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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 25 Jan 2005 21:55

MAZ.........where are the answers?

Christine

Christine Report 25 Jan 2005 20:33

12. A bird

Christine

Christine Report 25 Jan 2005 20:32

18. - 9

Luciacw

Luciacw Report 25 Jan 2005 20:30

3. they both begin with J...lol :-)

Christine2

Christine2 Report 25 Jan 2005 20:09

10 - Lea (st) ?

Christine2

Christine2 Report 25 Jan 2005 20:05

Can we know if any are left unanswered please Maz? Would have enjoyed this but only just arrived :)))

Maz from Cornwall

Maz from Cornwall Report 25 Jan 2005 14:44

nudge

JackyJ1593

JackyJ1593 Report 25 Jan 2005 08:35

16 - I'd switch the light on!

Richard in Perth

Richard in Perth Report 25 Jan 2005 08:28

14... nine? (4 + 5)

Richard in Perth

Richard in Perth Report 25 Jan 2005 08:26

17.. a hole?

Richard in Perth

Richard in Perth Report 25 Jan 2005 08:23

4. only takes one brick to complete it !

JackyJ1593

JackyJ1593 Report 25 Jan 2005 08:22

5 - None 6 - Once 18 - 17, 9 alive and 8 dead

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 25 Jan 2005 08:01

1.........not 2.........vicar 5........ Moses? on the ark? 6 ........once, then its not 25 any more. 7.........none 8.........eyelid 11........miraculous, rooster is male 13....... 5...only the dead ones 15........a secret 16........the match 18........9?............. Hee hee Jacky..........of course! 19.......all daughters' 20....... it was the spare! OR(was he a train/Lorry driver? and he'd left his car at home?OR it wasn't HIS car.)

Maz from Cornwall

Maz from Cornwall Report 25 Jan 2005 05:53

1.. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? 2.. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he? 3.. How are a jeweler and a jailer alike? 4.. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick? 5.. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark? 6.. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25? 7.. How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide? 8.. I am used to bat with, yet I never get a hit. I am near a ball, yet it is never thrown. What am I? 9.. I have a head like a cat. I have feet like at cat. But I am not a cat. What am I? 10. I know a word of letters three, Add two and fewer there will be. 11. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch? 12. If an egg came floating down the Green River, where did it come from? 13. If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left? 14. If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five? 15. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it? 16. If you were in a dark room with a candle, a woodstove, a match and a gas lamp which do you light first? 17. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds? 18. A farmer had seventeen sheep, all but nine died, how many did he have left? 19. A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. 20. A man drove all the way from New York to San Francisco only to discover at the end of the trip that he had a flat tire from the very start. Yet his car was completely unaffected by it? How is this possible?

Maz from Cornwall

Maz from Cornwall Report 25 Jan 2005 05:52

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