About Bernard Hawkes Expertise Please read my Policy Statement. Puzzles and brainteasers. Ask and I will help! That said, I`m best at pure logic puzzles. E.g. You have twelve apparently identical coins of which one is counterfeit, being either slightly heavy or light. Determine the counterfeit coin, and whether it is heavy or light, in no more than three weighings using a balance scale. Rebuses and riddles I`m less good at, but will generally get the answer given time. Requests for oddball facts (e.g. What was the second most common girl`s name in 1900? [genuine example - answer: Ruth]) I regard as outside my remit. However, you are welcome to ask, but I may not be able to help you.
Experience Member of Mensa. Solution to "gry" riddle.
Tim wrote at 2007-05-14 11:36:44
Here's a possibility for a few of them!
Pas - incomplete pass
ME QUIT - Quit following me
ii ii
oo oo - circles under the eyes
lil_hebe wrote at 2007-06-20 08:10:25
HIJKLMNO = Water (H2O)
ME NT = Apartment
PAS = Incomplete pass
MOTH
CRY
CRY = Mothballs
CRY
ME QUIT = Quit following me
anon wrote at 2007-06-28 09:22:40
ME NT = appartment
Kat wrote at 2007-08-15 03:12:32
PAS = Incomplete Pass
ME QUIT = Quit following Me
Psyance wrote at 2007-09-01 07:31:21
ME QUIT is Quit before me
David - 14 Years Old wrote at 2007-09-13 07:55:17
Well
ME QUIT is Quit following me
HIJKLMNO = Water H20 - H to O
PAS = Incomplete Pass
My mum got this one off a website:
MOTH
CRY
CRY
CRY
is mothballs, but I don't know how.
ME NT : Apartment
That is all
jessie wrote at 2007-09-19 22:17:18
me nt= apartment
me quit= quit following me
moth
cry
cry
cry= mothballs
thats all I know
Jenna wrote at 2007-10-11 02:19:37
lol these are only hard to us because we think too much. I got most of my help from my 8 yr old brother; Little kids use good logic. Anyways here are some I answered myself:
"HIJKLMNO" : H20 (H to 0...get it water?)
"Moth
CRY
Cry : Mothballs ( sland for crying is balling; 'she was balling her eyes out'. so moth balls in plural)
"II II
o o " : circle under your eyes ( The 'I' and the 'o' are actually geometrical shapes."
lol thats all I can figure out for now.
Cry"
eli wrote at 2007-10-13 05:55:54
HO-?
HIJKLMNO- H2O
ME NT-?
?
short pas
?
quit following me
Beth wrote at 2007-10-28 20:11:12
HIJKLMNO is h2o
PAS is incomplete pass
Natalia wrote at 2007-12-03 07:34:33
About the HIJKLMNO
the anser is H to 0 - H20 - as in water.
I'm not sure if you can make sense of this, but I was told Moth cry cry cry was 'Moth balls' I didn't get it, but maybe you would.
K, hope it helps!
Librarian wrote at 2007-12-05 21:41:09
I can't really help with the others, but in 6th grade we were given the Moth
cry
cry
cry
Rebus. The interesting thing is this was not originally done in English and therefor has no answer in English. Does that make sense? I can't remember the language he said it was originally written in. Sorry I couldn't give the actual answer to the puzzle, but it has been too many years.
Mommy wrote at 2007-12-06 03:16:05
HO - not sure
HIJKLMNO - H2O (H to O)
ME NT - not sure
M
Disohes
PAS - Incomplete Pass
ME Quit - Quit Following Me
II II
o o = Circles under the eyes
o - 144 = OH GROSS!
sb wrote at 2008-01-30 17:29:38
moth
cry
cry
cry
(cry is to bawl) moth "bawls"
Caper wrote at 2008-03-31 03:14:52
HIJKLMNO = Water (H to O)
MOTH
CRY = Mothballs (Moth Bawls)
CRY
CRY
ME QUIT = Quit Following Me
O-144 = Oh Gross (??)
Sinead wrote at 2008-04-24 16:23:12
Here are a few more possible answers
HO - Big laugh
HIJKLMNO - Water (H2O)
ME QUIT - Quit following me
II II - Circles under your eyes
O O
Cale wrote at 2008-05-17 11:57:50
Ok, two of these are pretty common rebuses.
Bernard was wrong about the 8th one:
II II
OO OO
It's actually rings under the eyes, such that you get when you don't get enough sleep.
HIJKLMNO
This is a chemistry teacher's favourite one to give students. The letters are from H to O, and the chemical formula for water happens to be H2O. So the answers water.
That's all I can get.
terry wrote at 2008-08-03 11:02:48
me quit quit following me
moth
cry
cry moth balls
cry
hijklmno h20 (water)
pas unfinished pas
Yukiko wrote at 2009-04-23 02:47:26
HIJKLMNO-H2O
ME NT-Apartment
Mothballs for the moth cry cry cry, which I don't know how they got that.
The others I don't know that have'nt already been solved.
Good Luck!
heyo wrote at 2009-05-15 18:20:52
ii ii
ooo ooo - circles under the eyes
HIJKLMNO- H2O or h to the o
ME NT - Apartment
moth
cry
cry
cry- moth balls because to cry is to bawl
me quit- quit after me
Donald wrote at 2009-07-10 12:20:43
HO = half an hour
ME QUIT = Quit following me
ii ii
O O = circles under the eyes
MOTH CRY CRY CRY = Moth balls (Bawls = crying)
PAS = incomplete pass
HIJKLMNO = Water (H2O)
ME NT = apartment
