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.Mel 
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 11:37am |
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Just cos I'm bored and it's so crappy outside... thought we could try this brain teaser..Feel free to add your own ones.
See If You Can Figure Out What These Words Have In Common ...
Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 11:44am |
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Is it something to do with the pairs of letters mirrored in each word?
ie: AN and NA in banana
AM and MA in grammar
OT and TO in potato
Or am I reading too deep?
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 11:52am |
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Is it that apart from the first letter they can be read back to front (I know theres a proper word for it)
eg take the A from Assess and its ssess, the B from banana is anana
Or am I totally wrong?
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 11:53am |
oooo wow both of those ones work.... u guys are smart....
(by the way thanks for this Mel, I'll give it to my class next week  )
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 11:59am |
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I think its called a palendrome? (sp)
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:09pm |
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My daughters favorite one is ....
"Mum can you draw a square with three lines?"
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:38pm |
 Paws wrote:
Is it something to do with the pairs of letters mirrored in each word?
ie: AN and NA in banana
AM and MA in grammar
OT and TO in potato
Or am I reading too deep? |
Ditto
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 1:17pm |
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I think it's the whole move the first letter to the end and it spells the same backwards... so yeah, working on the palindrome theory.
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 1:34pm |
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The second & last letter are the same
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B: 2004
K: 2007
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:01pm |
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Well done!!!
In All Of The Words Listed,
If You Take The First Letter,
Place It At The End Of The Word,
And Then Spell The Word Backwards,
It Will Be The Same Word.
Ok who's got one??
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:05pm |
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If there were ten birds on the wall and one was shot how many birds are left? (think logically)
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B: 2004
K: 2007
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:10pm |
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There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:31pm |
Glow wrote:
If there were ten birds on the wall and one was shot how many birds are left? (think logically) |
None
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:32pm |
Glow wrote:
There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? |
First One:
incorrectly
Second One:
Not sure yet.
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:35pm |
Glow wrote:
If there were ten birds on the wall and one was shot how many birds are left? (think logically) |
None cos the others would all fly away
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:35pm |
Glow wrote:
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? |
An umbrella 
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:37pm |
yep, yep & yep 
Who has some more, these are fun
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:59pm |
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During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try and identify who stole Mrs Archer's cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:
Arnold: it wasn't Edward
it was Brian
Brian: it wasn't Charlie
it wasn't Edward
Charlie: it was Edward
it wasn't Arnold
Derek: it was Charlie
it was Brian
Edward: it was Derek
it wasn't Arnold
It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 3:09pm |
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It was Charlie
Arnold: it wasn't Edward
it was Brian (lie: it wasn't Brian)
Brian: it wasn't Charlie (lie: it was Charlie)
it wasn't Edward
Charlie: it was Edward (lie: it wasn't Edward)
it wasn't Arnold
Derek: it was Charlie
it was Brian (lie: it wasn't Brian)
Edward: it was Derek (lie: It wasn't Derek)
it wasn't Arnold
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Posted: 23 June 2008 at 3:10pm |
Kelpa wrote:
My daughters favorite one is ....
"Mum can you draw a square with three lines?" |
I still don't get this one... give us a clue??
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