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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Actuate your Brain.

Here are a few puzzles to stimulate your brain.
(1) Which word in the English language is most often pronounced incorrectly?
(2) What occurs twice in a lifetime, but once in every year. Twice in a week but never in a day?
(3) Which word, if pronounced right, is wrong, but if pronounced wrong is right?
(4) Can you find something which has keys that open no locks, with space but no room, and allows you to enter but not to go in?
(5)As I was going to St. Ives,
    I met a man with seven wives.
    Each wife had seven sacks,
    Each sack had seven cats,
    Each cat had seven kits.
    Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
    How many were going to St. Ives?

(6) A farmer is standing on one side of the river and with him are a wolf, a goat and a box with cabbages. In the river there is a small boat. The farmer wants to cross the river with all the three items who are with him. There are no bridges and in the boat there is only room for the farmer and one item. But if he leaves the goat with the cabbages alone on one side of the river the goat will eat the cabbages. If he leaves the wolf and the goat on one side the wolf will eat the goat. Only the farmer can seperate the wolf from the goat and the goat from the cabbage.
How can the farmer cross the river with all three items, without one eating the other ?

 (7)You are lost in a forest. The forest is between two villages. In village A live only liars, they always lie. In village B people always tell the truth. You want to go to village B. Then you see a man from village A or B.You can ask him only one question.
Which question will you ask him to know for sure where village B is ?

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