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escartian
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Submit your answer below.
Answer will be given by me at the end of the day.
Note these brain teasers are not created by me...
Today's brain teaser is:
Below are incomplete words. Place two letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.

Fu (--) am
Ed (--) ar
Dit (--) urch
Ju (--) eam
Ran (--) ese
Divi (--) bt
Pi (--) upt
Dro (--) rse
Tr (--) aze
Bud (--) nder
Don't worry if you can't figure it out...(I personally only managed to fill 5 blanks)

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escartian
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As his name would suggest, Joe was not a meek, quiet fellow. In fact he had such difficulty keeping quiet, both his local and university library banned him. His roommate, being a music major and a sound engineer, said he could solve his problem, but Joe would need to trust him. He gave Joe his 75-watt ghetto blaster, a CD, fake mustache, and a long blond wig. Joe, who is sceptical but intrigued, decided to give it a shot. Joe, disguised as one of the professors, entered the university library. He placed the CD player on the table in front of him; loaded the CD; cranked the volume full and braced himself as he turned it on. Surprisingly there was only a very very faint sshh. Joe then realized that he couldn't hear anything at all. He spoke normally, and then yelled, but no one reacted. Awesome, he thought as he began flailing his arms around and shouting as loud as he could. Unfortunately, the librarian, seeing him moving but hearing nothing, assumed he was choking and performed the Heimlich maneuver on him, knocking his wig off, causing the librarian to perform the hind kick maneuver right out the door. Poor Joe.
But what had his roommate done? What was on that mysterious CD that made everything quiet?[quote]

the answer to this one is wrong (just making a correction) this could not happen so this riddle is impossible to answer correctly...sory

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1) 4 and 5-liter bowls
2) 4 and 3-liter bowls


1) Fill 4 bowl. Pour into five bowl. Fill 4 bowl again. Pour into five, until five is full. The four bowl now has three liters. Pour out five bowl. Pour the remaining three liters into five bowl. Fill up four bowl. Pour until five is full again, the four bowl now has two liters in it.

2) Fill up three, pour into four. Fill up three again, fill up four. The three bowl now has two liters in it.
escartian
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yes i think got it right
1) Fill the 5-liter bowl, pour water from it to fill the 4-liter bowl, which you empty afterwards.

Pour the remaining 1 liter to the 4-liter bowl.

Refill the 5-liter bowl and then carefeully pour water from it to fill the 4-liter bowl (where there is already 1 liter). This will only need 3 liters.

Thus you are left with 2 liters in the 5-liter bowl, as requested.

2) The same principle - this time from the other end. Fill the 3-liter bowl and pour all of the water to the 4-liter bowl.

Refill the 3-liter bowl and fill the 4-liter bowl to the top.

And then you have 2 liters left in the 3-liter bowl.

the new brain teaser is:
Two ladies played cards for candy; the winner received one piece per game from the loser. When it was time for one of the ladies to go home, one lady had won three games, while the other lady had won three new pieces of candy.

How many individual games had they played?

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Two ladies played cards for candy; the winner received one piece per game from the loser. When it was time for one of the ladies to go home, one lady had won three games, while the other lady had won three new pieces of candy.

How many individual games had they played?


9 games.
XVERB
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yes 9. the second lady mentioned had won 6 games (witch gives her 6) then the other lady won 3.

Kyouzou
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is there really any point in posting after the correct answer has already been posted?

escartian
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is there really any point in posting after the correct answer has already been posted?

lets make a vote:
two choicesne brain teaser a day
or a new brain teaser every time someone gets the answer correct.
escartian
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so far in the vote: 0 for new idea 0 against

Daz is correct

If one and a half hens lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs does one hen lay in one day?

firetail_madness
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I vote for the new idea

And I'mma take a guess...
Half an egg? One egg? 2/3 of an egg?

XVERB
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don't you mean XVERB is correct?

and i vote one every time the correct answer is submitted

Dazpiece
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don't you mean XVERB is correct?

Because you posted your answer after I had? =]


If one and a half hens lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs does one hen lay in one day?

One hen lays one egg in one day. (Maybe...)

I vote for one news brain teaser every time there is a correct answer, unless escartian is going to run out of brainteasers! =O
XVERB
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Because you posted your answer after I had? =]


lawl. yup. that means i won
escartian
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sorry about that...
Its somewhat harder then that Dazpiece (it might help to write it out on computer or paper doesn't matter, but it will help)

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Did any of us guess it correctly?

escartian
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Did any of us guess it correctly?

One person guessed and did so incorrectly. Answer is not one.
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