Brainteasers+and+Pundles

 =Brainteasers and Pundles =  Brainteasers:
 * Here are some real puzzling puzzles called brainteasers. Can you get the answer correct?[[image:http://www.neurovia.umn.edu/INC/images/brain.gif width="228" height="178" align="right" caption="Brainteasers and Pundles"]]

1. A farmer had 9 sheep. All but seven died. How many did he have left?

2. Three large people try to crowd under 1 small umbrella, but nobody gets wet. How is this possible?

3. A certain 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it. What is the word?

4. An electric train is traveling northwest at 95 mph, and the wind is blowing south west at 95 mph. Which direction is the smoke blowing?

5. A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask, stands at the crossroads in a totally black-painted town. There is no moon. All of the streetlights are broken. A black-painted car without headlights drives straight toward him, but turns in time and doesn't hit him. How did the driver know to swerve?

6. A horse is tied to a 30-foot rope. A haystack lies 40-feet away, but the horse is able to eat from it. How is this possible?

7. While on my way to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks; Each sack had seven cats; Each cat had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?

8. What do you call a man who was born in Columbus, raised in Cincinnati, and died in Chicago?

9. If you had one match and entered a room in which there were a kerosene lamp, an oil burner, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?

10. How many animals of each gender did moses take aboard the ark?

11. A clerk in the butcher's shop is five foot ten. What does he weigh?

12. How much dirt is there in a hole in the ground that's two feet wide, three feet long, and four feet deep?

13. Which word is always spelled incorrectly?

14. George's mother had 3 kids: on named April, one named May, and one named what?

15. A prison cell with a dirt floor, stone walls, no window but a skylight very high up in the ceiling; no furniture except for a mattress. The prisoner manages to escape through the skylight. How?

16. The Masters family is moving to a new house. They have a dog, a cat, and a mouse. The animals don't get along very well in the car so they can only go one at a time. There are other problems. They can't leave the dog alone with the cat, because otherwise the dog would chase the cat. They can't leave the cat with the mouse, for obvious reasons. How can the Master's family get all the pets to the new house?

17. 2 students are sitting on opposite sides of the same desk. There is nothing between them but the desk. Why can't they see each other?

18. Supposedly, a century ago, two Frenchmen, Alphonse and Gaston, fought a duel with pistols. Each one put a bullet through his opponent's head. Yet neither Alphonse nor Gaston died. How can this be? **

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Pundles:


 * Pundles are configurations of letters, lines, and symbols that "spell out" familiar words and phrases. Can you figure these pondering, puzzling, pundles?!

__STOOD__ MISS

__WAITING__

__RUN__ SENTENCE

__HANDED__ TRICK

NOON / MID

ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL TOWN ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL

H H H E E E A A A D D D H H H E E E A A A D D D H H H E E E A A A D D D

BOAT BOAT BOAT BOAT BOAT

NIGHT NIGHT

C O U N T

__COVER__ AGENT

VISION VISION

__STORM__ TH

N STRANGERS I STRANGERS G STRANGERS H STRANGERS T

__EGGS__ EZ

S M O T T O B

E G S G

__i i i__ U

__COLLAR__ HOT

A W T E R

S S I I D D E E

__BEAT BEAT................____BEAT__

__WINTER__ COAT

__ONCE__**
 * TIME

H S A L F

__HEAD__ HEELS

O_ER_T_O_**