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1. Follow these steps and see if you can figure this out.

1) Get a brown, cardboard box.
2) Get purple, orange, and turquoise paints.
3) Paint the box orange.
4) Paint on purple spots.
5) Paint on turquoise stripes.
7) Turn it upside down.
Lie on your side.

What is missing from this sequence?

2. I, Professor Picanumba, will amaze and astound you. Take a piece of paper and write any word on it. Fold the paper in half, twice and put it on the floor. Now stand on it. Believe it or not, I will now tell you what is on the paper. How can I know?

3. What is half of 8,
yet isn’t 2 x 2?
Zero also isn’t
what I’m looking for from you.

4. A man left his house to go to work. When he got home he saw that his house had been broken into. The robbers had taken everything in his house except for two one hundred dollar bills that were in plain sight. Why weren’t the one hundred dollar bills taken?

An all math theme this time. There might be a trick or two lurking though…
1. Insert the missing number: 4, 9, 17, 35, _____, 139.
2. The phrases “two plus eleven” and “one plus twelve” not only give the same answer, but also…?
3. A man has a fishing pole that is 13 feet long which he wishes to mail. The Post Office rules say that no package can be longer than 12 feet. He can’t take the rod apart, and he cannot shorten it. How does he mail it? (Not a trick: Math.)
4. Jeff got a new book in the mail. It is called “How to Feed Hamsters.” On each page there are 10 words, and there are 50 pages in the book. How many words are there in the book?
5. Jimmy worked many overtime hours this week, and his normal weekly pay tripled. He received an additional $700. What is his normal salary?