Friday, September 16, 2005

Lateral Thinking

SS just forwarded these puzzles to me. They remind me of my grade 5 teacher. She really liked these and we used to have competitions to see who'd get the most right. Any guesses? =)

1. man
---------
board

2. stand
---------
i

3. /r/e/a/d/i/n/g/

4. r
road
a
d

5. cycle
cycle
cycle

6. 0
---------
M.D.
Ph. D.

7. ground
------------
feet feet feet feet feet feet

8. he's/himself

9. ecnalg

10. death...... life

11. aabbbbaaabbbabbabbababbaaabbbaabababbbaa

Example: In case you haven't seen these before, the first one's "man overboard".

3 comments:

b.p. said...

the only one that stumps me is the last one...

Becks said...

that one's a little different... long time no "c" =P

She said...

i love doing these puzzles when i was a kid! actually, i still do. hahahaha.