Puzzles - Part 1+1

Subject: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:40 AM

former part of thread blickie

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:48 AM

While folks are still working on the "mammal" stumper, here's one from the Blue Ridge Mountains:

Round as a ring and deep as the spring and all the king's horses couldn't pull it up.

(I know. I know. The last part doesn't rhyme. I wasn't in on the writing of it :-)

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:50 AM

a well

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:56 AM

The last thing I remember was Bernard asked:

Which mammal, which is not egg-laying (e.g. duck billed platypus), could theoretically be completely wiped off the face of the earth, yet, the following day thousands of young could be born?

and further clarified, "'Born' as in 'leaving the womb'!!" and "wiped off the face of the earth" as "One minute there's thousands of them, the next minute something kills the lot!"

So we've got a non egg-laying mammal that can die and be able to give birth the next day, after being dead. Kicking also has something to do with it. I'm thinking it's more along the lines of the baby "kicking" its way out. Then again, if it isn't partially out already, it would suffocate...oy. Unless we're talking about the next day being one second after midnight, in which case we're talking about just about any mammal with babies capable of getting themselves out of mamma...

Am I thinking too literally here?

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

Right, Mario. BTW, thanks for the blicky.

One more which is said to be from the same part of the U.S. although I suspect a UK origin:

In marble walls as white as milk, lined with a skin of softest silk, within a fountain crystal clear a golden apple doth appear; no doors there are to this stronghold yet things break in and steal the gold.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:01 AM

I know this!! But since I didn't work it out for myself, I won't tell ...

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:04 AM

Just guessing Allan - could be an egg?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:10 AM

What is the maximum number of matches (matchsticks) you can place in a way that each of them touches each other (no bending or breaking, take the straight matches as they come out of the box)?

Now, if you try the same task with cigarettes, what is the maximum number?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:18 AM

We had friends when I was young, seven very elderly (and also vegetarian) brothers and sisters sharing a house - they often would set us this type of mind puzzle.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:33 AM

Wolfgang, I shouldn't jump in here, because I know this is probably much more difficult than it appears...I'll guess six, but I won't bother to try to explain it unless I'm right. (I think it has to do with hexagonal close packing and stacking them upright like a pyramid.)

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:35 AM

On the mammals question - Would the answer be a sea creature such as a walrus, seal, or sea lion? No longer on the land (earth) but coming ashore to breed.

The halls of marble one is an egg.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MichaelAnthony
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:38 AM

Every match or cigarette touches every other match or cigarette? No limit to the number of matches or cigarettes in a box?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:48 AM

Anybody been to brainteasers.com? Fun fun fun...

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 12:15 PM

Correct on the egg question - Nice going, Jeri and Naemanson.

Here is one from Arkansas:

What is it that takes in (goes in) green, comes out white and then turns yellow?

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

grass to milk to "butter"

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Bert
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:02 PM

Wolfgang, I'm getting six matches so far.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:23 PM

Correct, Mario.

The next one also claims Arkansas as its origin; but I swear that it sounds like PA Dutch to me.

Two hookers, two snookers, two lookers, four dilly-danders, four stiff-standers, two flip-flops, one fling-by.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:42 PM

gotta be some kinda animule...

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:51 PM

I still like the walrus idea, they could all be eliminated from the face of the EARTH and then come out of the sea and bear 1000 young... but somehow I don't think that's what they are looking for...

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:53 PM

Cow!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 02:00 PM

What is that in answer to, Naemanson?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 02:09 PM

Naemanson gave the correct answer to the "Two hookers, two snookers..." question.

Mrrzy & Naemanson, you are on the wrong track with your thinking about walrus, etc..

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 02:37 PM

Bernard said "wiped off the face of the earth" meant killed, as in dead, extinct, kicked the bucket, gone to meet their maker...

Well, "Which mammal, which is not egg-laying (e.g. duck billed platypus), could theoretically be completely wiped off the face of the earth, yet, the following day thousands of young could be born?"

Theoretically, all of us mammals could be wiped off the face of the earth on any particular day, but thousands of us could be born the next day. Of course, I'd go out on a limb and say the first "could be" doesn't happen.

In other words, A could happen, OR B could happen. A and B both could not happen. I know, I know - try again.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 02:46 PM

considering the international dateline - any mammal.

or another version - pick any mammal for which there are seperate names for the female and the male. For example - all "bulls" could be wiped off the face of the earth right now, and tomorrow thousands more will be born; because "bulls" do not equal "cows"; ditto "boars" and "sows"

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: NightWing
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:21 PM

Can someone please explain the "two hookers" puzzle?

two hookers	=	horns?
two snookers	=
two lookers	=	eyes
four dilly-danders	=
four stiff-standers	=	legs?
two flip-flops	=	ears?????
one fling-by	=	tail?

equals a cow.

Also, on the mammals question, how about the bat? Off the face of the earth, but in the air.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:38 PM

Nostrils and teats were all that were missing, NW. You and Mario have shown remarkable creativity in thought. And I follow your logic totally. But none of these is the answer that was sought.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:40 PM

Allan, ahem...what did you think of my answer?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:42 PM

snookers = nostrils ?

