OneGuyFromBarlick

Plant one and you'll get dozens.....

True but it's not the answer, think QI.

Can't be arsed..... I have enough puzzles in the shed!

PanBiker wrote: ↑20 Feb 2018, 14:55 True but it's not the answer, think QI.

Go on then. Give us the answer.

One less than six?

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.

Did you get that off a Penguin bar wrapper by any chance!

Tizer wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 15:42 Did you get that off a Penguin bar wrapper by any chance!

No, it came to me from my grammar school educated elder brother.

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???

Ten to ten, ten ten.... Listen to the rhythm. Cowboy Time.

Are we playing bingo?

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.

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)

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??

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

Right, done that, Now what? Make up a short story to incorporate all the pairs?

If you want.

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.

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.

This one is vexing me:

Does your mother know why:

Ring + Money = I Do ?

Married??

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.

The title of the puzzle, sorry, forgot to put it is

A gimme

Penny has just dropped and I think I have got it.