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Given the integers, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and the basic arithmetic operators: +, -, x, ÷, and parenthesis, you need to come up with an expression that evaluates to 28. You can use each number only once and each operator only once.

Submitted by Denis Gobo and printed in SQL Server Magazine, May, 2006.

posted by Michael @ 1:32 PM  

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You have a deck of 52 cards, all facing down. Blindfolded, you turn over seven of the cards in the deck so that they face up, then you shuffle the entire deck. Remaining blindfolded, you now need to separate the cards into two piles so that each pile contains the same number of face-up cards.


Contributed by Steve Kass and printed in SQL Server Magazine, March, 2006.

posted by Michael @ 10:57 AM  

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Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these words:

*e*er
**eue
**o
ma*
*p*a*e*
*erso*
***k*am*on
*ouse
*a*
*ur*
***igent

posted by Melissa @ 3:50 PM  

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Fill in the blanks with five different numbers so that the following makes sense when read aloud:

We had been on a losing streak ___________ much ___________ long, but today we finally ___________. To celebrate, we ___________ ___________.

posted by Michael @ 1:18 PM  

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posted by Michael @ 3:20 PM  

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Mff'ppm pffmppmmmpmfpmfffm mfmpmfmmmmpm fmpmfpmmmfmp mppfpmmpppffffmppfpppmpp mfffmm mfpmmmfpmmffpppmfm fmmppf ppmfmfmmfmfp mpffmfppp ppfppp fmpmfpmfffmm fmmmfffmpmpp. Mff mfpppfpfmmpp fmpmfpmmmfmp ffmppffmf mmmpmfpmf mmfppfpppfmpmffpppfmfmpp fmpppf fpmmfffmmmfffmp mmmpppmpm fmmmfpmmmpffmpp ffmppffmfpff pfmfmfffpffppmfmppfmm.

posted by Michael @ 8:24 AM  

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"NBPXTJ JOWPT VT. X LUH'Q MWHQ QU SBQ VD ZWXQI XH STUSCT MIU MTPTH'Q JVWPQ THUBAI QU ATQ UBQ UZ NBPD LBQD." - *VUHXOW *SXSTP

An asterisk (*) indicates a proper noun or title.
A clue is given in my first comment.

posted by Michael @ 8:13 AM  

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posted by Michael @ 9:38 PM  

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posted by Caci @ 8:05 AM  

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