There are 2 lines to this puzzle. You are given one here, but the other one should rest immediately above or below it. Decide what the missing line is. Here is one of the lines:
CRMFSTTDTN" hp0[2]="OIEAUOEIAAY" hp1[2]="QOKIWHDDBJS" hp2[2]="AIEDORLSAIST" hp3[2]="AIEAOEASEIU" hp4[2]="ALKJDIESIIS" hp5[2]="IAUISJIDDE" hps[2]=3 hpx[2]="AIEAOEASEIU. Put them together and you get:
CRMFSTTDTN or AIEAOEASEIU
AIEAOEASEIU CRMFSTTDTN
Read from top to bottom, or bottom to top going right to left, and it spells out UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." hp[3]="MAN-OF-WAR PUZZLER
Replace the ? in the following series: 14 17 7 24 11 ?" hp0[3]="12" hp1[3]="13" hp2[3]="14" hp3[3]="15" hp4[3]="16" hp5[3]="17" hps[3]=0 hpx[3]="12. Subtract each number in the series individually from 26. You get, in the order that they appear in the alphabet: 12 = L, 9 = I, 19 = S, 2 = B, 15 = O, and 14 = N, LISBON. Lisbon is the capital of Portugal. The title of the puzzle was somewhat a hint because the man-of-war is often referred to as the PORTUGUESE man-of-war." hp[4]="I am a nearly neutral slightly bluish medium gray. Remove my first letter, and you have a type of nobleman. Assume you have a polyhedron with the same number of sides as there are letters in the word for the nobleman. Each of the sides of the polyhedron are of the exact same dimensions. Now tell me:
1. The word for me.
2. The number of distinct color patterns that can exist for the polyhedron if each of its sides are painted either white or black. A pattern is only \"distinct\" if it does not duplicate another pattern by rotating the object. For example, there is only one pattern for one side black and the others white, since it does not matter which side is black, if you rotate the object." hp0[4]="Count and 6" hp1[4]="Earl and 3" hp2[4]="Marble and 7" hp3[4]="Prince and 4" hp4[4]="Turquoise and 8" hp5[4]="Pearl and 5" hps[4]=5 hpx[4]="1. Pearl. Several people said earl and other things, but it is clear that \"the word for me,\" refers to the \"I\" in \"I am a nearly neutral slightly bluish medium gray\" (i.e. Pearl).
2. 5. A lot of people answered 6. However, if you look at a tetrahedron (a pic is on problem 32 on http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/titan.html for example), or better yet have one, as I do (in the form of an old Dungeons and Dragons die), you'll see that you get:
all sides black
all sides white
1 side black, the rest white
1 side white, the rest black
2 sides white, 2 sides black - it does not matter which sides are which, since the exact same pattern exists by rotating the object." hp[5]="You'll go round and round with this one.
You must get both parts of this puzzle right to be entered to win -
6 10 22 4 17 ?
1. Tell me what number should replace the ? in the number series above
2. The series indicates a word. Using the same exact system that produced the number series above, give me the series for a 3 dimensional version of that word." hp0[5]="23 and 17, 7, 8, 19, 36" hp1[5]="1 and 4, 15, 20, 5" hp2[5]="14 and 22,17,12,6,23,14" hp3[5]="11 and 6, 28, 3, 3, 18, 6" hp4[5]="99 and 56, 78, 60, 39, 2, 90" hp5[5]="18 and 9, 4, 13, 17, 16" hps[5]=2 hpx[5]="1. The next number in the series is 14. (You subtract from each term in the series 6,10,22,4,17 the successive digits of pi=3.1415, to get 3,9,18,3,12. Then you check which letters of the alphabet occupy the corresponding positions in the alphabet: C,I,R,C,L. It follows that the next letter is E; adding its position in the alphabet (5) with the next digit of pi ((9), gives 14 as the next term.)
2. The 3-dimensional version of circle is SPHERE. The letters of \"sphere\" occupy positions 19,16,8,5,18,5 in the alphabet. Adding these values to the digits of pi gives 22,17,12,6,23,14." hp[6]="I am the period of the reign of a certain Emperor. Replace my first 2 letters with one letter, and you have a group of islands. What am I?" hp0[6]="Stomoro" hp1[6]="Thanadu" hp2[6]="Tringer" hp3[6]="Meiji" hp4[6]="Dirchipelago" hp5[6]="Stawaiian" hps[6]=3 hpx[6]="Meiji. If you replace the first 2 letters with 'F,' you get Fiji, which is a group of islands. Per Dictionary.com, Mutsuhito, whose Imperial name as Meiji, was Emperor of Japan from 1867-1912, and presided over the transformation of feudal Japan into a modern constitutional state." hp[7]="What in the World - other than all starting with the letter W, what feature is most unique about the following 7 words? This could take you all day to solve, but certainly not all month :-)
wishbones wayfarers without wait water welcome ways" hp0[7]="1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" hp1[7]="The Seven Dwarfs" hp2[7]="The Seven Wonders of the World" hp3[7]="The words can be arranged into a proper sentence in seven ways" hp4[7]="Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday" hp5[7]="The letter z is missing" hps[7]=4 hpx[7]="This is not totally unlike my \"Back to Front\" puzzle on http://www.Puzz.com/puzzles.html - the clues I gave were \"all day\" and \"all month.\" I would have said \"all week,\" but I thought that would make it too easy (fat chance, right?). Take the last letter of the last word, then the next to last letter of the next to last word, then the 3rd to last letter of the 3rd to last word, and you have:
S M T W T F S
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Yes, this was pretty tough, and I apologize. You guys have been knocking 'em down with so many correct answers lately that I thought I'd try to slow you down, but I went too far, I guess." hp[8]="Here is a 2 part puzzler. You must get both parts right:
1. Monday lily Island tide
A word is associated with all of the above items. What is the word?
2. 92278622?
Above is the answer to the first problem, but written in an unusual way. The last number is missing. What is it?" hp0[8]="Christmas and 7" hp1[8]="Christmas and 3" hp2[8]="Easter and 5" hp3[8]="Easter and 2" hp4[8]="Cutthroat and 6" hp5[8]="Cutthroat and 1" hps[8]=3 hpx[8]="1. Easter
2. 922786222
Starting with the \"e\" in Easter, take each letter's position starting from the end of the alphabet (z=1, y=2, etc.). So Easter spelled forward would be 22 26 8 7 22 9. Reversing that number, we have the answer, 922786222" hp[9]="O E S N R S H S ?
