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rhapsodize has it [2], with d3k3 coming in a few minutes later. Nice job.

Good answers all, but not quite: Lortek - can't add s to your word. CJ and danimal - adding s removes plural, but your word is not a foe to ease or tranquil slumber itachi-san - adding s removes plural, and [in most cases] that would be sweet. But the resulting word should be sweet.

A word there is of plural number; foe to ease and tranquil slumber. Any other word you take, and add an "s" will plural make. But if you add an "s" to this, so strange the metamorphosis: Plural is now plural no more, and sweet what bitter was before.

Agree with both previous posters ... my first post missed it.

Welcome to Brainden, this puzzle has already been posted.

I did not do the math, since Chuck Norris never uses math when he shaves. However, I did sketch a plot of the entire event, introducing zigs and zags at the precise moments of his boulder movement and nature gazing, by channeling his motions as I read the accounts. Thus I was able to determine that the exact place on the trail where he met himself coming down was 0.6832" +/- 0.0003" from the left edge of the sketch. I will scan and post the sketch if there are doubters.

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Mr. Butler, Mr, Carter, Mr. Driver and Mr. Hunter are employed as a butler, carter, driver and hunter. None of them has a name that identifies his profession. They make the following statements. [1] Mr. Carter is the hunter. [2] Mr. Driver is the carter. [3] Mr. Butler is not the hunter. [4] Mr. Hunter is not the butler. If these statements are all true, Mr. Butler must be the butler. Since this is impossible, at least one statement is false. How many statements are false? [OK three of the statements are false.] But who is the driver?

Yup - unless ChuckJerry counts for two. In that case all four of you got it right. Nice Job!

It was quiet at Morty's last night. But only for a few minutes; then Alex walked in, with his usual enigmatic smile. So I'm not so good with a target pistol as I am at darts, he said, to no one in particular. But I am pretty good a puzzles, if I do say. That caught Davey's ear, and Jamie's too, as they found their way to the table where Alex was looking at the target he'd used the night before at the shooting range. Ya see the holes here, he said. Aidan and Ian and myself here, we all had six shots. And even though we had had a few cold ones before shooting, we kept track of our separate shots long enough to know that we all got exactly the same total score! Now the question that I have for you geniuses is this. Ya see here that only one shot hit the bullseye for 50 points. Beyond the fact all three of us had the same total score, I'll tell you that Aidan scored 22 points on his first two shots. And - quite amazingly, given my level of skill at the thing - my first shot scored only 3. Now if the two of you are as smart as ya make out to be, one of you should be able to tell me who it was that hit the bull. The bet is drinks for a week. Any takers? Davey and Jamie looked at the holes in the target and noted the scores of each shot: 50 - 1 25 - 2 20 - 3 10 - 3 05 - 2 03 - 2 02 - 2 01 - 3 Davey stroked his beard and thought, while Jamie's head began to spin. Finally Davey decided to take the bet. Should he have taken the bet? Who hit the bull?

Three applicants showed up at the CIA for the position: two men and a woman. To qualify, they were brought to a large metal door and handed a gun with the instructions to go inside, find their spouse sitting tied to a chair and, without delay or discussion, to kill the spouse. You can't be serious! said the first man, I could never shoot my wife. He failed the test and was told to take his wife and go home. The second man took the gun and entered the room. All was quiet for about five minutes, when he came out and, with tears in his eyes, said that he tried, but could not bring himself to pull the trigger. He also failed the test, and he left, hugging his wife - both in tears. Finally, it was the woman's turn. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one after another, followed by screaming, crashing sounds, loud banging on the walls. Then all was quiet. The door opened, and the woman appeared, sweaty and disheveled. What kind of !@#$!@#$ test was that? she asked. That @#$%@# gun was loaded with blanks, and I had to beat the $#%@#$% to death with the chair! There's a moral here, but we'll let it pass. She got the job.

Nope ... the reason cemeteries need fences is that people are dying to get in. Coffin nails must be for another reason.

Lightz, I appreciate your patience with me. Now hold on, this may shock you: If 2 + 2 = 5 then New York is a small city. That logic is valid. I state it because it shows what happens when the premise is false. What happens is that valid logic can take you to a wrong conclusion. This entire discussion is about your premise, not your logic. If you want to defend your answer you'll have to defend your premise. That is, you'll have to tell us why you are insisting that the first child is a girl. If you post again, make the first thing you do to point to the words in the OP that say the first child is a girl. Just copy and highlight those words. You see, the OP does nothing more than rule out the Boy-Boy possibility. Nothing more. Nothing. If you think it rules out the Boy-Girl possibility, show where it does that. In the Boy-Girl case, the statement "one of them is a girl" is absolutely true. There is no contradiction. The OP - unless you can show us what we missed - DOES NOT rule out the Boy-Girl possibility. I think that statement has been made enough times that you can't ignore it anymore. Show us the words in the OP that rule out the Boy-Girl case, and we will agree with you. If the B-G case is left in, then the G-G case is 1 out of 3. And I think you agree with that. It's all about the premise. OK? Above all, have fun. Oh, and leave the goat for it's own forum.

I didn't put that very well. Rather I meant move outward in a manner that keeps herself, the center of the ice and the thug in a straight line. Inside the "escape radius" she's always able to do that. She will move at her max speed with a tangential component to her velocity that matches the thug's angular velocity and the rest of her velocity in an outward radial direction.

It's not said that they are evenly matched. Just that there are two colors, red and black.