antiaircraft Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I'm back in the game! :P The answer to this puzzle is 81. It appears that in the Quoccorain mathematics system, their operators are the reverse of ours, and to get the final answer you must subtract 3 from the result and then multiply it by itself (i.e. square it). So 6/2 would become (6*2 - 3)^2, which is 81. It literally took me ages to get the reversed operator thing... <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 -Waves- Hello! Hope you didn't spend too much time on that one. :D What others do laterally I do upright. My namesakes have run races but I don't compete, alright? My cousins are dragons but not a lizard be, I do one thing that all men can't so what can I be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You know_THAT girl Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 A hummingbird? That's the only thing I can think of that flies upright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuuk Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Seahorses. I'd explain it but it would bore you all to death. Did you all know that the male seahorse is the one who gets pregnant and not the female? When the female is pregnant, she lets out a 'tube' for lack of a better word and it's attached to the male. She then transfers the unborn fetuses into the male. Weird, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You know_THAT girl Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Yes, I knew that. All I do in the summertime is watch discovery channel. ON TOPIC: Darn it! I was thinking fly was the only thing man couldn't do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Well technically, mankind has flown. We just did it in an unusual manner. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Lol, yeah. :) The answer was seahorse, too. You get a prize, Ryuuk! Anything in particular you'd like, and who shuld I send it to? Oh yeah, and I won't be on from Wednesday-Friday. :( There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Splitting, then spitting, sitting, siting, sting, ting, tin, in, and finally I. Comprehensive vocabularies rock! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuuk Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Uhm. . . I don't know. . . I don't go on Neopets really all that much anymore so it doesn't really matter to me. Just something simple and inexpensive, I suppose. sweet1234525036 is my username so. . . yah. And even though you prolly got it before I did, the word that I think it is is "startling". Remove the L and you get "Staring". Remove the second T, "String". Keep doing that and you would get these words, "Sing," "Sin," "In," and "I". I had fun with this one! ^_^ :( You're gonna be gone? Aww! Well, it can't be helped. I hope you have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Well it seems that both of those fit... :P I wonder if I could find another possible answer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Yes, the answer on the site was "startling", but "splitting" works as well, so you can both get a point. One day, an eccentric billionaire decided to give a destitute man a break. But not a total break, as we shall see. So, he invites him into a room in his mansion with seven doors. There is also a large-screen projector that projects the following five images, repeatedly, one at a time: A human brain, Earth, the incomplete phrase: 'Fair and ____,' the letters AZCONMUT and a cheese sandwich on plain white bread with the edges perfectly cut off. The poor man was allowed an entire day to study the images, after which he would have to choose the door that corresponded to the commonality of the images. The next day the man walked through the correct door, and the billionaire made him rich. What door did the man choose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuuk Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 He chose door four. The letters represent the four corners, also known as Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. I live in Arizona, so this one was easy to figure out. "Fair and ______" is "Fair and square". A square has four corners. A sandwich has four corners. Thus, the answer is door four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 That's correct! One day, Spy IQ found a note on the windshield wiper of his spymobile. It was from his boss. It concerned where the spy's next assignment was. Yet all the note said was: near angry print In what country is Spy IQ's next assignment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuuk Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 My first thought was Africa because the note said "Near Angry Print" and it reminded me of a cheetah.. but then I thought 'are cheetahs even native to Africa?' and then I reread the teaser. Windshield wipers are used to wipe of rain. I took the letters R A I and N out of "Near Angry Print" and got "E G Y P T". So the answer is Egypt. I have a friend in Egypt.. actually, he's not a friend, he's more of a stalker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 Too easy. :P O.o You have an Eygyptian Stalker? If Gary lives in Budapest, and Stan lives in Kabul, where does Mark live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuuk Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 He lives in Copenhagen in Denmark. Budapest is in Hungary. Kabul is in Pakistan. Copenhagen is in Denmark. Their names are the last letters in the name of the country they live in. And yes, I do have an Egyptian stalker. It's scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 Lol, I mean, poor you. :( Right again! My friend Jon has a telephone number that I can never remember, so I practise "dialling" the number in my calculator to get into the habit. As it happens, his number is 638468. I dialled on my teleohone to ring him last night but a voice at the other end of the line said "Hello, Newton 692462". Can you explain these events and tell me what I have done wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 That's simple enough. A calculator has its keys laid out like this: 7 8 9 4 5 6 1 2 3 But a phone is laid out like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 So when he dialled the number he had practised on his phone, he dialled 7, 8, and 9 respectively instead 1, 2, and 3, and vice versa. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 You're right, way too simple. (: Have I posted this before? I forget. I am your employer. You have a dead end job that you want to get out of. You are just dying to QUIT. But really, you don't have to do that. I'll let you resign with a huge payoff if you can spell the word QUIT. Oh, of course there's a catch: I DICTATE TO YOU how to spell it. Follow my lead: Given: Q = 17, 3, 2/5 U = 21, 3, 3/5 Task: Tell me what number sequence equals the letters I and T according to the pattern I gave you, thus completing the spelling of the word QUIT. If you are successful, I will let you go with a good recommendation, and with a lot of spending money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuuk Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I've heard this one before! It's really hard though because it takes a LOT of thinking. To make it short, you already have Q and U. Now all you need are I and T, which are, for I, 9, 4, and 3/5. T is 20, 3, and 3/5. I Q U I T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 That's right. You don't have to explain because the answer's really long. What am I? With it I am a collection. Without it, litigation. What am I? With it I am a hazard to health. Without it I am just myself. What am I? With it I am linked to a moon. Without it I am linked to the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Oh, I've heard this one before. I'll leave it to somebody else to answer for now. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuuk Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Erm. . . a suntan, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myriad Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 It's kind of like that, but different. Can you explain the question/answer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loc Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 I was kind of thinking of a sunburn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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