The last letter in the series above is missing. What in the world is it?" hp0[9]="A" hp1[9]="Z" hp2[9]="B" hp3[9]="Y" hp4[9]="C" hp5[9]="X" hps[9]=3 hpx[9]="Y. The letters are the last letters of the planets in our solar system, but in reverse order: mercurY venuS eartH marS etc." hp[10]="The Acme Lock Company installs an electronic lock for an office. It consists of 5 buttons, numbered one through five. A combination of a certain 4 numbers, in order, will unlock the door to the office. 4 different numbers are used in the code. What chance is there of someone punching in the code, if they:
A. Push in 4 numbers completely at random (1 or more numbers might be used more than once)
OR
B. Push in 4 different numbers completely at random?" hp0[10]="A: 1 in 125. B: 1 in 120." hp1[10]="A: 1 in 125. B: 1 in 256." hp2[10]="A: 1 in 25. B: 1 in 256." hp3[10]="A: 1 in 25. B: 1 in 64." hp4[10]="A: 1 in 625. B: 1 in 64." hp5[10]="A: 1 in 625. B: 1 in 120." hps[10]=5 hpx[10]="A. Your chances are 1 in 625.
B. Your chances are 1 in 120.
For the first one, the chances at random are 5x5x5x5, and if you eliminate a number with each step (by not pressing that number again, and leaving it out of the pool of possibilities), you have have 5x4x3x2 for the second one." hp[11]="If you take 7/8 of 234323432 peanuts from 2/9 of 53232341123 peanuts, what do you have?" hp0[11]="1182940912" hp1[11]="205033003" hp2[11]="977907909" hp3[11]="234323432" hp4[11]="An aching belly" hp5[11]="Peanuts" hps[11]=1 hpx[11]="If you take 205033003 peanuts, you will have 205033003.
This is my variant of the old trick question that goes like \"there are 17 apples, and you take away 3. How many do you have?\" Answer: 3 apples. The fact that 2/9 of 53232341123 was not a whole number was not intentional, and I don't know how I missed that. HOWEVER, it made working with it seem odd (as many of you noted), and underscored all that much more that it was a trick quesion, with an atypical answer. No, I won't use these cheap shots too often, folks!" hp[12]="Here you have a set of numbers, with one number missing (the ?). Following the logic that is consistent within the set, determine what the missing number is.
6 3 8\n19 1 7\n20 9 12\n20 16 44\n 6 12 17\n20 86 88\n19 2 9\n ? 10 18" hp0[12]="5" hp1[12]="7" hp2[12]="9" hp3[12]="12" hp4[12]="14" hp5[12]="21" hps[12]=0 hpx[12]="5. In each row, subtract the middle number from the number on the right. Take the first letter of the answer to that, and write its number (from 1-26) on the left. So, you have 8 - 3 = 5. Five begins with F, so you write 6 on the left, as F is the 6th letter of the alphabet. Next is 7 - 1 = 6. Six begins with S, the 19th letter of the alphabet. And so on. Yep, this one was a tad tricky." hp[13]="nuances image crows arm rhodora bag
One of the words above does not belong. Which word is it?" hp0[13]="nuances" hp1[13]="image" hp2[13]="crows" hp3[13]="arm" hp4[13]="rhodora" hp5[13]="bag" hps[13]=2 hpx[13]="crows. Line the words up in reverse order as follows:
bag
rhodora
arm
crows
image
nuances
Remove crows, and you get BRAIN GAMES: BRAIN, taking the first letter of each word, and GAMES, taking the last letter of each word." hp[14]="Finally, the cause is known to be a word that has half of the total number of points and edges of an octahedron in letters. Study hard on this one, as it is vital that you see the immanent scope of this conundrum, and bring an end to it!" hp0[14]="biology" hp1[14]="philosophy" hp2[14]="oscilloscope" hp3[14]="trigonometry" hp4[14]="eschatology" hp5[14]="teleology" hps[14]=5 hpx[14]="teleology. An octahedron has 6 points/vertices and 12 edges, making 9 letters in the word in question. Teleology is concerned with final causes (hint was \"Finally, the cause\") and ends (hint was \"bring an end to it\"). Vitalism (hint was \"vital\") is a related word, and I threw in \"scope\" to play off the \"tele\" part of each word (i.e. telescope and teleology). This was evidently a toughie." hp[15]="What a cruel beast I am! You must determine which item from the set below does not belong." hp0[15]="rus" hp1[15]="efl" hp2[15]="obv" hp3[15]="recv" hp4[15]="acn" hp5[15]="luvp" hp6[15]="qeu" hp7[15]="meuc" hp8[15]="oeln" hp9[15]="ropc" hps[15]=7 hpx[15]="meuc. Put the last letter of each in front, and then read each backwards, adding \"ine\" and you get: ursine, feline, bovine, cervine, canine, vulpine, equine, leonine, and porcine. Uemcine is not a word, so it's the odd one out." hp[16]="If you roll 10 regular 6-sided dice at one time, and add together the number of pips shown on their top sides, what chance is there that the total will come to 11? The correct answer is a fraction in lowest terms." hp0[16]="10/60231088" hp1[16]="10/60232088" hp2[16]="10/60233088" hp3[16]="5/30233088" hp4[16]="5/30243088" hp5[16]="5/30253088" hps[16]=3 hpx[16]="5/30233088. If you have ten six-sided dice and one roll, there are 60466176 different combinations that can occur. Ten of these rolls would produce a combination of pips that would total 11 when added together. So, the chance would be 0.000000165 or 5/30233088." hp[17]="During a Bicentennial celebration in the United States, a man wrote this cryptic, seemingly gibberish statement. It indicated which address, known to the individual he gave it to, that he could later be located:
Run ants a keg.
