Category: words

Yesterday’s Problem:

Can you make a word from all of these letters?
PNLLEEEESSSSS?

Answer:

sleeplessness

Today’s Problem:

What is unusual about the following paragraph?

It looks so ordinary you’d think nothing was wrong with it at all – and, in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. But you must do it without coaching: I’m not going to assist you in any way. No doubt, if you work at is a bit, it will dawn on you. Who knows until you try? So hop to it, try your skill and pray for luck. Par is about half an hour.

Last Problem

A medical researcher with the National Institute of
Health observed that a neurologically based chemical
reaction in the body takes 80 minutes when he wears
a wool jacket, but when he isn’t wearing the
wool jacket, the same reaction always takes a full hour
and 20 minutes. Can you explain why this might be so?

Answer:

The chemical reaction takes the same amount of time.
Eighty (80) minutes equals 1 hour (60 minutes) and
20 minutes.

Today’s Problem:

Can you make a word out of all the letters below?

PNLLEEEESSSSS?

Last Problem:

I have two coins that add up to 55 cents.
One of them is not a nickle. What are the
two coins?

Answer:

The two coins are a 50 cent piece and a nickle.
One coin is not a nickle. The other is a nickel.

Today’s Problem

What occurs once in a second, once in a month,
once in a century, yet not at all in a week or a year?