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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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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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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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