The Crafty Puzzles Company: January 2015

Saturday, 31 January 2015

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 01, 2015)

Word Links III

Insert one word in each pair to link the two words together. The end of the first word is the beginning of the second.

1. Push __ __ __ Cushion

2. Digital __ __ __ __ __ __ Shy

3. Crystal __ __ __ __ Park

4. First __ __ __ __ __ Clown

5. Bed __ __ __ __ Candy

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Brain Teaser 1/31/2015

Tom went to town with $50, but returned at night with $150. He bought a hat at a clothing store and some apples at the market, then he had his eyes tested.

Here are a few facts:

Tom gets paid every Thursday by check.

The banks are only open on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

The eye doctor is closed on Saturday.

The market stays closed on Thursday and Friday.

On what day did the man go to town?

Solution

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Airplanes Are Coming Out Of His Ears! Crazy Optical Illusion Picture.

Hello everyone and welcome to a brand new day! Today is Saturday, and what are you all doing today? Any special plans for the day like going out to an air show or anything else that is nice and exciting? Some people like to go out and watch planes fly around, and today’s optical illusion is all about a man at an air show, and it looks like the airplanes are coming out of the man’s head. Do you think he’s really got planes that live inside his skull or is it just an optical illusion that was taken at just the right moment?

While you all are out, you may be using a cell phone in order to do things like take pictures, and one of the world’s most famous cell phones come from the Apple Company. Check out this cool optical illusion that takes the Apple logo, and inserts the image of its famous company founder, Steve Jobs, into the logo, and it looks amazing! Steve Jobs died not too long ago, but he will never be forgotten, and every time anyone uses an Apple product, they pay tribute to his memory. Have a good Saturday everyone and don’t forget to have a good time!

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Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and a Nazi supporter, and used his company, money…

Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and a Nazi supporter, and used his company, money and influence to spread and legitimize antisemitic views. He blamed every national problem on Jews, from strikes to depressions, and received the “Grand Cross of the German Eagle” from the Nazis in 1938.

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If you are Jewish and 18-26 years old, you are entitled…

If you are Jewish and 18-26 years old, you are entitled to a free 10 day trip to Israel.

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The expiration date on bottled water…

The expiration date on bottled water is for the bottle, not the water.

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Mail-order marriages are less likely to end in divorce than…

Mail-order marriages are less likely to end in divorce than marriages overall in the United States

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Today in History for 31st January 2015

Historical Events

1817 - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau" premieres in Vienna

1851 - Gail Borden announces invention of condensed milk

1862 - Astronomer Alvan Graham Clark makes first observation of Sirius B (first known white dwarf star) in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts while testing his new telescope

1964 - US report "Smoking and Health" connects smoking to lung cancer

1968 - Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR

1983 - In an effort to reduce driving deaths, a new law in UK requires drivers and front-seat passengers to wear seatbelts

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1911 - A G Ogston, president (Trinity College-Oxford)

1919 - Jackie Robinson, Ga, 1st African American major league baseball player (Dodgers)

1944 - Eugene Terre Blanche, S Afr leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging

1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher

1964 - Oto Hascak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)

1966 - Jamie Taras, CFL guard (BC Lions)

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1606 - Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35

1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)

1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)

1919 - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79

1995 - James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86

2008 - Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)

More Famous Deaths »

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Friday, 30 January 2015

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 31, 2015)

Hurt Feelings?

You mix and disrupt me,

But it makes me stronger.

You just ignore me,

But I get harder the longer.

To cap it off,

It's surprising to see,

You end up walking

All over me.

What am I?

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Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture. In the U.S.A., voices are harsh…

Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture. In the U.S.A., voices are harsh and threatening while those heard by schizophrenics in Africa and India tend to be more benign and playful.

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While men seen the average woman as average looking…

While men seen the average woman as average looking, women see the average man as below average.

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The fizzy sensation on your tongue from carbonated drinks is not caused…

The fizzy sensation on your tongue from carbonated drinks is not caused by the tiny bubbles popping; the fizz is our actual taste of carbon dioxide.

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Morgan Freeman is against Black History…

Morgan Freeman is against Black History Month. “Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”

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Brain Teaser 1/30/2015

2 For Fun...

1. How can a woman in New York, without getting a divorce or becoming a widow, or otherwise legally separated, legally marry 10 men?

2. Hi! Ma and Pa told me I'd better say that all the two-letter words in this paragraph have something in common ...... or else! What's the common factor here?

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