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 ?

Answers

(1) incorrectly!
(2) The letter E. 
(3) Wrong.
(4) A keyboard.
(5) One, only I was going to St. Ives.

(6) First the farmer takes the goat across the river. He goes back to pick up the wolf. When he is across he leaves the wolf and takes back the goat. Back on the other side he leaves the goat and takes the cabbages with him. Then he picks up the goat and all three items are on the other side.

(7) Ask the man which city he lives in. He will always point to village B.

A quick test of intelligence.

Don't cheat! Because if you did, the test would be no fun. We promise, there are no tricks to the test.
Read the sentence below and count the F's in that sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE. Do not go back and count them again.

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SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.



There are six F's in the sentence.
A person of average intelligence finds three of them.
If you spotted four, you're above average.
If you got five, you can turn your nose at most anybody.
If you caught six, you are a genius.
There is no catch.
Many people forget the "OF"'s.
The human brain tends to see them as V's and not F's.
Pretty weird, huh?

Don't believe your eyes always!!

Strange sentences.

What is strange about these sentences? 

                                           Was it a car or a cat I saw?    

                                           Warsaw was raw. 
                                          No lemons, no melon. 
                                         Dennis and Edna sinned. 

They are all palindromes. A palindrome is a word, phrase or number that reads exactly the same backwards as forwards. The name "palindrome" comes from the Greek palindromos meaning "running back again".   

      

These sentences are also a little strange. Why? 

                                      Women understand men; few men understand women. 

                                      Bores are people that say that people are bores. 

                                     Eat to live; never live to eat.

                                     All for one and one for all.
                     You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?

They are all word-unit palindromes. Word-unit palindromes relate to whole words, which form the same sentence when read in reverse as forwards.