Your master, the great Warlock William the Wide, has recently passed away. In his will, he left you a crystal box with a grid of squares and names on top and a note:
The note reads:
You are certainly a gifted student, but are you my most gifted? This box lists some of the most talented s...
I am lifeless, yet i gave you life. my contents are gone but are. still in the air my sides are sweaty especially in the cold. when you are done, i am rarely used again. what am i?
Missing real time, Walter runs the servers (4, 6).
O' Eternal (2,3).
What may the following represent?
$\large\underline{Us}$
$\large01100111$
$\large00\Large\color{green}\bullet$
A M O U N T
I N P U T S
A B S O R B
? ? ? ? ? ?
A M U L E T
S I S T E R
Which is the missing word to get the true answer?
Note: There is only one English word that fits.
This is good fun puzzle I made up for my students. Thought people here would enjoy it.
An odd mathematician and engineer decides to redesign an analog clock. It now has 2 periods of 10 hours, each hour is divided into 100 minutes and each minute into 100 seconds.
He starts the clock at midnight. What would the time of 12:30 PM be on the on the new clock?
If the new clock shows 5:...
25625324361225196 (6)
5298140064 (4)
2532416225361 (5)
196441169425324 (6)
6762532425 (4)
I've tried taking the modulus with respect to the numbers in the brackets and then converting the resultant numbers to letter, but this gives me nothing of consequence.
Here's one I know from childhood. I didn't see it on here, so I thought I would add it.
What can go up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up?
100 prisoners are given an opportunity to go to a theatre and watch a movie. Each can choose either to go or not. However, if everyone chooses to go to the trip then no one is allowed to go.
The prisoners can't communicate with each other and all are equally selfish. They all follow the same st...
two eyes and a mouth
another north or south
in years we have not moved
yet we are charged with something to prove
when we are off duty
our mouth stays open
when we are on
our mouth is full
our eyes don't see
and rather infrequently
you stab us there
and we ampli...
Consider 5 random variables A,B,C,D and E. E is influenced by C. D is influenced by C and B. B and C are influenced by A. Which of the following statements is not true?
E depends on C
D is independent of A given B and C
B is independent of C given D
E is independent if A given C
C depends on A
I am why the sky is blue
And why we sleep at night.
I am why soap cleans your face
And sliced onions make you cry,
I am why your ice cubes float
And coffee keeps you sharp
But most of all I am why
Food tastes so good
And why love feels oh so fine.
This question is from the German mathematics competition Känguru der Mathematik. In this competition students have to solve 30 mathematical tasks like this in 90 minutes without calculator. Actually they are given 5 possible answers, but for this community a bit of additional challenge does not h...
Last Night a friend came up to me to show me a card trick.
He shuffled a pack of cards (they were 100% shuffled) and set them on the bar, then he made me cut them 3 times, so that we were left with 4 smaller stacks of cards.
He then asked me when my birthday was and I answered „22 of November“. T...
Yesterday afternoon the sun was shining into my room and making some shadows of different objects on my table. By looking at the shadows I decided to make a puzzle for this community. The picture below is what I arranged on my table and I want you to find the height of the pencil.
