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Here's one more tricky one.

X---O---^---O---^---O---^

X = garden O=magic well ^=Temple

So a man plucks some flowers. Whenever he reaches O, his flowers double. Then he keeps some flowers at the temple. then again at the second O, his remaining flowers double, then agin he keeps the SAME number of flowers as he kept in ^1.and so on. In the last he has no flowers.

How many did he pluck, and how many did he keep in each temple?
 
He kept 8 in each temples.

I knew it had to be an even number (because it had to be a factor of 2 because they double each time). I then started working the puzzle backwards starting with 2, then 4, etc. The first number that works is 8.

8/2 = 4 + 8 = 12/2 = 6 + 8 = 14/2 = 7

It works, and 7 would be the number that he started with.

It also works with multiples, so he could have left 16 or 24 at each temple and it would also have worked.
 
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Why Why why!!@!@ is was such a super awesome question!!



Your're right :cry: :laugh::yawn::'( :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
abdulmājid;1370391 said:
Could this be the Hardest Brain Teaser Ever?
Albert Einstein was a world renowned physicist and mathematician who loved brain teasers. He did his best work as a patent clerk. He was known as a very wise man and he valued education above all. He is credited with coming up with one of, if not the hardest, brain teasers ever created. Einstein stated that at least 98% of the world couldn’t solve the problem. If you want to find a hard brain teaser you can try your hand at this one:
Go on don't get disappointed...:D
There are 5 houses. Each house is painted a different color. Each owner of a house is a different nationality, drinks a different drink, smokes a different brand of cigarette and each has a different type of pet.
Here are your clues:
1. The British owner lives in the red house.
2. The Swedish man likes dogs.
3. The Danish man enjoys a spot of tea.
4. When looking at the front of the houses the green house is just left of the white one.
5. The owner of the green house likes coffee.
6. The person that raises birds smokes Pall Malls.
7. The man who smokes Dunhill brand also owns the yellow house.
8. The owner of the center house drinks milk.
9. The man from Norway lives in the last house on the left.
10. The person who smokes Blends is the neighbor to the man who smokes Dunhill.
11. The man who drinks beer also smokes Bluemasters.
12. The German man smokes Prince.
13. The Norwegian is the neighbor to the man who lives in the blue house.
14. The person who smokes Blends lives next to the man who drinks water.
The Question: Who is the owner of the pet fish?

No cheating! Allah is watching you. :D
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Is there any point missing? It says only about 2 pets, birds and dogs ?. After a lot of scribblings and drawings, I find that the pet fish could be either with the Norwegian or the Danish or the German :-)
 
abdulmājid;1374612 said:
This one's really nice.

Can you guess the next three letters in the following series and why?
C Y G T N T L I T F.....
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G,H,I

Can You Guess The Next Three Letters In This...F
 
GreyKode said:
I think titus got it already.
In your case woodrow, why did you stop at following?
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You are correct. I put GH amd I as they are the next 3 letters after F, above as the answer and below why I did so. But titus' answer is the most logical.
 
abdulmājid;1386652 said:
A man walks 1 Km South, 2 Km East and 1 Km North. What is he wearing?
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If he ended back at his starting point, he best be wearing heavy winter clothing as the only place on earth he could do that walk and end at his starting point is the North Pole, which tends to be even a few degrees colder than Zeeland, North Dakota.
 
Woodrow said:
If he ended back at his starting point, he best be wearing heavy winter clothing as the only place on earth he could do that walk and end at his starting point is the North Pole, which tends to be even a few degrees colder than Zeeland, North Dakota.
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I understood your point. But you gone too far, thinking, uncle.
 
abdulmājid;1386652 said:
A man walks 1 Km South, 2 Km East and 1 Km North. What is he wearing?
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His shoes... Unless he's walking barefoot, but that's very unlikely. :hmm:
 
abdulmājid;1386704 said:


Aargh!!! You were not supposed to answer! For it was taken from your Google Buzz profile. LOL;D;D;D;D
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LOL That's what happens when you quote someone without giving proper credit. :ermm:

Btw, that question wasn't mine either.
 
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abdulmājid;1386652 said:
A man walks 1 Km South, 2 Km East and 1 Km North. What is he wearing?
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He maybe wearing a warm clothes, coat, socks, shoes, possibly a hat and gloves. He maybe wearing away anything he wears; due to friction and other "natural" forces and weather conditions. He maybe wearing a wrist watch, and posibly a pedometer (or similar device to measure distance). He may also be wearing a bag; carrying an extra pair of shoes, and utilities for a camp file, just incase of an emergency. Not forgetting the possibility of wearing skis'; especially as he may feel the need to move around quicker (if in snow).

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