4 dilly-danders = teats

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Margo
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:49 PM

The kicking made me think immediately of a Kangaroo. The baby could emerge from the pouch even if the mama was dead... if it was mature enough. Am I close? Margo

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:57 PM

Sorry, Jeri. I thought you saw your folly when you said, "I know, I know - try again." But I have to admit, it was very creative logic.

Here is one from Syria:

He is quite mute, blind and deaf, yet he has seen and heard all that has occurred in the past and he will see and hear all that is to come in the future: just now he tells us all.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:15 PM

Which mammal, which is not egg-laying (e.g. duck billed platypus), could theoretically be completely wiped off the face of the earth, yet, the following day thousands of young could be born?"

You know, he never said thousands of young MAMMALS would be born. Next day thousands of young flies would be born to feed off the ensuing carnage.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:28 PM

would the syria one be "History"?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: mousethief
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:36 PM

Flies aren't born; they hatch.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:37 PM

Good guess, Mario. No cigar.

When Bernard sees the havoc his question has wrought, he will be totally amazed. Meanwhile, I will attempt to field the questions for him.

Those that would be born would be of exactly the same classification as the deceased.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:52 PM

Is it bigger than a bread box?

(Bernard needs to start looking for a bodyguard :-)

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:54 PM

Yes. It is bigger than a breadbox. (heh, heh)

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: MMario
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:57 PM

a mammal bigger then a breadbox. That eliminates shrews, mice, voles, squirrels, most bats, in fact most rodents...

Is it a domesticated animal?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:05 PM

A mule?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: mousethief
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:07 PM

a whale?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:09 PM

Jon, you got it!!!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:15 PM

Jon - ggggrrrrr! I thought mule, then the obvious escaped me...

I'm glad I got to at least READ the answer. I keep losing power here, and would go nuts if I had to try to come up with it for another night.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Bernard
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:18 PM

The mammal in question is commonplace, a land creature, and domesticated (although not a pet, usually).

The question is not a 'catch' question, and the answer is very simple.

The 'young' will grow up to be adults of this animal; there is no trick of the International Dateline (or any other computer dating agency...!).

It is just as possible that all traces of this creature could be lost for ten years - above or below ground, on or in water, or anywhere else. But significantly large numbers (or even just one!) could be borne after ten years, twenty years, five seconds - elapsed time is not an issue, just a red herring.

It is difficult to give many more clues without giving away the answer - but this creature shares its name with a type of footwear...

NO! It's not a kinky leather... thigh... length... boot... ooooo-er!!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:18 PM

I didn'y start on it till this afternoon but it has been bugging me for a few hours. I'm glad I went back and re-read the thread and found kicking was a clue. I don't think I would have got it without that.

Jon

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:26 PM

Jon got it.

Bernard, where did you say you lived again? No, no - not what country - where exactly, with directions if possible.
(This is just a joke. If it had been a real threat made by a real psycho...well, a real, dangerous psycho, there would have been a lot of creepy music and dim lighting.)

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:41 PM

Here's one from Louisiana:

As crooked as a ram's horn, teeth like a cat, guess all your lifetime, you'll never guess that.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: NightWing
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:56 PM

Allan,

On the "crooked as a ram's horn" one: The word "that"?

Still thinking about the "mute, blind, and deaf" one.

BB,
NightWing

P.S. A poem for your edification and elucidation:

Hickory dickory dock
Three mice ran up the clock
The clock struck one ...

The other two escaped with minor injuries.

*EG*

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 06:27 PM

NW, I understand your thinking. Such a trick was used in:

Railroad crossing. Look out for the cars. Let's see you spell that without any "r"'s.

Not the case for this one. (Had I been the originator, I might have included at least one additional hint - but, alas, I was not.) It is a tough one.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 06:53 PM

Re: Wolfgang's matchsticks - I now say five. Assuming they are all the same length, basically cylindrical in shape, and all must touch each other.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 06:59 PM

Allan - crooked and sharp - gotta be a backwoods Southern lawyer.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 07:05 PM

I like that one a lot, Mary! Not the one they were after, though. However, you were looking in the right place.

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 07:15 PM

Briar, Br'er Allan?

If it's a woman's tongue, you're in trouble!

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 07:39 PM

the curves in a mountain road are both crooked and sharp. (we call them kiss me a** curves). Do you have those in WV?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 08:11 PM

MULES! I agree with Jeri! Now let's discuss the removal of Bernard's body parts.

"...crooked as a ram's horn..." A politician? A lawyer?

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.

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: 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 - 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: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:33 PM

All

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

Or Al...

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: 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: Jeri
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:46 PM

lumps of coal?

Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 09:58 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: Naemanson
Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:47 PM

Umbrella

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

Yup.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 09:50 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: 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: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:03 PM

What fruit is three different colors at once?

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: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:31 PM

an orange? Orange ya glad I asked?

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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 10:29 PM

4) O Come O Come Emmanuel

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 - 10:34 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 01:57 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 - 02:00 PM

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

I quit!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.