Given the informaion provided, where could he most logically be found?" hp0[17]="Sark Street" hp1[17]="Gar Street" hp2[17]="Ark Street" hp3[17]="Keat's Run" hp4[17]="Aunt's" hp5[17]="Runt's Bar" hps[17]=0 hpx[17]="Sark Street. This was a tough one. The clue was the \"Bicentennial celebration in the United States,\" which occurred on July 4th, 1976. This generates a numeric date, which is the solution to the puzzle: 7/4/1976. Take the 7th, 4th, 1st, 9th, 7th, and 6th letters in \"Run ants a keg,\" string them together, and you get SARK ST. St. is a well known abbreviation for street, so the best answer of the 6 provided is Sark Street. Kudos if you got this one!" hp[18]="The superhero known as the Super Tough Untouchable Dude (aka STUD) is at work again, saving humanity from itself. He lifts a 391 pound car into the air, just a second before it runs a red light, and causes an accident. He catches a thief, who has just robbed a convenience store of $136. Later, our hero leaps into the ocean, diving 51 feet down to save a drowning swimmer. When he emerges, he gives the beautiful woman mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and 85 seconds later, she is coughing, but on her way to recovery. Which of the following is the number of people who cheered STUD on as he saved the woman's life?" hp0[18]="102" hp1[18]="103" hp2[18]="104" hp3[18]="105" hp4[18]="106" hp5[18]="107" hps[18]=0 hpx[18]="102. All of the numbers given in the problem are multiples of 17. If you answered this correctly, you too are a STUD(ette?)!" hp[19]="I just called in the order, and you'll like it, I hope. I grant you that it makes me torpid. Sure, after eating it, I get a little lazy. Sometimes I even doze. But I still believe that it is the greatest food created since sliced bread!
What food am I talking about?" hp0[19]="Tortilla" hp1[19]="Pizza" hp2[19]="Fish" hp3[19]="Chips" hp4[19]="Hamburger" hp5[19]="Spare ribs" hps[19]=1 hpx[19]="Pizza. Take the next to last letter of the last word in each sentence, and string them together: hoPe torpId laZy doZe breAd = PIZZA" hp[20]="1. Keeping in mind that problem #2 uses the opposite logic, decide what should replace the ? in the following series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 13, ?
2. Keeping in mind that problem #1 uses the opposite logic, decide what should replace the ? in the following series: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, ?" hp0[20]="15 and 12" hp1[20]="15 and 13" hp2[20]="16 and 13" hp3[20]="16 and 14" hp4[20]="17 and 14" hp5[20]="17 and 15" hps[20]=2 hpx[20]="1. 16. In the sequence, when the first number is added to the second, and the second to the third, etc., a prime number must always result. 13+14=27, and 13+15=28, neither of which is prime, so the answer is 16, which produces 29, a prime.
2. 13. In the sequence, when the first number is added to the second, and the second to the third, etc., a prime number must NEVER result. 11+12=23, which is prime, so 11+13=24, which is not prime, is used. This means the next number is 13." hp[21]="dried bark of a tree used as a spice IS TO cinnamon AS an ore of mercury IS TO ?" hp0[21]="cinnamomum" hp1[21]="cinna" hp2[21]="cinnagum" hp3[21]="cinnabar" hp4[21]="cinnagom" hp5[21]="cinnagor" hps[21]=3 hpx[21]="cinnabar. This was a tough one!" hp[22]="The first 4 letters have been removed from each of the following words. Decide which of the following does not belong:" hp0[22]="arella" hp1[22]="urger" hp2[22]="olone" hp3[22]="ovy" hp4[22]="dar" hp5[22]="ere" hps[22]=3 hpx[22]="ovy (anchovy). The others are cheeses: mozzarella, limburger, provolone, anchovy, cheddar, gruyere." hp[23]="This puzzle has 2 parts, which combine to make 1 name:
Part 1: I am a small dog or a pile of rocks. Remove my 3rd and last letters, and you have Part 1.
Part 2: I was a hunter, and was slain by an arrow. Remove my first letter, and you have part 2. Combine parts 1 and 2, and you have a 7 letter word. What is it?" hp0[23]="driving" hp1[23]="allowed" hp2[23]="mercury" hp3[23]="leaping" hp4[23]="carrion" hp5[23]="helpful" hps[23]=4 hpx[23]="Answer: carrion. Part one was the word cairn. After removing those 2 letters, you get the word car. The second part is Orion. Remove the 'O' and combine the two, and you get your answer." hp[24]="The following relates to a certain mathematical operation: Put 1 in me, and you get 1 back. Put -3 in me, and you get 1521; 4 in me, and get 2704; -2, and get 196; -11 in me, and get 2140369; 8 in me, and receive 207936. What will you get if you put 15 in me? Hint: \"X\" is written 3 times in this function, where X is the number being input, and none of the 3 Xs are to the same power." hp0[24]="8647329" hp1[24]="726397" hp2[24]="22410004" hp3[24]="30450004" hp4[24]="10017225" hp5[24]="1999284" hps[24]=4 hpx[24]="10017225. The actual equation was: (-Xcubed +Xsquared -X)squared. Change \"cubed\" and \"squared\" to powers of 3 and 2. Evidently not an easy puzzle..." hp[25]="You need to match the lettered definitions with the words and names on the left. Sounds easy, right? Only one problem: the words and names are all missing their first AND last letters. So if the original word was puzzle, all you'd see is uzzl.
