Brain Teasers!
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Topic: Brain Teasers!
Posted By: Isabel
Subject: Brain Teasers!
Date Posted: 03/October/2006 at 5:15pm
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So work was a slow day today, not much to do or customers to assist so I went into the executive office and started looking around on the computer and I came across this picture. Keep in mind that this is NOT an animation. The circles really aren't moving at all. You can step back away from the computer and see for yourself. 
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Alright, here's a simple math problem to try and figure out. It took me around 15 minutes or so to finally figure out the answer.
Using only four 9's, use basic math (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and/or Division) to create the number 100. For example: 9+9+9+9= 36, this is not 100, try again. You can do whatever you want with the 9's except invert them to make 6's. ------------- Sometimes it takes a woman |
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Posted By: Verdant Force
Date Posted: 03/October/2006 at 11:46pm
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"You can do whatever you want with the 9's except invert them to make 6's."
thats rather vague, but if you mean you can put the 9's together in any way you choose, that makes the equasion all to simple.. 99+9/9
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Posted By: Jersey
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 12:09am
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Ill throw up if I even look at thing ------------- 
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Posted By: Isabel
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 1:03am
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Originally posted by Jersey lol sorry. Good job verdant, its so simple yet many people will not be able to get it.
Ill throw up if I even look at thing Here's a fun one I was guilty of missing:
Read the following sentence:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS... How many F's are in the sentence? If you already know or have seen this, please don't spoil it for others.
Here's another:
It's Prttey fnuny how we can raed tihs einrte snetnece wtih all tehse ltters all out of palce, and we can cnotniue to keep raednig and sitll mekas snece of waht we are raeding. No mttar how mnay tmies you raed tihs oevr and oevr you can sitll mkae snece of it.
How is taht pssoible? ------------- Sometimes it takes a woman |
Posted By: dr0ss
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 1:55am
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get out of my head!
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Posted By: Interpol
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 2:21am
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I got the finished files one correct--fairly easy.
Then again, not only am I intolerably beautiful, but my IQ is an infinite being of destruction. ------------- |
Posted By: Bluescales
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 8:41am
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It's Prttey fnuny how we can raed tihs einrte snetnece wtih all tehse ltters all out of palce, and we can cnotniue to keep raednig and sitll mekas snece of waht we are raeding. No mttar how mnay tmies you raed tihs oevr and oevr you can sitll mkae snece of it. How is taht pssoible? Smoe srot of fnction in our brian. I thnk becuse we recgnze so mny lttrs togthr.
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Posted By: Raikonnen
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 9:10am
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Its because we only read the first and last letters of words, and our brain fills in the blanks. ------------- 
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Posted By: Xenetic
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 11:00am
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Originally posted by Bluescales It's Prttey fnuny how we can raed tihs einrte snetnece wtih all tehse ltters all out of palce, and we can cnotniue to keep raednig and sitll mekas snece of waht we are raeding. No mttar how mnay tmies you raed tihs oevr and oevr you can sitll mkae snece of it. How is taht pssoible? Smoe srot of fnction in our brian. I thnk becuse we recgnze so mny lttrs togthr. It is because we are used to reading this sort of type from emo's and 10 yo gamers every day. ------------- 
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Posted By: Isabel
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 12:14pm
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Originally posted by Xenetic
It is because we are used to reading this sort of type from emo's and 10 yo gamers every day. LoL, this is a pretty good answer. But it's like Raik said, our brains read using the first and the last letter of a word, not the entire word or each of its letters. This means that as long as the first and last letter of a word are correct, it won't matter what order you rearrange any letters inbetween. Of course this is as long as the letters are the correct ones.
So going back to the Sentence and the F letter, how many did you count? If you counted 3, it's normal, but you're wrong. Go back and check again.
If you were like me, you would have counted 3 again and would probably swear by it, but the correct answer is 6. There are 6 F's in that sentence. What you omitted was the word, "of"- the brain sees "of" as "ov" because that is the way it sounds and therefore does not count "of" as being a word at all and skips right over it. If you got it correct the first time without ever seeing or hearing about this before then you're a freakin' genius.
If you would like me to stop with this thread then let me know, otherwise here's a "What is the word" riddle.
There is a word in the English language that if you spell it with one capital letter, the meaning of the word will change entirely. This is not counting using it in the beginning of a sentence. What is it?
Here's another:
Think of a word with 7 letters,
The first two letters means guy
The first three letters means girl
The first four letters means a great guy
While the word itself means a great woman
These two are rather easy and perhaps a bit cheesy, but something to do if you're bored. ------------- Sometimes it takes a woman |
Posted By: Fidelio
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 3:44pm
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cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, itincades it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt! |
Posted By: donut
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 6:54pm
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Originally posted by Isabel Originally posted by Xenetic
It is because we are used to reading this sort of type from emo's and 10 yo gamers every day. If you would like me to stop with this thread then let me know, otherwise here's a "What is the word" riddle.
There is a word in the English language that if you spell it with one capital letter, the meaning of the word will change entirely. This is not counting using it in the beginning of a sentence. What is it?
Here's another:
Think of a word with 7 letters,
The first two letters means guy
The first three letters means girl
The first four letters means a great guy
While the word itself means a great woman
These two are rather easy and perhaps a bit cheesy, but something to do if you're bored. I think the first one is eye / I, but not entirely sure..
and the second is heroine, took me a while but I like brainteasers
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Posted By: Isabel
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 7:07pm
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Not too shabby Donut, Heroine is the correct answer for the second one however eye/I is not correct for the first.
It's only one word which once you capitalize the first letter, the meaning changes. Also it's not a curse so "Dick" as in the name and the slang word for a male's organ is not correct. Keep in mind this is not using it as the first word of a sentence. ------------- Sometimes it takes a woman |
Posted By: donut
Date Posted: 04/October/2006 at 7:17pm
| oh okay didn't really understand that one |
Posted By: Fidelio
Date Posted: 05/October/2006 at 12:04am
| man? |
Posted By: Jersey
Date Posted: 05/October/2006 at 4:11am
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I was looking for some kind of weird trick where e's and t's could some how form F's .
Leave it to me to over think something way to simple. -------------
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Posted By: donut
Date Posted: 06/October/2006 at 2:47am
| couldn't figure it out Isabel so I asked a friend of mine and he told me |