Raphael wrote:Ok. This'll be my last post of brain teaser for the day.
It'll be a long one!! So good Luck!!!
1) What is the next number in this series?1, 2, 6, 42, 1806, ?

157,122
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2) If eggs are 12¢ a dozen, how much would it cost for 100 eggs?

Either $1 or $1.08 if you can't buy them individually
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3) How far can a dog run into the forest?

Halfway. Then he's running out
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4) Mathematics!!!" I bet you cant answer this!"
If a bottle and a cork cost a dollar and a nickel, and the bottle costs a dollar more than the cork, how much does the cork cost?

$0.025 (Two and a half cents)
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5) Tom's mother has three children. One is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?

Tom
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6) What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it?

Mailbox
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7) "this is a tricky one!!"
Beulah died in the Appalachians while Craig died at sea. Everyone was much happier with Craig's death. Why?

Craig was in the Navy
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8) "another tricky one"
In a small cabin in the woods, two men lay dead. The cabin itself is not burned, but the forest all around is burned to cinders. How did the men die?

It is the cabin of an airplane
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Istalris wrote:Here's mine;

Three travelers register at a hotel and are told that their rooms will cost $10 each so they pay $30. Later the clerk realizes that he made a mistake and should have only charged them $25. He gives a bellboy $5 to return to them but the bellboy is dishonest and gives them each only $1, keeping $2 for himself. So the men actually spent $27 and the bellboy kept $2 - what happened to the other dollar of the original $30?

Starting:
Man 1 has $10
Man 2 has $10
Man 2 has $10

Ending:
Man 1 has $1
Man 2 has $1
Man 3 has $1
Clerk has $25
Bell boy has $2

Of course, it depends on how you go about doing the math. You could also figure it Ista's way and stump yourself. This riddle is just one of the strange things in this world

I have two:

1. Imagine you are in a box. The box is at the bottom of the ocean with water slowly seeping in. It is also surrounded by hungry sharks and electric eels. Inside this box, each of your limbs is tied to one corner of the box, only allowing you to move your head. On the floor in front of you is a quarter. How do you get out?

2. You are stuck in a room with two doors and two computers. The doors are identical. The computers are identical. One door leads to freedom, the other to death. You do not know which one. One of the computers will always tell you the truth, and the other will always tell you a lie. You cannot tell which computer is which. If you could ask one question to each computer (it must be the same question to each), what question would you ask to get out alive and how would it work to get you out of the room?

Ok. Here's the answer for the 7 brain teasers yesterday.
1) you cant figure it out
2) $1. If eggs are 12¢ a dozen, each egg costs 1¢, so 100 eggs would be 100¢, or $1.
3) Halfway. After that it will be running out of the forest.
4) Most people guess 5¢, but $1 more than 5¢ is $1.05, and if the bottle cost $1.05, the bottle and the cork would be $1.10, not $1.05. The cork actually costs 2½¢ and the bottle costs a dollar more, or $1 and 2½¢, making the total $1.05.
5) Tom
6) Mailbox
7) Beulah and Craig were hurricanes.
8) It's the cabin of a plane and the plane crashed.

Hopefully no one Got everything right!!! Thanks for the ones who tried my brain teaser!!!

The box riddle answers : 1-stop imagining 2- What door would the other computer say leads to heaven, then go to the opposite door.

Raph the answer to your #1 from yesterday is 3,263,422

1x2=2, 2x3=6, 6x7=42, 42x43=1806, 1806x1807=3,265,249

Wow you guys are smart!!
My goal is for you not to answer my questions!!!
Here is another one! Enjoy!!!
1)You are a cook in a remote area with no clocks or other way of keeping time other than a four minute sandglass timer and a seven minute sandglass timer. (The kind you turn over - hourglass shaped) You do have a stove, however, with water in a pot already boiling. Somebody asks you for a nine-minute egg, and you know this person is a perfectionist and will be able to tell if you undercook or overcook the eggs by even a few seconds. What is the least amount of time it will take to prepare the egg? And how will you prepare it so that it is neither undercooked or overcooked?
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2) You have a lighter and two fuses that take exactly one hour to burn, but they don't burn at a steady rate. For example, one fuse could take 59 minutes to burn the first inch and then burn the rest of the fuse in the last minute.
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How would you use these two fuses to measure 45 minutes?
3) A wise king devised a contest to see who would receive the Princess' hand in marriage. The Princess was put in a 50x50 foot carpeted room. Each of her four suitors were put in one corner of the room with a small box to stand on. The first one to touch the Princess hand would be the winner and become the new King.
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The rules of the test were that the contestants could not walk over the carpet, cross the plane of the carpet, or hang from anything; nor could they use anything but their body and wits (i.e. no magic or telepathy, nor any items such as ladders, block and tackles etc). One suitor figured out a way and married the Princess and became the new King. What did he do?
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4) You're riding a horse. To the right of you is a cliff and in front of you is an elephant going the same pace as you and you can't overtake it. To the left of you is a hippo running at the same speed and behind you is a lion chasing you. How do you get to safety?
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1. Flip over both timers at the same time, when the 4minute timer is done, quickly flip it over again, when the 7 minute timer is up, there will be one minute remaining in the 4minute timer, flip the 7minute timer again, when the 4minute timer is done, one minute will be remaining in the 7 minute timer, flip it and when it is done, you have 9 minutes.

2.

3. Ask the princess to come to you! No rule says she cant move. Another way would be to roll up the carpet as you walked towards her.

4.Keep going forward.

nice one adressor!!
Anyone else?
Maybe i set the teasers too hard!!

Raphael wrote:Ok then!!
2) There were two animals. A lion and a monkey. They were asked to get a coconut, who will be first to get a banana?
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Obviously, that would depend on the age, gender, starting position, and neck circumference of the two animals.

Thatguyeric wrote:

Raphael wrote:Ok then!!
2) There were two animals. A lion and a monkey. They were asked to get a coconut, who will be first to get a banana?
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Obviously, that would depend on the age, gender, starting position, and neck circumference of the two animals.

Why would they get the banana?
They were asked to get the Coconut remember?

KarrothMelu wrote:

Istalris wrote:Here's mine;

Three travelers register at a hotel and are told that their rooms will cost $10 each so they pay $30. Later the clerk realizes that he made a mistake and should have only charged them $25. He gives a bellboy $5 to return to them but the bellboy is dishonest and gives them each only $1, keeping $2 for himself. So the men actually spent $27 and the bellboy kept $2 - what happened to the other dollar of the original $30?

Starting:
Man 1 has $10
Man 2 has $10
Man 2 has $10

Ending:
Man 1 has $1
Man 2 has $1
Man 3 has $1
Clerk has $25
Bell boy has $2

Of course, it depends on how you go about doing the math. You could also figure it Ista's way and stump yourself. This riddle is just one of the strange things in this world

I believe that ista's thinking is incorrect actually. The men did spend $27 in the room, but that INCLUDES the $2 that the bellboy has. $25 for the clerk, $2 for the bellboy is the $27 dollars spent. The riddle counts the bellboys twice towards the dollar count, but the $3 back was not counted at all. I think that Phil said this also. You just have to break it down.