Puzzle a Day

[papayahed]

I have a puzzle calendar and have been thinking of putting them here, this is todays:

Place the same three -letter word in each blank to make three seperate words:

___ANT

___DON

___URE

[OnyxRose]

ten

tenant
tendon
tenure

[papayahed]

Yeppers.

[crazefest456]

Darn, I was too late...Can't wait for the next one!

[Niamh]

yo papaya, you going to post more?

[kiz_paws]

May I? The same three letters fits into each of the following, what are they?

___ ANT
___ ABLE
___ ERS

hope you don't mind, Papayahed ;)

[papayahed]

May I? The same three letters fits into each of the following, what are they?

___ ANT
___ ABLE
___ ERS

hope you don't mind, Papayahed ;)

By all means.

Seems I was a little lax in posting puzzles in this thread.


In addition to Kiz's here's another:

Three boys were playing online. Dan won twice as many games as David and Don combined. Don won twice as many games as David and eight fewer then Dan.

How many games did each win?

[Scheherazade]

May I? The same three letters fits into each of the following, what are they?

___ ANT
___ ABLE
___ ERS

hope you don't mind, Papayahed ;)PLI?

PLIANT
PLIABLE
PLIERS?


By all means.

Seems I was a little lax in posting puzzles in this thread.


In addition to Kiz's here's another:

Three boys were playing online. Dan won twice as many games as David and Don combined. Don won twice as many games as David and eight fewer then Dan.

How many games did each win?12, 2 and 4?

[papayahed]

A kitkat for Scher.

[kiz_paws]

Yes, you get an extra large KitKat, Scher, for you have gotten mine correct too.

Who's next? ;)

[papayahed]

Find a five-digit number in which the first digit is double the second, the third digit is two less than the second, the fourth digit is the sum of the second and third, and the last digit is one less than the first. The sum of all the digits is 19.

[Cailin]

63145?

[papayahed]

yeppers.

[papayahed]

Place the same four-letter word in each blank below to make four common words.

____RIDGE

____OON

____ILAGE

____EL

[tractatus]

May I? The same three letters fits into each of the following, what are they?

___ ANT
___ ABLE
___ ERS

hope you don't mind, Papayahed ;)


SERV is also okey?

[papayahed]

SERV is also okey?

It fits but SERV isn't three letters.

[tractatus]

Oh yes. You are right.

[Scheherazade]

Place the same four-letter word in each blank below to make four common words.

____RIDGE

____OON

____ILAGE

____ELCART?

[papayahed]

correct!!!

[barbara0207]

Aw, whenever I get here, everything has already been solved! :(

But if everybody can play, please let me give you the next riddle.

Put in the right three-letter word:

_ _ _ chbag
_ _ _ dit
_ _ _ gent
_ _ _ ish

[Scheherazade]

Pun?


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[kelby_lake]

My birth date is the only date which is an actual sentence. what is it? (said like december 23rd, not december the 23rd)

[dreamsbegone]

i dont exactly know but it has to start with "may"

[Pensive]

Can be pretty much March as well if not May. How about March 12?

[papayahed]

march 4th :D

[Pensive]

Oooh I missed the pattern. Good job, papaya, though there is this one I am also thinking of now: March 1st.

[Scheherazade]

bump


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[papayahed]

My watch loses six minutes every hour. I set my watch this morning at 7 am using an accurate clock. Now, the time on my watch reads 1:45 pm.

What is the correct time?

[Scheherazade]

2.30 pm?

[papayahed]

correct!!!

[papayahed]

A banquet hall contains only chairs and round tables, and has 10 chairs at every table. Each table has 8 legs and each chair has 4 legs. The total number of legs on all the tables and chairs is 960. What is the maximum number of people that can be seated (one per chair) at a banquet in this hall?

[Scheherazade]

200?


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[Nightshade]

Do we divide by 4 and then again by 2 and the remainder is the number of chairs?
:confused:
or wait is it 960/48 ( the number of legs chairs +table per every 10 people?) in which case that is 20 sets of ten people equalling 200?
:confused:
I hate maths!

[papayahed]

200?



Yeppers


Do we divide by 4 and then again by 2 and the remainder is the number of chairs?
:confused:
or wait is it 960/48 ( the number of legs chairs +table per every 10 people?) in which case that is 20 sets of ten people equalling 200?
:confused:
I hate maths!

Whaddya mean, you got it right.

[papayahed]

If nobody else has any I have another one:

complete the sentence by filling in the blanks with four words that each differ by one letter. The changed letter will be in the same position in each word, as in bake, bale, base, bane.

The disco owner __________ confidently down the aisle as he __________ to set up the __________ light before the __________ of midnight.

[Nightshade]

STROLE
STRoVe
Strobe
Stroke

not bad for a nonspeller! :D

[Nightshade]

Krysta do you mean one of these by any chance?
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/search.php?searchid=1152026
I f you want you can satrt a new Stories with holes thread I think we are up to 13 .:D