Daily Brainteaser

rokapoke · Feb 9, 2009

February 7th - Mystery List
Rearrange the first word to discover the topic, and then rearrange each of the six words below it to create an item related to that topic.

Topic: LAITY

EVINCE TRIBE PALS
BARIUM RIVET SPEARMAN

Answer:
Topic: Italy

Venice
?????
Alps
??????
?????
????????

February 8th - Dating Game
Below is an observation about dating. So what do you observe?

If forty years seems somewhat too old, dating grandfathers should drive every young girl loopy.

Answer:
I observe that the first letter of each word is the same as the last letter of the previous word. And the phrase "dating grandfathers" sounds really odd.

February 9th - Artistic License
During a certain artist's lifetime, his name didn't draw much traffic. But today he's a big hit, and with the help of a name change, the hits keep right on coming.

Take the last name of a famous artist who cut off part of his ear. Cross out the word for a mover's truck. At the end of the remaining letters, write the word for a cheer at a bullfight. Cross out the symbol for the first element in the Periodic Table. The name of a certain board game now appears twice in a row. Transpose the letters in the second appearance of that game. Now read all the letters. The result is in line with what we said above.

Answer:
1. Van Gogh
2. Gogh
3. Goghole
4. Gogole
5. Google

Mooseman · Feb 9, 2009

turgy22;278614 said:
February 7th - Mystery List
Rearrange the first word to discover the topic, and then rearrange each of the six words below it to create an item related to that topic.

Topic: LAITY

EVINCE TRIBE PALS
BARIUM RIVET SPEARMAN

Italy
Venice Tiber Alps
No Idea

turgy22 said:
February 9th - Artistic License
During a certain artist's lifetime, his name didn't draw much traffic. But today he's a big hit, and with the help of a name change, the hits keep right on coming.

Take the last name of a famous artist who cut off part of his ear. Cross out the word for a mover's truck. At the end of the remaining letters, write the word for a cheer at a bullfight. Cross out the symbol for the first element in the Periodic Table. The name of a certain board game now appears twice in a row. Transpose the letters in the second appearance of that game. Now read all the letters. The result is in line with what we said above.

Van Gogh
Gogh
Goghole
Gogole
google

EricBess · Feb 9, 2009

SPEARMAN

parmesan

Ransac · Feb 9, 2009

turgy22;278614 said:
February 7th - Mystery List
Rearrange the first word to discover the topic, and then rearrange each of the six words below it to create an item related to that topic.

Topic: LAITY

EVINCE TRIBE PALS
BARIUM RIVET SPEARMAN

Answers:

Italy

Venice
Tiber
Alps
Brumai(?)
Trevi (fountain)
Parmesan

Ransac, cpa trash man

turgy22 · Feb 10, 2009

Using the logic of the first four examples, decode the final eight-letter word.

40-1-19-13 = FONT
2-81-90-7-11 = TENSE
16-1-19-9-8-3 = SONNET
20-1-4-5-8-87 = TOFFEE
14-1-1-10-98-1-30-18 = __________

February 7th Answers:

Topic: ITALY
VENICE (city)
TIBER (river)
ALPS (mountains)
UMBRIA (region)
TREVI (fountain)
PARMESAN (cheese)

February 8th Answer:

The last letter of every word starts the next one.

February 9th Answer:

Google. Van Gogh - van = Gogh + ole - H (hydrogen) = Gogole; transpose the letters in the second go to og. The result = Google.

rokapoke · Feb 10, 2009

February 10

Using the logic of the first four examples, decode the final eight-letter word.

40-1-19-13 = FONT
2-81-90-7-11 = TENSE
16-1-19-9-8-3 = SONNET
20-1-4-5-8-87 = TOFFEE
14-1-1-10-98-1-30-18 = __________

Answer:
Footnote.
The first letter of the spelled-out number is the letter represented by that number.

DarthFerret · Feb 10, 2009

February 10th

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Using the logic of the first four examples, decode the final eight-letter word.

40-1-19-13 = FONT
2-81-90-7-11 = TENSE
16-1-19-9-8-3 = SONNET
20-1-4-5-8-87 = TOFFEE
14-1-1-10-98-1-30-18 = __________

Answer:

Footnote

If you take the first letter of each number, this is the letter that is represented - Main clue is that the only number to signify "O" is 1 (one).

Mooseman · Feb 10, 2009

February 10
Using the logic of the first four examples, decode the final eight-letter word.

40-1-19-13 = FONT
2-81-90-7-11 = TENSE
16-1-19-9-8-3 = SONNET
20-1-4-5-8-87 = TOFFEE
14-1-1-10-98-1-30-18 = __________

Answer:
Fourteen
One
One
Ten
Ninetyeight
One
Thirty
Eighteen

Footnote

turgy22 · Feb 11, 2009

What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

The ________ in the old cookbook recommended that the reader ________ the skin of the bird with a sharp needle as part of preparation.

February 10th Answer:

FOOTNOTE. Every word is formed by taking the first letter of each spelled-out number.

Mooseman · Feb 11, 2009

turgy22;278786 said:
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

The ________ in the old cookbook recommended that the reader ________ the skin of the bird with a sharp needle as part of preparation.

February 11th Answer:

RECIPE
PIERCE

DarthFerret · Feb 11, 2009

Why do some of these seem so easy and others so way out in left field?

February 11th Answer:

Recipe
Pierce

rokapoke · Feb 11, 2009

February 11

What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

The ________ in the old cookbook recommended that the reader ________ the skin of the bird with a sharp needle as part of preparation.

