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Asked Anna, how much does this ridiculous narrative weigh? Hurriedly, Joe left his dormitory dirty room; while back at the classroom, schoolmaster Jones sat in silence, pondering his two-word biography of Madam Curie: Radium came. And speaking of hot, said the hot waitress: A stew, sir? I, in case of heavy rain, hire a navy. But when I encounter a persecution, I run to escape. When that fails, in desperation, a rope ends it! Regardless, fans of the King still insist Elvis lives. The best type of film starring Clint Eastwood? Old West Action. Little-known motto of Western Union: "No wire unsent." Oy! enough with the Morse code ... here come dots! Even worse, there sits a telephone girl repeating "Hello." My take of her conversation? Voices rant on! This year's winning bowling team is ... the astronomers' Moon Starers. And, as they were fond of saying, Behold the mystery of the eyes: they see all. And, no pun intended, but right "hear" set the ears. Wow, said Joe, upon reaching the countryside, no city dust here! He was a true naturalist - a trails nut. Said one person, at a convention of the centenarians, I can hear ten "tens"! Another said, what's eleven plus two? Twelve plus one! A third simply admonished, Sam, be silent! Listen, I finally got all these clothespins, so let's pinch something! Enjoy!

Yes. That's it. Care to elaborate?

There's an old con game played with the 24 cards of rank A-6 where opponents choose cards in turn from 6 face-up piles. The object is to make the running total exactly 31 with your card, or force opponent to exceed 31 with his. There is a simple formula to calculate a winning position, but care must be taken at the start. The "con" is to let opponent see the formula, then make him run out of needed cards at the end. When played with a single die, however, there is no limit to the number of times a particular value 1-6 can appear. Here's how it works. Player 1 throws a fair die, exposing a number from 1-6. Say it's a 2. Next player can then play any number that shows on the four exposed vertical sides. That is, he may play anything but 2 [the top face] or 5 [bottom face], by rotating the die 90o, thus putting one of side faces on top. Players alternate turning the die in this manner until the running total becomes 31 [player wins] or exceeds 31 [player loses]. If you're rolling the die, what number or numbers would be beneficial to roll?

Yeah, but it was really David. End of thread ... ... unless others want to continue it.

OK, didn't stipulate different letters have different values. Nice.

Juxtaposition is concatenation, not multiplication. i.e., interpret nn in the same way as noon

fat x fat = nonfat

nno = noon

Concatenation. For example, this is not a solution: 935 = (9 + 3 + 5) (9 x 3 x 5)

(t + h + i + n + k)3 = think

nb = brain

abc = (a + b + c) (a x b x c)

Yup - if the triangle is isosceles, you need only one cut and four pieces.

That's it.

Three actual circles. I originally heard it as three pancakes to be divided equally among four children for breakfast, by cutting them into five pieces. One child obvious gets two pieces, the other three get one each of the remaining pieces. It's not that difficult - maybe an aha! will strike ...

Warning: these problems involve some risk. Having said that, here are more values.

Knife, and straight edge if you want. No rulers or compass. If it's useful to know where the centers are, you may assume they're marked.

Like case 1. Four disjoint groups of equal aggregate area.

You can slice as you please, but not using eg a ruler or scales. And no more than 5 pieces.

That's it. Final one: when in the Bible did they sleep five in a bed?

Got it! And, to celebrate Spring Training, the first mention of baseball?

Who is the shortest person mentioned in the Bible?

The diameters of three circles form a right triangle. Without recourse to a measuring device, cut the circles into no more than five pieces that can be arranged into four groups of equal total area.