Once upon a time... A Puzzle

jenujacob

TO
TIE
HORSES
TO ?

Ecuadorian

I feel so stupid now...
I was looking for some kind of sequence, anagram, letter replacement method... Why are we humans so adept at looking for answers the hard way?

pilou

Agatha Christic!

Jim

@jenujacob said:

TO
TIE
HORSES
TO ?

Of course! I had expected it to take a little longer though.

Here's another quickie:

What comes next in the following sequence?

O T T F F S S E ?

solo

N nine.

Jim

@solo said:

N nine.

Nine is right. I need some new material.

Tobobo

i have one

S M T W T F

Whats the next letter?

Jim

@tobobo said:

i have one

S M T W T F

Whats the next letter?

Alright, now you're just mocking me.

TIG

@tobobo said:

i have one

S M T W T F

Whats the next letter?

Assuming tomorrow comes it's Saturday...

remus

W L C ?

Ecuadorian

World Liberty Center?
Isn't that what they're building now in NY?

jeff hammond

WiLe Coyote

remus

No and no, youll have to try harder than that.

jeff hammond

i almost thought it was going to be no 'E's in there but the last sentence has one.

boofredlay

Jeff I think you got it. That paragraph is usually posed without the last sentence and the answer is that the most common letter in the English language "E" is not present. So I guess the answer to Tig's puzzle above is that there is only one "E".

solo

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29. Where is the missing $1?

Ecuadorian

That sounds like the way governments use numbers... Adding when they should be subtracting, and viceversa.

This reminds me of a company that said they were giving a 60% discount... when in reality they gave you a 40% discount and then an additional 20% discount. This equals 52% discount, not 60%.

jeff hammond

there's isn't a missing dollar.. the bellboy has an extra $2.. each person should have paid $8.33 -- instead, they all gave the bellboy an extra $0.66

Dave R

How about this:

Think of a common (at least in US it's common) food in 8 letters. Remove one letter and rearrange the remaining letters to name another food. Now, remove one more letter, rearrange the remainder to name another food.

TIG

This is my most unusual paragraph.  I am just curious as to how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it.  It looks so plain that you might think that it has nothing much wrong with it at all, and in truth nothing much is wrong with it, although it is still most unusual.  Study it and think long about it.  You may still not find anything odd about it, but if you think and work hard at it, in a bit you could find out what's up! You know it's probably not too difficult to work this thing out and find its trick.  Try to do it without any coaching!  Only you can find the solution...