| 1. ecat | A. Greek goddesses of the seasons |
| 2. ummer | B. a part in a machine |
| 3. roqui | C. an inhabitant of Ireland |
| 4. relat | D. an enchantress who helped Jason |
| 5. elsit | E. an ecclesiastic of superior rank |
| 6. ibernia | F. a rough draft |
| 7. erm | G. a Greek goddess |
| 8. ede | H. a unit of length |
| 9. tato | I. a type of rock |
| 10. ora | J. a ridiculous ceremony or performance |
2. mummery J. a ridiculous ceremony or performance
3. croquis F. a rough draft
4. prelate E. an ecclesiastic of superior rank
5. felsite I. a type of rock
6. Hibernian C. an inhabitant of Ireland
7. fermi H. a unit of length
8. Medea D. an enchantress who helped Jason
9. stator B. a part in a machine
10. Horae A. Greek goddesses of the seasons" hp[26]="X is randomly set as an integer between negative infinity and positive infinity. Given this, which of the following is most likely to generate the largest positive number?" hp0[26]="A. X squared" hp1[26]="B. (X + 1) squared" hp2[26]="C. (X - 1) squared" hp3[26]="D. X cubed" hps[26]=2 hpx[26]="C. (X - 1) squared. This will generate the largest positive number nearly half of the time. If X is negative, it generates the largest number. If X is 0, it's a tie between B and C. If X is 1 or 2, it's B, and if it's 3 or more, it's D. So, the most likely is C, second most likely is D, and third most likely is B." hp[27]="Maybe you should just forget about it. All things should be considered. Moreover, it's actually very simple. Jot down only those things that form a pattern. Joke all that you want to, but this is very serious. As a professor of mine once said, \"first things first!\" Sorry, that was irrelevant. Or was it? Now, decide what should come next." hp0[27]="Absolutely not this one." hp1[27]="Most questions actually have more than one correct answer" hp2[27]="Keep to the left, no matter what you do." hp3[27]="Always sharpen your pencils." hp4[27]="Feel your way through this one." hp5[27]="Differences in observation will always persist." hps[27]=5 hpx[27]="Differences in observation will always persist. A tough one. The first letter in each of the sentences represents a month. You start with Maybe=March, and move through to Now=November. The next letter must be a D, for December, so \"Differences in observation will always persist\" is the best choice. These are classic types of Puzz.com problems... the more of these kinds of teasers you see, the more you'll have an idea of what to look for." hp[28]="In a game, you are 88 feet from the goal line, but you must get around the defensive players by running to the left of them. You are 50 feet from the out of bounds line on your left. If you move in a straight line to the left of the players, directly to the goal line, what is the maximum distance that you could travel in feet without stepping out of bounds?" hp0[28]="93.76" hp1[28]="101.21" hp2[28]="102.44" hp3[28]="106.3" hp4[28]="106.96" hp5[28]="109.18" hps[28]=1 hpx[28]="101.21 feet. You can determine this by using the Pythagorean Theorem: A squared + B squared = C squared, where C is the hypotenuse. The two distances given are 2 sides of a triangle, and their intersection is at a 90 degree angle. The distance you are looking for is C, the hypotenuse of the right triange formed." hp[29]="If you draw 2 squares that intersect in one or more places, what is the maximum number of separate areas that can exist, each area not being further subdivided?" hp0[29]="5" hp1[29]="6" hp2[29]="7" hp3[29]="8" hp4[29]="9" hp5[29]="10" hps[29]=4 hpx[29]="9. If you draw a square, and then draw a square of equal size centered on the other but turned to the right or left 45 degrees, you get an 8 pointed star, which contains a total of 9 different intersections." hp[30]="Decide what word or name does not belong with the others in this set. Look for the BEST answer:" hp0[30]="Charles" hp1[30]="Dorian" hp2[30]="Henry" hp3[30]="Claudius" hp4[30]="Guatemotzín" hp5[30]="Montezuma" hps[30]=1 hpx[30]="Dorian. All of the other names have belonged to emperors." hp[31]="I am a musical pipe. Read me backward, and the name of one type of me was once involved in a famous court case that is still controversial. What am I?" hp0[31]="Reed" hp1[31]="Bagpipe" hp2[31]="Flute" hp3[31]="Whistle" hp4[31]="Tuba" hp5[31]="Horn" hps[31]=0 hpx[31]="Reed. A roe is a type of deer, and Roe vs. Wade is a famous supreme court case that affected the legality of abortion in the US. Someone came up with the same answer through \"marsh deer,\" noting that there are several controversial court cases involving a \"Marsh\":
Marsh v. Alabama - distribution of religious materials
Marsh v. Chambers - opening state legislative sessions with prayer
Marsh v. Bellanca - home schooling" hp[32]="Decide which item in this group does not belong with the others:" hp0[32]="xmj" hp1[32]="btz" hp2[32]="lhq" hp3[32]="fps" hp4[32]="cwm" hp5[32]="xhr" hps[32]=4 hpx[32]="cwm. This is a real word (believe it or not!), while the others are not." hp[33]="Wireless Radio is to Barbed Wire as Marconi is to ?" hp0[33]="Morse" hp1[33]="Edison" hp2[33]="Tesla" hp3[33]="Glidden" hp4[33]="Cemba" hp5[33]="Johnson" hps[33]=3 hpx[33]="Glidden. Marconi invented the wireless radio, and Glidden invented barbed wire." hp[34]="Ides of March is to 15 as Ides of August is to ?" hp0[34]="11" hp1[34]="12" hp2[34]="13" hp3[34]="14" hp4[34]="15" hp5[34]="16" hps[34]=2 hpx[34]="13. \"Ides\" refers to the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of other months (such as August)." hp[35]="Replace the ? in the following:
" + "
| 18 | 7 | 89 |
| 24 | 6 | 132 |
| 27 | 2 | ? |
1st line - 18 7 89 - the second number is inserted in the middle of the first resulting in 178 - this number halved is 89.
2nd line - 24 6 132 - same process results in 264 halved = 132
3rd line - 27 2 ? - same process results in 227 halved = 113.5" hp[36]="21 of 34, or is it the other way around?
They say that I am tough and prepared
I share a name with someone who dealt with apes
Who am I?" hp0[36]="General Zachary Taylor" hp1[36]="Lord Baden Powell" hp2[36]="Clint Eastwood" hp3[36]="Colonel Jim Goodall" hp4[36]="Tarzan Henry" hp5[36]="Atilla the Hun" hps[36]=0 hpx[36]="General Zachary Taylor
12th president of 43
'Old Rough and Ready'
Taylor - Planet of the Apes" hp[37]="I am \"heads\" on a coin. Permute 2 of my letters, and you have another word. What am I?" hp0[37]="Imprint" hp1[37]="Portrait" hp2[37]="Lanolin" hp3[37]="Obverse" hp4[37]="Passing" hp5[37]="Carouse" hps[37]=3 hpx[37]="Obverse (the other word being 'observe')" hp[38]="MIRRORS OF OLD NUMBERS
ccrr is to core as cccrr is to ?" hp0[38]="croe" hp1[38]="ocre" hp2[38]="reco" hp3[38]="oer" hp4[38]="ecro" hp5[38]="roec" hps[38]=1 hpx[38]="ocre or ore - either answer is acceptable. The letters are mirrors of Roman Numerals. c is the third letter of the alphabet, and the third to last letter in the alphabet is x; r is the 9th to last letter, so its mirror is i, etc. You get:
XXII is to XLIV as XXXII is to LXIV or LIV
Which translates to: 22 is to 44 as 32 is to 64 or 54. The analogy can be see as adding 22, or adding 10 (both of which give an answer of 54) or multiplying by 2 (which gives 64)." hp[39]="MIRRORS OF OLD NUMBERS
ccrr is to core as cccrr is to ?" hp0[39]="croe" hp1[39]="ocre" hp2[39]="reco" hp3[39]="oer" hp4[39]="ecro" hp5[39]="roec" hps[39]=1 hpx[39]="ocre or ore - either answer is acceptable (only ocre was in the list of alternatives). The letters are mirrors of Roman Numerals. c is the third letter of the alphabet, and the third to last letter in the alphabet is x; r is the 9th to last letter, so its mirror is i, etc. You get:
XXII is to XLIV as XXXII is to LXIV or LIV
Which translates to: 22 is to 44 as 32 is to 64 or 54. The analogy can be see as adding 22, or adding 10 (both of which give an answer of 54) or multiplying by 2 (which gives 64)." hp[40]="forethought is to Pro....... as afterthought is to ?" hp0[40]="Anti......" hp1[40]="Post......." hp2[40]="Pre....." hp3[40]="Peri......" hp4[40]="Epi......." hp5[40]="Neo......" hps[40]=4 hpx[40]="Epi....... Prometheus means Forethought, and one of his brothers was Epimetheus or Afterthought. Also, as hints, each dot represented a missing letter in the name of Prometheus (so 10 letters), and the P was capitalized to indicate it was a name. This was a tough one!" hp[41]="heep is to amb as oat is to ?" hp0[41]="id" hp1[41]="alf" hp2[41]="up" hp3[41]="ub" hp4[41]="it" hp5[41]="to" hps[41]=0 hpx[41]="id. The analogy is sheep is to lamb as goat is to kid. A kid is a young goat, just as a lamb is a young sheep." hp[42]="There is something mostly odd about the following statement. What is it?
