FUN & GAMES -
Welcome to Fun & Games — Expert Mode.
A break from the 24-hour news cycle… but not from thinking.
This is where the distractions stop and the challenge begins.
Some of these will come easy.
Some won’t.
That’s the point.
Let’s play.
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#1 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Number Logic
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Question:
What comes next?
5, 10, 20, 40, 80, ?
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Little Known Fact:
A group of frogs is called an army.
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Answer:
160
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#2 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Logic Puzzle
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Question:
A woman has four daughters, and each of those daughters has one brother. How many children does the woman have?
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Little Known Fact:
The shortest complete sentence in English is often said to be: “I am.”
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Answer:
5
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#3 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Advanced Word Play
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Question:
What word begins and ends with an “E” but contains only one letter?
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Little Known Fact:
The word “set” has one of the highest numbers of meanings in English.
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Answer:
Envelope
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#4 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Number Logic
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Question:
What comes next?
1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, ?
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Little Known Fact:
The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.
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Answer:
49
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#5 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Lateral Thinking
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Question:
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
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Little Known Fact:
There is a word for a fear of long words: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
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Answer:
A piano
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#6 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Pattern Logic
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Question:
What comes next?
Z, Y, X, W, ?
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Little Known Fact:
A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time used in physics.
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Answer:
V
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#7 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Lateral Thinking
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Question:
What has hands but cannot clap?
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Little Known Fact:
Before alarm clocks, people were hired as “knocker-ups” to wake others by tapping on windows.
Answer:
A clock
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#8 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Number Logic
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Question:
What comes next?
100, 50, 25, 12.5, ?
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Little Known Fact:
The word “queue” is just the letter Q followed by four silent letters.
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Answer:
6.25
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#9 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Logic Puzzle
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Question:
What can you hold in your left hand but never in your right?
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Little Known Fact:
Most people can’t tickle themselves because the brain predicts its own movements.
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Answer:
Your right elbow
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#10 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Logic Trap
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Question:
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you no longer have me. What am I?
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Little Known Fact:
The word “secret” comes from a Latin root meaning “set apart.”
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Answer:
A secret
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#11 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: Number Logic
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Question:
What comes next?
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ?
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Little Known Fact:
Binary code—the foundation of computing—relies entirely on 0s and 1s.
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Answer:
64
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#12 – Difficulty: 10/10
Category: No Mercy — Logic
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Question:
The person who makes it doesn’t need it.
The person who buys it doesn’t use it.
The person who uses it doesn’t know they’re using it.
What is it?
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Little Known Fact:
Victorian mourning customs were highly ritualized and symbolic.
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Answer:
A coffin
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🎯 JEOPARDY — EXPERT BOARD
100
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This is the largest planet in our solar system.
Little Known Fact:
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm that’s been raging for centuries.
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Answer: What is Jupiter?
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200
This is the square root of 144.
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Little Known Fact:
The number 12 shows up constantly in old systems of time and measurement.
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Answer: What is 12?
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300
This ocean is the largest on Earth.
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Little Known Fact:
More than half of the world’s open ocean lies in the Pacific
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Answer: What is the Pacific Ocean?
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400
This U.S. state is known as the Grand Canyon State.
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Little Known Fact:
The Grand Canyon isn’t the deepest in the world—but it’s one of the most studied.
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Answer: What is Arizona?
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This scientist developed the three laws of motion.
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Little Known Fact:
He also spent years studying alchemy and biblical chronology.
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Answer: Who is Isaac Newton?
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🔍 EXPANDED ANSWERS
#1: Doubles each time → 160
#2: Shared brother → 5 total children
#3: Envelope = one “letter” inside
#4: Perfect squares → 49
#5: Piano = keys, no locks
#6: Reverse alphabet → V
#7: Hands ≠ human → clock
#8: Divide by 2 → 6.25
#9: Physical logic → right elbow
#10: Once shared → not yours → secret
#11: Doubling → 64
#12: Classic riddle → coffin
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In Resistance & Truth,
Jerry Chiles
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