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...ry it. The Thursday quiz is an "is or isn't" it game, your job is to determine whether each item from a list of twelve items is or isn't an example of the week's category. Give it a try. ...
...s both fun and educational. If you liked this quiz try the other ones on the site here is the entire list. I can spend few hours there especially when you have kids at the right age that might e...
Here's a bit of a different puzzle. It may not have a solution. Produce an algorithm that, given a list of correctly spelled English words (such as the enable1 list that can be downloaded from the N
... symmetrically The grid will have an odd number of squares per side No other words other than those listed above must be used Philip Carter The Enigmatic World of Philip Carter...
...e have any ideas?? Mary loves knights but hate wizards, she loves writing but hates typing, she loves listening but hate singing, she loves unknown authors but hates famous authors. Why?? Any help...
Here is a simple grid game based on coprimality. Any number of players. Start with an n-by-n grid drawn on paper. (I suggest an n of at least 5 or 6.) Players take turns writing integers into an
...s of primeary sets up to order 4. order 1: order 2: order 3: order 4: Can you extend this list? Jo. Pe...
What's wrong with this list? (And if that's too easy for you, provide the other wrong list.) South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina
... looking for a lateral word(s)/ sentence associated with the word Cracker. Any suggestion? Thanks for listening Kind Regards...
Hi all, here are four questions I've thought of centered about US States: 1) Create a list of US State names so that no two names on the list share a common letter. Let 'A' be sum of the lengths of
My class was given a list of 26 equation analysis statements. We have all but this one: 2 = S of R in RB Can anyone help? I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer. Thanks
...mber from the following possibly false statements: 1) At least one of the last two statements in this list is true. 2) This is either the first true or the first false statement in the list. 3) Ther...
What list is this? Jacob Michael Joshua Matthew Andrew Joseph Ethan Daniel Christopher Anthony Cheers
...number or numbers of the players he had competed against, in the order in which he had played them. The lists of the two finalists had their numbers in increasing order. Also, each player worked out...
...inted on it. The three blocks can be arranged so that they spell various three letter words. Below is a list of words that can be spelled out using the blocks, and a list of words that can't be spelle...
Here is a list of the longest one consonant words I could find. Note: 'Y' is accepted as a non-consonant only if it ends a syllable (e.g., 'hooey' & 'joey') but not otherwise (e.g., 'deadeye'). B:
Hi, Below are the list of puzzles * i have tried bt could not solve, Please solve it and explain it. 1. There are two balls touching each other circumferentially. The radius of the big ball is 4 t
... made this as a joke for the environmental services group at my office (if you spent all day staring at lists of chemicals, you would go nutty also). I realize that organic chemistry humor probabaly...
...red in a popular, non-mathematical forum, and my solution strikes me as a bit too mathematically/probabilistically sophisticated for the (wo)man on the street. Does anyone have an explanation that is ...
The link below describes a widely applied matching algorithm which takes preference lists from applicants and prospective employers and assigns these applicants to jobs. The algorithmic matches are
...nd movie, has a direct or indirect reference to all of the earlier Bond films. I am trying to compile a list. Any help is greatly appreciated. Here is what I have so far: 1. Dr. No : Halle Berr...
... 'You Can't Win' wherein the DJ typically comes up with extremely obscure trivia and tries to stump the listeners. He asks the same questions, day after day, eventually giving hints, until someone get...
...y with a one-syllable name (according to the 2000 census). I may have made an error scanning the city-list for one-syllable names (so I may have consequently missed a city), but the solution I got w...
...erts to consider the matter and see if they agree with my suspicion. A fun problem, Leroy. Thanks for listening, all!...
A Variation of the Five Hats Puzzle Although the Five Hats Puzzle is on the FAP list, it's not one of the best known ones and people still seem to enjoy it. Here is a variation. It was not found any
Hi, Does anyone know or have a word list which has nine-letter words in it. These words must be safe for family use for children of all ages. No swear words, racism, etc. It doesn't matter if th
... longer than all the other bridges, but meets all requirements.) * If I've made no mistakes, the full list of towns is: 1. Gladstone, NM 88422 2. Raleigh, IL 62977 3. Horton, MO 64751 4. Fort Atki...
...h sages position in the chain of power and the colour of each of the sages hats' the king continued 'by listening to what each sage has to say. You can tell the sages apart because they all have very ...
I found this list of US cities on a web site (so no googling to find the answer, eh?) The list was compiled in 2001 by the people running the web site, they say, but is not directly related to the act
...e rest of the web site. I wonder if I can get a prize for that? :) Here's what I have so far. I'm not listing all the different possible ways of fixing each error, because for all of them (except on...
The following is a exhaustive list of all the sports persons with a given property: Roy Campanella Joe DiMaggio Sonny Liston Mickey Mantle Rocky Marciano Floyd Patterson Sugar Ray Robinson Which t
Making 'synonym rolls' What's the longest list of synonyms that you can create, where each word is a synonym of the previous and following words, but not the other words? For example: paddle row q
...er 9.Harry Potter 9.Harry Potter 9.Harry Potter Torque Charlotte Grey The Salton Sea Here is the full list of entrants and (rounded) scores 1. Jim Gillogly 30 20 17 19 19 16 24 11 7 24 274937600 1...
...rying to memorize it. For example all the winners of the first race at a race track for a year might be listed as a 20 digit number which (perhaps?) I could find in a book of logarithms by simply reme...
...tustan 5. bashkortostan 6. daghestan 7. hayastan 8. hazaristan 10. karakalpakstan 11. kazakhstan 12. khalistan 13. khuzestan 14. kohistan 15. kurdistan 16. kyrgyzstan 17. lazistan 18. pakhtunistan 19....
...thers the solution on Nov. 2000 as only three digits are given. I would be interested in people posting lists however incomplete J.A.H. Hunter did not give a limit this time but said it must be at lea...
Hi all! I have a question concerning the lists of expressions for successive integers. Has anyone tried to write a program, that does the search automatically ? I ask this, because I intend to try t
... I had to eliminate most of the more popular songs but I still managed to come up with enough to make a list of reasonable length. I also added at the end two hard non-Christmas related music question...
... taken 2 at a time, form C(2,m) pairs. You are given a description of the place-setting arrangements in lists similar to the following:...
...egional factor in the distribution of surnames that we're not considering. It is also possible that the list I found is treating Haddad and Al-Haddad as the same name. The top 20 surnames: 1 Ÿ...
Hi all Just a question - I'm pretty new to the usenet thing (I've been a mailing list kinda guy for ages, but this is the first newsgroup I've joined), and sometimes it seems like people are respond
...her long flight to Sydney Austrailia, and like everyone else i get very bored just watching the movies, listening to the music and eating. who can recommend a very good mind teaser game that will keep...
...ory' aspect. (Otherwise known as randomness.) Each answer will score a value equal to its rank in the list of answers for that particular rare/common category. Rare answers do not count towards the ...
...tainer should have about a .25 to 2 liter capacity (e.g., a coffee can or mayonnaise jar). Below I have listed some objects that I feel are fairly 'standard' (at least in the U.S.). I would appreciate...
This is Letters Contest ASK1, which is a hybrid of several other contests that appear on this list. Do NOT post answers to any newsgroup. Entries must reach here by Thursday July 5th, 11:59 P.M. (ES
..., it starts 'Sir, I stra...' and ends '... Art, sir, is Satire: Veritas.' ' I cannot find such a book listed in Library of Congress, Amazon, or anywhere online outside of the rec.puzzles archive (ot...

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