1. How many times can you subtract 1 from 100 ?  
 
2. Try to place in the blanks as shown below, names of four states – with the last letter of each state name matching the first letter of the next in line. The only clues: the first begins with ‘H’ , and the last state ends with ’y’. Can you form the chain?                  H_ _ _ _Y     
 
3. Present were a senator, a broker, a lawyer, and a doctor. Their names (not in the same order) were Alfred, Alexander ,Albert, Aloysius. Alfred and the broker were on bad terms with Albert, but Alexander was on the best terms with the doctor. Albert was related to the lawyer ,and the senator was a good friend of Aloysius and the doctor.can you pair up the profession with the name?
 
4. Using the nine letters, in the diagram, form as many words as possible of four or more letters,
 including at least one nine-letter word. Each letter must be connected to the previous one by a direct  line. Only the central letter may be used moe than once in a word. No plurals, no foreign words, no proper names.

 

 
5. Using 16 matches, set up this five-square formation . Now, by moving just two of the matches, form four squares each touching another instead of five.

6. And say, how ‘bout this one ............."You are a young Army captain with one sergeant and four men at your command. You must put a 100-foot flagpole into a 10-foot hole". You have two ropes one 10 feet long and the other 22 feet long. How do you accomplish the task?
7.What number, when its name is written down using capital letters, is composed of as many straight lines as the number itself?

8.  Six players ..call them A, B, C, D, E, and F. First around a hexagonal table divided into six equal parts. At the center of the table is a smaller hexagon mounted on a central pin around which it can rotate, as shown in the diagram. This hexagon is marked with arrows and digits as shown. The wheel upon which the smaller hexagon is mounted is spun five times. After each spin, each player scores the number of points within his segment of the table. (If the wheel stops with the arrows exactly between adjacent players, the spin is not counted.) The players keep a running total of points, and the one with the largest total after the fifth spin is the winner. If there are ties for the highest score, no-one wins and the game is played again.
 The outcome of the first spin is shown in the diagram. C is ahead with 5 points. After the second spin,D is ahead. And after the fifth spin, A is the winner, but no player has scored less than 10. What was each player's final score? The information seems to be in and each situated on a different edge of the board, though not in a comer.              

9.  There is a single feature that these words have in common . What is it? ENUMERATE

UNOCCUPIED
ONEROUS
UNUSUAL
BIRD


10.  If 20 people, on parting, all shake hands with each other once, how many handshakes will there be altogether?
11 . Select two positive integers at random, A + D, such that A < D. Select two more positive integers at random, B + C, such that A <B < C <D. For example: 68 - 187 - 1667 - 2095

  • Are the chances that B + C = an odd number:

  • 50 percent

  • less than 50 per cent?

  • more than 50 per cent

12.    It is often said that to have a mastery of words is to have in one's possession the ability to produce order out of chaos and that command of vocabulary is a true measure of intelligence. As such, vocabulary tests are widely used in intelligence testing. Here are a few examples of word play for you to try before tackling the rest of our word puzzles in this section Find in the English language:

  1. A word which, without a change in pronunciation, has two directly contrary meanings;

  2. A seven-letter word which contains each of the five vowels once;

  3. An 11-letter word whose odd letters spell out a word and whose even letters spell out a word;

  4. A nine-letter word which is an anagram of a state of the USA;

  5. The only word to have the letters 'UFA' embedded in it;

  6. A word having five consecutive vowels embedded in it;

  7. Two words which are synonyms when used as verbs but antonyms
    when used as adjectives, adverbs or nouns;

  8. The longest word which can be typed on the top row of a typewriter.

13.  The plumber left the taps running in the bath with the plug out. The hot water on would fill the bath in 54 seconds. The cold water tap would fill the bath in 48 seconds. The plug out would release bath full of water in 30 seconds. Would the bath ever fill up?
14.  Express 100 as the sum of three cubes, allowing each cube to be positiv or negative.There are only three known answers, one of which is
1903 - 1613 - 1393
can you find the other two solutions one with larger numbers and one with smaller numbers than the solutions above?

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