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Darzil

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the book says the circle has 2 sides btw ;) the outer, and inner... but tbh its arguable

If that were the case, the triangle would have 6, the square 8, etc.

The book is wrong.

Darzil
 

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is it bees? (ie the letter B being in September, October etc)
or could be moths, neither are strictly animals I guess, so apologies if I'm bein thick :)
 

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Potato Junkie said:
is it bees? (ie the letter B being in September, October etc)
or could be moths, neither are strictly animals I guess, so apologies if I'm bein thick :)

if you are refering to question1 ofmy last wave then nope its not :)
 

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it better not be a trick and the answer is '12 divisions of a year' or somesuch, I've spent ages puzzling over this ;)
oh and yeah, q1 of the last lot
I like these :)
 

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not really a trick question.. tho i admit its a harder one :)
 

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some others riddles :

3. A prisoner is told "If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we will shoot you." What can he say to save himself?

4. A man jumped 150 feet entirely under his own power. He landed safely. How could this be?

5.What eight letter word contains only one letter?

6. What is greater than god, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will eventually die?
 

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Thorwyn[B&Q] said:
3. you will shoot me

ANSWER: The prisoner will say: "You people are going to hang me!" If they hang him, he told the truth. If they shoot him, he lied.

u got 1 wrong :)
 

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Potato Junkie said:
4. didn't do it all in one go
5. envelope

correct and correct

any idea about the other 1 yet? :p

1) Even if every one of these animals were to be destroyed, theywould be extinct, but would reappear within a few months. What are they?
 

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Three Rooms

One day, you woke up in a place you havent seen before. There, you saw three rooms, all bring you to the exit. But, on those rooms, there were notes. It said: 1: room is filled with poison gas 2: room has more than 15 lions that havent eaten for 5 years 3: room is fiiled with snipers that would kill anyone who steps in You have no other choice, but to choose one of the three. Which room would be the way that could get you out without being harmed?
 

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What goes up, but at the same time goes down, up to the sky and down to the ground, my present tense and my past tense too, lets go for a ride just me and you...what am i?
 

Miril

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Room 2, I suppose lions that haven't eaten in 5 years would be pretty dead :)
 

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I`d chose room 2

The lions should have eaten themselves by now (or they´re in cages, in which case they´re harmless).

Miril´s solution is even better :)
 

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made me laugh tho
the animals one (bah!) bf says germs (geek that he is) and mate says bears... as in Septembear :twak:
 

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