[joke] Brain Teasers

[Michael]

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms.

The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with

loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years.

Which room is safest for him?

 

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5

minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out

together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

 

3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you

throw it away?

 

4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday,

Friday, or Sunday?

 

5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you

can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain

that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong

with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you

still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might

find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

 

Answers posted tomorrow!

[webman]

2. The wife photographed the husband and processed the film herself.

 

3. Newspaper?

 

The other ones have got me at the moment though!

[Hightower]

4. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

 

5. No letter 'e' in paragraph

[Jon]

If the lions had not eaten fot three years they would be dead...This must be the safest room albeit a bit smelly...

[sdc]

1. The third room - lions which haven't eaten for three years will be dead.

2. The wife is a photographer and has photographed her husband.

3. Coal.

4. Yesterday, today, tomorrow.

5. There's no letter 'e' in the paragraph anywhere.

 

I enjoyed these; thanks!

[Guest coquet636]

for question 4 i had another version but does it count????

 

Christmas eve, Christmas day, boxing day

[DSapseid]

for question 4 i had another version but does it count????

 

Christmas eve, Christmas day, boxing day

 

Beat me to it i was going to say that

[Opensource]

for question 4 i had another version but does it count????

 

 

Christmas eve, Christmas day, boxing day

 

No actually.

 

Boxing Day is not the day after Christmas Day if Christmas Day falls on a Saturday. St. Stephen's Day IS always the day following Christmas Day.

[Guest coquet636]

Beat me to it i was going to say that

 

Great minds think alike.... fools seldom differ... you decide ... lol

[Guest coquet636]

No actually.

 

Boxing Day is not the day after Christmas Day if Christmas Day falls on a Saturday. St. Stephen's Day IS always the day following Christmas Day.

 

 

Sorry i stand corrected.... will remember that

[Michael]

And the answers are:

 

1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead. That

one was easy, right?

 

2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband,

developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; and hung).

 

3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.

 

4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and tomorrow!

 

5. The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English

language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.

 

Well done to all, especially sdc