Daily Brain Teasers for Friday, 30 June 2017
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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: 7,2,3. The first user who solved this task is Thinh Ddh.
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Calculate the number 2412
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 2412 using numbers [8, 8, 3, 3, 51, 856] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once. The first user who solved this task is Djordje Timotijevic.
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Polishing Apples
A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money.
The old guy fingered his expensive wool vest and said, "Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel."
"I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents."
"The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5:00 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $9.80."
"Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."
Guess the name of musician
Look carefully caricature and guess the name of musician. The first user who solved this task is Djordje Timotijevic.
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Sir Joseph Dalton HookerBorn 30 Jun 1817; died 10 Dec 1911 at age 94. English botanist and explorer who was assistant on Sir James Ross's Antarctic expedition and whose botanical travels to foreign lands included India, Palestine and the U.S., from which he became a leading taxonomists in his time. His Student's Flora of the British Islands became a standard text. He was a great friend of Charles Darwin, and they collaborated in research. With Charles Lyell, Hooker encouraged the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution. He served (1855-65) as assistant director to his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker, of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, whom he succeeded as director for another 20 years. He was also a president of the Royal Society. At age 94, he died in his sleep and was buried at Kew.« |
Replace the question mark with a number
MATH PUZZLE: Can you replace the question mark with a number? The first user who solved this task is Thinh Ddh.
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Can you name the athletes by the picture?
Can you name the athletes by the picture? The first user who solved this task is Thinh Ddh.
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Look carefully the picture a...
Look carefully the picture and guess the game name. The first user who solved this task is Thinh Ddh.
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Remove 5 letters from this seq...
Remove 5 letters from this sequence (BPYERMIFSSICAON) to reveal a familiar English word. The first user who solved this task is Thinh Ddh.
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MAGIC SQUARE: Calculate A+B+C
The aim is to place the some numbers from the list (3, 4, 13, 15, 16, 25, 29, 30, 39, 79) into the empty squares and squares marked with A, B an C. Sum of each row and column should be equal. All the numbers of the magic square must be different. Find values for A, B, and C. Solution is A+B+C. The first user who solved this task is Djordje Timotijevic.
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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: 6,8. The first user who solved this task is Thinh Ddh.
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