Spry is Mande issei" hp0[42]="Mande is misspelled" hp1[42]="issei is not a real word" hp2[42]="Spry is not a real word" hp3[42]="The word 'assassin' is spelled out" hp4[42]="The word 'primes' is spelled out" hp5[42]="The word 'prism' is spelled out" hps[42]=4 hpx[42]="The first six prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13. The word 'primes' is spelled out if you take the second, third, fifth, seventh, eleventh, and thirteenth letters in 'Spry is Mande issei.'" hp[43]="Living organisms and vital processes is to BIOLOGY as saints and other sacred persons is to ?" hp0[43]="hagiology" hp1[43]="alalogy" hp2[43]="primatology" hp3[43]="kinesiology" hp4[43]="ontology" hp5[43]="eschatology" hps[43]=0 hpx[43]="Biology is the study of living organisms and vital processes, and hagiology involves saints and other sacred persons." hp[44]="MONOLITH
This mysterious monolith was recently discovered on the planet Mars. How tall is it?
![](\"http://www.puzz.com/lloyd1.jpg\")
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hp0[44]="500m"
hp1[44]="1,000m"
hp2[44]="1,200m"
hp3[44]="1,500m"
hp4[44]="2,000m"
hp5[44]="2,900m"
hps[44]=1
hpx[44]="1,000m. In Roman numerals cm, mm and m equal 900, 2,000 and 1,000 respectively.Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Test Your Creative Thinking: Enhance Your Lateral Thinking - Learn to Think Outside the Box." hp[45]="LETTER SEQUENCE
Which other circle should be black to complete the sequence below?
![](\"http://www.puzz.com/lloyd2.jpg\")
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hp0[45]="Top circle on the first figure"
hp1[45]="Top right circle on the third figure"
hp2[45]="Top circle on the last figure"
hp3[45]="Bottom left circle on the fourth figure"
hp4[45]="Bottom right cicle on the second figure"
hp5[45]="None of these"
hps[45]=2
hpx[45]="Top circle on the last figure. The puzzle could be read 'Which other circle should be black to complete the sequence BELOW?' As the illustration shows, the letter W is needed:![](\"http://www.puzz.com/lloydquiz1.jpg\")
Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Test Your Creative Thinking: Enhance Your Lateral Thinking - Learn to Think Outside the Box.
The puzzle and answer were slightly modified for this test." hp[46]="A DIFFERENT SLANT
A, B, C and D are four sleeping ladybugs on a perfectly flat tabletop. What is the direct distance between ladybugs A and C?
![](\"http://www.puzz.com/lloyd3.jpg\")
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hp0[46]="1cm"
hp1[46]="2cm"
hp2[46]="3cm"
hp3[46]="4cm"
hp4[46]="5cm"
hp5[46]="None of these"
hps[46]=0
hpx[46]="1cm. AB + AD and BC + CD are both equal to BD, so the four ladybugs must actually lie in a straight line as follows:![](\"http://www.puzz.com/lloydanshomie3.jpg\")
Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Test Your Creative Thinking: Enhance Your Lateral Thinking - Learn to Think Outside the Box." hp[47]="THE SAUCY SORCERER
One day a saucy sorcerer winks at a witch. She immediately pays him back by turning him into a toad. Can you take away six of the seven shapes below to leave a sort of toad?
![](\"http://www.puzz.com/lloyd7.jpg\")
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hp0[47]="leave his hat"
hp1[47]="leave his brow"
hp2[47]="leave his right eye (his perspective)"
hp3[47]="leave his left eye (his perspective)"
hp4[47]="leave his nose"
hp5[47]="leave his moustache"
hp6[47]="leave his mouth"
hps[47]=2
hpx[47]="leave his right eye (his perspective). Take away 6 of the shapes to leave just a dot, which is a 'sort' of toad.Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Test Your Creative Thinking: Enhance Your Lateral Thinking - Learn to Think Outside the Box." hp[48]="DOWN PAYMENT
A wizard pops into his local magic store to buy a new pet toad. Unfortunately, he only has £2 on him and the toad costs quite a bit more than this. He therefore asks the shopkeeper if he can pay £1 now and the rest the following week. The kind shopkeeper agrees to this and the wizard leaves the store happy with £1 in his pocket and a toad. How much does the toad cost?" hp0[48]="£1" hp1[48]="£2" hp2[48]="£5" hp3[48]="£9" hp4[48]="£13" hp5[48]="None of the above" hps[48]=3 hpx[48]="The toad costs 9 pounds. The wizard pays 1 pound and leaves the magic store with 'a toad,' which sounds like '8 owed.'
Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Test Your Creative Thinking: Enhance Your Lateral Thinking - Learn to Think Outside the Box." hp[49]="If a specific face of a cube is always painted black, and the other faces are each painted either red or green, how many distinct color patterns can exist? Only 1 pattern exists where any 1 of the sides adjoining the black side are painted red, and the other 4 sides are green, for example, as regardless of which of the adjoining sides were painted red, the pattern can be duplicated by rotating the cube." hp0[49]="10 patterns" hp1[49]="11 patterns" hp2[49]="12 patterns" hp3[49]="13 patterns" hp4[49]="14 patterns" hp5[49]="None of the above" hps[49]=2 hpx[49]="12 patterns. There are 32 total permutations (2 colors with 5 variable sides, which is 2 to the 5th power, or 32), but 20 of those simply duplicate the 12 unique patterns.
