Hidden message
Find a short hidden message in the list of words below.carrot fiasco nephew spring rabbitsonata tailor bureau legacy coronatravel bikini object happen softenpicnic option waited effigy adverbreport accuse animal shriek esteemoyster
Starting with the first two words, take the first and last letters, reading from left to right. Example: Carrot fiascO "from these pairs" the message is as follows:CONGRATULATIONS CODE BREAKER
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Stop fighting
Sally and her younger brother were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting, and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn't touch each other. How did she accomplish this?
Sally's mother slid a newspaper under a door and made Sally stand on one side of the door and her brother on the other.
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The letter T
What do the letter 'T' and an island have in common?
They are both in the middle of water. The letter 't' is in the middle of the word 'water' and an island is surrounded by water, therefore, in the middle of water.
Same Number of Handshakes
At a dinner party, many of the guests exchange greetings by shaking hands with each other while they wait for the host to finish cooking.After all this handshaking, the host, who didn't take part in or see any of the handshaking, gets everybody's attention and says: "I know for a fact that at least two people at this party shook the same number of other people's hands."How could the host know this? Note that nobody shakes his or her own hand.
Assume there are N people at the party.Note that the least number of people that someone could shake hands with is 0, and the most someone could shake hands with is N-1 (which would mean that they shook hands with every other person).Now, if everyone at the party really were to have shaken hands with a different number of people, then that means somone must have shaken hands with 0 people, someone must have shaken hands with 1 person, and so on, all the way up to someone who must have shaken hands with N-1 people. This is the only possible scenario, since there are N people at the party and N different numbers of possible people to shake hands with (all the numbers between 0 and N-1 inclusive).But this situation isn't possible, because there can't be both a person who shook hands with 0 people (call him Person 0) and a person who shook hands with N-1 people (call him Person N-1). This is because Person 0 shook hands with nobody (and thus didn't shake hands with Person N-1), but Person N-1 shook hands with everybody (and thus did shake hands with Person 0). This is clearly a contradiction, and thus two of the people at the party must have shaken hands with the same number of people.Pretend there were only 2 guests at the party. Then try 3, and 4, and so on. This should help you think about the problem.Search: Pigeonhole principle
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Two Japanese people
Two Japanese people who have never seen each other meet at the New York Japanese Embassy. They decide to have drinks together at a nearby bar. One of them is the father of the other one's son. How is this possible?
The Japanese are husband and wife and both blind since birth.
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The thunder comes before the lightning
The thunder comes before the lightning; the lightning comes before the clouds. The rain dries everything it touches. What am I?
A volcano.
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Men at work
Two men working at a construction site were up for a challenge, and they were pretty mad at each other. Finally, at lunch break, they confronted one another. One man, obviously stronger, said "See that wheelbarrow? I'm willin' to bet $100 (that's all I have in my wallet here) that you can't wheel something to that cone and back that I can't do twice as far. Do you have a bet?" The other man, too dignified to decline, shook his hand, but he had a plan formulating. He looked at the objects lying around: a pile of 400 bricks, a steel beam, the 10 men that had gathered around to watch, his pickup truck, a stack of ten bags of concrete mix, and then he finalized his plan. "All right," he said, and revealed his object.That night, the strong man went home thoroughly teased and $100 poorer. What did the other man choose?
He looked the man right in the eye and said "get in."
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A millionaire
A kind hearted person Mr. Rawat buy packed food at 3$/packet from United states and sells them at 1$/packet at Africa. After some time he becomes a millionaire. How come the guy become millionaire?
He started out as a billionaire, but lost so much money in his good works (by giving to poor people) that he became a millionaire.
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28 days
I have 28 days in a month. Which month I am?
All months in a year have 28 days and many have more than 28 days.
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Which came first into the wolrd, the chicken or the egg?
One day a scholar came to the court of Emperor Akbar and challenged Birbal to answer his questions and thus prove that he was as clever as people said he was. He asked Birbal: "Would you prefer to answer a hundred easy questions or just a single difficult one?"Both the emperor and Birbal had had a difficult day and were impatient to leave."Ask me one difficult question," said Birbal."Well, then tell me," said the man, "which came first into the world, the chicken or the egg?""The chicken," replied Birbal, very confidently."How do you know?" asked the scholar, a note of triumph in his voice. What did Birbal answer to this?
Birbal told the scholar, "We had agreed you would ask only one question and you have already asked it" and he and the emperor walked away leaving the scholar gaping.
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Defending the bridge
Two soldiers, William and Ethan, are assigned to guard a bridge, which connects the West and East sides of the Great Kingdom. Each soldier is ordered to stand at an end of the bridge to make sure no criminals cross.On one side of the bridge stands William, watching over the West side of the kingdom, and making sure no shady characters try to cross the bridge.Ethan stands on the other side of the bridge, facing the East side of the kingdom with his rifle at the ready in case any criminals try to pass across."Any criminals today?" William asks.Ethan rolls his eyes. "What do you think?" he asks."You roll your eyes too much," William says.How could William tell that Ethan was rolling his eyes?
William is on the east side of the bridge, facing the West side of the kingdom, while Ethan is on the west side of the bridge, facing the East side of the kingdom. So William and Ethan are facing each other, and can see each other's faces.
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