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100
Carl wins race after race, he is the fastest runner, yet he gets no trophy, why?
Carl is a horse.
100
There is a man who guesses the score of every football game before Kick-off. How can he do this?
Before the game starts the score is always 0-0
100
How much dirt is in a round hole that is 7 feet deep with a diameter of 4.5 feet?
None at all. The hole is made by digging dirt out, so... the hole is empty.
100
A cat jumped out the window of a 30 storey apartment building and lived. How?
He jumped out the ground floor window.
100
A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent one night there, and left on Friday. How do you account for this?
Friday was the name of his horse.
200
Dee Septor, the famous magician, announced that without the aid of any equipment, he would walk on the surface of 'Grass Lake'. The following Sunday the crowd came out and witnessed Dee Septor do exactly as he promised. How could he manage this feat without the aid of any special equipment?
The lake was frozen.
200
Barcelona and Real Madrid each play five games. They each win three games. No ties or disputed games are involved. How come?
Barcelona and Real Madrid did not play each other for all of the games.
200
It occurs once in a minute and once in an hour, but never in a second. What is it?
The letter U.
200
How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the Ark with him during the great flood?
Moses took no animals at all. It was Noah who took two of each.
200
According to international law, if an aeroplane should crash on the exact border between two countries, would unidentified survivors be buried in the country they were travelling to, or the country they were travelling from?
You can’t bury survivors under any law!
300
The rope ladder of a boat hangs over the side of the boat and just touches the water. The ladder rungs are 8 inches apart. How many rungs will be under the water when the tide rises 3.5 feet?
The boat floats so when the tide rises 3.5 feet, the boat and its ladder will also rise, no rungs will be under the water.
300
You are hiking with a friend in the deep woods of northern Canada. A cold front quickly approaches and you find cover behind a sheltered boulder. A fire will be necessary if you are to survive the storm. In your pack you have only one match, a candle, a tightly wound ball of birch bark and a roll of toilet paper. Which would you light first?
The Match
300
You have a beer bottle. There is a small pen cap inside the bottle. You must get the pen cap out of the bottle. Here's the catch, you cannot touch or break the bottle...
Just poor some water in the bottle, the pen cap will rise up and out of the top of the bottle.
300
If you drove a bus leaving Waterloo with 40 passengers, dropped off 5 at Aldwych, picked up 7 at Holburn, dropped off 4 and picked up 6 at St Paul’s and then drove to Liverpool Street arriving at 10:30am, what would the driver’s name be?
“You” - Your own name
300
A man builds an ordinary house with four sides, except each side has a Southern exposure. A bear comes to the door and rings the doorbell. What colour is the bear?
White! The only place you could build a house with four Southern exposures is the North Pole, where every direction is South.
400
Shadow dropped in to visit his friend Captain Frank and found him sleeping on his couch. There was fresh blood on the ceiling above his head, but nowhere else in the room. Shadow anxiously woke him to check his condition only to find that everything was fine. How could Captain Frank's blood be on the ceiling but nowhere else?
Captain Frank had swatted a mosquito that had been feasted on him while he tried to sleep.
400
Hardy Pyle was washing windows on a high rise office building when he slipped and fell off a sixty foot ladder onto the concrete pavement below. Incredibly he did not injure himself in any way. How was this possible?
He was standing on the bottom rung.
400
A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law. How come?
She was walking.
400
A profoundly deaf person decides that he wants to build some shelves, so he heads down to the hardware store to buy a saw. How does he let the assistant know that he wants to buy a saw?
He says, “Hello shop assistant, I’d like to buy a saw please.”
400
Suppose you have a bottle of wine which has its cork secured in the usual way. Without having a corkscrew available to open the bottle, how would you be able to drink the wine?
By pushing the cork right into the bottle.
500
There is a man walking down a set of railroad tracks. He notices a train speeding towards him. He runs forward towards the train and then jumps off the tracks. Why did the man run forward and not just jump off the tracks?
The man was nearing the end of a tunnel when he saw the train. He needed to run towards the train to get out of the tunnel before he jumped off the tracks.
500
A boy was walking down the road, and came to a place where the road divided in two, each separate road forking off in a different direction. A girl was standing at the fork in the road. The boy knew that one road led to Lieville, a town where everyone always lied, and the other led to Trueville, a town where everyone always told the truth. He also knew that the girl came from one of those towns, but he didn't know which one. Can you think of a question the boy could ask the girl to find out the way to Trueville?
If the girl is from Lieville, she will point to Trueville because she has to lie; if she is from Trueville, she'll point to Trueville because she has to tell the truth. So whatever road the girl points to will be the road to Trueville.
500
There are three switches outside a closed room. There are three lamps inside the room. You can flip the switches as much as you want while the door is closed, but then you must enter just once and determine which switch is connected to which lamp. How can you do it?
Switch the first one on for a minute, then turn it off and turn the second on. Enter the room and feel the two bulbs that are off. The warm one was turned on by the first switch, the light that is on is connected to the second switch, and the third bulb (neither warm nor on) is connected to the third switch.
500
Shadow and other avid mountain climbers paid a lot of money to scale a mountain. After several days of climbing they finally reached the pinnacle, and to their dismay, found a cabin and three frozen bodies. Since Shadow and his friends were the first men to ever climb the summit, how could this be possible?
The cabin that Shadow and his friends found was an aeroplane cabin. The three bodies froze after the crash.
500
This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing is wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck - don't blow your cool!
The letter e (the most common letter in our language), does not appear in the paragraph.
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