I really like the 'life' and the 'virginity' answers. They work well too.

Congrats Noct, though you don't seem to be sure about it

a shower

Here's the desired hint:

wept is meant as a poetic form for falling liquid

Just a little reinforcement on the 'eye' answer. For the second line, you would have to assume the person had both of their eyes. What if they got into one of those literal 'eye for an eye' ordeals?

Nice try with 'an eye'

The saying 'an eye for an eye' doesn't usually include the word 'take', and I'd say that it usually isn't kept. Usually isn't never though. i.e. sometimes what's taken in revenge can be kept, particularly if the people were actually taking each other's eyes out

Eye works well with the second part though

The second line doesn't apply to chances, but it works nicely with the first one

Not quite.

A runny nose can't be taken, let alone often. At least that's not a familiar term and would require an explanation.

A temperature can be kept.

OK, I'm counting the 13th floor as floor in this one:

Cody's brother - 17

Roger's brother - 13

Marcus' sister - 7

Brittany's brother - 11

Erin's sister - 3

Should I post an answer?

These are awesome. It's the first time I wished that I listened to Pop Music

I did the opposite. I took a square and looked at the possibility of how many positions could land on it. I'm still thinking I'm right. Black plus white doesn't have to add up to 49 because the ruler is not the same as just picking squares.

I'm not really sold on this, can you give an example showing this multiple connection? or can you show how you got your answers?

what does:

multiple squares can connect to multiple black spaces

mean?

Oh i get it! Makes more sense if you say 1 square can connect to multiple black spaces

#1 is 23/49 by the same reasoning:

There are 12 white squares that have 2 possibilities (at the corners)

There are 16 white squares that have 3 possibilities (by the centers of each boundary line)

There are 5 white squares that have 4 possibilties (in the center)

=24 + 48 + 20 = 92 possibilities

divided by 196 (49 possibilities for the beginning of the ruler * 4 possibilities for the end)

=92/196

=23/49

For #2, the probability of landing on a black square is 12/49.

Reasoning: take each 4 square black section. 1 square (the outer-most) has 2 possibilities, 2 squares have 3 and 1 square (the inner-most) has 4.

Added together, this makes 12 * 4 groups of black squares = 48.

And the probability for the ruler is 1/49 for the first square * 1/4 for where it lands (only 4 possible places) = 196

48/196 = 12/49

Well, a hand in marriage isn't 'taken often', but you did provide some nice explanations.

the answer requires no explanation

good guess with the blood and urine but they can be kept

I'm pretty sure Siamese twins can't just get away with murder

good try, but a tissue wouldn't be the one weeping

I strongly disagree with 50% and the coin flip analogy. With this problem the tank needs to get across multiple bridges (at least 3) to get across.Therefore, you have to take all previously crossed bridges' probabilities into account. The shortest number of bridges the tank can cross is 3, but that doesn't mean it will cross 3. I'm not sure what the math would be to determine the number of bridges crossed, but the answer is at the most 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = .125, though I'm certain the answer is lower because the amount of bridges to be crossed is higher than 3 since the original question doesn't ask for the least amount. Can anyone help on the math for that? (is it really 7-3=4? and if so, why?)

I like this one

29 TWENTY NINE (assuming 20 has 18 lines, and 9 has 11 lines)

Nice one, though not what what I had in mind

I agree there is no pattern.

Tanstaafl, it's never good if you are only using 1 example based on the given 4 numbers to conclude a series pattern. Also, 1/2 divided by 1 doesn't equal 1.

a yoyo

[Surgeon]

well, judging by the answers, everyone hasn't heard it yet

But yes, it's the mother

Taken often, but never kept

Never alone, have I wept

Apparently I can only think of rhyming riddles