Try and solve all these

[Octane]

1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

5. What is broken every time it's spoken?

6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?

7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

[pi]

[quote author=octane board=general thread=1785 post=11669 time=1206038992]1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
31131211131221

2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

I'm gonna be here 6 years

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

fill 5 gallon container
fill 3 from the 5
dump 3 and fill 3 from 5 (giving you 2 gallons in the 3)
fill 5
top off 3 from 5
dump 3
refill 3 from 5, 5 now has 1 gallon


4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

5

5. What is broken every time it's spoken?

Silence

6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?

I'm stumped... Maybe the girl is like twins or a monster or something

7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

7

[Octane]

1, 2 6 where wrong the rest where all right bet people have to google them to get them right but i must say you was close with 1 thats all i'm saying

[z]

1: 1113213211

3: Pi's solution works, but it would be simpler to fill the three gallon container, then pour the contents in to the five gallon container twice. The second time, when the five gallon container is completely full, the three gallon container will have one gallon left.

[ineedhelp]

1: 1113213211

3: Pi's solution works, but it would be simpler to fill the three gallon container, then pour the contents in to the five gallon container twice. The second time, when the five gallon container is completely full, the three gallon container will have one gallon left.

very similar method used in one of the die hard movies lol just thought id add that

[TheElite1]

2. i'll be here for 6 years

[snipermaster3005]

7. 10

[TheElite1]

sniper 7 is 7...
2 parents + 4 daughters + 1 brother (which is shared by all the daughters) = 7

[pi]

aw crap, Mark's a pastor

elite1: that's what i said for #2

[snipermaster3005]

oh yeah read it wrong lol

[Octane]

come on girls you lot could do better than this, only Pi thats trying

[namehere]

6. Is it that the wives were all sisters?

2. You're a judge?

7 was answered...

so was 3...

[pi]

nope wolf, 6's been answered as well

[Octane]

yes but it was still wrong Pi

1. 1113213211 After the first line, each line describes the previous line:

One One
Two Ones
One Two, One One
(and so on...)

2. He said, "You'll sentence me to six years in prison." If it was true, then the judge would have to make it false by sentencing him to four years. If it was false, then he would have to give him six years, which would make it true. Rather than contradict his own word, the judge set the man free.

3. Fill the 3-gallon container with oil and pour it into the 5-gallon container. Then fill the 3-gallon container again and use it to fill the 5-gallon container the rest of the way. One gallon will be left in the 3-gallon container.

4. Five. There are only four colors, so five socks guarantee that two will be the same color.

5. Silence.

6. It's part of his job - he's a justice of the peace.

7. Seven. The four daughters have only one brother, making five children, plus mom and dad.

[Octane]

8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?

14. What has a mouth but can't chew?

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?

20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?

21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?

22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?

[airsoldier120]

Yep mark's a pastor

[pi]

[quote author=octane board=general thread=1785 post=11736 time=1206127665]8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?


9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?

This is a paradox and cannot be answered by anything other than a kick to the pants

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?

paying taxes (norly, i dont know)

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?

there are several possible answers i can think of: Bertha isn't a human, Bertha is a soldier, and Bertha already is incarcerated

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?

because curlers can't be used to take photos

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?

1

14. What has a mouth but can't chew?

a river

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

26 or 11 depending on the interpretation of the question

16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

a salad spinner

17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

dunno, anyone get this?

18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?

fire

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?

again, dunno

20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?

and a 3rd big fat *shrug*

21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?

when you're a mouse in the snow

22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?

none

[theangleofdeath]

#10 to paint to town redxD

[Octane]

8. Queue.

9. A lie. It can't be the truth without contradicting itself (and therefore being a lie), but some of my statements can be lies, and this is one of those statements.

10. Her autobiography.

11. She was a hurricane.

12. You can't use curlers to take photos! You need a camera.

13. You have just one - the one you took away.

14. A river.

15. There are eleven letters in "the alphabet."

16. A towel.

17. A stamp.

18. Fire.

19. The word "wholesome."

20. Bacon.

21. When you're a mouse.

22. Just one - after that it won't be empty.

[Octane]

1. What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

2. Two cannibals were chatting as they had their dinner. One complained that he really quite disliked his new mother-in-law. What was the advice given to him by his companion?

