Head Scratchers 2

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1. Rearrange the letters in "OWONDER" to make one word.

2. I've got ten or more daughters. I've got less than ten daughters. I've got at least one daughter. If only one of these statements is true, how many daughters have I got?

3. It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?

4. Little Nanny Etticoat, in a white petticoat, and a red nose; the longer she stands, the shorter she grows. What is she?

5. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?

6. Does the Muslim religion allow a man to marry his widow's sister?

7. My author's uncertain yet my title's the same, I contain random text yet order's my aim. Read me one day and see my pages are totally bare. Try again another day and the words will be there. I'm not a book of magic although it may sound, I can predict the future, and inside, your life can be found. Move my eye, I become involved in lactic extraction. But that's just a clue, a minor distraction. What am I?

8. What crime is punishable when attempted but not when committed?

9. What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?

10. I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?

11. Pronounced as one letter but written with three, two different letters there are and two only in me. I'm double, I'm single I'm black, blue, and gray. I'm read from both ends and the same either way. What am I?

12. What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law?

13. Four cars come to a four way stop, all coming from a different direction. They can't decide who got there first, so they all go forward at the same time. They do not crash into each other, but all four cars go. How is this possible?

14. A pipe, a carrot, and a couple of sticks are lying together in a field. Why?

15. A man is walking down a road with a basket of eggs. As he is walking he meets someone who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. He walks a little further and meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. After proceeding further he meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg. At this point he has sold all of his eggs, and he never broke an egg. How many eggs did the man have to start with?

[Gryn]

1) "one word"
2) more than ten
3) lettuce? radish? lime?
4) a candle
5) ?
6) ?
7) diary
8) suicide
9) "What time is it?"
10) a hole
11) eye
12) mom
13) ?
14) snowman melted
15) ?

[MTcruiser]

wow, that takes more thinking then i can do tonight....lol

[cuffedlinks]

5. A Watermelon.
6. The man has a widow....He's dead.
(In certain Religions/Denominations there IS actually Marriage for the Dead - I don't know if the person in question being a Muslim is one of them)

13. All vehicles make immediate right hand turns?
15. 7.
(And I know how this happens from memory...NOT because I figured it out the first time I ran across this....)

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The Official Answers

1. One Word

2. If I have any daughters, there will always be two statements which are true. Therefore, I have no daughters.

3. Lettuce

4. She is a candle

5. A watermelon

6. A dead man cannot marry. His widow would mean he is dead

7. A diary.

8. Suicide

9. What time is it?

10. A hole

11. EYE

12. Mom

13. They all made right-hand turns.

14. They are the remains of a melted snowman.

15. 7 eggs. The first person bought one half of his eggs plus one half an egg (3 1/2 + 1/2 = 4 eggs) This left him 3 eggs. The second person bought one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg, (1 1/2 + 1/2 = 2 eggs) leaving the man 1 egg. The last person bought one-half of his eggs plus one-half an egg, (1/2 + 1/2 = 1 egg) leaving no eggs.