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the teaser

a man is on a search for atlantis and comes upon an island where all the
inhabitants know whether
atlantis is still around or not. however all of the inhabitants are either
fairies or trolls and they all
use a spell to appear humanoid so you cannot tell which is which. and the faries
always tell the truth
and the trolls always lie, but there is a slight complcation, some of the fairies
have gone insane and
always lie and some of the trolls have also gone insane and always tell the truth.
so here is your task:
you must ask the first inhabitant that you come to one question and from that
one question you
must determine wether atlantis is still around or not. what is the question
that you must ask?

before you go for the answer, think about it. it's no fun to cheat
 you're getting very close to the answer, are you sure you have solved it in
your mind?

last chance to turn back here comes the answer.........

the answer

(1)"is the statement that you are reliable equivalent to the statement that
atlantis is still around?" or
(2)"do you believe that the statement that you are a fairy is equivalent to the
statement that atlantis
is still around?"

submitted by kevin roberts

 the teaser

state the words of the one homonym in the english language where the two words
have the exact
opposite meaning.

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you're getting very close to the answer, are you sure you have solved it in
your mind?

last chance to turn back here comes the answer.........

 the answer

raise and raze raise as in to build up, construct raze as in to demolish,

tear down

hole and whole are close but not as exact as raise/raize.

submitted by frederick langheim

the teaser

find the next number in the series 11 12 20 23 33 46 .....

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 the answer

all the numbers given are the fibonacci numbers in increasing bases starting
2 !! therfore, 12 =
5base3, 20=8base4, 23=13base5 etc ... answer = 67 which is 55base8

submitted by siddhartha mathur

the teaser

here is my question: 11 - 4 - 9 - 164 - ?

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the answer

1.11 2.2 3.3 4.41 5.5=25 this is a sequence of :

(natural number i starting from 1) * (the first prime number starting

with 1)

submitted by ahmet salih iscen

the teaser

i go up and down at the very same time i exist throughout life on only one side i
am very old and yet
may be new you might see me but i'll never see you....

before you go for the answer, think about it. it's no fun to cheat
 you're getting very close to the answer, are you sure you have solved it in
your mind?

last chance to turn back here comes the answer.........

the answer

the moon

submitted by heidi sprague

the teaser

a man lives in his house. he also works out of his house and his job is very
important. everyday the
man must sleep with the lights on to avert from tradgedy. one night the man gets
so sick of the light
he turns it out for the night. the next moring he reads the newspaper, takes out
a gun, and shoots
himself. where did the man live?

before you go for the answer, think about it. it's no fun to cheat
 you're getting very close to the answer, are you sure you have solved it in
your mind?

last chance to turn back here comes the answer.........

the answer

a light house

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