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The Club
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Puzzle ID: #20169
Submitted By: UTforever22 Corrected By: smarty_blondy
Submitted By: UTforever22 Corrected By: smarty_blondy
Trick
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.Trick
A man wanted to get into a members only club so he hid and watched the guard at the door of the club house. The guard said a number to each member as they approached, and the member would respond with a number of their own. If the member responded with the correct number they were let in. If they responded incorrectly they were thrown out. One member came up to the door, the guard said twelve, and the member responded with six and was let in. Another member came to the door, the guard said six and the member responded with three and was let in. Believing he had heard enough, the reject went up to the guard. The guard said ten, and the reject said five, but was not let in. What should the reject have said?
Answer
He should have said three, the number of letters in the number the guard said.Hide Answer Show Answer
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This was a good one. I didn't even think of it that way.
I didn't figure it out, but I thought is was awesome
he could have also said 4 if it was the absolute value of subtracting six from the number the gaurd said, but nice trick anyway
that was a good one!
that was a good one!!
and at first i thought it was stupid b/c i thought it was half!!
very clever!!!
and at first i thought it was stupid b/c i thought it was half!!
very clever!!!
Jan 04, 2005
Excellent!
Very triky you little trickster you!
Hey, that was cool. The absolute value thing was a neat idea, too.
Jan 13, 2005
it tooooooooo good
that was a good one . im adding it to my faves
Jan 22, 2005
THIS TEASER SUCKED! IT WAS THE WORST EVER!
Just kidding....I loved it..Im adding it to my favorites as well!
Just kidding....I loved it..Im adding it to my favorites as well!
very clever!
Good one!
I had tried to come up with several long formulas, (not equivilent to halving it). And it turns out it had nothing to do with math
I had tried to come up with several long formulas, (not equivilent to halving it). And it turns out it had nothing to do with math
Congrats.. I just heard this teaser on the radio in New Zealand
You're like famous or something ^_^ Nice concept and well put. Keep it up
You're like famous or something ^_^ Nice concept and well put. Keep it up
LoL.......This Is A Good Teaser, Its Definitely One Of My Favorites
I'm not sure, but I think that I may I have seen this same teaser on here before
This was a very good one. I liked it alot and I'm going to fool alot of people with it.
Darn, now why didn't I think of that? I loved it, thanks.
Most of the teasers on this site are so cheesy, this was actually a good one for once!
Very nice! A good twist.
I think that this teaser was very funny. At first it seems kind of hard to understand but once you think about it what it means comes to you.
I sat there for like ever trying to come up with the formula when it had hardly anthing to do with math! Good one you stumped me!
Pretty good. I thought the answer was eight. All the digits adding up to nine.
good one ! i actually got it
I didn't figure it out. but it was a great teaser
pretty good.
oh, I had all sorts of math things going... didn't see that one coming, good job!
that was kinda cool.
super riddle. you made the best one i read so far
Feb 10, 2005
that was mad creative. i would have done the same thing that the person that wasn't aloud in did.
This was a great teaser. I don't know y I din't think of that.
Clever!!!
Very nice-got it pretty quickly so am happy with myself. keep um coming..
very nice
Tough one for me, but obvious when see the answer. Unfortunately, I often miss the obvious.
how rude thumper!
very nice teaser
ok then rabid...
very nice teaser
ok then rabid...
I really liked that one. It is kind of obvious, but in a way it's kind of challenging.
I've heard this in another riddle about a pet shop
Anyway, this was hard and took me a while to figure out. Its going in my fav's
Anyway, this was hard and took me a while to figure out. Its going in my fav's
THATS A GOOD ONE! GOOD STUFF
brilliant teaser!!
U got me there if i'm the man, i would say five too!
Any a way cool and good one
Any a way cool and good one
U got me there if i'm the man, i would say five too!
Any a way cool and good one
Any a way cool and good one
Whoa!That was tight!...How'd you think of that ???!!??! Amazing.
I missed it never thought of it that way. i tried several math ways and never got it. thanks
Not bad.
That was neat Its definitely on my favorites list!
