THIS BLOG TELLS SOME PUZZLES AND RIDDLES

NUMBERS
Answer these three simple questions. You can't take your time, you have to answer really quickly. okay?
1..You are participating in a race. You overtake the second. What position do you arrive in?
2. If you overtake the last, what place do you arrive as?
3.(This riddle must be done in your head only without the use of paper and a pen)
Take 1,000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1,000. Then add 30. Add another 1,000. Now add 20. Then add another 1,000. Now add 10. What is the total.

Answer:
1. If you answered that you arrived first, you are absolutely wrong! 'Cause if you overtake the second, you take his place so you arrive second.
2. If you answered that you arrived second to the last then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST? The question is wrong!
3. Did you get 5,000? The correct answer is actually 4,100. You don't believe it? Check with your calculator.


MAGIC NUMBERS
Work this out as you read - it only takes 30 seconds. Make sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have sex.(Try more than once)
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. Add 5. (for Sunday)
4. Multiply it by 50. (okay you may use a calculator!)
5. If you've already had your birthday this year add 1750. If you haven't add 1749.
6. Now subtract the four-digit year that you were born. (Hey stop cheating and put in the correct number!)

Answer:
You should now have a three-digit number. (Do you?) The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have sex each week). The second two digits are your age and it shows.


CHECK YOUR LOGIC
Don't look at the answer ! Try first and write down your answers.
1. There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Every day, he takes the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel halfway up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining Why?

2. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital, where the surgeon says, " I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!" How can this be?

3. A man is wearing black. He had black shoes, socks, trousers, jumpers, gloves, and Balaclava. He is walking down the black streets with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with it's light off but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?

4. One day Dada celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Dodo, celebrated his birthday. How?

5. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square one?

6. A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone else at the party who drank the puch died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

7. A man died and went to heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and all looked as if they died at the age of 21. He looked around to see if there was anyone he recognized. He saw a couple and he knew immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?

8. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

9. A man walks into a bar and ask the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at the man. Tha man says, "Thank you," and walks out

Answer:
1. The man is very short and can only reach reach halfway up the elevator buttons. However, if it is raining, then he will have his umbrella with him and can press the higher buttons with it. .

2. The surgeon was his mother.

3. It was daytime.

4. At the time she went into labor, the mother of the twins was traveling by boat. The older twin, Dodo, was born early on March 1st.The boat then crossed a time zone and Dada, the younger twin, was born on February 28th. Therefore the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother during a leap year.

5. A square manhole can be turned and dropped diagonally down the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So, for safety and practicality, all manhole covers should be round.

6. The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted , poisoning the punch.

7. He recognized Adam and Eve as the only people without navels. because they were not born of women, they never had never umbilical cords, and therefore , they never had navels. This one seems perfectly logical but it can sometimes spark fierce theological arguments.

8. They were two sets of triplets (or quadruplets, etc.) This puzzle stumps many people. They try outlandish solutions involving test-tube babies or surrogate mothers. Why does the brain search for complex solutions when there is a much simpler one available?

9. The man had hiccups. The bartender recognized this from his speech and drew the gun in order to give him a scare. It worked and cured the hiccups so the man no longer needed tha water.

PUZZLING RIDDLES
1. Five hundred begins in it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen;
First of all the figures, the first of all letters, take up their situations between.
Join all together , and then you will bring, Before you the name of an eminent king.

2. I build castles. I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind, I help others to see
What am I?

3. What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spend thriftsaves
And all men carry to their graves?

4. Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
Whoever knows it want it not.

5. Whoever makes it, wants it not
Whoever buys it, uses it not.
And whoever uses it, knows it not.

6. Two words, my answer is only two words.
To keep me, you must give me.

7. When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I make you gay.
When old, I am valued more than ever.

8. I go round in circles
But always straight ahead.
Never complain
No matter where I am led.

9. Lighter than what I am made of,
More of me is hidden, Than is seen.

10. At the sound of me, men may dream Or stomp their feet
At the sound of me, women may laugh, Or sometimes weep.
Answer:
1. DAVID (in Roman numerals).
2. Sand
3. Nothing
4. Counterfeit money
5. Nothing
6. Your word
7. Wine
8. Wagon wheels or tire.
9. Iceberg
10. Music

Assigment: ( I give the answer next blog, try to research it now)
THE WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ (OR IS IT?)
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
2) Which country makes the Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get catgut?
4) In which month do Russian celebrate the October revolution?
5) What is camel's hairbrush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7) What color is a purple finch?
8) Where are Chinese gooseberries come?
9) Where was India ink invented?
10) How long did the thirty Years War last?

Smile of the Day:
Why is life like a riddle?
Because you must give up.