By Cowpattybill
Things are progressing.
Not as quickly as I might like but progressing just the same. The second teaser video is out and ready for your viewing pleasure. You can find it at the bottom of the videos section.
Don’t forget to join the Clue Club. It’s only $5 and gives you some nice perks like a 4 hour head start! You also get DOUBLE the prize money, discounts at the Gear Up! store and members-only newsletters that also contain puzzles to solve.
The way it’s shaping up, Game 3: Chasing Shadows will have fewer puzzles than the other games so that 4 hour head start may be quite valuable.
On a different note. I posted a series of Lateral Thinking puzzles that were solved suprisingly fast but seemed to be fun. You can still try to fgure them out. The answer is hidden so you can review the questions without stumbling upon the answer. Feel free to ask more questions. The answer is available by clicking the “Show” link which will reveal the answer.
Anyway. back to puzzle design…..
By Cowpattybill
Assume there are 6 billion people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person’s left hand? (For the purposes of this excercise, thumbs count as fingers, for a total of 5 fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number, then try to guess how long the number would be.
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Statistically speaking, with that many people on the planet there is bound to be people who have no fingers on their left hand. Any number multiplied by zero is zero.
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By Cowpattybill
A man buys coconuts at $5 a dozen and sells them for $3 a dozen. As a result of this, he becomes a millionaire. How come?
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The man is a philanthropist who bought great quantities of coconuts to sell to poor people at prices they could afford. He started out as a billionaire, but lost so much money in his good works that he became a millionaire!
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By Cowpattybill
Empty Earl’s car runs out of gasoline. His car tank holds exactly 13 gallons. He has three empty unmarked containers, which can hold 3 gallons, 6 gallons, and 11 gallons. Using only these containers at the gas station, how can Earl bring back exactly 13 gallons of gasoline? He is not allowed to buy more than 13 gallons or waste any of the fuel.
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Earl uses the gauge at the gas pump to measure out exactly 13 gallons. He puts 11 gallons in the large container and 2 gallons into one of the others.
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By Cowpattybill
A normal submarine was on the surface of the sea with its hatches open. It sailed due east for two miles. Then it stopped and went down 30 feet. It then sailed another half mile before going down a further 30 feet. All this time it kept its hatches fully open. The crew survived and were not alarmed in any way. What was going on?
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The ship was passing through the Panama Canal which is a series of locks that lower a ship (or submarine) down to the level of the other ocean
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