1. The Flawed Game

A teacher was having trouble getting her students to learn their facts, but she noticed that her students often played the game 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'.

She made a game with similar rules in order to encourage the students to learn their facts.

The class would be divided into three teams: Rock, Paper and Scissors.

The teacher would ask the students a question and the class would raise their hands if they knew the answer.

If the first person to answer the question correctly is in the Rock team, he or she would choose one player from the Scissors team to be eliminated.

Similarly, if a player from the Scissors team was first to answer the question, then he or she would eliminate a member from the Paper team.

Lastly, if a player from the Paper team was first to answer correctly, he or she would eliminate a member from the Rock team.

The teacher would then continue asking questions until only one team still has members.

That team would be declared the winner and all its members would win a small chocolate.

However, as soon as she explained the rules to the class, one particularly smart student immediately found a large flaw that made the game unplayable.

Can you do the same?

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2. Why Skid Mark, Why?

After recent events, Question Mark is annoyed with his brother, Skid Mark.

Skid thought it would be funny to hide Question's wallet.

He told Question that he would get it back if he finds it.

So, first off, Skid laid five colored keys in a row.

One of them is a key to a room where Skid is hiding Question's wallet.

Using the clues, can you determine the order of the keys and which is the right key?

Red: This key is somewhere to the left of the key to the door.

Blue: This key is not at one of the ends.

Green: This key is three spaces away from the key to the door (2 between).

Yellow: This key is next to the key to the door.

Orange: This key is in the middle.

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3. Beethoven's Wig

Someone has stolen Beethoven's Wig (Bastards! lol) and has put it in one of four locked boxes.

The boxes are numbered from 1,2,3,4 in that order.

There are four different keys that each has their own color.

Use the clues below to figure out which key goes in which box and to find the box where Beethoven's wig is being kept.

1. The green key goes to the third or fourth box

2. The wig is to the left of the fourth box

3. The wig is to the right of the first box

4. The yellow key is to the left of the wig

5. The blue key is to the right of the yellow key and to the left of the green key

6. The red key goes to the first box

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4. Einstein's Riddle

Einstein wrote the following riddle.

He said that 98% of the world could not solve it.

But several NIEHS scientists were able to solve it, and they said it's not all that hard if you pay attention and are very patient.

Give it a try:

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.

No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Other facts:

1. The Brit lives in the red house.

2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

3. The Dane drinks tea.

4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.

5. The green house's owner drinks coffee.

6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.

9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.

10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.

11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.

12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.

13. The German smokes Prince.

14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.

The question is: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

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5. Spirit Search

You are an expert on paranormal activity and have been hired to locate a spirit haunting an old resort hotel.

Strong signs indicate that the spirit lies behind one of four doors.

The inscriptions on each door read as follows:

Door A: It's behind B or C
Door B: It's behind A or D
Door C: It's in here
Door D: It's not in here

Your psychic powers have told you three of the inscriptions are false, and one is true.

Behind which door will you find the spirit?

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