Brain Buster #301
Find the word that fits the first definition, then add an "R" in
front of it to make a new word that matches the second definition.
Place an "R" in front of a body organ and go to the back.
Place an "R" in front of a type of poem and get an activity in the
past tense.
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Brain Buster #302
Of three sisters named April, May, and June, none is yet twenty-one.
April is now as old as June was fourteen years ago, and two-thirds of May's
age. May, on the other hand, will be June's age when May is twice as old
as she is now plus two years. Three years ago, May was as old as April is
now. How old are April, May, and June?
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Brain Buster #303
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
H _ P _ _ B _ _ _ C
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Brain Buster #304
Alison, Brenda, and Carla usually have lunch together. When Alison was
absent, the girl who walks to work went shopping with the secretary. When
Brenda was off sick, the girl who lives with her sister had lunch with the girl
who drives her own car to work. When Carla took a day off, the cashier and
the girl who lives with her husband ( her own husband ) both had to work through
their lunch breaks. Recently, the girl who lives alone had an argument
with the receptionist and with the girl who comes to work by bus. If the
secretary drives herself to work, who lives with whom, what are their jobs, and
how do they get to work?
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Brain Buster #305
A "Tom Swifty" is a pun based on Tom's extraordinary
expressiveness: "Hand me the eggbeater," said Tom
stirringly. A "Tom Swifty" punning sentence is encoded
below. All the vowels, including Y, have been removed , and the letters
broken into groups of three. Reconstitute the sentence.
THR SNW TRS
DTM DRL
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Brain Buster #306
A young man tried to elope with a princess, but the king found out and
offered him a sporting chance. The king would put two slips of paper in a
box, one marked "Death," the other marked "Princess."
To decide his fate, the young man was to be blindfolded and choose one
paper. The young man found out that the king didn't want him to win the
Princess and therefore intended to mark both papers "Death." He
managed to win the princess despite this. How?
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Brain Buster #307
If it takes 6 florist's assistants 3 hours to pack 12 boxes of flowers, how
fast can sixteen assistants pack 16 boxes?
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Brain Buster #308
I am a word which is 8 letters long.
My 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th is an atmospheric condition.
My 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th supports a plant.
My 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th is to appropriate.
My 6th, 7th and 8th is a name.
What word am I?
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Brain Buster #309
How well do you know film titles? If we were to give you this sequence
of vowels and blanks: _ _ E _ _ I _ _,
would you be able to fill in the missing consonants and come up with THE
STING? Try to figure out the following, all the films are from the 1970's.
1. _ _ _ A _ _ O
_ _
2. _ E _ I _ E _ A _ _ E
3. A _ _ O _ _ _ O _
_ O _ A _ _ E
4. _ O _ E _ I _ _ I
_ _ E _ _ O
5. _ I _ _ I _ _ _ _
O _ _ O Y
6. _ A _ _ _ I _ _ E
7. E _ A _ U E _ _ E
8. _ _ E _ O _ _ A _
_ E _
9. _ A _ _ _ A _ _
O I
_ _ A _ I _
10. _ I _ _ Y _ A _ _ Y
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Brain Buster #310
Find the word that fits the first definition, then add an "S" in
front of it to make a new word that matches the second definition.
Place an "S" in front of a metal container, and get a word meaning
to glance at.
Place an "S" in front of a pixie, and get a form of reference.
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Brain Buster #311
Jim had a small baseball card collection. All but 5 were sighed, all
but 5 were rookie cards, and all but 5 were less than 10 years old. What
is the minimum number of cards he could have had?
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Brain Buster #312
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
E _ T _ _ _ I _ S _ _ C _ _ _ _
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Brain Buster #313
You have 2 ropes. Each takes exactly 60 minutes
to burn. They are made of different materials so even though they take the same
amount of time to burn, they burn at separate rates. In addition, each rope
burns inconsistently. How do you measure out exactly 45 minutes?
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Brain Buster #314
John likes apples, peaches, and pears. He doesn't like cherries,
lemons, or blueberries. Does he like oranges?
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Brain Buster #315
Bob, Sarah, Will, and Opal ran a race. Sarah beat Opal. Will beat
Sarah. Opal beat Bob. They did not finish in boy/girl/boy/girl
order. In what order did they finish?
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Brain Buster #316
Barbie is going to a party. The party is for her father's sister's
daughter's brother. What is her relationship to the guest of honor?
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Brain Buster #317
Using the same set of letters in the same order, can you fill in the blanks
and make a normal sentence?
A _ o _ a _ l _
doctor had _
o _ a _ l _ and
therefore, was _ o
_ a _ l _
to operate.
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Brain Buster #318
I bought something on the installment plan. I'm not sure if I got a
good deal or not. The payments to date, according to my checkbook, have
reached $96. The second cost $2.00 more than the first year; the third
year cost $3.00 more than the second; and the fourth year cost me $4.00 more
than the third. What were my payments the first year?
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Brain Buster #319
Each of the sentences below contain clues to the names of trees. Can
you find all nine trees? Hint: most of the names are obtained from
the descriptions given rather than being hidden in the sentence.
1. The coastguard discovered the clear remains of a fire on the
seashore.
2. "Don't just stand there and mope," urged my older
brother. "Fight back!"
3. The couple are well-liked, but without doubt you will owe their friends
a tidy sum.
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Brain Buster #320
A shopkeeper packs his dog biscuits in boxes containing 16, 17, 23, 24, 39
and 40 pounds, and he is not prepared to sell them in any other way, nor break
into a box. A customer asks to be supplied with exactly 100 pounds of
biscuits. If you were the shopkeeper, could you meet the customer's
requirements? If not, how near could you get to supplying the 100
pounds? You can assume that there is an ample supply of boxes of each
size.
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Brain Buster #321
Eliminate only one letter in the word that fits the first definition to
realize the second.
Change a place to sit into a word for burn.
Change a place to live into a piece of clothing.
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Brain Buster #322
When the following groups of letters are unscrambled into words, which is the
odd man out?
IANPO RUTTMEP
PRAH LVNOII
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Brain Buster #323
The equation 173 + 295 = 468 uses all the digits from 1 to 9 only once
each. There are many combinations of those numbers that will deliver the
same answer. Can you find 3 more?
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Brain Buster #324
What 2 words, formed from different arrangements of the same 8 letters, will
complete the sentence below?
Some severe illnesses can _____________ a population, unless physicians can
_________ all who are in danger.
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Brain Buster #325
What are the two missing numbers in the series below?
_ _ 3 3 7 7 2 3 6 5
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