Two boxers are in a match scheduled for 12 rounds. (Pure boxing only). One of the boxers gets knocked out after only six rounds, yet no man throws a punch. How is this possible?
They are female boxers.
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A man takes his car to a hotel. Upon reaching the hotel, he is immediately declared bankrupt. Why?
He is playing Monopoly.
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A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?
An hourglass.
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You put a coin into an empty bottle and insert a cork into the neck. How can you remove the coin without removing the cork or breaking the bottle?
Push the cork into the bottle and shake the coin out.
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What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away ?
Charcoal.
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You have 12 black socks and 12 white socks mixed up in a drawer. You’re up very early and it’s too dark to tell them apart. What’s the smallest number of socks you need to take out (blindly) to be sure of having a matching pair?
3 socks. If the first sock is black, the second one could be black, in which case you have a matching pair. If the second sock is white, the third sock will be either black and match the first sock, or white and match the second sock.
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What do these words have in common: polish, job, herb?
And they are all capitonyms which are words that change their meanings (and sometimes their pronunciation) when capitalized.
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You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How can you get all three across safely?
Take the chicken over and leave the fox and the grain. Go get the fox drop it off and pickup the chicken. Take the chicken back across and pickup the grain and leave the chicken. Drop the grain off with the fox and take the chicken over now all of them are on one side!
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The Muller-Lyer illusion:
Are the coloured lines the same length?
They are! The different colours and “framing” from the arrows surrounding the lines make them appear to be different sizes, but they are actually equal length.
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A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
The river was frozen.