[ENG]: Brain teasers

[GuaRRand]

K, time for something intellectual ...

BRAIN TEASERS!!

The answers are at the bottom.
(P.S. spoilers need to go between [s poiler] and [/spoiler] )
Feel free to post ur own!

Here Goes:
For each of the pairs of words below, insert a word in the blank space between them to form two separate words such that the inserted word finishes the first word and begins the second.
For example, given "MAN ____ ON", you would insert the word "GO" to form "MANGO" and "GOON". The hint gives the number of letters in each of the words that must be inserted.

BOW ____ AGE
GENE ____ KING
LAND ____ GOAT
DIG ____ SELF
PAR ____ ATE

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LINE (bowline, lineage)
TIC (genetic, ticking)
SCAPE (landscape, scapegoat)
IT (digit, itself)
ROT (parrot, rotate) or DON (pardon, donate)

[veer]

I found another one for the first one

I havent found the answers to the 2nd and 3rd ones though .. had to spiek

[GuaRRand]

A mystery story, guess what happend

Emily was sitting at her study table, home alone, on a cold and stormy night. Her parents had taken a flight earlier in the morning to Australia as her grandmother had passed away. She had wanted to follow her parents but she had an important English examination the next day which she could not miss.

The storm was getting heavier by the minute and the wind was howling outside. All this noise made it very hard for her to concentrate. She was on the verge of dozing off when she was shaken alert by a sudden "THUD!" She dismissed it as a window which had been slammed shut by the wind.

She tried to concentrate on her books when she heard faint footsteps. Emily got out of her room and looked around when suddenly, without warning, she was grabbed by the neck. She tried to scream but it came out as a mere whimper as the intruder was pressing hard against her throat with his arm. She tried to free herself from his grip but to no avail.

"Give me all your money!" growled the man who had grabbed her from behind.

"Th-there is none h-here! Please ll-let me go!" cried Emily.

"Don't LIE TO ME!" screamed the increasingly agitated man. She felt the man strengthen his grip around her neck. She said nothing and a few seconds passed by in silence. Suddenly the phone rang which alerted both of them.

"People will get suspicious if I don't answer the phone," said Emily, with a controlled voice. The intruder let her go.

"Alright, but NO funny business, or ELSE!" said the nervous intruder. Emily walked toward the phone. She took a deep breath and calmed herself. She picked up the phone.

"Hey Em! How's the revision going?" said the caller.

"Hey Anna. Thanks for the call. Hey you know those Science notes I lent you last week? Well I really need them back. It would be a great help to me. It's an emergency, so if you could give me them tomorrow it would be great. Please hurry in finding the notes. I need to get back to my books now. Bye," Emily said. She hung up the phone.

"It was wise of you not to say anything," said the intruder, although he was more than a bit confused by her conversation.

"Now TELL ME WHERE THE MONEY IS KEPT!" screamed the thief.

"It...it's...in my dad's room. The first room on the right. Third drawer," said Emily.

"SHOW me!" said the man, and removed his grip around her neck. She took a big gulp of air and nearly fell. She swallowed hard and said a silent prayer. She walked slowly, in silence, toward her father's room. All of a sudden, they heard police sirens. The intruder froze in his footsteps. He ran to the nearest window and jumped out of it.

Emily ran outside in time to see the intruder being escorted into the car. She saw Anna and she ran toward her and hugged her.

"Smart kids," said the policeman.

What had happened?

HINT!:

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Read the conversation carefully and think outside the box.

Answer:

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Emily had used the mute button during her conversation with Anna so that all Anna heard was: "call...help...emergency...please hurry". Anna, sensing something was wrong, called the police and told them Emily's address. The police were able to come to Emily's house in time to catch the perpetrator.

[mama el]

she doesn't need a science book because she has a Englisch examinition....so had the change to warne her friend?????

[mama el]

and my answer is wrong

[mama el]

he guarrand if you do the block of answers away then I thnink more people will guess, but now you can see you're answer already.......

[mama el]

and yes I now my englisch is very very bad

[GuaRRand]

Originally Posted by mama el

he guarrand if you do the block of answers away then I thnink more people will guess, but now you can see you're answer already.......

Might bee an ydia

[mama el]

it will be funnyer

[GuaRRand]

I'll think up some more later (read: google them)

[mama el]

ok, I have found one:

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?

[Qutman]

Originally Posted by mama el

ok, I have found one:

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?

Somebody came into the garden and took the pears away?

[GuaRRand]

Originally Posted by mama el

ok, I have found one:

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?

The pear tree was on a ridge and the pears blew off the ridge?

[Little Stitch]

Originally Posted by mama el

ok, I have found one:

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?

uhm.. pears.. that says there more then one...

if the wind blew and pears fell out there would be pears on the ground and in the tree... and that's not possible.. but it is possible to have a pear on the ground. One pear is not "pears".

soif there are two pears and the wind blew en blew one of them on the ground there wouldn't be pearS on the ground and in the tree there would be a pear on the ground and a pear on the tree.

???

[mama el]

answer:

At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground.
So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.
Another possible solutions: The wind blew so hard that the pears fell
of the tree and blew along the ground into the water or hovering in the air in a tornado

[veer]

So stitch was right

new one stitchieeee

[mama el]

I'n looking for a new one

[Little Stitch]

A big one i had it wrong the first time so lets see

The four people in this puzzle all competed in different classes of dog agility at a recent competition.
The competitions all required the dogs to run over jumps, through tunnels and various other obstacles in as quicker time as possible.
Each had a different result - one came first, one third, one fourth and one ninth. All four dogs were each of a different breed.

Can you work out who handled which dog, at what level each competed, the place each finished in and the breed of each dog?

1. If Tiff finished first then Terry finished fourth.
2. If Terry finished fourth then Jago is a collie otherwise Jago is not a collie.
3. If Jane competed in the Senior class then she finished third.
4. If Jane competed in Novice then she finished fourth.
5. The dog that finished ninth was an alsatian. This was either Jago, in which case Jago competed in the Elementary class, or this was Kelly, in which case Terry handled Kelly.
6. Mark won Starters.
7. If Mark's dog is called Patti then Patti is a labrador otherwise Patti is a collie.
8. Ruth's dog is called Jago.
9. If Jago finished fourth then she competed in the Novice class otherwise she competed in the Senior class.
10. If Patti finished first then Terry's dog is an alsatian otherwise Terry's dog is a collie.
11. If Jane's dog is a doberman then Jane finished fourth otherwise Jane finished third.

Handler's Names: Jane, Mark, Ruth and Terry
Dog's Names: Tiff, Patti, Jago and Kelly
Breed: Alsatian, Collie, Labrador and Doberman
Level: Starters, Elementary, Novice or Senior

[GuaRRand]

Wha who que?

[veer]

Originally Posted by Little Stitch

A big one i had it wrong the first time so lets see

OK.. het duurde even.. heb er een matrix voor gemaakt en alles, maar ik ben er uit

Terry - Kelly - Altasian - 9th - elementary

Ruth - Jago - Doberman - 4th - Novice

Jane - Tiff - Collie - 3rd - Senior

Mark - Patti - Labrador - 1st - Starters

[Little Stitch]

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