Afternoon Puzzle
A collection of brain teasers from AGF members - Geordieda , Zargo , Mountaindodie,Zen Tiger
All answers are located at the bottom of this page.
(so don't scroll down to fast if you don't want to know them!)
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 1: (Geordieda 1-9)
A bomber plane is flying over Iraq. G.W. Bush has given the bomber the command to drop bombs on the headquarters of Saddam Hussein. However, when the plane is over it’s target it opens it’s bomb compartment- but no bombs come out. The bombs were loaded and the plane is fully functional- so why did the bombs not come out?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 2:
A man is traveling to the center of a field- the field is normal- an average field. The man is normal- an average guy. However he knows that when he finishes his journey he will die- HOW COME?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 3:
A man lives on the 10th floor of his apartment block. There is a supermarket on the 1st floor. He gets into the lift and presses the button for the 1st floor- gets out and does his shopping. When he is finished he gets into the lift again with all his shopping. He goes to the 5th floor and gets out and walks up the rest of the stairs to the 10th floor again. He hates stairs and the lift is working fine. He was the only person to use the lift and he was not over the weight with his shopping. So- why did he walk from the 5th floor?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 4:
2 Brothers- same parents- same birthday- born on the same year and on the same day- but they are not twins- How come?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 5:
How far can a mad dog run into a forest?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 6:
Twins- 2 brothers - one is thirty the other is thirty too
their birthday is in may but they were born in march
they married each other legally- how come?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 7:
A man walks into a room which has a slippery floor and sees a man hanging from the chandelier- hung with a rope around his neck. No one could have got into the room- only the dead man and the other man had keys and there was no one else around for miles. The room was empty. The dead man was hanging about 20 feet in the air. The man was was alive did not kill him. How did he die?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 8:
A boy, his father and his grand father were out for a walk one day. The boy turns and says to his father- isn't it great being out today- all 4 of us. How come he said 4?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 9:
Here's a real easy one for you all - A man throws a ball away from himself- the ball stops dead in mid air and comes flying right back to him- how come? (the ball is an ordinary ball and he doesn't throw the ball off anything)
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 10: ( from Zargo)
A man is driving along a river, when a deer jumps out of the bushes, he swerves to avoid the deer and drives off the bank and straight into the river. his legs are pinned by the crash and he cannot escape, his windows are open, so they cannot prevent water from coming in. he panics, he can not get out and the car slowly sinks to the bottom of the river.However, when rescue workers find him 2 hours later, he is still alive.How did he survive?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 11: (from zen tiger)
How much dirt is in a round hole that is 9 feet deep with a diameter of 3 feet?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 12: (Mountaindodie)
Long ago in a forgotten country of the east there existed a remarkable oracle. Unlike most oracles it was not the mouth- piece of a single deity but of three, the God of Truth, the God of Falsehood, and the God of Diplomacy. These gods were represented by three identical figures seated in a row behind the altar at which their petitioners knelt. The gods were always ready to answer their mortal supplicants, but since their identities were impossible to determine because their images were exactly alike, no one ever knew whether the reply to his question came from the God of Truth and hence could be relied on, or whether it came from the God of Falsehood and so was certainly untrue, or whether it came from the God of Diplomacy and hence might be either true or false. This confusion of course did not deter the multitudes from seeking advice, though it did create a very profitable sideline for the priests of the temple who, for a price, were always ready to interpret the utterances of the oracle.
One day a sacrilegious fool came to the altar vowing to do what the wisest men of the past had failed to accomplish, namely to expose the identity of each god.
Said he to the figure on the left, "Who sittest next to thee ?"
"The God of Truth," was the answer . Then said the fool to the image in the center, "Who art thou ?"
"The God of Diplomacy," was the answer. Lastly to the image on the right the fool said, "Who sittest next to thee ?"
"The God of Falsehood," came the reply. "Oho," said the fool to himself, "so that's the way of it."
And straightway he established an interpreting concession just outside the temple and soon had driven the priests out of business through the uncanny accuracy of his interpretations.
Can you, like the fool in the legend, determine the identity of each god from the answers they made to the three simple questions they were asked?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 13:
The maker doesn't want it, the buyer doesn't use it, and the user doesn't see it. What is it?
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 14:
Mr.&Mrs. Smith and their 2 children form a typical American family(I got this out of an old book). According to one of their more talkative neighbors, George&Dorothy are blood relatives. Howard is older than George. Virginia is younger than Howard. Virginia is older than Dorothy. If two and only two of these statements are true, What is the first name of each member of the family?
THE ANSWERS
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 1:
SIMPLE- The Plane was flying upside down!
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 2:
SIMPLE- He was traveling from 30,000 feet in the air after falling from an aeroplane
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 3:
He was a midget and could only reach up to 5.
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 4:
they had another sibling born too, they are triplets, not twins
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 5:
halfway. the other half he is running out
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 6:
the first line 'one is thirty, the other is thirty too' not thirty-two, thirty also, so they are the same age..they were born in the month of may in a city/country by the name of march.. but they were born-again (leave it to me to think like a Christian)in may, and they married each other legally because they were both priests.
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 7:
the answer is that the man got a large block of ice- he hung himself when the ice melted- hence the water on the floor
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 8:
SIMPLE- He simply could not count!
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 9:
The guy is lying down and he throws the ball up in the air.
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 10:
the water wasn't very deep.
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 11:
If you take the depth of the hole, multiply it by the diameter, using pi.... THERE'S NO DIRT. IT'S A HOLE -- EMPTY -- DIRT-DEPRIVED!
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 12:
The god on the left is the God of Diplomacy -
The god in the center is the God of Falsehood -
The god on the right is the God of Truth-
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 13:
Casket/coffin
AFTERNOON PUZZLE 14:
George and Virginia Smith have two children named Howard and Dorothy.
Why? Because:
George and Dorothy are blood relatives--father and daughter.
Howard is NOT older than George--he is George's son.
Virginia is NOT younger than Howard--she is Howard's mother and
Virginia is older than Dorothy--she is Dorothy's mother.
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