Stuck in the middle with you

Find the words that fit in the middle of each pair of words to create two new words, one front-ended, the other back-ended.

Example: Ever - ___ - Horn
Answer: Ever Green Horn

1) Red - ______ - Bulb
2) Green - ____ - Leaf
3) Blue - _____ - Ball
4) Silver - ___ - Saver
5) Gold - _____ - Shaft
6) White - ____ - Smart
7) Black - ____ - Brain
8) Orange - ___ - Pouch
9) Peach - ____ - Top
10) Brown - ___ - Cookie

English or Math

Is it correct that seven and five is thirteen or seven and five are thirteen?

Not twins?

Two girls are born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?

Some peoples kids

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!"

I'm not sure this is a fair question

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?

Rebus revenge

What phrases are shown in the figures below?

1) S-n-o-w

2) How is failure represented in the rebus below?

Options:

A) Success
B) Victory
C) Triumph
D) Accomplishment

3) Robert is your mother's brother

4)
t
h
o
u
g
h
I
'
m
t

5) Out Trace

NFL Team Anagrams

The following anagrams are of NFL team names:

1. sear rid
2. pre cask
3. oat strip
4. tin gas
5. as next
6. son calf
7. leg sea

Football puzzle

I'm still tired and cranky from last night's game. So here's a football puzzle for you. How many different ways can you score 20 points in a football game?

Assume the following possibilities for scoring:

• If the other team doesn't show up, the game is forfeit, and you score 1 point (and the game is over.)
• On defense, if you tackle the other team's quarterback in their endzone, you get 2 points for a "safety".
• On offense, you can kick the ball over the defense's goalposts for a 3 point field goal.
• On offense, you can carry the ball across the defense's goal line for a 6 point touchdown.
• On offense, immediately after a touchdown, you can kick the ball through the defense's goalposts for an additional 1 point ("point after touchdown"). We can combine this with the touchdown and write it as a (6+1) or 7 point score.
• On offense, immediately after a touchdown, you can make another play to carry the ball across the defense's goal line for an additional 2 points ("two point conversion"). We can combine this with the touchdown and write it as a (6+2) or 8 point score.

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Can you see the trees through the forest?

PINE + TREES + CONES = FOREST

C=5, T=4, and E=8. No number stands for more than one letter.

Logic Number Puzzles

If each of the following equations is true, what is each letter? The rules are: (1) all the variables are equal to integer values between one and the number of variables in the puzzle, and (2) none of the variables are equal to each other. For example, if there are six variables, each will equal a number from 1 to 6. Since no variable equals another, all six values will be used.

1. A + B = D
2. B + F = E
3. C + D = E
4. B does not equal 1.

Do you have a better label for this question?

Find the words that fit in the middle of each pair of words to create two new words, one front-ended and one back-ended.

Example: EVER - ______ - HORN
Answer: EVER - GREEN - HORN

1. HOBBY - __________ - FEATHERS
2. BOB - __________ - AMOUNT
3. BUCK - __________ - GUN

Letter Equation Songs

Below are a few singers/groups who have sung a song that has a number in its title.

1. The Beatles = E D a W
2. Air Supply = The O T Y L
3. Shania Twain = Y S the O
4. Herman's Hermits = I H the E I A
5. Wilson Pickett = L of a T D
6. Queen = A O B the D
7. The Clovers = L P #9
8. The Beatles = W I S-F

A traveling man

An explorer wishes to cross a barren desert that requires 6 days to cross, but one man can only carry enough food for 4 days. What is the fewest number of other men required to help carry enough food for him to cross?

Five Daughters

Mr. Reader's five daughters each gave books for Christmas to one or more of her sisters. Each presented four books and each received four books, but no two girls allocated her books in the same way. That is, only one gave two books to one sister and two to another. Beth gave all her books to Alice; Christy gave three to Edith. Which sisters gave the four books to Deborah?

Mr and Mrs Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their two children form a typical American family. If exactly two of the following statements are true, what is the first name of the father, mother, son and daughter:

• George and Dorothy are blood relatives.
• Howard is older than George.
• Virginia is younger than Howard.
• Virginia is older than Dorothy.

This should be easy

Brown, Jones and Smith are a doctor, a lawyer, and a teacher. The teacher, who is an only child, earns the least money. Smith, who married Brown's sister, earns more than the lawyer. What is each man's job?

Sit in one spot

I am usually in a wooden case
I can have a square or round base
I have my own set of weights
In my name, is what a child calls a parent
When you hear me, I am apparent
I am Grand.
By my name, I sound old
I am in stores where I am sold
Short I am not
I usually sit in one spot

It's always

It's always 1 to 6.
It's always 15 to 20
and it's always 5,
unless it's flying,
when it's always 21.

What is it?

