Brain Teasers
Divided Countries
The following clues each form a unique word by themselves, add them together to get the name of a country. Example: blue and yellow mixed + solid ground = ? Answer:
green + land = Greenland
1. something that will make you sick + an indefinite number = ?
2. half of the width of an em + an organ for secreting = ?
3. a swindle + to move or travel = ?
4. an animal's shelter + a visible sign = ?
green + land = Greenland
1. something that will make you sick + an indefinite number = ?
2. half of the width of an em + an organ for secreting = ?
3. a swindle + to move or travel = ?
4. an animal's shelter + a visible sign = ?
Answer
1. germ + any = Germany2. en + gland = England
3. con + go = Congo
4. den + mark = Denmark
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great teaser
Excellent! The half the width of an "m" part is splendid!
OoOoh nice one samm!!!
good division
Jan 12, 2004
Awesome teaser! I only got a couple right though...
Thanks all! ...working on Divided Two.
An easy one for crossword solvers! Nice try though.
very nice one. difficult and enjoyable.
I'm still confused... how do the first two work at all? "Any" isn't really an indefinite number, is it? "Any number," might be, but any by itself!?
And, "half an em?" I was thinking simply "n." How is half an "em" "en..."
And, "half an em?" I was thinking simply "n." How is half an "em" "en..."
Feb 08, 2005
Awesome teaser! Will add this one to my favorites!
Finally one I could solve without looking at the answer first.
Thanks everyone! And Omega - try www.dictionary.com for em and any...
great teaser!
GREAT! even though I only figured out 3 of them
Terrific!
I loooove those types pf brain teasers ..doesnt mean i got them right...but they were still fun to try
this one was really great
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Very nice teaser.
I liked it a lot.
Its pretty hard
I liked it a lot.
Its pretty hard
good one - i didnt get all of them though! it was sorta hard
I didn't take the time to do it but it was cool
great!
Feb 08, 2005
I liked this one, it was fun!!!
very nice ... kinda.
I guess I should have read the rules more closely, missed the point completely. Pretty clever! Thanx!
nice teaser... i enjoyed figuring it out! keep 'em coming!
Pretty cool.
Extraordinary teaser!
Con is a swindle??
Couldn't for the life of me come up with germ. The rest were pretty easy. Good teaser. Thanks for posting.
Good teaser
good one
This should have ben easier than it turned out to be for me, but I liked it.
Con-go did me in. The rest were pretty easy once you got the first half. Loved this one, not so hard, but not so easy.
You got me!
Fun to do, got 3 of them
Two words, TOO HARD, but fun though!!
Omega, in typography, an em is a long dash--an en is the shorter version, that is, half of an em
it waz ok but it didnt make me lol
excellent teaser samm!!!... it took me all day to figure out #2 and #3 but i eventually got em... much harder than the last divided countries i took... great job and make more
Total wipeout for me ... good teaser, though ... thanks.
VERY CREATIVE
loved it
loved it
Why is it when people can't understand or figure out the answer they always blame the wording or translation of a word. I found the teaser quite refreshing and though I missed one, I found the answer to my liking and understood it. Thanks for printing a wonderful teaser.
Monday~
Monday~
aaaaaahhhhhhh! i'm not to good at this stuff, i got half the width of an em, but i wanted to add "n" to the begining of actual secretory organs, npancrease or nadrenal aren't countries!!!!!! and an indefinite number is a variable! sigh.
this one made me work, but i finally got them all! great teaser!
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Liked this a lot! Thanks! Got the first two immediately, and the fourth on second reading, but I could not get the little word 'go'! Good job, samm!
This Teaser is being added to my Favorites. Sam, you out done yourself. This teaser was smooth, intelligent, yet not over bearing. Love it. Keep up the good work. By the way, I didn't get one. I forgot you said Countries. My bad..
Got most of them, missed #2...
Very good teaser! But you stole my idea of making a DEN + MARK clue! Except mine was second so uhh...forget I brought it up
fun teaser, not too easy and not too hard.
Good brain workout. Got them all.
Good brain workout. Got them all.
I got a couple, but thought the words for the clues could have been better.
Otherwise it was okay!
Otherwise it was okay!
I got En-Gland!
Everything else was only a half correct weird concoction.
Everything else was only a half correct weird concoction.
Can't believe I had to solve the first one by finding "many" because I could not think of "germ". . Thanks to the commenter who explained the typographic definitions of em and en. That was interesting! Terrific teaser.
It's always nice when you learn something from a riddle! (em/en)
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got all four of these very quickly.
Lots of fun!
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