How many different words are there in the tongue twister below?
SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS BY THE SEASHORE. THE SHELLS SHE SELLS ARE SURELY SEA SHELLS. SO IF SHE SELLS SHELLS ON THE SEASHORE, I AM SURE SHE SELLS SEASHORE SHELLS.
15
The words are SHE, SELLS, SEA, SHELLS, BY, THE, SEASHORE, ARE, SURELY, SO, IF, ON, I, AM, and SURE
Which of these is the largest?
(A) CIRCLE
(B) TRIANGLE
(C) RECTANGLE
(D) SQUARE
RECTANGLE. RECTANGLE is nine letters long.
What four-letter word replaces the question mark?
SOFTENING –> SONG
RADIOACTIVE –> RAVE
WHITECOAT –> WHAT
FAVORITE –> ?
FATE
First two and last two letters
What is the lowest number to have the same value ten times the number of letters in its name?
Fifty
OTTFFSS_
What letter goes in the blank?
E
First letter counting 1-8
Which statement below is correct?
(A) Two words in this sentence have two letters.
(B) Three words in this sentence have three letters.
(C) Four words in this sentence have four letters.
C
The four words with four letters in them are “Four,” “this,” “have,” and “four.”
What one word do these three phrases all have in common?
Loud unpleasant noise
Tennis equipment
Fraudulent activity
Racket
This is a list of four things with something in common…but the first and last letter of each one has been deleted. Once you’ve put those back, what will you have a set of?
AND
HUM
ONE
OUT
A) Countries B) Kitchen Appliances
C) Body Parts D) Musical Instruments
C
The four body parts are HANDS, THUMB, BONES, and MOUTH
RO, NE, WO, EE, **, VE
Which two letters replace the **?
UR
zeRO, oNE, tWO, thrEE, foUR, fiVE
What four-letter word will you get if you follow the directions in these three words?
WRIGHT, RECENTER, CLEFT
CREW. If you follow the directions and put the “C” left, “RE” in the center, and “W” on the right, it will spell CREW
What job do you get by following these dates?
1st FEBRUARY
2nd MARCH
3rd APRIL
1st MAY
4th JUNE
9th SEPTEMBER
FARMER.
The date corresponds to the position of the letter in the name of the month so 1st FEBRUARY is F, 2nd MARCH is A and so on
Adding what single letter to CONTACT makes it smaller?
R. Adding an R makes it CONTRACT
What single word goes in the gaps below to make new words?
QUICK_____
THOU_____
_____STONE
(theres 4 letters in the spaces)
SAND. [This makes QUICKSAND, THOUSAND, and SANDSTONE
If January = 717, March = 5315, and June = 4624,
what does August = ?
6848
6 letters, 8th month, 6x8 = 48
How many dots (i.e. “.”) – including any used in punctuation and letters… – are used in writing this question?
17
“i.e.” has 2 periods
“…” has 3 dots
“?” has 1 dot
“.” has 1 dot
And then there are 10 i’s in the question
In this puzzle you need to stay IN the game. Which of these words is the odd one out?
(A) JURY
(B) CREASE
(C) DEED
(D) CRY
CRY.
If you put IN before the other words, it makes new words [INJURY, INCREASE, INDEED]. INCRY is not a word
If you remove a playing card from the first word, a pet from the second word, an insect from the third word and a drink from the fourth word, what number appears?
FACE COAT AUNT TEAR
FOUR. [Remove ACE from FACE, CAT from COAT, ANT from AUNT, and TEA from TEAR.]
Last month was not May or July. Next month is not January, March, or November. Neither last month or next month is April, August, or December. What month is it?
April
What number should replace the question mark?
Jamaica + Japan = 124
Argentina + Armenia = 1245
France + Brazil = 23
England + Germany = ?
56
The digits correspond to the positions of the shared letters in the two countries’ names. For example, France + Brazil both have a shared letter in the 2nd and 3rd positions of their name: _RA_ _ _. This means they equal to 23.
What two letters replace the question marks?
TE times T equals MESSAGE
TO times IN equals POISON
E times ?? equals LEAVE
IT
If you replace ‘times’ with ‘X’, you get words with the same meaning as the words on the right.
[TEXT equals MESSAGE, TOXIN equals POISON, EXIT equals LEAVE.
Yolande takes one tablet on every day of the week that has three vowels in it. She starts this pack on 2nd March. What date will she need to start a new pack?
(March 2 is a Saturday)
26th March. There are 10 tablets and she has to take one every Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
What weather-related phrase is represented here?
Emperor Tiger. King Tabby. Queen Spaniel. Empress Labrador.
Raining cats and dogs.
Emperor, king, queen, and empress all ‘reign’. Tiger and tabby are cats and spaniel and labrador are dogs
Which of these words would logically come next in this sequence?
ABUZZ BREEZY COMPLEX
(A) DETOX
(B) DIARY
(C) DRAW
DRAW
The start of every word goes forward one letter alphabetically and the end of every word goes back one letter.
Peter has recently found his old diary that he’d written in secret code but he can’t remember how to decipher what he wrote. Can you check the code to find out what the underlined word is?
WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72
FLORIST.
He replaced a letter with a digit that starts with that letter
What connects all the words?
HERO SHEET WEST YOUTH
HE SHE WE YOU
pronouns