Hang yourself with this one . . . .

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A prisoner on death row was visited by his jailer, who was known to be an honest man. “You will hang one day between Monday and Friday next week”, said the jailer, “but it will be on the day you least expect it.”

The condemned man thought over the jailer’s words and, after a while, his face brightened. He explained to the jailer that he had concluded that he was not to be hanged after all.

“I can’t be hanged on Friday”, he reasoned, “Because if I am still alive on Thursday, “I will certainly be expecting the noose on Friday.

“But I can’t be hanged on Thursday either.  First, I know it can’t be Friday. If I am still alive on Wednesday night, then Thursday will be the only day left. So I can’t be hanged on Thursday.

“The same is true for Wednesday, if they haven’t hanged me by Tuesday night.

“Then, by Monday night, there will be only Tuesday left, which means it cannot happen on Tuesday either. That leaves Monday, but because I now expect to be hanged on Monday, the execution cannot be held then, or your word will be broken. The truth is, you are playing a trick on me”.

The jailer look thoughtful, then said; “I can promise you that I am telling you the truth.”

Thursday dawned, and the indignant prisoner was dragged from his cell to the gallows. “You are a liar,” he shouted at the jailer.

“Not at all,” replied the jailer calmly. “You convinced yourself that you would not be hanged. As a result, any day we set for the hanging would be unexpected. Which is no more than what I said.”

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The village barber

Life is full of contradictions and irreconcilable opposites – real twists of logic that challenge the brain. Here is such one . . . .

A man visits a village that has a single barber. The barber proudly tells the visitor that he shaves only those, and all those, in the village who do not shave themselves.

 The stranger leaves the village and next day wakes up preoccupied by a problem that perplexes him for the rest of his life. He has remembered that the barber himself was a clean-shaven man. Who, then, shaves the barber?

At first it seems clear that the barber shaves himself. But if he does, he breaks his own rule: That he shaves only the men in the village who do not shave themselves. But if someone else shaves him, the barber cannot shave all those who do not shave themselves.

Who shaves the barber?

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Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?

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Can you figure this out?

'This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching.'

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The letter game

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

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10 Envelopes

A man told his son that he would give him $1000 if he could accomplish the following task. The father gave his son ten envelopes and a thousand dollars, all in one dollar bills. He told his son, "Place the money in the envelopes in such a manner that no matter what number of dollars I ask for, you can give me one or more of the envelopes, containing the exact amount I asked for without having to open any of the envelopes. If you can do this, you will keep the $1000."

When the father asked for a sum of money, the son was able to give him envelopes containing the exact amount of money asked for. How did the son distribute the money among the ten envelopes?

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