The Crafty Puzzles Company: 03/12/16

Saturday 12 March 2016

Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 13, 2016)

Ping Pong in a Tube

You are in a room that is an 8x8x8 perfect cube. There are no windows, or doors (don’t ask me how you got in there!) In the center of the floor there is a 12 inch pipe that is sticking 6 inches out of the floor. In the bottom of the pipe is a ping pong ball with a diameter that is one millimeter smaller than the inner diameter of the pipe. You have a 12 inch piece of string, a match, a magnifying glass, a 6″ ruler and a paper clip. How do you get the ping pong ball out of the hole?

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Mar 13, 2016)

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
This little ditty was written in 1963. Do you know what makes the most wonderful time of the year?

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Inimitable

in-im-i-ta-ble

adj. :: Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique

“No, not since nature had given them the splendid sight of a cosmical meteor bursting from expansion, since this inimitable firework, which no Ruggieri could imitate, had lit up for some seconds the invisible glory of the moon.” –Verne, Jules

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Mellifluous

mel-lif-lu-ous

adj. :: Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly

“…polite and cordial, with a mellifluous, well-educated voice” — H.W. Crocker III.

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Sanctioned Misanthropy

No, we don’t recycle nonconformists.

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Found at Kyoto train station, Japan.

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Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 27, 2016)

Missing Letters 10

Below are incomplete words. Replace the letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.

Ri ( _ _ _ ) satile

Al ( _ _ _ ) oury

Mo ( _ _ _ ) ergo

Unaw ( _ _ _ ) na

A ( _ _ _ _ ) ounce

Fel ( _ _ _ ) ly

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