I solved the problem by using a die as a visual aid, numbering all the sides on a diagram I drew, listing all 32 permutations in numeric order (assigning a '1' for a red side, '2' for a green, and then counting them out from 11111 to 22222), and marking each off that duplicated a pattern I had already counted as unique/distinct.
Unless you enjoy logical and mathematical puzzles like this (I personally am lukewarm as puzzles go), and have a little experience at them, this was likely very tough for you." hp[50]="THIS PUZZLE IS TOAST
Chef Puz D. Comm is preparing orders of toast for 3 customers, who for purposes of simplicity all ordered at exactly the same time, and the time to place bread in and remove toast from the toaster is negligible. Puz has two toasters that can each toast 2 pieces of bread at the same time, and 1 knife to apply both butter and jam.
It takes 1 minute to lightly toast 2 pieces of bread
It takes 1 minute, 30 seconds to moderately toast 2 pieces of bread
It takes 2 minutes to darkly toast 2 pieces of bread
It takes 10 seconds to apply butter to a piece of toast
It takes 15 seconds to apply jam to a piece of toast
Customer A wants 4 pieces of toast, moderately toasted, with butter on each piece
Customer B wants 2 pieces of toast, lightly toasted, with butter and jam on each piece
Customer C wants 3 pieces of toast, darkly toasted, with butter on 1 piece, nothing on the others
What is the shortest possible combined time that the customers will have to wait for their orders to be up? For example, if A had to wait 2 minutes, B 1 minute and C 30 seconds, total time would be 3 minute 30 seconds." hp0[50]="8 minutes 55 seconds" hp1[50]="9 minutes" hp2[50]="9 minutes 5 seconds" hp3[50]="9 minutes 10 seconds" hp4[50]="9 minutes 15 seconds" hp5[50]="9 minutes 20 seconds" hps[50]=0 hpx[50]="8 minutes 55 seconds
A) will have to wait 4 minutes 10 seconds; B) will wait 2 minutes 35 seconds; and C) will wait 2 minutes 10 seconds. C's three slices plus one of B's will toast first. B's first slice will have butter and jam applied while the second slice of B's order is toasting. After 2 minutes, A's toast will begin. C's order will be buttered in 10 more seconds, for a total of 2 minutes 10 seconds. Then, B's last slice will be buttered and jam applied, for a total waiting time of 2 minutes 35 seconds. After A's order is toasted and 1 slice buttered, 4 minutes 10 seconds will have elapsed." hp[51]="5 of the following relate to or can be used with a certain word. One item lacks any relationship. Which one?" hp0[51]="y" hp1[51]="o" hp2[51]="s" hp3[51]="instrument" hp4[51]="thermometer" hp5[51]="constellation" hps[51]=4 hpx[51]="thermometer. The word in question is HARP, and the 3 letters listed can make new words or well known names when added to harp:
HARPY
HARPO
SHARP (or HARPS)
A harp is a musical instrument, and the constellation Lyra is in the shape of a harp. See http://stardate.org/resources/constellations/lyra.html" hp[52]="If an object moving at 1 mile/hour accelerates 1 mile/hour for every meter it travels, how fast will it be travelling in half of an hour?" hp0[52]="117 miles/hour" hp1[52]="455 miles/hour" hp2[52]="1283 miles/hour" hp3[52]="44444 miles/hour" hp4[52]="100999 miles/hour" hp5[52]="None of the above" hps[52]=5 hpx[52]="None of the above. The object reaches the speed of light (which in theory cannot be exceeded) in less than a minute." hp[53]="I am a bird. Remove my last 5 letters, and you have something related to a matrix. Also, if you remove the first letter of a word that I also am, you have someone who is not a fighter. What am I?" hp0[53]="neospore" hp1[53]="gridilane" hp2[53]="pidgeon" hp3[53]="numididae" hp4[53]="dotterel" hp5[53]="pintail" hps[53]=4 hpx[53]="Dotterel. Dot matrix (as in an old dot matrix printer); the dotterel is a European bird of the Plover family; and remove the 'p' from plover and you get 'lover', and 'I'm a lover, not a fighter' is a well known saying." hp[54]="Determine what 3 words are suggested in the following problems:
Slow, not a saying or maxim
A unit of distance, not animal hair that needs to be cut
A boat, not a scoundrel who uses a Greek letter" hp0[54]="petard, meter, scooner" hp1[54]="sluggish, parsec, raft" hp2[54]="languid, parasang, betiman" hp3[54]="stolid, yardhair, galleon" hp4[54]="adagio, furlong, pirogue" hp5[54]="shoramin, petchope, muthef" hps[54]=4 hpx[54]="adagio, furlong, pirogue. The 'saying or maxim' clue related to the word adage, which is spelled similarly to adagio. The other two used 'fur' and 'long,' and then 'pi' and 'rogue' in their clues. Thanks to Shirley Wolf for this explanation." hp[55]="The explorer and adventurer Alabama Smith has, after months of searching in numerous jungles, found the lost royal crown of King Iriddlealittle! Naturally, the crown is resting on a high pedestal. There are 12 holes set at the base of the pedestal, and 12 engraved stones. Smith knows from his painstaking archaeological research that the 12 stones must be placed in the holes in the correct order for the pedestal to lower the crown. Otherwise, it will smash it into the ceiling! Carved on the floor is the following conundrum:
The 12 gods and goddesses of Time, having been beheaded for treason, were laid to rest in order.
The stones are engraved with these odd names:
Andy, Archie, Ayme, Cthbert, Ectomorph, Ebert, Epstein, Ovac, Prince, Ugly-kid, Ulrich and Underhill.
