The Crafty Puzzles Company: July 2014

Thursday 31 July 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Aug 01, 2014)

Unappreciated Counterparts

The two of us keep a low profile

Without us you would not be mobile

Seldom looked at but frequently used

We're often depressed but not abused

Side by side with functions opposite

Managing the go and stop of it

What are we?

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24 Pictures That Show Exactly What True Love Looks Like

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The 8 Most Insanely Unhealthy Restaurant Meals In America

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22 More Disney Movie Easter Eggs You May Have Never Noticed

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16 Doctors On The Dumbest Patients They Have Ever Treated

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How Many Of These Celebrities Are Natural Redheads?

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Stop Everything You Are Doing And Watch This Woman Dance

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The 27 Most Brilliant Things That Have Ever Happened

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This Bank's ATM Surprised Its Customers In The Most Incredibly Touching Way

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Today in History for 31st July 2014

Historical Events

1942 - U-boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton

1954 - Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)

1961 - 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston

1965 - Cigarette advertsing banned on British TV

1983 - B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame

2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.

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Famous Birthdays

1598 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)

1880 - Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)

1918 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1929 - Don Murray, California, actor (Bus Stop, Advise and Consent, Endless Love)

1953 - Hugh McDowell, chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line)

1959 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist

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Famous Deaths

1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)

1953 - Robert Taft, (Sen-R-Oh) "Mr Republican", dies in NY at 63

1981 - Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash

1992 - G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72

1994 - Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66

2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)

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23 Comebacks '00s Girls Are Still Using

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Phoebe Buffay's 27 Best Lines On "Friends"

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Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, while in jail, threatened…

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, while in jail, threatened to go on a hunger strike if his PS2 wasn’t replaced by a PS3, and if his weekly allowance wasn’t increased, among other requests

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The richest woman in Germany met her future husband while she was working…

The richest woman in Germany met her future husband while she was working in an apprenticeship at BMW (which she owned 12.5 percent of) under a fake name. He had no idea who she actually was until they were sure about their relationship.

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Humans actually knew the earth was round as early as 2500 years ago…

Humans actually knew the earth was round as early as 2500 years ago. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the planet to an astounding accuracy of around 99%.

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Brain Teaser 7/31/2014

1. The following number is the only one of its kind. Can you figure out what is so special about it? 8,549,176,320

2. Insert the missing letter:

J ? M A M J J A

Solution

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Birthday Gift Baskets - The Best Of Gifts

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Wednesday 30 July 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 31, 2014)

Trapdoors

There are five doors, one leads to the exit, the others lead to traps. They are in a line. The clues tell you which position the doors are in the line and where the door to freedom is. All the clues are true. Each door has a clue written on it. The clues read:

The blue door: This door is two spots away from the door to freedom.

The red door: This door is at the far right, and is two spots away from the blue door.

The purple door: This door is not next to the door to freedom.

The green door: This door is left of the blue door.

The orange door: This door is not next to the red or blue doors.

Which door leads to freedom?

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Hanging Out

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The New Hybrids

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