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Riddles!

Was bored, so I found some riddles for everyone to guess.
The answers should be in white under the question, I hope.

1. What word contains all the twenty-six letters?
[color=LemonChiffon][color=White]Alphabet[/color]

[color=Black]2. How do you make "one" disappear?
[color=White]Add a "g" to make it "gone, or add a "n" to make it "none".[/color]

3. [/color][/color][b][color=blue][/color][/b][color=blue][color=Black]What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
[color=White]DID (from hks_sing)[/color]

4.[/color][/color][b][color=blue] [/color][/b][color=blue][color=Black]Two girls have the same parents and were born atthe same hour of the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be possible?
[color=White]They were not born in the same year.[/color]

5. [/color][/color][color=Black] The marathon man timed himself and found outthat if he wore a bright white outfit he ran 20 miles in 80 minutes,but when he wore a dark outfit, he ran 20 miles in one hour and twentyminutes. What does this mean for his next race?
[/color][color=White]Absolutely nothing, as 80 minutes equals an hour and twenty minutes.
[/color][b][color=blue] [/color][/b]

[[i] 本帖最後由 yukitsu 於 2008-1-30 00:11 編輯 [/i]]

[color=black]1) Alphabet[/color]
[color=black]3) if the word can be inverted in any direction, the alphabet that it contains must be all invertible. [/color][color=black]First of all, we narrow out those alphabet which can be upside down inverted. Consequently, we have[/color]
[color=black]B, C, D, E, H, I, K, O, X[/color]
And we can use those letters to form words, therefore...
[color=black]1)BED[/color]
2)BEE
3)BOX
[color=black]4)BOOK[/color]
[color=black][/color][color=black]5)CODE[/color]
[color=black]6)COOK[/color]
[color=black]7)DID -> DID          ok![/color]
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[[i] 本帖最後由 hks_sing 於 2008-1-29 17:35 編輯 [/i]]

I can think of an alternative answer for question 2....

change "one" to ten thousand.........

because in Chinese, we say "萬中無一"

see if you can understand it~

XD, I get the ten thousand one.
However, I got these from a English site.
So the author of these riddles probably never thought of that.
I just randomly typed in riddles on google and found these.
There are a lot more, I just picked out a few that seems easy and some that has to do with English.

Yeah, my friend showed me that NOON does work. DID definitely works, good job hks_sing~

good ones, thanks for sharing

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XD, I get the ten thousand one.
However, I got these from a English site.
So the author of these riddles probably never thought of that.
I just randomly typed in riddles on google and found these.
... [/quote]

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm.....
i think "NOON" is not the suitable answer.
Think about it, if you flip the letter "N" upside down, it will end up become something like " |/| " which is not a proper alphabet.
If you use brute force to print out all the possible combination of words, for sure you will find out more......i think...
for instance,
1)BED -> DEB
[color=black]2)DID -> DID[/color]
[color=black]3)EDO -> ODE[/color]
4)EH -> HE

anyway, thank you for sharing......

Yeah, i changed it to DID, or something.
The site I got it from was actually just [url]www.riddles.com[/url]
If you want to look at more, just go there.
Some of them doesn't make a lot of sense, and some of them are pretty good.

number 2- no idea


3 - "I" (as in, me) <- how about that?

4. they are born in different years

5. :010: he will ran naked in the next race(as an experiment?)?? or maybe he will time himself in seconds instead?? 4800 seconds???