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He wins again!! A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?

Oh, god - it's the ghost of Richard Whiteley! From Yorkshire to boot....

Hi NRG!! The Patek looks like a great choice!! Don't forget to post some pics when it arrives. Cheers!

I have no idea how this works.......but I like it! Yes Sue is the visitor because she told the truth about there being one native. You win an extra special prize for getting this right : click here: Australian competition with strikingly similar question They don't actually say what the prize is....but if you're lucky it might be more junk mail!! This should be a quick 'un: What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

That's right Puggy - I knew what you neamt anyway! And I think Ken explained it better than the card did! There are lots of similar puzzles to this, but worth a whirl once I reckon.... Sam was taking a holiday break on BIN Island, an island where the girls are often sans underwear, the natives always lie, and the visitors always tell the truth He was strolling along the beach one day when he approached two ladies tanning themselves. One of the ladies got up and said, "I'm Sue and this is my friend Dolly." One of the ladies was a native and the other a visitor. After her introduction Sue said to Sam, "one of us is a native." Which one is a native and which one is a visitor?

Yes! [This is for Australia, where there are no quarters] Professor Quantum has two coins which total 30 cents. Since one of the coins is not 10 cents, what are the two coins?

WINNER!!! And, of course, it's a bit like asking how many gaps there are between the hour markers on a watch. Captain Frank was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?

Interesting question.... More seriously, I found your train of thought a bit difficult to follow. Could you break it down?

Good to see that the foot-stepping kept you all going for ten minutes as opposed to the usual two! It's Friday.....here's something easy. If a wheel has 64 spokes, how many spaces are there between the spokes?

Great result! Phew! Kudos to Bignasty!

"It's good, but it's not right...!"

Not really a solution, but perhaps this discussion on alt horology might help point you in the right direction: Omega condensation problem

Yes! And 8 troy ounces of liquid gold as well! (65 ancient roman denarii if it's any use....no? No. ) Right - before I shoot off..... A man and a boy who are walking together step out with their right feet first. The boy walks three paces while the man walks two. When will they both put their left feet forward together? Explain.

TWO minutes! Well, technically the card says no (it's a good bet for Arthur not Jimmy) - but you've obviously got it. He would bend it in half. WINNER! A balance scale is perfectly balanced when there are three cans of beer on one side of the scale and one can of beer and one-half kilogram bar of gold on the other. Since all the cans of beer are exactly the same size and weight, how much does one can of beer weigh? Mmmm....beer....

Ach, THREE MINUTES! WINNER! Yes, they're not playing each other. By the way everyone - print these exact questions off and you'll not only have a great family game.....you'll have a great family game THAT YOU ARE VERY GOOD AT!! Arthur tore one paper match out of a matchfolder, threw it in the air and noticed that it landed on its side. Arthur continued to pick up the same match, toss it in the air, and each time the match landed on its side. Jimmy, who was standing nearby, could no longer contain his curiosity so he walked over and asked Arthur what he was doing. Arthur explained that 26 out of 26 times the match landed on its side. Jimmy looked at Arthur and exclaimed: "of course it landed on its side, a paper match always will." Arther smiled and said "Jimmy, I bet you $100 that if I give you this match and you throw it in the air, it will land on its edge." Would this be a good bet for Jimmy to take?

The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won again. The local paper read: PASTOR’S ASS OUT FRONT The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in another race. The next day, the local paper headline read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR’S ASS. This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the pastor to get rid of the donkey. The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent. The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next day: NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN. The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10. The next day the paper read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10 This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild. The next day the headlines read: NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE The bishop was buried the next day.

N T is right!! WINNER! Captain Abe and Professor Quantum played chess. They played seven games, each won the same number of games, and there weren't any draws or stalemates. How could this have happened?

I shall lodge your complaint with the publisher immediately Oh yeah, and....YOU WIN! What are the next two letters in the following series: (According to the back of the card!) A E F H I K L M

And then….. HE REMEMBERED!!! "Of course!" He said, slapping the wheel. Killing the engine, he snatched the keys from the ignition and clenched them in his fist. With renewed purpose, he sprung from his car, ran out his garage door and started sprinting back towards the front door. "I'm sure of it," he thought. It all fitted together. The new Panerai on his wrist. The bottle of brandy. The other bottle of brandy. The lady in his bed. Running up the stairs, beginning to lose breath, he turned into the doorway of his bedroom and darted towards the bed. That girl, lying so still. He whipped the sheet from upon her, and it all came back. Her eyes opened, looking up with a start. "Yes, I remember now!' He said with a grin. 'You're Eddie Lee's friend aren't you?!"

Yes!! You can work this question out going backwards - or failing that use my patented brute forceTM approach to maths problems, stick in the numbers until something works. Maybe you'll get this in a flash, but I still kind of like it..... King Henry VIII gave his wife a bottomless container to put flesh and blood in. What did he give her?