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This & That

Games / Brain Teasers /

Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you'll make a familiar phrase. For example, "Thighbone/Swallowtail" conceals "High & Low."

1. Skyrocketing/Trolleyman
2. Thermometer/Apoplexy
3. Delaware/Bordering
4. Surprised/Trashiness
5. Throughout/Stumblebum

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

Mating attack time. You might easily find the first move, but you have to find the second move as well to continue the attack.

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Insanity Test

Games / Brain Teasers /

During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria is that defines if a patient should be institutionalized.

"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask the patient to empty the bathtub."

Okay, here's your test:
1. Would you use the spoon?
2. Would you use the teacup?
3. Would you use the bucket?

"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would choose the bucket, as it is larger than the spoon." What was the director's response?

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Composer Murder Mystery

Games / Brain Teasers /

Handel has been killed and Beethoven is on the case. He has interviewed the four suspects and their statements are shown below. Each suspect has said two sentences...one sentence of each suspect is a lie and one sentence is the truth. Help Beethoven figure out who the killer is.

Joplin: I did not kill Handel. Either Grieg is the killer or none of us is.
Grieg: I did not kill Handel. Gershwin is the killer.
Strauss: I did not kill Handel. Grieg is lying when he says Gershwin is the killer.
Gershwin: I did not kill Handel. If Joplin did not kill him, then Grieg did.

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

Take out a stopwatch! I played this finish in a five minute game on the ICC and had 51 seconds left in the given position. 30 seconds later, my opponent resigned. Can you match that by finding the winning continuation in 30 seconds? Don’t forget, Black will offer to trade queens at every opportunity.

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Different-Colored World

Games / Brain Teasers /

Imagine a world in which the colors of things have changed from what we consider normal. Assume the following changes:

Snow is now red.
Grass is now black.
The sky is now brown.
Blood is now white.
Soot is now green.

In such a world, what is the color of dirt?

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Symbol Codes

Games / Brain Teasers /

In the following code, each symbol stands for one of five letters.

^ stands for M, O, I, U, or W
V stands for Y, U, F, E, or L
< stands for H, E, B, K, or T
> stands for J, A, G, N, or P

The four letter code word, <^>V, can be translated into two English words that are opposites. What are the two words?

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What's in Chocolate?

Games / Brain Teasers /

What 5 chemical elements make chocolate?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

To say White pieces are awkwardly placed is an understatement; however, there is a way out to win.

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Tell the Truth

Games / Brain Teasers /

Sid always moans that if only people told the truth he would sell more of his goods. What does he make?

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Tricky Composition

Games / Brain Teasers /

A music teacher once told his student a fast way to make good compositions. The secret is to choose a famous composition, turn it around, and you will get your own original composition!

The student happily tried this secret, and it indeed works. However, this secret does not work for his music teacher's compositions. Why?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

We go a nice response on the previous king and pawn ending that looked like a draw but wasn’t. Here’s another one. It looks like both kings need to hang around the kingside without one getting any advantage. It is, however, a win for White, which requires concrete calculation!

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Hut, Mine, and Oak

Games / Brain Teasers /

What do the following three items have in common?

1. A HUT
2. A MINE
3. A HOLM OAK

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Different Perspectives

Games / Brain Teasers /

You can actually view words from a different perspective. For example, number could mean getting more numb, while a butter could simply be a goat or a ram.

And now for the problem. What do you call a wicked thing?

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Backwards Strike?

Games / Brain Teasers /

This is a newspaper headline:

Workers Strike - Want to Make Less Money!

What is going on?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

I guess this is Rinck week. I love this position because it can be so instructional to beginners. They learn to race their pawns to queen first, but sometimes the race isn’t always to the swiftest. Some students might even conclude it’s a draw because the two kings will just shuttle back in forth on the same two squares and it will be a draw...

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Hidden Colors

Games / Brain Teasers /

Hidden in each sentence is a word. For example, in the sentence: When I grow up, I want to be a ranger. (Hidden animal) The hidden word is BEAR from "to BE A Ranger". Now, try to identify the hidden colors in the sentences below:

I agree not to eat all the food.
Bob decided to jump in, knowing that this is his only choice.
The sunset makes Cairo seem magnificent.
Some states ship lumber and coal on canal barges.

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Multiple Choice Questions

Games / Brain Teasers /

What are your answers to the respective questions so that your answers to all the questions are correct?

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Question 1
The answer to Question 2 is:
A. B
B. C
C. A

Question 2
The first question with correct answer B is:
A. Question 3
B. Question 1
C. Question 2

Question 3
The only answer you have not chosen yet is:
A. A
B. B
C. C

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

It initially looks like Black can prevent both pawns from queening, but there is great mischief afoot by White.

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Agents in Action

Games / Brain Teasers /

The Agents of F.C.I. have amusing anagrams to match their characteristics, for example, AGENT SOUL, whose name anagrams to LANGOUSTE, likes seafood.

Try to determine the Anagrams for the following Agents.

AGENT DEE is very young.

AGENT YIP specializes in Pharaohs and Sphinxes.

AGENT MIC has attractive abilities.

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