A FROG IN A WELL
A frog in a 20 foot well jumps up 3 feet and falls back 2 feet. How many jumps will
be required to get out?
THE JEWELRY PROBLEM
A diamond and a watch cost $119.00. The diamond cost seven times as much as the watch
plus $7.00. What was the cost of each?
A TRIP TO THE SUN
A trip to the sun (93,000,000 miles) would require 178 years of steady traveling
at the rate of one mile a minute. Some Marathon Nut will no doubt attempt it.
MENTAL TELEPATHY
To perform a clever trick in mental telepathy so to speak, ask a friend to put a
half dollar or a watch or any article in one hand and then grip it tightly and hold
it 30 seconds over one eye and keep the other hand over his knee and you will remain
in another room. Finally tell him to lay the object on the table and you will look
at it and determine which hand held it.
Your trick then is to notice his hands
- the one that held the money will be pale as the blood ran down out of it when held
over the eye.
DOZENS
Which is the most? 6 dozen dozen or 1/2 dozen dozen?
TRAINS
One train travels 60 miles per hour and the other runs 48 miles per hour. How much
of a start must the one have so they arrive together on a 720 mile trip?
THE ENTIRE ALPHABET USED IN ONE LINE
A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor
jugs.
SOME INTERESTING ANSWERS TO THE RIDDLES
The frog must make 18 jumps, the slow train must have a 3 hour head start, the diamond
cost $105.00 and the watch was $14.00, and 6 dozen dozen = 864 whereas 1/2 dozen
dozen = 72.
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