Puzzles - Part 1+1

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:49 PM

David C. came up with a correct alternative answer for the "mammal" question: beefalo. For those who don't recognize this animal I can tell you that it is a hybrid breed produced by crossing cattle with buffalos. The result is the bovine equivalent of a mule.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:33 PM

Naemanson - right! And thanks, Jeri, I needed that, I think!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:32 PM

And why do you lower that bucket down the "whale"? Why to put out the "far".

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:30 PM

In the southern US, what do you lower a bucket down to get water.

("Whale" wasn't the correct answer for any question. It was an incorrect answer given for Bernard's &*@%ing mammal question.) :-)

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 11:11 AM

SO WHAT IS WHALE THE ANSWER TO, COME ON GUYS, I'M DYIN' HERE!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Wolfgang
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 05:26 AM

Bert,
sorry, but I think I can't do better than I tried above. I may perhaps just add that the three cigarettes of the second layer are rotated (in comparison to the first layer cigarettes) by about 30 angular degrees.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 06:18 PM

OK, I have more but if you quit then that's OK.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 02:00 PM

11) Dashing Through the Snow...(Jingle Bells)

I quit!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:57 PM

13) Have a Holly Jolly Christmas,It's the Best Time of the Year

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:54 PM

15) Up On The House Top, Reindeer Pause...

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:50 PM

14) On The First Day of Christmas...(Twelve Days of Christmas)

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Bert
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:46 PM

Wolfgang,, You'll have to give a better explanation of the cigarettes. I am finding that the first cigarette on the second layer completely obscures one of the cigarettes on the first layer.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:45 PM

12: "silver bells" = City Sidewalks, Busy sidewalks dressed in HOliday Style

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:40 PM

More?

11. DTTSIAOHOS

12. CSBSDIHS

13. HAHJCITBTOTY

14. OTFDOCMTLGTMAPIAPT

15. UOTHTRPOJGOSC

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 11:28 PM

6) Here Comes Santa Claus

9) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Drat!!!!!!! ISP probs.....or Mudcat?

8) You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Pout...cause I know THE MAN (see my picture, hehe)

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:51 PM

..hmmm, they're getting harder.

10) O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:50 PM

10) O little Town Of Bethlehem
7) Come They Told Me...

Jon

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:44 PM

That was fast. If these are so easy should I give you any more? Here are 5 more:

6. HCSCHCSCRDSCL

7. CTTMPRPPP

8. YBWOYBNCYBNPITYWSCICTT

9. ISMKSCUTMLN

10. OLTOBHSWSTL

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:34 PM

I was thinking STS instead of HTH for number 1!

O Come O Come Emmanuel is typically sung the first Sunday in advent. It's like a Gregorian chant.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:32 PM

I meant 1) when I typed 4) BTW. I was stuck on 4) and have never heard of it.

Jon

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:29 PM

4) O Come O Come Emmanuel

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:27 PM

4) Hark the Herald Angels Sing..

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:25 PM

5) Silent Night, Holy Night, All Is Calm, All is Bright

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:23 PM

2) All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth

3) Good King Wenceslas Looked Out On The Feast of Stephen

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:13 PM

I'd have to agree with MT. Many fruits are multiple colors. I've seen mangoes that are red green and yellow. It must be some kind of lateral-outside-the-box type thinking going on. What else is considered fruit?

In an effort to steer this into a musical thread try this on for size. What are the following Christmas carols? What follows is the first letter of each word in the first line. For Example: OCAYF = O Come All Ye Fatihful.

HTHASGTTNBK

AIWFCIMTFT

GKWLOOTFOS

OCOCE

SNHNAICAIB

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 08:50 PM

well dave - a green blackberry is actually red - so that would be three colours at once. But I'm probably wrong.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 07:31 PM

Mike, I really got to quit looking at this thread. I'll say two rungs are covered since the ladder is attached to the boat.

As far as the bars, we don't have any on our main street. Remember, this is Kentucky!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: mike putt
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:20 PM

Lads here is one If a boat has a rope ladder attached to it with 12 rungs each rung 10" apart. At low tide 2 rungs are below the water. The tide rises at 5" per hour, how many rungs are covered after four hours?

