PUZZLES - CRYPTIC CLUES AND ANSWERS
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Plant one and you'll get dozens.....
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Can't be arsed..... I have enough puzzles in the shed!
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One less than six?
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Ok, how many beans make 5?
A bean and a half and a bean and a half and half a bean and a bean and a half.
Well you did ask.
A bean and a half and a bean and a half and half a bean and a bean and a half.
Well you did ask.
Ian
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Did you get that off a Penguin bar wrapper by any chance!
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No, it came to me from my grammar school educated elder brother.
Ian
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Stanley Challenger Graham
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Not sure where this one fits. On saturday morning I was ambushed by someone much younger than myself who looked at the clock and said " ten to ten, Cowboy Time". Totally lost and still confused I had to ask for and explanation which covered the theme was still a bit open. Any Ideas???
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Ten to ten, ten ten.... Listen to the rhythm. Cowboy Time.
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Are we playing bingo?
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Reference above beans question, my dad's answer to how many beans makes 5 was: Two beans, a bean, a bean and a half and half a bean. He reckoned it was from the Beano circa 194something.
Measure with a micrometer, mark with a pencil, cut with an axe.
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Ten to Ten...Cowboy time. Picture a Cowboy with a gun in each hand, pointing them up to the sky and shooting. His arms are in the Ten to Ten ( or Ten past Ten position)
Yeeeeha!
Two thirty is Time to go to the Dentist ( tooth hurty)
Yeeeeha!
Two thirty is Time to go to the Dentist ( tooth hurty)
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Cowboy Time. Everybody could be right. Six gun shooting (Marilyn) and repetitious sounding of the words ten to ten (PanBiker) horses galloping all feature in various explanations. I got a very fair rendering of 'Bonanza' theme tune when it was explained to me. Am I getting old??
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From my shiny new GCHQ puzzle book, an easy "training" puzzle:
Three's a crowd.
Arrange into pairs:
WISE, WHIP, TURN, RING, RACE, POINT
MONKEYS, MILE, MICE, LINE, LEGGED, ISLAND
HENS, FRENCH, EVENT, DAY, CIRCUS, BLIND
Three's a crowd.
Arrange into pairs:
WISE, WHIP, TURN, RING, RACE, POINT
MONKEYS, MILE, MICE, LINE, LEGGED, ISLAND
HENS, FRENCH, EVENT, DAY, CIRCUS, BLIND
Ian
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Right, done that, Now what? Make up a short story to incorporate all the pairs?
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It was on the Three Mile Island that the Three ring circus arrived. They had quite a menagerie of animals including.......But for the more competitive there was the Three legged race.
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It was a three day event including a three point turn competition. Our MP couldn't be bothered to turn up as he was enforcing a three line whip and there was no photo opportunity.
Ian
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This one is vexing me:
Does your mother know why:
Ring + Money = I Do ?
Does your mother know why:
Ring + Money = I Do ?
Ian
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Married??
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Why though? It's not just finding the answer it's how you solve it. I have tried Married (the obvious answer) and cant make it fit, neither will Dowry or Vows, well not using number substitution anyway.
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The title of the puzzle, sorry, forgot to put it is
A gimme
Penny has just dropped and I think I have got it.
A gimme
Penny has just dropped and I think I have got it.
Ian