Puzzles

er_neo · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Indore

Some brain exercise .....

1. What is the easiest way to throw a ball, have it stop, and reverse direction after traveling a short distance?

2. ? ?What is at the beginning of eternity, the end of time, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?

3. ? ?When things go wrong, what can you always count on?

4. What is always behind you but you can never touch it?

5. ? ?I am never the first to speak but I am always the last to be heard. Who am I?

6. ? ?We were born of the same mother, on the same day, at the same hour and in the same year. Yet we are not twins. How do you explain this?

7. ? ?Two fathers and two sons were seated round a table. There were four apples on the table. Each of them took one apple and ate it ent irely yet there was still one apple left on the table. How was this possible?

8. ? ?Here everything is not always in order. For example, Friday comes before Thursday, the cart comes before the horse, the driver comes before the employer. Where are we?

9. ? When I am alive I stay put where I am. It is only when I am dead that I move about here and there. Who am I?

10. ?How can you be behind a person when that person is also behind you?

nuthan · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:48 pm

7)they are grand father, father and son. So total three. they took three. so one is remined.

nuthan · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:56 pm

1) Throw the ball on to a wall.

er_neo · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Indore

hi Nuthan

Your answer for 7 question is correct, and i think you can think better for answer for first question ;-)

Gautam512 · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:53 pm

2) "e"

Gautam512 · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:54 pm

3) count mistakes on ur fingers

Gautam512 · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:56 pm

4) our remeberences

Gautam512 · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:58 pm

5) echo

learnmf · Active User Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 123

Answer for the first question::Throw the ball vetically upward.

er_neo · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Indore

Hi Gau and Chandra,

Except for the answer for third question from Gau till now you are correct with your answers. Keep trying for the rest of them.

All the Best ;-)

Hema Madhavi · New User Joined: 24 Dec 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Hyderabad

8)Dictionary

er_neo · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Indore

exactly hema ;-)

mubashir.surury · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Pune

HI ER_NEO,

er_neo · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Indore

Hi mubashir

By same day i mean on single day i.e same day.

I think by that i gave u an unfairly big hint ;-)

mubashir.surury · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Pune

Hi er_no,

rskumar · New User Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 35 Location: chennai

(9)-- is it coffin?

rskumar · New User Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 35 Location: chennai

9----coffin?

vasanthanc · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 58

6 - They were born on same date but on different months

9 - tree

10 - Both of them facing oppossitte direction standing behind each other

Gautam512 · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:34 pm

i think almost done with the puzzles..

noorkh · New User Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Chennai

Answer for 10th question:

We can do it by the following way:
One guy stand by facing north and another guy stand by facing South.

Am I right?????????

mftrigger · New User Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 23 Location: chennai

hi er_neo,

2) 'E'
3) u can count onhow many things went wrong ;-)
8)dictionary

nalini.inturi · New User Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 3 Location: hyderabad

6) There could me another baby..so they can be triplets or quadrapulets......

nalini.inturi · New User Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 3 Location: hyderabad

Hi...

6) there could me another baby..so, they can be triplets or quadrapulets....

nalini.inturi · New User Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 3 Location: hyderabad

Hi...

6) there could me another baby..so, they can be triplets or quadrapulets....