Just a quick one more. Pick the main street in your town and try to figure out a route from one end to the other without passing a pub/bar and I will mail on the answer tomorrow.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:31 PM

an orange? Orange ya glad I asked?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:16 PM

Many fruits are 3 different colours at once. Watermelon is green on the outside, white just under that, and pink in the center.

Or is this one of those lateral-thinknig questions?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:03 PM

What fruit is three different colors at once?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:44 AM

Wolfgang, thanks for a nice diversion, I generally like geometric puzzles better than word or number puzzles. I think my brain power is pretty much exhausted for the rest of this year though.

I was going to post some music riddles such as the Appalachian Riddle Song (I Gave My Love a Cherry) and also the three riddles from the opera Turandot (where the suitors lose their heads if they're wrong, and there is a beautiful aria, Nessun Dorma, played at soccer matches I hear), but the riddles really aren't that good. If you're interested, you can look 'em up. Meanwhile, I'm resting my brain.

Jon, I still like the "strawberries in the salt sea" words from I Once Loved a Lass.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 09:50 AM

D'uh! Thanks! I guess any hybrid'd do, right? So what is the whale the answer to?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 09:27 AM

Mrrzy, the mammal is the mule which is cross between an ass and a horse.

Jon

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 09:05 AM

I don't get it. Is the whale the mammal? Why is whale OK but not walrus? Or should I just go back to marketing anyway?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 09:00 AM

Yeah, Linda Blair was having a hard time with them as well.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 08:50 AM

Let's agree to limit these puzzles to those that can be answered without complicated descriptions. These things make my head spin.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Wolfgang
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 07:13 AM

matches: correct is six

(easy to draw, but very difficult to describe: the first three in form of an arrow with the shaft a bit behind so that the two outer matches meet slightly in front of the shaft match which they also both touch; the next three in the identical formation but laying just above the first three but the direction of the arrow is perpendicular to the first arrow)

cigarettes: seven is correct

of course, the same solution as with the matches also works, but there is an ingenious solution with seven which doesn't work with the matches (depends upon the relation between length and width). This solution is so complicated that I think I can't describe it sufficiently, but I'll try: You start with a cigarette standing up. The next three cigarettes are placed around the first cigarette in a way that each butt touches the first cigarette and the butts form a tiny triangle with equal sides just around the butt of the standing up cigarette. It kind of looks like a three blade wind rotor. The last three cigarettes are placed one storey up in the same way as the other three cigarettes but in a slightly different angle so they are supported by each of the three basement cigarettes at one point. Very difficult to do actually, but it is theoretically possible and that's all that is needed in mathematics.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:59 PM

Yup.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:47 PM

Umbrella

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:58 PM

That was fast, Jeri. And it is right.

Okay, since that one didn't last very long, here is one I learned a lifetime ago and remains my favorite. Once again, if you already know it, please keep it to yourself:

What won't go up the chimney up,

But will go up the chimney down?

What won't go down the chimney up,

But will go down the chimney down?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:46 PM

lumps of coal?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:42 PM

All Knight. Get it? Ha ha ha (shrug)

Okay, my well of these things is nearly dry. I have just one more and then someone else should give it a go. This one comes from Tennessee:

Black but we are much admired.

Men seek for us til they are tired.

We tire the horses, but comfort man;

Tell me this riddle if you can.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Bert
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:35 PM

T-H-A-T

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:34 PM

Or Al...

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:33 PM

All

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:30 PM

Not Ed, Mary. BTW, just a few miles from here there is a crooked road just like the ones you described.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 08:47 PM

...lame guess - Ed????

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 08:35 PM

I think I will have to divulge the solution to the Syrian one: book

Mario was in the right neighborhood. Personally, I think this one was poorly worded or badly translated or something.

To attempt to make ammends I will share one from the Ozark Mountains:

Down in the dark dungeon thar sets a brave knight

All bridled, all saddled, all ready t' fight.

Call me his name for th' brass o' my bow,

I've told you three times now

An' still you don't know!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 08:22 PM

Jeri, it's a woman's tongue!

Not really. I was just kidding. Yeah. That's what I was doing...brier is the right answer.