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Body Parts
There are ten body parts whose names are three letters long (not including slang terms). What are they?
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  Black to Play
It seems that White, somewhat exposed, is safely surrounded by his pieces and Black’s queen is under attack and is bishop on b7 is shut out. However, all is not what it seems. It’s a mate in six!
View solutionOpen = Closed
Add the same word to each side of the equation to make the equation correct:
OPEN = CLOSED
View full teaser and answerWhere is LGR?
Below is a list of five countries, all with the vowels removed. Can you name them?
1) LGR
 2) CRT
 3) THP
 4) CDR
 5) ND
Hidden Category
Remove a letter from each of the words below and rearrange the remaining letters to form new words. The 10 words will all fall into a certain category. For example, given the words DEAR, ANGRY, and RENEGE, you could drop the "A" in DEAR to get RED, drop the "N" in ANGRY to get GRAY, and drop an "E" in RENEGE to get GREEN. These would all fall into the category of "Colors".
If you're stuck, the hint will name the category. The tough part is getting all 10 words.
AGENT
 FABLE
 PAWNS
 TOUSLE
 ANOTHER
 CARDIAC
 CONSULT
 GAWKIER
 GRUBBED
 TEMERITY
Hint: The category is insects.
View full teaser and answerThe Spookyville Potion Hunt
It is Halloween down in SpookyVille and the residents are getting ready to do their annual potion finding contest. In this contest, each of 5 people are assigned an ingredient of the special potion that they are to find. The first one back with their ingredient is the winner. With the clues listed can you figure out who, what kind of monster they are, which ingredient they were assigned, and how long it took them to find it?
Names: Mr. Jack, Mrs. Greenskin, Mr. Redeye, Ms. Trans, and Mr. Blood
 Monsters: skeleton, witch/warlock, vampire, ghost, and zombie
 Ingredients: werewolf hair, vampire tooth, zombie blood, mummy bandage, and potion vial
 Time: 20 minutes, 15 minutes...
Common Words
What is common to the following words?
buy, catch, seek, teach, bring, fight, work, think.
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  White to Play
I’m taking a game from my latest Openings for Amateurs book—the last in a trilogy. Openings for Amateurs: Theory vs. Practice won Book of the Year (instructional category) from the Chess Journalists of America for 2025. The explanatory notes took almost five pages, so I’m just giving one of the key positions; however, here is the whole ...
View solutionChains Reaction
The words in Group A share a common property that only one word in Group B satisfies. Which one is it?
Group A:
 Chains
 Countess
 Stained
 Schooled
 Purring
 Corny
Group B:
 Reaction
 Penned
 Spoiled
 Stints
 Putting
 Hurry
Age Mix-Up
Jordan, Justin and Jeff are brothers whose ages are 29, 30 and 31 (in any order). Your job is to determine the brothers' ages from the clues below. There's one catch though....only ONE clue is true. The rest are false. Good luck!
1. Justin is 30
 2. Jordan is the youngest
 3. Jordan is 31
 4. Justin is one year older and one year younger than his brothers.
 5. Justin is not the youngest.
 6. Jordan is not two years older than Justin.
 7. Justin is the oldest
 8. Jeff is older than Jordan.
  White to Play
This is from a very famous game at New York, 1924, where US Champ Frank Marshall comes up with an attack for the ages. We are giving the whole game because it’s worth playing over. The brilliant moves start earlier than the diagram, so you should look at the previous moves for a real learning experience. Here’s how it started. 1.d4 Nf6 2....
View solutionMiracle Mountain
A hiker climbs all day up a steep mountain path and arrives at the mountain top where he camps overnight. The next day he begins the descent down the same trail to the bottom of the mountain when suddenly he looks at his watch and exclaims, "That is amazing! I was at this very same spot at exactly the same time of day yesterday on my way up."
What is the probability that a hiker will be at exactly the same spot on the mountain at the same time of day on his return trip, as he was on the previous day's hike up the mountain? Is the probability closest to (A) 99% or (B) 50% or (C) 0.1% ?
View full teaser and answerNaming Names
In each equation below, part of a common name has been replaced with a definition for a word that is contained within that name. By answering the definition and completing the equation, you will find the name. (Ric + difficult = ric + hard = Richard)
Hint: Each is a girl's name.
1. Wrath + ne =
 2. O + friend =
 3. I + morose + ora =
 4. B + building extension + e =
 5. S + relate a story + a =
Born Liars
Edward, Howard, and John are three high school students each of whom is taking three of the four subjects, biology, chemistry, history, and mathematics. One day while talking about their programs they made the following statements.
Edward: There is just one subject we're all taking. I'm the only one of us who is taking mathematics. No two of us are taking the same three subjects. John is wrong when he says that Howard and I are both taking chemistry.
Howard: Ed is the only one of us who is taking history. John and I are taking the same subjects. We're all taking biology. Two of us are taking both chemistry and biology.
John: We're all taking mathematics. Howard is taking history. Ed is...
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  Black to Play
It’s Friday. Are you ready for a long think about an extended attack on your opponent leading to mate?
View solutionTake the Blue Pill
You've been placed on a course of expensive medication in which you are to take one tablet of Sildenafil and one tablet of Citrate daily. You must be careful that you take just one of each because taking more of either can have serious side effects.
Taking Sildenafil without taking Citrate, or vice versa, can also be very serious, because they must be taken together in order to be effective. In summary, you must take exactly one of the Sildenafil pills and one of the Citrate pills at one time. Therefore, you open up the Sildenafil bottle, and you tap one Sildenafil pill into your hand. You put that bottle aside and you open the Citrate bottle. You do the same, but by mistake, two ...
View full teaser and answerShort-Lived
What does this rebus translate to?
Hit. Der.
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  White to Play
A bit of a change of pace. We haven’t done a composed mate in three in a while. There are very few pieces on the board, so you have a fighting chance.
View solutionCan You See?
Can you decipher this common phrase?
eyeeseeexcept
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