Daily Brain Teasers for Monday, 10 September 2018
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CINEMANIA: Guess the movie title
See negative of movie scene and guess the title. Length of words in solution: 12Remove 5 letters from this seq...
Remove 5 letters from this sequence (UADUQVLTEWRPY) to reveal a familiar English word.Calculate the number 1074
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 1074 using numbers [7, 1, 4, 6, 74, 524] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once.Earning His Stripes
A young reporter went to a retirement home to interview an aged but legendary explorer. The reporter asked the old man to tell him the most frightening experience he had ever had. The old explorer looked into the distance and warmed to his task.
“Once, I was hunting Bengal tigers in the jungles of India,” he began: “I was on a narrow path and my faithful native gun bearer was behind me. Suddenly, the largest tiger I've ever seen in my life leaped onto the path in front of us. I turned to get my weapon only to find my gun bearer had fled. The tiger leaped toward me with a mighty ROARRRR! I soiled myself."
“Under those circumstances, sir, I think anyone would have done the same," the reporter said.
The old explorer replied: "No, not then -– just now when I went 'ROARRRR!'”
Remove 6 letters from this seq...
Remove 6 letters from this sequence (PARTIECUELASEAOR) to reveal a familiar English word.Sewing machineIn 1846, Elias Howe of Spencer, Massachusetts, received a patent for his hand-cranked sewing machine. Isaac Singer patented one five years later. Howe sued Singer for infringement and won...but by that time Singer was well ahead in the sewing machine business.[Image: patent model of Howe's 1846 sewing machine] |