, one has to leave behind (a multiple-of-three + 1)
matches.
Thus, for example, a player leaving 4 matches for his opponent
wins.  
Solution to Crossword 5                                              June 6, 2009
Solution to Puzzle                                         June 6, 2009

If you take the first letter and place it at the end,
the word is the same spelled backwards.
Solution to Crossword 6                                            June 20, 2009
Solution to Crossword 7                                               July 3, 2009
Quick Quiz Solutions:                                           July 11, 2009

1. A British wild rose
2. Damascus, Syria
3. The year in which the grapes were picked
4. Venus and Mercury
5. 1752
6. The tadpole shrimp
7. Mahatma Gandhi in 1948
8. Denmark
9. Matthias
10. Ethiopia
Solution to Crossword 8                                             July 18, 2009
Quick Quiz Solutions                                                 July 25, 2009

1. Yuri Gagarin, USSR
2. Valentina Tereshkova, USSR
3. Istanbul
4. Londinium
5. Tokyo, 28 Million
Solution to Crossword 9                                            August 8, 2009
Solution to Crossword 9                               September 12, 2009
Quick Quiz Solutions                                          October 3, 2009

1.  Hadrian's Wall in the North of England
2.  Waggle Dance
3.  Statistical study of elections
4.  Big Ben
5.  Verrocchio
6.  Italian
7.  Bleriot
Solution to Crossword 12                                    October 24, 2009
Solution to Crossword 11                                    October 10, 2009
Solution to Quick Quiz                                        November 7, 2009

1.  a) The biggest pig on record is Big Bill.  He was 9ft long 5 ft
tall and 2552 lbs

2.  The study of fruit

3.  An exaltation

4.  A Philippine jitney bus converted from a jeep

5.  A plump

6.  The plumage is poisonous containing the same neurotoxin
as on the skin of poisonous frogs, though at a lower
concentration.

7.  c) 7000
Solution to Crossword 13                                November 14, 2009
Solution to Crossword 14                                December 12, 2009
Quick Quiz Solution                                        December 19, 2009

1.  Blucher
2.  4 mph
3.  George Stephenson
4.  cowherd
5.  1781
Solution to Crossword 15                               January 9, 2010
Solution to Crossword 16                               February 6, 2010
Picture Puzzle Solution                                       February 20, 2010

Solution:  There are nine possible answers (for e.g. for
numbers between 10 and 19 the answer is 9; for numbers
from 20 to 29 the answer is 18 and so on).  In the huge matrix
displayed these nine answers contain an identical item which
Robin announces.  You will note the item for the answers 9,
18, 27, 36, etc. will always be the same.
Solution to Crossword 17                               March 13, 2010
Solution to Crossword 18                               March 27, 2010
Solution to Crossword 19                               April 10, 2010
Solution to Crossword 20                               May 1, 2010
Solution to Crossword 21                               May 15, 2010
Solution to Crossword 22                               May 28, 2010
Solution to Crossword 23                               June 19, 2010
Solution to Crossword 24                               July 3, 2010
Solution to Crossword 25                               July 17, 2010
Quick Quiz Solution                                     August 14, 2010

1.  Winston Churchill

2.  D and G

3.  Sergei Eisenstein

4.  Monte Carlo

5.  Bugatti Veyron, with top speed of 268 mph (431 km/h)
Solution to Crossword 26                               July 31, 2010