367.
Which number will always count the same, even if you turn it upside down?
368.
Which year of the next century is a square number?
369.
Which number is 182 smaller than its square?
370.
How does the number 1 to 10, each set only once, create the number 100?
371.
To prove that 1 in 9 is ten!
372.
Son, father and grandfather count 111 years. The father is 24 years older than the son, the grandfather is 30 years older than the father. How old is everyone?
373.
To prove that 20 - 22 = 88!
374.
If you subtract 594 from a three-syllable number, the digits of the number appear in reverse order.
The first digit on the right is twice as large as the second, and this is twice as large as the third.
What is the number called?
375.
How can the digits 1 to 9 in two numbers be added so that their sum = 100?
XIII. Picture Puzzle:
(Rebus.)
The verses or sentences are expressed here by figures or individual letters and other characters.
376.
Lärm Lärm Lärm Lärm Lärm Lärm 0 Lärm Lärm Lärm Lärm Lärm Lärm
377.
P.
378.
t T, t T.
379.
W 1' N, n, n, N n, N, N, N.
380.
r R --- r. r
381.
War J D S War Mu War S S s 1' War
Dar Dar Haben Dar Dar
382.
r n
(A railway station in Württemberg.)
383.
e e e e e e e e, n, n n n, r r r r.
384.
f F f F f F f F Eh Eh eh eh f F F d Eh Eh Eh Eh R[1] eh eh eh eh
[1] “R” is upside down in the printed book. (Project Gutenberg)
385.
ung D i F N t L i C H M ung E ung K n ung
auch ----- i r N. mit
XIV. Arithmogryph:
(Number puzzle.)
The letters are represented here by numbers.
386.
How to write the whole thing, Say, arithmetician, determine, If you take 1/7 from me, That only 1/8 remains!
387.
Geographic Arithmogryph.
5 1 2 1 9 1 City in Cuba. 4 7 2 11 14 12 Mountain in the Caucasus. 11 4 15 1 7 City in Russia. 8 1 3 11 6 3 City in Spain. 10 13 11 1 9 14 10 Strait. 9 1 9 13 4 12 City in France.
(NB. The first and fourth vertical rows each represent a mountain.)
XV. Separation Puzzle:
A compound word should be separated into two words.
388.
The puzzle word, which consists of 2 syllables, is the name of a metal. If you furnish each of the two with a foot, it names two inhabitants of the stable.
389.
In the water I do my duty, but if I am divided, I name two poems by Schiller to the reader at once.
390.
If, divided, I am missing it, then woe is me; How soon I am lost! United it is my homeland, I was born in Zerbst. --
391.
If, divided, you lack it, you are held in no regard; united, the soldier on his post gives it out.
392.
The gourmand doesn't mind, if you're hungry, it tastes great. And if you make three parts out of it, you'll be invited to dinner.
XVI. Change Puzzle:
393.
If the second of the word begins with "h", it then tells you a part of Germany; With "st" it is built by the state, the city, and it has a variety of purposes. It appears in court with “w”; It's best if you don't need it.
394.
With "H" it has a year, with "Z" it is an old city.
395.
With "e" it is created by shooting, with "o" it is used to close; With "e" a large hole in the stone, with "o" often stones have very small ones; With "e" it pleases the gunner, with "o" it's all women's adornment. --
XVII. Supplementary puzzle:
Attached dashes indicate the missing words.
396.
If with the first move he -- It's -- to pick him up; He - on an important matter, to get Himself - from us.
(NB. The missing four words form a proverb.)
397.
I am still -- to the fullest -- enjoying life; And if I --, I will submit: What I --, never regret.
(NB. The missing words together form a proverb.)
XVIII. Quote Puzzle:
398.
The following eight quotations contain as many words that, in the same sequence, form a well-known sentence from Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell":
1. The day jumped out of the clouds early.
2. Then the young man exercises his strength in an argument.
3. Nothing moves around him, only flocks of cranes accompany him.
4. It stands well with a master who himself does what he has commanded:
5. Everyone knows that Immanuel Kant found the categorical imperative.
6. Lord and Master! hear me calling!
7. Today the bell must be cast!
8. Sit down, my son Rodrigo! I would like to dine with you.
XIX. Joke Riddles:
399.
If you attach the tail of a snake to it as a head, and then put a lady on it, but without a foot -- then the newly created word immediately names a large port city.
XX. Prefix puzzle:
400.
With Ab it removes by force what has grown too old for its owner; with An it begins every day, however that day may turn out; But if it stands close beside Auf, -- the wanderer begins his journey. With Aus it whets the palate greatly, but also throws fire around, whereas with Durch it points to the path of raging floods. With Ein it lures the pack of thieves and also brings danger on the ice.
Joke questions.
1. When do you spell water with three letters?
2. What is the relationship between horse and cart?
3. What looks most like half a straw?
4. What is the difference between a book of paper and a violin player?
5. What is the similarity between a lawyer and a cartwheel?
6. By which ladder has no one ever climbed higher in space?
7. What do the three allies do with the Sultan?
8. Which clocks only display cheerful hours?
9. How far does the deer run into the forest?
10. Which is the unhealthiest canton?
11. A sparrow is more likely to eat a hundredweight of oats than a horse. Do you believe that?
12. What does a foster child have in common with a stolen watch?
13. Who comes to church first?
14. Where does smoke begin and fire end?
15. Which is the strongest drink?
16. What is the difference between a thief and a doctor?
17. What weight does no one want to lose?
18. Which judges are the most dashing?
19. In which month do Alsatians eat the least?
20. What is a wig?
21. To whom do the sun, stars and all things owe their beginning?
22. Which stone has two votes?
23. Which is the worst bride?
24. What is a contradiction?
25. Who is the poorest person?
26. Who is up to their ears in debt?
27. Which nation is the most enlightened?
28. Who makes money in no time?
29. In which city are all residents in arrest?
30. In Spain the cuckoo never calls in the morning. Do you believe that?
31. When will heaven be ashamed?
32. How does the cat lie on the wall?
33. When do the rabbit's teeth hurt the most?
34. Who was the only person who kept the Ten Commandments?
35. Which kiss is very engaging?
36. What disrupts the world order the most?
37. Which city doesn't have a theater?
38. What do you have to let your boy become if he is to become something worthwhile?
39. What can't be expressed in words?
40. Which fashion stays the same for years?
41. What makes three times seven?
42. Who is happy when they are unlucky?
43. What is the difference between sun and liver sausage?
44. Which pride is the most unchristian?
45. Why did God call out in paradise: “Adam, where are you!”?
46. Which people are arrogant?
47. There is a large stone near Nuremberg and when the rooster crows, it moves. Do you believe that?
48. Can you put something in someone's hand that they can't see?
49. Which monkeys do many people want to belong to?
50. What is the easiest way for a student to get a doctorate?
51. Which monarch was the greatest merchant?
52. Which lungs contain the most poetry?
53. What images can you see in the dark?
54. What is not right and yet not sin?
55. What does the king rarely see, but the farmer sees every day?
56. Who learns what little Hans does not learn?
57. Why do the old women in the hospital eat more than the young ones?
58. Rear land, like front. What is this?
59. What is finished and yet is being done every day?
60. What is never illuminated by the sun?
61. Who hears everything and says nothing?
62. What is the easiest way to toast in polite company?
63. Which tradesman is happy about poor sales?
64. When is it good to be alone?
65. What kind of money does the poorest person have?
66. Which fool is a wise man?
67. For whom is it good if he gives up the ghost?