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What word comes next in this series: APPROPRIATE, FURLONG, NAPED, HOLOGRAPHIC, or FACTORIES?
loves Beethoven, but not Brahms.Which does Napoleon love: ice cream, Doberman Pinschers, the cinema, or cuneiform?
loves Jefferson, but not Lincoln.
loves Kant, but not Spinoza or Heidegger.
loves George III, but not Nebuchadnezzar or Sargon.
loves hot air balloons, but not bicycles.
loves cigars, ashtrays, and pipes, but hates smoking.Which of the following does Churchill love: D-Day, airplanes, Blitzkreig, or Allies?
loves England, but hates Britain.
loves both war and armstice.
loves Roosevelt, but hates Stalin.
loves Patton, but hates Eisenhower.
Q: Isn't it true that many questions on intelligence tests can be
answered in many equally valid ways?
A: It is true that people of similar intelligence, when asked the
same question on IQ tests, respond in similar ways.
What is wrong with MENSA's reply?
| taactsyl | upeinrjs | eweofrlw | iroantca | psirreou | laubalev |
Bass mos xouq oearlr aeford rwind.The answer.
| groaasu | libahtu | romuses | refmeup | ylasrct | cincese |
I mentioned Shakespeare in the last puzzle, which reminds me of the visit the Bard paid me a while back. No, I will not
prattle and bore you with an overlong anecdote. He revealed to me, between cups of Almond Bréve, the location
of the only manuscript of his "lost play." Now have I piqued your interest? There hasn't been such a literary discovery
since the recovery of Dante's Divine Comedy! Anyway, the puzzle is to discover where the play is hidden. It can
be found in an English city, the name of which has been obscured in this puzzle:
(32,4) (3,3) (2,1) (15,1) (15,3) (1,1) (2,9) (31,8) (31,3)
And if it helps, I can tell you that this is equivalent to:
(8,4) (16,2) (10,1) (97,2) (3,10) (2,5) (16,4) (89,3) (3,8)
Figure out how to read the name of the city, and do the English literary world a monumental service.
"I mime silent oxen for a sage, ill eagle. Gout hurts aid's coins."(Hint: in a perfect anagram, the letters have all been scrambled; each is used once and only once in the resulting phrase.)
"Fees lead me to the ill lion. Names stone sad rocs; I ax rag's arc."
"Faust's ill lees ax the goose; a trice nims room. I gun gin; I lead."
"Death's exit mines more gold for ill snails. It is so, I can sing!"
"So, can I see the sax or must I store a fee? Mail no gun, sage child!"
Here's some puzzles I picked up during tea with King Anagrammemnon. In each of these puzzles, two words in a sentence or phrase have been replaced by a number. These words are anagrams of each other, and can be made by rearranging the letters of one word to find the other. Use contextual clues to find one of the words, and then the other word may be found by scrambling the first word. The number represents the number of letters in each word. An example:
You can tell the __(5)__ of the moon by its __(5)__.The words that fill in the respective blanks are phase and shape.
1. You need to __(5)__ your hair; it's starting to look like an unkept
__(5)__.
2. It is said the inventor of __(6)__ was inspired by a walk through
burr-bearing plants. I wonder what he would have invented had he
walked through patches of __(6)__ instead.
3. As a poet, you must make the metre fit your purpose; in other words,
you must make the __(5)__ __(5)__ you.
4. The conservationist __(6)__ the endangered animal with a new-fangled
__(6)__.
5. Be careful how you __(5)__ the __(5)__! You know how the manager hates
it when the meat gets disorganized.
6. It is a jewel of wisdom that the smallest oft best the large. Many a
__(6)__ has been said to start __(6)__ of lions.
7. For all her __(5)__ finery, the Queen actually __(5)__ me.
8. Funny mannequins have been used on farms throughout the world to __(5)__
birds away, thus protecting __(5)__ of crops.
9. When birds are first born, puny __(6)__ are their only form of __(6)__.
10. The __(6)__ as hopes to escape the law must hurriedly __(6)__ from
place to place.
11. She never realized that she had a __(6)__ for anagrams; it must have
been __(6)__ in her all this time.
12. As we finished putting the __(6)__ on the tree, we sang a reflective
refrain of "__(6)__ Night".
13. For his dangerous flight into outer __(5)__, Superman experimented
with a wide variety of new __(5)__.
14. His new __(5)__ was the worship of home furnishings. Every day he'd
bow down to the floral imprint wallpaper and sing hymns to his
home __(5)__.
15. Joy: "You weren't very discreet. Couldn't you have been more __(6)__?"
Roy: "How could I have been heard otherwise over the noise and __(6)__?"
16. John: "Did you know professional baseball pitchers can make $1,000 for
each ball they serve?"
Don: "I didn't know a __(5)__ was __(5)__ that much."
17. Plea of a Wife on a Cold Night:
Mary: "Gary, would you __(6)__ let me a few covers? It's freezing in
here... oh, my, he's __(6)__."
18. Two Schoolchildren Come to Self-Realization:
Jo: "D'you know that Teacher doesn't know all the answers, but gets
them out of a book?"
Flo: "Yes. I suppose that means __(7)__ is a __(7)__."
19. Ralph: "He's such a one-dimensional punk. Absolutely nothing he does
suprises me... he's so linear."
Alf: "Oh, he's a __(6)__ __(6)__, then."
20. The __(6)__ man is strong, steadfast, sturdy, and __(6)__.
21. Jim: "Weren't you paying attention to what he said?"
Tim: "How could I __(6)__? He stayed __(6)__!"
These are worked just as the above puzzles, but one word is longer than the other by one letter, as indicated by the number. Thus, the smaller word is an anagram of the larger word, but the larger word is only an anagram of the smaller word plus one extra letter.
1. The first __(6)__ landing on the moon was __(5)__ "Apollo 11".
2. You can tell he __(5)__ the old lady. Every day last winter he used his
best __(6)__ to clear her walk.
3. I would __(5)__ do anything to dull this mantelpiece's __(6)__!
4. With one final __(5)__, the young woman became a new __(6)__.
5. Joe: "I hate to tell you this, but I don't think Maria likes the new
__(5)__ you bought her."
Moe: "Why do you say that?"
Joe: "She tore it to __(6)__."
6. The police seargant was too __(5)__ to investigate the witnesses'
testimony, so he took it on good __(6)__.
7. That's one twisted zombie. He actually enjoyed being blown to bits. As
a matter of fact, I'd go so far to say that he __(5)__ being __(6)__.
8. The horse thief hoped to escape the __(5)__ by appealing to the
sheriff. Although he had pity on the still-young varmint, the mayor
protested: "Hang the boy, and the __(6)__, the better!"
9. Q: What do you call a single man who drinks bad water?
A: Why, a __(8)__ with __(7)__.
10: He drives too erratically for me. He starts speedily, slams on the
__(6)__, and then __(7)__ again.
11. Isn't it true that a kingdom ruled by a mare might be said to have
an __(6)__ __(5)__?
12. Molly: "Oh, look at that poor homeless man! Do you think we should give
him some of our food?"
Polly: "You're always making a show of your good works... __(7)__ is
so __(6)__!"
... and I'll finish with a really bad pun:
13. Zoe: "I think it's shameful the way those archaeologists raided tombs
in Egypt, disturbed the dead, and stole their treasures! They
didn't even __(5)__ them!"
Noah: "Of course they did. Didn't you hear them say '__(4)__'?"
Want more anagram fun? Try the Hall of Fame Challenge questions.