Friday, May 22, 2009

Brain Teasers

This is for a little brain exercise. I'm sure you've all done these before.

1.
man
------------
board

2.
stand
-----------
I

3. /r/e/a/d/i/n/g

4. r
road
a
d

5.
cycle
cycle
cycle

6.
O
--------
MD.
PhD.

7.
knee
--------
light

8.
ground
----------------
feet feet feet feet feet feet

9.
He's X himself.

10.
ecnalg

11.
death......life

12. THINK

13. ababaaabbbbaaaabbbb ababaabbaaabbbb

So how smart are you???

6 comments:

The Duke said...

I hate the inability we have to format what we want in this program! Ignore # 4 because I can't get it to format - it's supposed to be "crossroads."
I don't know if you can get these or not but I'll leave this on and see if you can. It didn't format how I did it (twice).
Mom

Jess and Jen said...

1. Man overboard
2.
3. Reading between the lines
4. Crossroads
5. Tricycle
6.
7.
8. 6 feet underground
9. He's beside himself
10. Backward glance
11. Life after death
12.
13.

The Duke said...

Pretty good, Jess - I'll see if anybody can get the rest. #9 is a little different, but that will do.
Mom

Jess and Jen said...

#2 is I understand

Mike and Adrianne said...

1. Man overboard
2. I understand
3. Reading between the lines
4. Crossroads
5. Tricycle
6.
7.
8. 6 feet underground
9. He's beside himself
10. Backward glance
11. Life after death
12. Think Big
13.
We cheated and looked up the others--it's no wonder we didn't get them...

The Duke said...

Here's the final answers:
#6 is Two degrees below zero
7: neon light
13: Long time no see...