Three Consecutive Letters

The following words have three letters missing. Fill in the blanks with three consecutive missing letters. For example _ _ A _ U S can take A, B and C (for three consecutive letters) to make the word ABACUS.

1. _ _ R _ E S,

2. D O _ I _ _,

3. _ R A _ I _,

4. _ O U _ _ T,

5. _ _ A _ U E,

6. _ A Y _ A _.

Palindromes

Can you guess the palindromes using the clues below? Palindromes are words that are spelled the same backwards as forwards. For example: eve and abba are both palindromes.

Example clue: Part of the body
Answer: Eye

1. Midday
2. A young dog
3. Flat
4. Word for addressing a lady
5. An Eskimo canoe
6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc.
7. Grass that grows on the seashore
8. In music, half a semibreve
9. Doctrine
10. Restorer

Repeats

Fill in the missing letters using a repeated pair of letters.

1. _ _ chorm _ _
2. _ _ joym _ _ t
3. _ _ iqu _ _ te
4. _ _ ip _ _ ape
5. _ _ s _ _ cere
6. _ _ p _ _ zard

Example: 1. _ _ chorm _ _ is anchorman (an is repeated).

Thank You!

This site, more than any other, depends on you, the readers, to come by and answer each question. So I just wanted to say thank you and share with you some of the statistics from the past year on the traffic you've helped to bring in.

I use google analytics to keep track of where people are coming from and what they do while they're here, so this all comes from that:

Content statspuzzles.blogspot.com/	Uniq. Views	Pageviews
Total	22,178	33,188
/	6,871	11,199
/2006/07/leap-frog.html	955	1,188
/2005_09_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	655	1,644
/2005/12/letter-equations.html	463	689
/2005/11/letter-equations.html	446	697
/2005_10_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	418	842
/2006_05_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	405	786
/2006_06_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	361	802
/2006_07_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	271	436
/2006_01_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	270	608
/2006_04_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	268	582
/2005_08_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	268	541
/2006/06/riddle-me-this.html	251	313
/2005_12_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	233	504
/2005_11_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	207	409
/2006_02_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	202	447
/2006_03_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	152	317
/2006_08_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	106	194
/2006/12/christmas-trivia.html	102	126
/2006/05/full-house-in-yahtzee.html	88	105
/2005/09/wine-anyone.html	88	93
/2005/09/ive-seen-this-one-before.html	76	84
/2006/05/how-high-can-you-go.html	72	86
/2006/04/can-you-see-forest.html	64	70
/2006/05/horse-with-no-name.html	61	73
/2005/08/riddles.html	59	69
/2006_09_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	58	98
/2006/07/largest-number.html	58	67
/2006/10/what-word-am-i.html	58	63
/2006/06/what-am-i.html	57	63
/2006/04/into-basket.html	56	61

I'm also going to show where that traffic came from (for the front page, only). Google and Yahoo were (not surprisingly) my biggest supporters, as people came looking for your answers. Note the large numbers of driven traffic from blogazoo and blogexplosion. I don't really use them anymore (they helped build up an audience). Then there's you, who come directly, or by bloglines or my.msn or my.yahoo.

Source[Medium]	Visits	P/Visit
google[organic]	1040	3.24
yahoo[organic]	697	2.58
blogazoo.com[referral]	560	1.31
blogexplosion.com[referral]	496	1.28
(direct)[(none)]	385	3.1
mybestimitationofmyself.blogspot.com[referral]	343	4.04
blogadvance.com[referral]	329	1.62
bloglines.com[referral]	316	2.75
msn[organic]	306	2.08
blogsoldiers.com[referral]	286	1.58
dsl.sbc.yahoo.com[referral]	211	4.09
joninterglad.blogspot.com[referral]	211	3.55
my.yahoo.com[referral]	210	3.63
jd2718.wordpress.com[referral]	181	2.97
blogger.com[referral]	171	3.18
karnblog.blogspot.com[referral]	154	3.06
search[organic]	143	3.64
blogmosh.com[referral]	117	3.27
blogtraffic.org[referral]	82	1.22
ask[organic]	50	1.72
goodsearch.com[referral]	49	2.24
dir.blogflux.com[referral]	48	2.02
blogclicker.com[referral]	36	1.5
technorati.com[referral]	32	3.22
twosonsoutnumber.blogspot.com[referral]	22	7.27
my.msn.com[referral]	22	2.64
blogmad.net[referral]	20	1.05
thebeardedman.blogspot.com[referral]	16	2.69
sitesthatdontsuck.com[referral]	14	1.79
blogs.botw.org[referral]	13	4.15
flanerie.org[referral]	12	3.33

BTW, I've made about $30 off this site for the year. (I'm obviously not doing it for the money)

If you're interested in something else, let me know.

In what year

In what year did Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year?






BTW, welcome back to everyone!