Brain Teaser

[rgmwa]

Pryia

[spacesailor]

I'll second that .

spacesailor

[red750]

Correct.

 

 

FIND THE MITSAKE
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

 

 

 

 

 

[pmccarthy]

MITSAKE

[red750]

Well, thats one way of showing it.

 

 

Answer the following question:

What word _an y_u _ake if you _ut together in order the _ett_rs tha_ ar_ missing from this sentence?

[rgmwa]

Complete

 

[red750]

That's right.

 

 

Which five-letter word replaces the question marks?

          T O A S T

          O T T E R

          A T O N E

          S E N S E

          ? ? ? ? ?

[pmccarthy]

TREES

[red750]

That was quick - correct. Remember, 30 seconds, no pen and paper.

 

If A=1, B=2, C=3 and so on, what boy’s name is this?

          16  8  9  12  12  9  16

 

[Marty_d]

Phillip

[red750]

Yep.

 

 

What single word can you add to the front of all these to make three two-word phrases?
                    Seat             Potato          Ticket

[Marty_d]

Hot 

[red750]

Correct.  Take a break from 1% Club for a moment, this came up on FB.

 

[onetrack]

$14. They got given $3.50 for every leg they had.

[spacesailor]

56 

The spider ate the ant, the duck ate the spider .

The duck had all that the others had .

spacesailor

[onetrack]

Never seen a spider eat an ant, but I've seen plenty of ants eating spiders!

[red750]

Onetrack is correct.

 

 

Imagine your friend has asked you a maths question. You think the question is “What is 19 + 15?” but you aren’t sure whether your friend said 19 or 90, or if they said 15 or 50.     Which of these answers can NOT be correct?

     149        105       69      44 

[Marty_d]

149

[red750]

My sincere apologies Marty. It was late at night when I was transcribing these questions and the first number in the possible answers should be 140, not 149. I knew that wasn't the correct answer, I had to replay the recording of the show to check it. Would you care to have another go? 

 

 

 

 

[Marty_d]

LOL guess it must be 44 then.  That's ok Peter, I obviously can't add up 19+15 anyway...

[red750]

Right this time. 

 

 

What is the first letter of the alphabet that does not rhyme with another letter of the alphabet?

[Marty_d]

F

[red750]

Correct.  

 

If you take all the Hearts and Spades in a regular pack of 52 cards and shuffle them for thirty seconds, what is the probability of having 14 red cards all next to each other?

[rgmwa]

Zero

[red750]

Correct. Only 13 cards in a suit.

 

 

The following four words have a hidden pattern in common. What is it?

          BEAR           FARM          CHIP            SNAIL