Daily Brain Teasers for Sunday, 23 April 2017
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Remove 7 letters from this seq...
Remove 7 letters from this sequence (JSFONORMUMFLATOED) to reveal a familiar English word. Find number abc
If 9ab53 + 46c95 = c4424a find number abc. Multiple solutions may exist. Guess the name of musician
Look carefully caricature and guess the name of musician. 
An Air Canada plane leaves...
An Air Canada plane leaves Toronto's Pearson Airport under the control of a Jewish captain; his co-pilot is Chinese.
It's the first time they've flown together and an awkward silence between the two seemed to indicate a mutual dislike.
Once they reach cruising altitude, the Jewish captain activates the auto-pilot, leans back in his seat, and mutters, ‘I don't like Chinese.'
No rike Chinese?' asks the co-pilot, ‘why not?' ‘You people bombed Pearl Harbor, that's why!'
‘No, no', the co-pilot protests, ‘Chinese not bomb Peahl Hahbah! That Japanese, not Chinese.”
Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese …doesn't matter, you're all alike!'
There's a few minutes of silence.
‘I no rike Jews!' the co-pilot suddenly announces.
‘Oh yeah, why not?' asks the captain.
‘Jews sink Titanic!' says the co-pilot.
‘What? You're insane! Jews didn't sink the Titanic!' exclaims the captain, ‘It was an iceberg!'
‘Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg, Rosenberg, …no mattah …all fukin same.’
Find a famous person
Find the first and the last name of a famous person. Text may go in all 8 directions. Length of words in solution: 5,5. Granville T. WoodsBorn 23 Apr 1856; died 30 Jan 1910 at age 53. American inventor who held numerous patents in diverse fields. As the most prolific black inventor by career of the late 19th and early 20th century in the U.S., he has been called the Black Edison. Wood's first patent (3 Jun 1884) was for a locomotive steam boiler. He started the Woods Electric Company, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to commercially develop a variety of electrical devices. In 1887 he patented his Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, which enabled moving railway trains to maintain communications links thus avoiding accidents. His other patents included a telephone transmitter, an electric railway, an electric incubator for hatching chickens (1900) and an important safety device - an automatic air-brake for railroad use (10 Jun 1902).« |
What a winning combination?
The computer chose a secret code (sequence of 4 digits from 1 to 6). Your goal is to find that code. Black circles indicate the number of hits on the right spot. White circles indicate the number of hits on the wrong spot. CINEMANIA: Guess the movie title
See negative of movie scene and guess the title. Length of words in solution: 7 
Chess Knight Move
Find the country and its capital city, using the move of a chess knight. First letter is B. Length of words in solution: 8,10. Calculate the number 468
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 468 using numbers [6, 5, 7, 1, 78, 290] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once. Replace asterisk symbols with ...
Replace asterisk symbols with a letters (*** **SE) and guess the name of musician. Length of words in solution: 3,4. 
