What Word
What Word
There is a common English word that means to both fasten and to detatch. what is this word?
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The Watering Hole
The Watering Hole
A zebra is walking to the watering hole when on the way he notices 5 giraffes. Swinging from each of the giraffes’ necks are 12 monkeys. Hanging from the tails of each monkey are 7 birds. On each of the birds’ backs are 4 little frogs. In each of the frogs’ mouths are 2 flies. How many animals were going to the watering hole?
Only 1. The zebra only SAW the animals on the way to the watering hole. But none of them except for the zebra were going to the watering hole.
The Sticks of Truth
The Sticks of Truth
Long ago in India judges traveled from village to village. One day a judge stopped at an inn to rest, but the innkeeper was very upset. Some one had just that day stolen his daughter’s golden ring. The judge told him not to worry and had all of the guests gather so that he could question them. When he could not figure out from their answers who the thief was, the judge decided to use some old magic. He told them all he was going to have to use the sticks of truth.
“These are magic sticks,” he explained,”that will catch the theif.”
He gave each guest a stick to keep under their bed during the night.
“The stick belonging to the theif will grow two inches in the night. At breakfast we will compare sticks and catch the theif.”
The next morning the judge had all the guests come to his table and hold their sticks up next to his to see if they were longer. None had grown any longer.
Then suddenly the judge called out, “This is the theif! Her stick is shorter than all the rest.”
Once caught, the woman gave the ring back and confessed. All the guests were confused. The judge had said the longest stick would be the theif’s, but instead it was the shortest stick. Why?
None of the sticks were magical. The only one worrying about being caught was the theif. She had cut off two inches of her stick during the night so she wouldn't be caught. But the sticks weren't magical, so her stick ended up being two inches shorter.
Five Zeros
Five Zeros
How can you make 120 using five zeros?
(0!+0!+0!+0!+0!)! = 120
Check a calculator to verify!
Check a calculator to verify!
St. Ives
St. Ives
While I was on my way to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks. Each sack had seven cats. Each cat had seven kittens. Wives sacks, cats, and kittens, how many were there on there way to St. Ives?
One. The riddle asks how many where on their way to St. Ives, not how many people or things where on the road.
Three Oranges
Three Oranges
Two Fathers, Two Sons, Three Oranges. Each of them got one orange. How?
There's a man who is a father, and his son is a son+father, and there's the son.
High tide
High tide
A ship in port has a rope ladder that hangs over the side and into the water. The rungs on the ladder are exactly a foot apart from center to center. At low tide, three rungs of the ladder are underwater. How many rungs will be underwater at high tide, which is exactly three feet higher than low tide?
Three rungs. at high tide, the whole boat will also rise.
No Murder
No Murder
There is a Telephone box with a dead man it in. Windows are broken, there is glass and blood everywhere, the phone is also off the hook and a Murder did not happen. How can this be?
The man was talking to a friend on the phone when he foolishly described it to be ‘this big’ he smashed the glass and bled to death
Head and Toes
Head and Toes
You use me between your head and your toes, the more I works the thinner I grow.
What am I?
A Bar of Soap.