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Riddles & Brain Teasers

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MrKaplansGlasses · 27/03/2018 22:45

Does anyone know any good ones? DH and I live an exciting life Wink and have been trying some brainteasers out on each other. I appear to have run out now but I want some really tricky ones to get him with tomorrow if anyone can help!

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elQuintoConyo · 28/03/2018 17:00

DadDadDad yes! Got it in one!

DadDadDad · 28/03/2018 17:04

Heh, now I can be evil and not explain the answer... Smile

Eveninties · 28/03/2018 17:09

Give us a clue!

DadDadDad · 28/03/2018 17:11

By elQuinto's logic:
0 = 1
1 = 0
2 = 0
3 = 0
4 = 1
5 = 0
6 = 1
7 = 0
8 = 2
9 = 1

Basseting · 28/03/2018 17:13

nothing to offer but gratitude. I can finally level the playing field slightly with my 13 y/o Aspie son Grin

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 28/03/2018 17:17

Ooh, now I get it.

78653 would be 3, right? And 40912 would be 3 as well.

And Liverpool would also be 3.
Arsenal too, Chelsea too.

Manchester United would be 5.

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 28/03/2018 17:17

Oh, Liverpool would be 4. Idiot.

DadDadDad · 28/03/2018 17:21

With one exception, every station name on the London Underground contains at least one letter from the word MACKEREL.

What is the exception?

DamnWhyAreAllTheUsernamesTaken · 28/03/2018 17:27

A woman is walking in the desert. She looks behind her and can’t see any footprints... why?

QueenOfMyDomain · 28/03/2018 17:30

She’s walking backwards?

Mrsmorton · 28/03/2018 17:31

Dad St John’s Wood. Same question but “badger”..?

Smeaton · 28/03/2018 17:31

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DadDadDad · 28/03/2018 17:34

The woman in the desert is blind, or it's dark, or the surface doesn't allow footprints to show (eg rock), she's walking on stilts, she's towing some kind of sledge which obliterates her footprints...

DadDadDad · 28/03/2018 17:36

MrsMorton - ooh, do I still need a passport to go there? Wink

Smeaton · 28/03/2018 17:38

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Mrsmorton · 28/03/2018 17:39

Ha! No! I went there for a pint last weekend! Not aware you ever have... I may be about to learn something.

Thiswayorthatway · 28/03/2018 17:44

Mrsmorton - Epping?

PedantHere · 28/03/2018 17:45

As a stone inside a tree, I'll help your words outlive thee. But if you push me as I stand, the more I move the less I am.
A pencil

QueenOfAccidentalDeathStares · 28/03/2018 17:48

Did I miss the egg answer?

The egg was still in the chcken

DadDadDad · 28/03/2018 17:48

MrsMorton - you can also run the Underground problem with TORNADO or FRANCE.

Mrsmorton · 28/03/2018 17:54

thisway Epping has an E and a G!

Dad I know but I can only remember mackerel and badger!!

DadDadDad · 28/03/2018 17:55

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_to_Pimlico

Mrsmorton · 28/03/2018 17:56

Aahhh!!! Well I have learnt something!!

Thanks!

DadDadDad · 28/03/2018 17:56

MrsMorton - you know about TORNADO and FRANCE? But I thought I discovered those myself! (I have a spreadsheet which helped me generate possibilities).

Mrsmorton · 28/03/2018 18:08

Chigwell & Pimlico..? Used to play this game on call when I worked in a London hospital. I expect there are many permutations on your spreadsheet? My grey cells aren’t as good as they used to be.