In what order must Alabama Smith insert the stones?" hp0[55]="Ebert, Archie, Prince, Ayme, Underhill, Ulrich, Andy, Ugly-kid, Epstein, Cthbert, Ovac, Ectomorph
" hp1[55]="Ayme, Ebert, Archie, Prince, Underhill, Ulrich, Andy, Ugly-kid, Epstein, Cthbert, Ovac, Ectomorph
" hp2[55]="Archie, Andy, Ayme, Ebert, Prince, Underhill, Ulrich, Ugly-kid, Epstein, Cthbert, Ovac, Ectomorph
" hp3[55]="Archie, Andy, Ayme, Ebert, Prince, Underhill, Ulrich, Ugly-kid, Epstein, Cthbert, Ovac, Ectomorph
" hp4[55]="Andy, Ayme, Ebert, Archie, Prince, Underhill, Ulrich, Ugly-kid, Epstein, Cthbert, Ovac, Ectomorph
" hp5[55]="Andy, Ebert, Archie, Prince, Ayme, Underhill, Ulrich, Ugly-kid, Epstein, Cthbert, Ovac, Ectomorph" hps[55]=5 hpx[55]="Andy, Ebert, Archie, Prince, Ayme, Underhill, Ulrich, Ugly-kid, Epstein, Cthbert, Ovac, Ectomorph
The key is months of the year with the first letter removed (beheaded):
Jan(dy), Feb(rt), Mar(chie), Apr(ince), May(me), Jun(derhill), Jul(rich), Aug(ly-kid), Sep(stein), Oct(hbert), Nov(ac), Dec(tomorph). Thanks to Graeme Black of Vacaville, CA for this explanation." hp[56]="A woman has applied for a job as an actuary at PUZZ (Perpetual Underwriters of Zoological Zealots). The interview goes well and she has strong credentials. The woman must only pass this final quiz to be hired:
4 of the following 5 statements are false, and 1 is true. Given this, what number or numbers are possibly being described?
1. The number is prime
2. The number is even
3. The number is smaller than the number of cards in a standard deck
4. The number is greater than the number of days in 5 fortnights
5. The sum of its only 2 digits is not 14
You must find all of the possible numbers." hp0[56]="55, 57, 59, 64, 65, 68, 69, 77, 95" hp1[56]="55, 57, 59, 63, 65, 68, 69, 77, 95" hp2[56]="55, 57, 59, 63, 65, 68, 69, 77" hp3[56]="57, 59, 64, 65, 68, 69, 77, 95" hp4[56]="55, 57, 65, 68, 69, 77, 95, 97" hp5[56]="55, 56, 59, 63, 65, 67, 69, 77, 95" hps[56]=1 hpx[56]="if #1 is true: 59
if #2 is true: 68
if #3 is true: none
if #4 is true: 77 & 95
if #5 is true: 55, 57, 63, 65, 69
The total set of possibilities is thus: 55, 57, 59, 63, 65, 68, 69, 77, and 95. If #3 were true, there would be no numbers because the sum of the digits in any positive 2 digit number less than 52 is not as high as 14." hp[57]="Alabama Smith, famous explorer, treasure finder, and trapeze artist, has, after weeks of searching in a perilous jungle, stumbled upon the legendary ziggurat-tomb of King Cryptopuzz! At the top of the ziggurat is the jeweled sarcophagus of the king, which rumor has it is trapped, but contains all of the deceased's gold and valuables... It is shaped in the likeness of the king, complete with facial features. Smith carefully climbs a staircase to the top. Carved on the side of the sarcophagus is the following:
79500 95 285 5750 26 4513294125 285 2917
What does the code say?" hp0[57]="pull on my ear to get the gold" hp1[57]="press on my nose and I'll give you jewels" hp2[57]="take my treasure and be forever cursed" hp3[57]="my mouth is full of poison" hp4[57]="tap on my forehead to avoid the pit" hp5[57]="push in my eyes to disarm a trap" hps[57]=5 hpx[57]="Push in my eyes to disarm a trap. The exact wording is 'press in the eyes to deactivate the trap'. The code was created by adding the 2 numbers together for letters of the alphabet that in numeric order contain 2 digits. For example, the first letter, P is the 16th letter of the alphabet; 1 plus 6 is 7, which is the first number in the code. Letters A through I just appeared as their representative numbers, since they only contain 1 digit (numbers 1 through 9). E, for example, the 5th letter of the alphabet, is represented by the number 5 in the code." hp[58]="Determine what letters should replace the question marks in each of the following three series:
A P A T G C L V L S S ?
W A J M M A J VB H T P ?
M V E M J S U N ?" hp0[58]="C, E, T" hp1[58]="C, S, L" hp2[58]="C, T, P" hp3[58]="G, T, M" hp4[58]="G, S, R" hp5[58]="G, E, P" hps[58]=2 hpx[58]="C, T, P:
C - (Capricorn) the first letters of the signs of the zodiac are given, in order
T - (Taylor) the first letters of the last names of the first presidents of the U.S.
P - (Pluto) the the first letters of the names of the planets in our solar system, in order of nearest to furthest from the sun" hp[59]="FBI agent Coyote Smoulder, who investigates claims of supernatural activity, is doing just that. A bloblike creature is seeping into people's homes through the plumbing, and while posing no direct danger to them, 'Blobby,' as it has come to be known, consumes all of their soda. A mad scientist is believed to be the creator of Blobby, and the only person who knows how to get rid of the pest. When Smoulder and other agents arrive at the scientist's home, it is evident that he has cleared the place out, and likely left the country. All that remains is a note on the wall:
By the time you find this, I'll have crossed over 2 oceans!
Zmw zoo gszg xzm hglk nb xivzgrlm rh lxvzm hzmw!
Coyote, who loves ciphers and codes (he's a geek, much like the author of this puzzle), quickly cracks this conundrum. After filling a public swimming pool with Blobby's favorite soft drink to use it as bait, they drop a ton of what the mad scientist had mentioned on the thirsty creature, and its reign of terror is ended. What did Coyote and his peers use to stop Blobby?" hp0[59]="a skull and crossed bones" hp1[59]="a broken cross" hp2[59]="faucet water" hp3[59]="decaffeinated soda" hp4[59]="ocean sand" hp5[59]="ocean water" hps[59]=4 hpx[59]="Ocean sand.
The mad scientist's coded message reads 'And all that can stop my creation is ocean sand!' It is a fairly simple letter exchange: A becomes Z and Z is A, B is Y, Y is B, C is X, X is C, and so on, down to M being N, and N being M." hp[60]="The following 7 words each contain 7 letters. Something else is very unusual about them. What is it?
harness scunner juggler drizzle lozenge subject Persian" hp0[60]="49" hp1[60]="Arabian Knights" hp2[60]="alternate spellings" hp3[60]="pismire" hp4[60]="primeval" hp5[60]="puzzles" hps[60]=5 hpx[60]="puzzles. Here is why:
When the words are stacked like this:
HARNESS
SCUNNER
JUGGLER
DRIZZLE
LOZENGE
SUBJECT
PERSIAN
and are read diagonally upwards starting with the 'P' in Persian, they spell the word PUZZLES. You could also stack them with PERSIAN on the top, then SUBJECT, etc. and read them diagonally downwards with the same result." hp[61]="X-tra Special Secret Agent Coyote Smoulder is again on the job, trying to protect us from supernatural bad guys. This time he must stop a globular manifestation that spews green goo on its victims. This of course does not harm them, but quickly disintegrates their clothes. Worst of all, 'Globbie,' as authorities have begun calling it, always strikes in public places!
