Logic, IQ, and Lateral Thinking Problems.

[black bart]

A thorn?

[Zankou 2.0]

I'd have to think of one that won't take forever to post from the phone... am i mistaken or is Zank up there nazi-ing grammar already?

Old habits i guess...

Nah, I was actually just agreeing with ET.

And, Black Bart is correct, even though he is a page and a half behind.

[TwistedSister]

What is special about this sentence?

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

[bacon]

What is special about this sentence?

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Each letter of the alphabet is used in the sentence.

[TwistedSister]

The lady wins a cookie!

[bacon]

Hooray!

I kind of knew that one already though . Probably shouldn't have answered.



Can you find the 5th number in this series?

45 37 29 32 ___ 16 19 11 3

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

24

back with a question in a bit.

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

What row of numbers comes next in this series?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

[Roy Hunter]

1: one 1
11: two 1s
21: one 2 and one 1
1211: one 1, one 2 and two 1s
111221: three 1s, two 2s and one 1
312211: one 3, one 1, two 2s and two 1s
13112221: one 1, one 3, two 1s, three 2s and one 1

so the answer is
1113213211

Three women apply for a job running a busy sales office. One of them has a lot of sales experience, but no supervisory experience; the second has supervisory experience but no experience in a high-pressure sales environment; and the last one has sales experience and supervisory experience, but has a terrible stammer. Who gets the job?

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

the one with the biggest boobs.

[Roy Hunter]

Correct-a-mundo! You're up again...

[ET, the Extra Terrestrial]

Sad but true.

Continue the series: o t t f f s s _ _ _

[daftbeaker]

What row of numbers comes next in this series?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

Is that a variation on Pascal's triangle?

[Roy Hunter]

No, it's Pascal's wage packet. He went home one Friday night from the Philosophy Works with a broken wage packet, smelling of drink, and his wife battered him so badly he could only talk in numbers afterwards. Shame, really...

[Ham Nox]

Nah. Yer thinking too much like a mathematician, you have to think a little more like a high school dropout.