Riddles

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[GloryMXE7]

what 15 letter word never repeats a letter?

[vanchagreen]

I'm guessing ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO isn't a word. :biggrin:

[GloryMXE7]

no that is definitely not a word.

[mr. sir]

Could the answer be Dermatoglyphics?

If that's not what you're looking for, then is the answer Uncopyrightable?

[GloryMXE7]

[Graphmastur]

really, because I typed uncopyrightable, and it showed it wasn't a word. Otherwise, I would have guessed that. Meh, that's what I get for trusting spell check....

[GloryMXE7]

it says dermatoglyphics isn't a word either

[FloppusMaximus]

Obviously, it depends on what dictionary you choose. There is no official list of English words anywhere. Both of those, however, are perfectly respectable words. "Dermatoglyphics", of course, is the study of fingerprints. "Uncopyrightable" describes something (such as a large, random prime number) that by law is not eligible for copyright.

And they're both in the 'american-english-insane' word list, so there.

According to that list, there are eleven 14-letter words following the same rule:
Schizotrypanum
ambidextrously
benzhydroxamic
dermatoglyphic
hydromagnetics
hydropneumatic
pseudomythical
subformatively
sulphogermanic
troublemakings
undiscoverably

"Hydropneumatics" also seems like a reasonable word to me (20800 hits on Google!)

[Graphmastur]

So is there a unDMCAble? 4 days left!

[GloryMXE7]

1.A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

2.You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

3.If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

4.How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?

5.Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

now for a hard one
6.
- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality.
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
Who owns the fish?
Necessary clues:
1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

[IAmACalculator]

I'll take the easy ones:

1.A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?
[indent]I am lying.[/indent]
2.You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
[indent]Fill the three-gallon container and dump it into the five-gallon. Next, fill the three-gallon again and fill the five-gallon to the brim. There is one gallon left in the three-gallon container.[/indent]
3.If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
[indent]Five: One black, one brown, one white, one tan, and one of any of the four colors.[/indent]
4.How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?
[indent]Mark's a minister.[/indent]
5.Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
[indent]Seven: Mom, Dad, the four daughters, and the one brother.[/indent]

[mr. sir]

1. The man said, "I will be sentenced to 6 years in prison."

2. You fill up the 3 gallon, pour it into the 5, then fill up the 3 and pour into the 5 until it's full. Then what's left in the 3 is 1-gallon.

3. Just 5.

4. He's a pastor.

5. 7: Mom, Dad, 4 sisters, 1 brother.

6. I have solved this before, and it is a famous problem, but in the interest of keeping this topic alive, if even for just one more post, I won't solve it here.

Edit: Dang! Beaten to the punch!

[darkstone knight]

john's dad has 3 children, Huey, Dewey, and...?

[GloryMXE7]

john

[Graphmastur]

1. You will sentence me to prison.
2. You get 3 gallons in the 3 gallon container. You pour that into the 5 gallon one. You refill the 3 gallon one, and you fill the remaining 2 gallons in the 5 gallon container, leaving 1 gallon in the 3 gallon container.
3-4 Don't care to think about it.
5. 7 to 10 Most likely 7, but it really is a trick question.
6. I figured it out before, but don't really want to do it again.

[GloryMXE7]

-mr. sir: your answer to the first one was the answer i was looking for

-graphmastur: your answer for number 1 would get the man four years

[IAmACalculator]

Ha! This should help with the last one.

[GloryMXE7]

number 6 is a logic problem, i have whole books filled with them.some require more detailed diagrams for solving though,those ones are usually more challenging then the standard grid ones.

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