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Here's one:

The story behind Einstein's riddle is that Albert Einstein created it in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. I am not sure of the true origin, but I have seen this one floating around the internet, and it is a good brain exercise. Here it is:

- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?

Necessary clues:

1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

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The german, in the green house owns the fish...

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(I watched him work that out... Its so scary >_<) Anyway I have thought of another...

1. Two planes headed towards each other, and are currently 440 miles apart. If one is going 240 miles per hour and the other 360 miles per hour, how far apart will they be four minutes before they meet? (Extra credit if you can do this one without pen and paper.)

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40 miles apart. Combining their speeds we know that they are closing the gap at 600 miles per hour, which is 10 miles per minute (600 divided by 60 minutes in an hour). Therefore they will go 40 miles in the last four minutes (4 minutes times 10 miles).

What is 50% heavier than a cubic foot of coal, but when reduced in weight by 50% weighs less than a cubic foot of coal?

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Ah, the number of coal? I dunno.. :S

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Okay... Try this:

When you are alone in your car, try singing about something you are working on. This taps into and exercises your right brain. Have you ever noticed how it is easier to rhyme when you sing than when you just speak or write? This is because the right brain is better at pattern recognition. By doing this brain exercise regularly you can train yourself to tap into the power of the right brain. This will make you a more effective problem-solver. If you doubt the distinction between the hemispheres of the brain, look at how stutterers can stop stuttering as soon as they start singing.

I know it sounds stupid but oh well, works on Zigs when he can't think properly...

[toadette101]

A plane crashes on the border of Canada and the USA. It came from the East, from London. Where were the survivors buried?

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erm for Jett's one. 1.5 cubic foot of coal. 50% of that is 0.75 cubic foot fo coal. which is less then a cubic foot.

For assasi's: in london?

[doublemxx]

Assassin - You don't bury survivors...

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I am the ligtest thign in the world, yet no man can hold me for long. What am I?

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Snake: Air

Jett: just what I was gonna say

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Snake: Shadow?

Double MXX: I was gonna say that!

and Jett how do the work the fish one out?

[toadette101]

Uh, Double mxx was right for my riddle.

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

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footsteps

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Assassin - Love? O.o

Snake - Fire?

(Not good at these riddles)

Chaz - Jett did it in his head, so he might not be sure, but why not try it on a table? and fill in the blocks? (If that makes sense)