Answer:
recipe, pierce

Mooseman · Feb 11, 2009

DarthFerret;278809 said:
Why do some of these seem so easy and others so way out in left field?

Because it's MENSA madness.... mostly just pattern recognition, not deductive reasoning...... At least in IMHO....

turgy22 · Feb 12, 2009

Place each digit from 1 to 9 in the empty squares (this looked really confusing the first time I tried it, so now the empty squares are represented by the number symbol (#)) so that the three rows across and three rows down form correct arithmetic statements. All calculations involve only positive whole numbers and should be performed from left to right and top to bottom.

# + # ÷ # = 8
+ _ x _ +
# x # + # = 9
- _ ÷ _ -
# - # x # = 6
=0 _=6 _=4

February 11th Answer:

recipe, pierce

DarthFerret · Feb 12, 2009

turgy22;278868 said:
Place each digit from 1 to 9 in the empty squares (this looked really confusing the first time I tried it, so now the empty squares are represented by the number symbol (#)) so that the three rows across and three rows down form correct arithmetic statements. All calculations involve only positive whole numbers and should be performed from left to right and top to bottom.

# + # ÷ # = 8
+_ x _+
# x # + # = 9
- _÷ _-
# - # x # = 6
=0 _=6 _=4

Wish we had a better way of showing/hiding answers, but this will have to do (all the underscores are kinda confusing)

February 12th Answer:

7 + 9 ÷ 2 = 8
+ _ x _ +
1 x 4 + 5 = 9
- _ ÷ _ -
8 - 6 x 3 = 6
= _ = _ =
0 _ 6 _ 4

turgy22 · Feb 13, 2009

February 13th - Palindrome Pals

A palindrome is a word, sentence, or group of words that reads the same backward or forward. What palindrome is suggested by the following clue?

What the Dutch housewife did to please the palates of her cheese-loving family

M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

February 14
First, pair up the 14 words below that traditionally appear as two-word sweet nothings on those little candy hearts. Then fit them in the grid to get another, more modern message when you read down the middle. To get you started, we've already placed the word LOVE in its correct spot.

BEAR
CAT
CUTIE
COOL
GIRL
HUG
KISS
ME
PIE
PUPPY
SO
FINE
LOVE
DREAM

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L O V E
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

February 12th Answer:

7 + 9 ÷ 2 = 8
+ . x . +
1 x 4 + 5 = 9
- . ÷ . -
8 - 6 x 3 = 6
=0 .=6 .=4

DarthFerret · Feb 13, 2009

turgy22;278957 said:
February 13th - Palindrome Pals

A palindrome is a word, sentence, or group of words that reads the same backward or forward. What palindrome is suggested by the following clue?

What the Dutch housewife did to please the palates of her cheese-loving family

M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

February 14
First, pair up the 14 words below that traditionally appear as two-word sweet nothings on those little candy hearts. Then fit them in the grid to get another, more modern message when you read down the middle. To get you started, we've already placed the word LOVE in its correct spot.

BEAR
CAT
CUTIE
COOL
DREAM
GIRL
HUG
KISS
ME
PIE
PUPPY
SO
FINE
LOVE
DREAM

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L O V E
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

February 13th Answer:

MADE EDAM

February 14th Answer:

Puppy Love
So Fine
Bear Hug
Dream Girl
Cool Cat
Cutie Pie
Kiss Me

Secret Message: You Rock

Tip: You accidentally put Dream in the list twice

BigBlue · Feb 13, 2009

turgy22;278957 said:
February 13th - Palindrome Pals

A palindrome is a word, sentence, or group of words that reads the same backward or forward. What palindrome is suggested by the following clue?

What the Dutch housewife did to please the palates of her cheese-loving family

M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Answer:
Made Edam

February 14
First, pair up the 14 words below that traditionally appear as two-word sweet nothings on those little candy hearts. Then fit them in the grid to get another, more modern message when you read down the middle. To get you started, we've already placed the word LOVE in its correct spot.

BEAR
CAT
CUTIE
COOL
GIRL
HUG
KISS
ME
PIE
PUPPY
SO
FINE
LOVE
DREAM

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L O V E
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

February 14th Answer:

Puppy Love (Y)
So Fine (O)
Bear Hug (U)
Dream Girl (R)
Cool Cat (O)
Cutie Pie (C)
Kiss Me (K)

turgy22 · Feb 16, 2009

February 15th

There are 60 children participating in five activities taking place simultaneously this afternoon.

A total of 28 children are in Activities A and B.
A total of 25 children are in Activities B and C.
A total of 15 children are in Activities C and D.
A total of 22 children are in Activities D and E.

How many children are in each activity?

February 16th - Central American

What do these names have in common?

SIMPSON
RUDOLPH
CLARK
BIRCHARD
WILSON
KNOX
JEFFERSON
ALAN

February 13th Answer:

MADE EDAM

February 14th Answer:

PUPPY LOVE
SO FINE
BEAR HUG
DREAM GIRL
COOL CAT
CUTIE PIE
KISS ME
YOU ROCK

rokapoke · Feb 16, 2009

February 15th

There are 60 children participating in five activities taking place simultaneously this afternoon.

A total of 28 children are in Activities A and B.
A total of 25 children are in Activities B and C.
A total of 15 children are in Activities C and D.
A total of 22 children are in Activities D and E.

How many children are in each activity?

Answer:
A + B + C + D + E = 60
A + B = 28
B + C = 25
C + D = 15
D + E = 22

A + B + B + C + D + E = 75 ==> B = 15
A + 15 = 28 ==> A = 13
B + C = 25 ==> C = 10
C + D = 15 ==> D = 5
D + E = 22 ==> E = 17

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