What common word or phrase is this rebus referring to?
GIVE GIVE GIVE GIVE
GET GET GET GET
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Forgive and forget (“four give” and “four get”)
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What common word or phrase is this rebus referring to?
GIVE GIVE GIVE GIVE
GET GET GET GET
Forgive and forget (“four give” and “four get”)
A blind man has to take exactly one green pill and one blue pill each day – no more and no less. However one day he accidentally takes out two pills from the green bottle and two pills from the blue bottle, and gets them all mixed up.
Is there any way the blind man can figure out how to take one green pill and one blue pill with what he has, or does he just have to throw away these pills and get new ones?
View SolutionYou have two odd hourglasses: one that times exactly 4 minutes and one that times exactly 7 minutes. What is the best way to measure exactly 9 minutes using just these two hourglasses?
Continue reading “Odd Hourglasses”Which perfect square of a 4-digit number has the same last four digits as the original number?
Continue reading “Four Digits Squared”There are 362,880 different ways to arrange the digits 1 through 9 into a 9-digit number. How many of these combinations are prime numbers?
Continue reading “Arrange the Digits”What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
View SolutionThere are three playing cards in a row.
There is a heart to the left of a diamond. There is a five to the right of a jack. There is a club to the left of a diamond. There is a queen to the left of a club.
What are the three cards?
Continue reading “Guess the Playing Cards”You have 5 short chains of 3 links each, that you would like to connect into one long 15-link chain. To connect links, you need to cut open a link, join it with another link, and then close it.

What is the fewest number of links you need to cut to accomplish this?
View SolutionHow do you use 3, 3, 8, and 8 to make 24?
Each number must be used exactly once, and only addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and parentheses can be used.
Continue reading “24 Game Puzzle”