Before Globbie attacks, it always taunts its victims by asking them a riddle. If they cannot answer it quickly, it goos the poor souls, and quickly rolls away. Coyote finds the creature in an outlet mall, where potential victims abound. It is asking a riddle of a group of people. Smoulder believes that if he can answer it, Globbie will hesitate, giving the other agents time to capture it using an anti-goo solution they have concocted. Globbie asks:
'I have a hand, only a fraction of the number you would expect, given my name. Each of you has 2 of me. What am I?'
Coyote Smoulder quickly blurts out the answer, leaving the creature absolutely stunned. Other than the anti-goo, what is the solution to this problem?" hp0[61]="applause" hp1[61]="backhand" hp2[61]="names" hp3[61]="time" hp4[61]="future" hp5[61]="None of the above" hps[61]=5 hpx[61]="None of the above. The answer is FOREARM (four-arm)." hp[62]="I am a boring part of something that you read. Remove my last 2 letters and change my second letter, and you have a word relating to language. What am I?" hp0[62]="prolixia" hp1[62]="prosaic" hp2[62]="longueur" hp3[62]="sagnor" hp4[62]="oratoric" hp5[62]="None of the above" hps[62]=2 hpx[62]="LONGUEUR (the other word was LANGUE)
Longueur is 'a tedious passage in a book, play, musical composition, or the like.' Langue is 'language viewed as a system including vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation of a particular community.'
Thanks to Shirley Wolf of Rockville, MD for this explanation." hp[63]="Each set of numbers represents a word in the following sequence:
51632518 51632518316 5163251831718
What are the words?" hp0[63]="crazy, crazier, craziest" hp1[63]="big, bigger, biggest" hp2[63]="tan, tanner, tannest" hp3[63]="puzzle, puzzlers, puzzling" hp4[63]="pale, paler, palest" hp5[63]="None of the above" hps[63]=5 hpx[63]="None of the above. The sequence was great, greater, greatest. The numbers represented letters of the alphabet, but 2 numbers low. C=1, D=2, E=3, etc., with A=25 and B=26 due to rollover.
5 16 3 25 18 = great
5 16 3 25 18 3 16 = greater
5 16 3 25 18 3 17 18 = greatest" hp[64]="The following puzzler hints at 2 words. The second word is the same as the first word, but with one letter removed. Example:
A type of thief : Talk too much
The answers are PIRATE and PRATE. Here is the actual puzzle:
Difficulty or complication : The mind or reason" hp0[64]="tough : togh" hp1[64]="nodus : nous" hp2[64]="problem : prolem" hp3[64]="hard : ard" hp4[64]="braign : brain" hp5[64]="None of the above" hps[64]=1 hpx[64]="Nodus and Nous." hp[65]="SHAKEN AND STIRRED ?
During a drinks party James Bond asks one of his colleagues the following question. Can you correctly replace the asterisk to find out which famous Bond character he is talking to?
![](\"http://www.puzz.com/puzzle3.jpg\")
Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Amazing \"Aha!\" Puzzles." hp[66]="THE SIX TOWERS
Can you add two lines to complete this sequence of towers?
![](\"http://www.puzz.com/puzzle4.jpg\")
Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Amazing \"Aha!\" Puzzles." hp[67]="GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION
Someone has stolen the petty cash from the office safe. Mr. Always, Mr. Now, Mr. Sometimes, Mr. Tomorrow and Mr. Ever are under suspicion. Who?, what?, when?, how? and where?. The culprit, guilty by association, is Mr. *. Can you figure out who did it?
![](\"http://www.puzz.com/puzzle6.jpg\")
Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Amazing \"Aha!\" Puzzles." hp[68]="GUESS WHO
Can you figure out what three-letter male name should replace the question mark below and also give an approximation of how many sweets Samantha ate?
![](\"http://www.puzz.com/puzzle8.jpg\")
The missing name is Tim. Samantha said “I guesstimate 20 sweets in all!” so she ate approximately 20 sweets.
Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Amazing \"Aha!\" Puzzles." hp[69]="THE FOURTH DIMENSION
Albert Einstein is in a room 5ft wide, 6ft long and 8ft high. In another way, however, it is fractionally less than llft. Where is he?" hp0[69]="In a 7-Eleven store" hp1[69]="In a tesseract" hp2[69]="In a parallelepiped" hp3[69]="In a car" hp4[69]="In a lift" hp5[69]="None of the above" hps[69]=4 hpx[69]="He is in a lift. The second character of the word ‘lift’ is not a complete ‘l’ and so ‘lift’ is fractionally less than ‘llft’.
Source: This puzzle was used (with permission) from Lloyd King's book Amazing \"Aha!\" Puzzles." hp[70]="I am located within that which is at the end of my last 3 letters when they are written backward. Wish upon me first, before you have left to hunt. What am I?" hp0[70]="nimbus" hp1[70]="sidereal" hp2[70]="Polaris" hp3[70]="Rigel" hp4[70]="Vega" hp5[70]="polestar" hps[70]=3 hpx[70]="\"Rigel which is the star (wish upon) at the end of the left (another clue) leg (gel backwards) of the constellation Orion the Hunter.\" Thanks to Ed Smock of Monmouth, IL for this explanation." hp[71]="Change 2 of my letters, and you have a type of imaginary circle. Should you capital-ize and remove the last letter, you would cease. I was once part of an empire that could be described in the same way as many soups and vegetables you will find in grocery stores. What am I?" hp0[71]="vortex" hp1[71]="camarilla" hp2[71]="Ecuador" hp3[71]="Palacio" hp4[71]="Guayaquil" hp5[71]="None of the above" hps[71]=2 hpx[71]="Ecuador
The \"imaginary circle\" was the equator, \"capital-ize\" related to Ecuador's capital, Quito. Remove, the 'o' and you get quit (\"cease\"). The \"empire\" hint was the Incan Empire, or in-can, like soups and vegetables in a grocery store. Yes, I'm silly."