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1) to solve the clue in the question
2) ability to spot the answer

Steps:

1) Look for the KEYWORD in question.
2) Interpret the question with respect to the keyword.
3) List possible answers.
4) Look for the ACTUAL answer.

Examples:

Q1 Sex has the antidote to strain.

Step 1: keyword: has ( “has” as in “possesses” )
Step 2: antidote = cure
Step 2: strain = press
Step 3: Look for answers with X in them.
Step 4: answer is SECUREXPRESS ( SE CURE X PRESS )

Q2 H2O@1°C

Step 1: keyword: no key word
Step 2: H2O is water and water at 0°C is ICE
Step 2: So at 1°C it’s not ice yet.
Step 3: Look for answers with ICE in them.
Step 4: answer is NOTICE ( not ice )

Q3 Final placing of current master

Step 1: keyword: final ( “final” as in “end” )
Step 2: current = I (symbol of current in
Step 2: place I at the end of answer and the meaning will be MASTER
Step 3: Look for answers that fit
Step 4: answer is SENSE ( SENSEI = MASTER )

The KEYWORD plays a crucial part in decoding the question. Some of the more popular keywords involve homonyms (similar sounding words), anagrams, word-within-word, additions, subtractions, reversals and initials.

INTERPRETATIONS involve equivalent words as well as general knowledge and their manipulation.

Finally, check out POSSIBLE ANSWERS by OBSERVATION of the sector and VERIFYING whether the answer fits the question perfectly.

Typical general knowledge would be newsworthy items, history, geography, arts & sciences, abbreviations, acronyms, popular phrases and trivia.

Try out the questions at automobile hunt.

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All answers are from the pictures shown below. These questions have appeared before in previous Eye-Q hunts and Coyote hunts.

1. It makes a vow.
2. Our generation began here, back when it welcomed descendent of…
3. …Rameses I and the Greek Khufu, who together created it.
4. I take it in turns.
5. What digitally comes next after turning could be there.
6. It had no cause to be different.
7. Hi! You and I are spoken of with kindness here.
8. Unknowns follow them downwards.
9. Sang your first song outside.
10. It’s made up of two up and one down fundamental building blocks.

( yes, 10 questions for 9 answers ; one is repeated )

All answers are from the pictures shown below. These questions have appeared before in previous Eye- Q hunts and Coyote hunts.

1. Granted, it follows the classic DNA structure.
2. Obtain copies of it posing by Number Ten.
3. Nothing before it initially will give a year that never was!
4. A trading establishment gone blank somehow.
5. A proxy for the first bank giving money back!
6. No speech without hat raised.
7. Man wearing a title, knight primarily.

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Take up the challenge. Here’s some fodder for your grey matter to feed on. The questions may look straightforward but the answers will surprise some.

Q1. There is a man that lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it’s raining! WHY?
Answer

Q2. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, “I can’t operate on this boy, he is my son!” How can this be?
Answer

Q3. A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off too but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?
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Q4. One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How’s that possible?
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Q5. A man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and all looked as they did at the age of 21. He looked around to see if there was anyone he recognised. He saw a couple and he knew immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?
Answer

Q6. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?
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Q7. Bill met an old friend whom he hadn’t seen for years! “How are you?” exclaimed Bill. “Wow, you look great!” “I am married now, to somebody you don’t know,” said the friend. “This is my daughter.” Bill smiled down at the little girl. “hi, young lady. What’s your name?” “It’s the same as my mama’s,” said the girl. “Is that so,” said Bill, winking at his friend. “Then your name must be Cindy!”

How could he possibly know this?
Answer

Q8. Once there was a tennis player.
In the tennis game, she played very well and won great fame.
Jane was her first name,
What was her last name.

Find Jane’s last name.
Answer

Q9. A man lived in a town where people make so many creative rules, one of which was that only women had the right to sing songs. He was told one day by his wife not to leave the town for 4 years. Then, 3 years later, he wrote on a piece of paper to give to his wife, “I am going to check and see how good of a singer I am.” He did what he said he was going to do, but he did not break the rules that they had in the town. How is this possible?
Answer

Came across any good ones? Please e-mail to me and I’ll put it up if I like it.

Disclaimer: The above questions are not my original but interesting ones I came across in other publications.Webmaster

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Answers to Puzzles – 2

A1. The man is very, very short and so can only reach half way up the lift buttons! However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella with him and so can press the higher buttons with it.

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A2. The surgeon is the boy’s mother.

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A3. It was daytime.

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A4. At the time she went into labour, the mother of the twins was travelling by aeroplane flying westwards. The older twin, Terry, was born first in the first minutes of March 1st. The aircraft then crossed the International Dateline and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother on a leap year.

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A5. He recognised Adam and Eve as the only people without navels because they were not born of women, they had never had umbilical cords and therefore they never had navels. This one seems perfectly logical but it can sometimes spark fierce theological arguments

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A6. They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets etc.)

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A7. Bill knew the little girl’s name because it was the same as his friend’s name. His old friend, to whom he was talking, was named Cindy, and she was the little girl’s mother.

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A8. The first and last names are given in the last two lines of the poem.
Jane was her first name,
What was her last name.
The two lines make one complete sentence, and there is a period at the end of the sentence, not a question mark.
So the sentence doesn’t ask a question. It tells you that Jane was the first name and that What was her last name.
Her name was Jane What.

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A9. The man meant a completely different word that is spelled the same way as “singer = one who sings” but pronounced differently. The word he meant was formed from “to singe” and means “one who singes”.

Contributed by: “Jimmy Lowell”

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