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This puzzle is a one I met in an IQ test. I believe it's so tricky, however, the concept is quite simple.
How many minutes is it before 12 noon if 68 minutes ago it was three times as many minutes past 10 a.m.?
suppose x is the minutes before 12 noon.
Now I have 3 meanings with 3 different sol...
Ring, ring! Before my group can play tonight, we need to get together with you to figure something out.
Our gig is the top space in the region, but now they claim there isn't room for all 16 of us. Can you scope it out?
Then, after that, can you tell us who should stand by whom?
A number of us...
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My best friend, who happens to be Polish, Niko, called me up the other day. He told me that he had found an old record online, by a musician from his hometown. I asked him whether he was going to buy it, but he let me know that he had quit his job, and didn't want to make any big purchases until ...
My favorite Wordsquare Riddles,
Inventing them, I can't resist.
But this, with four stanzas,
There might be a twist!
My first is perfectly happy,
Featured in a song of Coldplay's.
My second is roughly a hertz,
Back in Mozart days.
My third does not empty graves.
National, personal, why not?
My...
It is a 9 letter word.
The 1st letter is a vowel.
4th, 5th and 7th letters are also vowel.
9th, 7th, 8th - number (contains a vowel).
6th, 7th, 8th - related to man.
8th, 7th, 4th - part of a human body.
9th, 4th, 1st - one of the drink.
2nd, 1st, ...
In the darkest of ancient India,
I will take the light out of your day,
the number one Type'O you may say.
From caves to comic books, you make my mark,
I am often associated with the dark.
Enjoy my benefits after a feast,
switch one word and you're a criminal to s...
The middle of a line
stretching for eternity in both sides,
in words
I am.
No thing is not me.
I exist but do not live.
I and me—we
together is non-existence.
What is we?
Hint(s)...
for #1,
for #2,
for #3,
for the entire puzzle,
Watches in advertisements tend to be set to 10:10 (unless you're Apple). The reason seems to be that the hands are symmetrical when they're at 10:10.
Except they're not. The hour hand moves continuously, not discretely; that is, at 12:30, for instance, the hour hand will not be pointed straight...
I'd rather say, what a door that's open is usually made of is ???
Options
Half full
Worth more than a dime
Comes around
Loves me to death
5 and seven thirds
(The title says it all)
