Puzzles and answers

THE PUZZLE CLUB
Answers to February’s puzzles

A Curious Word Puzzle
Assuming that Smith and Jones had taken an examination in the use of the verb “had,” the sentence might be punctuated and paraphrased as follows: “Smith, where Jones had used the phrase ‘had had,’ had used the word ‘had’; the phrase ‘had had’ had received the examiner’s approval.” Therefore, proper punctuation would be as follows: “Smith, where Jones had had ‘had had,’ had had ‘had’; ‘had had’ had had the examiner’s approval.”

A Weighty Problem?
5 cakes will balance 1 can of beans

It’s About Time!
10:48 p.m. Sunday. Sunday is the first day of the week; at midnight Sunday there will be 144 hours left.

Where there’s a will…..
There are 142 cows in the herd. When the kind neighbour lent his two cows, the division was very simply like thus:

John got ………………..48
Tom got …………………36
Henry got ………………24
Bill got ………………….18
George got …………….16
Total……………………142

And the neighbour took back his two cows

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