1000 Word Essay
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
A boy was in detention from talking too much when the teacher was talking. The detention teacher said, "You have to produce a 1000 word essay in 30 seconds...GO!!"
The boy actually did it. How?
Note: he did not just write "A 1000 word essay" on his paper. You'll have to be a little more clever than that.
Answer
The boy knew the common saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words," so he drew a picture.
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jessicag   
Jul 01, 2003
| frustrating, but witty and clever. |
Monkey_Chick90
Jul 17, 2003
| That's the first one that had me stumped, good job! |
ladystrider
Jul 18, 2003
| I was gonna say he already had one... |
beanie89 
Aug 11, 2003
| Nice One Sunny |
(user deleted)
Nov 04, 2003
| Witty. Caught me off guard. |
teebone35
Nov 04, 2003
| I thought it was an already made essay from a book or something to that nature and just handed it to the teacher. |
teebone35
Nov 04, 2003
| I thought it was an already made essay from a book or something to that nature and just handed it to the teacher. |
gerr2thegerr406
Nov 15, 2003
| Somewhat confused me at first.....God one though!!  |
lallu_21
Mar 25, 2004
| is it ok to have extra 200 words |
rashad 
Jul 08, 2004
| U must have wrote 1000 word essay |
binky_girl1992
Sep 30, 2004
| lol nice one |
sweetime
May 24, 2005
| i was going with the "picture is worth a thousand words" answer, until i couldnt work out how you got rid of the 200 words from 1000 to get to 800. after that i decided that since the teacher said "produce" rather than "write" the essay, he just found an 800 word essay somewhere and handed it to her |
deepsea
Aug 10, 2005
| i said he just wrote "a" 800 times |
AZTTT
Oct 05, 2005
| very clever! kid was talkative and smart    |
Mr_solution
Dec 30, 2005
| Nather solution is...
The teacher told him to PRODUCda essay....not necessarily WRITE it...the boy musta hav handed nee essay frm da book inside 30 sec...
hows dat?..
"...Elementary my dear Watson!!...." |
bhssoccer23
Aug 10, 2006
| That's so cute!! I love it! |
lukeschett
Jan 13, 2007
| What did he draw? Me?
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brudork
Feb 12, 2007
| smart |
mercedes13
Apr 05, 2007
| very clever. i liked it. |
Hrsemn4
Jun 08, 2007
| Yeah, go ahead and try that one...you'll find yourself face to face with the principal. |
Jessrox97
Sep 30, 2007
| It says 1000 words not 800 doesnt it? |
luckylefty
Mar 27, 2008
| I thought he was just going to take one out that he already had |
jonas
Oct 30, 2009
| ha! sounds like somethng i would do... lol keep em comin'! |
Babe
Jan 19, 2012
| Since it said "produce" and not "write" i assumed he got someone else's paper and produced that. I like my answer better! |
gaylewolf
Jan 19, 2012
| Good one! I like that! I thought it was very clever. Thanks!  |
gaylewolf
Jan 19, 2012
| Good one! I like that! I thought it was very clever. Thanks! |
plain_jane
Jan 19, 2012
| Haha! That was a goo one! Good job! |
HABS2933 
Jan 19, 2012
| I heard this one years ago, read it in a teaser book or something; it stumped me the first time. |
phyllisa
Jan 19, 2012
| Clever teaser! |
jaycr
Jan 19, 2012
| I thought he went with a rebus:
30 a-1000-word-essay seconds. |
Rhythmic
Jan 19, 2012
| I agree with those that say he "produced" the essay intead of "wrote" the essay.
I figured he was probably in trouble a lot and had another essay on hand that he gave the teacher. |
wordmama
Jan 19, 2012
| I like jaycr's answer! But I did get the answer 'drew a picture' immediately--easy-peasy but very good. |
Mandy7
Jan 19, 2012
| That was an awesome teaser. I didn't know the saying, but I know I've heard it before. Maybe I was researching a famous painter or something. I forgot, but I didn't realize how easy it was until I checked the answer. |
fuzzyface73
Jan 19, 2012
| but... while a picture may be worth a thousand words, that doesn't make it an essay... |
rach2cats
Jan 21, 2012
| I thought that since it said produced, not write, that he would just take out an essay that he already had... |
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