Andy dislikes the catcher. Ed’s sister is engaged to the second baseman. The center fielder is taller than the right fielder. Harry and the third baseman live in the same building. Paul and Allen each won $20 from the pitcher at pinochle. Ed and the outfielders play poker during their free time. The pitcher’s wife is the third baseman’s sister. The pitcher, catcher, and infielders except Allen, Harry, and Andy, are shorter than Sam. Paul, Andy, and the shortstop lost $50 each at the racetrack. Paul, Harry, Bill, and the catcher took a trouncing from the second baseman at pool. Sam is involved in a divorce suit. The catcher and the third baseman each have two children. Ed, Paul, Jerry, the right fielder, and the center fielder are bachelors. The others are married. The shortstop, the third baseman, and Bill each cleaned up $100 betting on the fight. One of the outfielders is either Mike or Andy. Jerry is taller than Bill. Mike is shorter than Bill. Each of them is heavier than the third baseman.
Using these facts, determine the names of the men playing the various positions on the baseball team.
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Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can’t reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?
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There’s a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there’s no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?
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A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan’s doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?
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A word I know, six letters it contains, subtract one, and twelve remains. What am I?
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What types of words are these: Madam, civic, eye, level
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Forward I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I?
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What is the question you can ask all day, and no matter what the answers are, they would still be correct?
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You have been given a stick that is about 30 cm long. Now, you have been asked to make the stick shorter. (Stipulation – you cannot break it, cut it, peel it, bite it. In other words, you are not even allowed to touch it! ). How will you make the stick shorter?
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A man wanted to work but he could not log in to his computer terminal successfully. He tried twice but his password didn’t work. He suddenly remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So he called his boss and said,
Man-“Hey boss, my password is out of date.”
Boss-“Yes, that’s right. The password is different, listen carefully, I am sure, you can figure out the new one. The new one has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same.”
Man: “Thanks boss.” With that he could correctly log into his station. Can you tell me his new and old passwords?
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Can you guess the next three letters in the following series and why?
C Y G T N T L I T F………
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A rubber ball is tossed off the top of a 90 foot building. Every time it bounces it goes back up half way. How many bounces will the ball take before it stops?
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An extraordinary earthworm is trying to build a house on the top of a tree which is 20 meters tall. Everyday, the worm climbs 5 meters. However, at night, while he is sleeping, he unknowingly slips 2 meters down. In this way, how many days will the earthworm take to reach to the top of the tree?
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Alex bought a bag of apples on Saturday, and he ate a third of them. On Sunday he ate half of the remaining apples. He ate one more on Monday and one more on Tuesday, and then ate half of the remaining apples on Wednesday. On Thursday he looked in the bag and saw that there was just one apple left. How many apples did the bag have to begin with?
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A man in prison has a visitor. Afterward a guard asks the inmate who the visitor was. The inmate replies: “brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” What’s the relationship between the inmate and the visitor?
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At the beach. A bell rings, a woman dies. What happened?
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A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me USD 50, but if I cannot, I will pay you USD 50.” The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he’ll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
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Why wasn’t Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?
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What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
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You live in a place wherein, 6 months is extreme summer and the other 6 months, the mercury goes ‘really really’ down! You own a lake where there is a small island. You want to build a house over there and need to carry the required stuffs. Sadly, you have no boat, ship or anything which you can use to transport all the materials to the island! What will you do in order to carry the stuffs to the island?
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