3. Paul?s height is six feet, he?s an assistant at a butcher?s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

4. What types of words are these: Madam, civic, eye, level.

5. What ends everything always?

6. When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don?t have me. What am I?

7. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

8. The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?

9. It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?

10. 2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fishes?

11. Which is the longest word in English?

12. You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?

13. What do the letter ?t? and an island have in common?

14. Which is the word in English that has nine letters, and remains a word at each step even when you remove one letter from it, right up to a single letter remaining. List each letter as you remove them, along with the resulting word at each step.

15. Complete this sequence of letters: o, t, t, f, f, s, s, _, _, _.

[airsoldier120]

5. g

[RadicalRom]

Octane the only one I remember (I remember someone telling me) for #12 it is your breath is the answer.

[TheElite1]

15. e, n, t

[[RG]ShoMeTheMoney]

6. When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don?t have me. What am I?
loneliness? maybe

10. 2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fishes?
grandfather, father, and son.

11. Which is the longest word in English?

no, which is not the longest word.

12. You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?
pee or breath ;D whichever u prefer

[TheElite1]

i think you can hold pee in your hands, not that anyone wants to, but you can

[axonflux]

ROFLMFAO

[Kewlude]

This is for the first 2 slabs I saw

*Note that I've been up for well over 24 hours, so brain not worky right


1. No clue

2. No clue

3. Fill 3. Dump into 5. Fill 3 again. Pour into 5 until 5 is full, this will leave 1g in the 3. Empty 5, dump the remaining 1 in. Fill 3. Dump into 5

4. If you matched and folded them before putting them in the drawer: 1

5. Silence

6. Clergyman or Judge

7. 7

8. No clue

9. Neither and both. It cannot be exclusively a lie because that would make the statement a truth but it cannot be the truth because then the statement would be lying

10. No clue

11. She was playing a video game

12. Cuz she wouldn't let him get a camera nearby

13. 2

14. A river

15. 11

16. A towel

17. No clue

18. A human being

19. A donut hole

20. No clue

21. When it's a skunk that took a bath in white paint

22. A whole lot

[z]

2. more salt

3. meat

4. palindromes

5. one of "always", "s" or "?", depending on how you look at it

7. he returned before Friday, then left again - alternately, it doesn't say he didn't stay more than three days

10. They are grandfather, father and son

11. "English" - it's also the only word in "English"

[Octane]

1. Your shadow.

2. So just finish your vegetables.

3. Meat.

4. They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.

5. The alphabet ?g?.

6. A secret.

7. His horse?s name is Friday.

8. A coffin.

9. Beetle.

10. Because the fishing group comprises of a grandfather, his son, and his son?s son ? hence just three people.

11. Smiles - Because a ?mile? exists between the two S?s. While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification'- which means'to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'

12. Your breath.

13. Both are in water - WaTer.

14. ?Startling? is the word. Begin by removing ?l?, which makes it ?staring?, then take away the ?t?, making it ?staring?, and so on ? string; sing; sin; in; and, I.

15. e, n, t ? The first letter of the numbers from one to ten.

sorry forgot all about this post

[TheElite1]

good job octane ;D

[z]

Your longest word was created for the specific purpose of taking that title from "antidisestablishmentarianism", and is not as long as some place names, technical terms and chemical names. See Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English). I'd post the chemical name for titin - a muscle protein, but it's over three times the forum's character limit.

Cool quiz though.

[Furtive}N{]

Here is a big one
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[Kewlude]

14. ?Startling? is the word. Begin by removing ?l?, which makes it ?staring?, then take away the ?t?, making it ?staring?, and so on ? string; sing; sin; in; and, I.
Full list would actually be:
-L > Starting
-T > Staring
-A > String
-R > Sting
-T > Sing
-G > Sin
-S > In
-N > I

[Octane]

yea sorry i repeated the staring