Very good! I would have guessed 2. Double the number, then sum the digits:
12*2=24; 2+4=6
6*2=12; 1+2=3
10*2=20; 2+0=2
Nice twist!
12*2=24; 2+4=6
6*2=12; 1+2=3
10*2=20; 2+0=2
Nice twist!
Very good! I would have guessed 2. Double the number, then sum the digits:
12*2=24; 2+4=6
6*2=12; 1+2=3
10*2=20; 2+0=2
Nice twist!
12*2=24; 2+4=6
6*2=12; 1+2=3
10*2=20; 2+0=2
Nice twist!
I actually got this one right, yay! Please make more like this one, I really liked it.
Very cute. It seems familiar in some way...when I read it I knew there was a catch and figured it out.
That was probably my favorite teaser yet!!!!! I cant beleive i got it either
i like this teaser cause unlike a lot of teasers it make u think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that was a good one i had to think about it for a moment
RTAtlanta...VERY SMART of you!!! I got this one right and it wasn't super way way easy. I feel kinda smart! THX
RTAtlanta's theory is very clever as well as the actual answer. I enjoyed it.
AWESOME!
Lol very smart didnt think of it that way!
Luv Rachie
Luv Rachie
lovely, i enjoyed this
This is good.
BUT, it sounds kinda familiar...
BUT, it sounds kinda familiar...
That was nice but as previously said there are many of this kind.
lol good one, love it! ♥
i thought that the man had to say five and because thats what everyone else woz sayin.
i absolutely love this one! i told it to my math teacher and she loved it to! great trick!
me mum or dad didn't geddit. neither did i. good 1.
That was a good one!!!!But I feel sorry for the reject...
very tricky, i couldnt guess on this I like it
great teaser... going to my favs!!!
Sep 06, 2005
that wuz such a gud teaser
keep them coming! Great one. Very clever!
Yes! I got it! That was really clever!
Loved it.
my favorite teaser here . I am still waiting to get the unreasonable 250 POINTS! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN ME! Nice job
Awesome!!!
Fun!!!!! good thinking, I had 2
o boy im last to comment Had me goin on that one thanx
Thanks - made me use my thinking cap.
My brain hurts...good teaser.
i gave it as half hard because i couldnt give it 3/4 hard. but it was really fun! good teaser, keep up the good work !
Au contraire RABID, I thought the teaser was cleaver.
Hmm I wouldnt have guessed that, very clever.
Very Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i thought that was great . iguess everybody else did too! i've never seen this many comments this early , it seems .
my personal strategy was to stare at the riddle waiting for ESP to magically kick in .
yeah , i gave up !
my personal strategy was to stare at the riddle waiting for ESP to magically kick in .
yeah , i gave up !
I would have waited to hear more examples of right and hopefully wrong answers. The reject was a loser because he was impatient.
Dastardly! Ten out of ten. Five out of five. Three out of three. Whatever. It was good and one I can remember to try out on my friends - see how bright THEY are. I didn't get it. Well done.
Good one, man! Very cute.
that was actually pretty good for once!!! good job
Excellent!!! I liked it a lot.
Go Giants!
Go Giants!
yaddah, yaddah, yaddah, blah blah blah
once again BESAMISHUEVOS has nothing good to say .
haha very good one!! i guess that was too obvious for me to see...i was trying to figure out a math equation for it!! great teaser..one of my favorites!!
By the way, oripoo, the absolute value of subtracting 6 from 6 does not give you 3 so your solution does not work. Better luck next time.
I heared this riddle somewhere, so I knew what to look for, but it was still fun!
nice one i actually got it
THIS WAS AWSOME! I got it pretty qiuck but it was a-w-s-o-m-e-! keep em' coming!
Yea! I loved it! Only the 2nd or so to go into my favs!
you got me there!!!! it was a GREAT teaser! it's going on my favorites.
That was Great!
SO TOTALLY AWESOME!
I loved it. Made me feel really stupid, but that's ok because the joke was on me. All the math ideas just didn't work. Makes me mad tho because spelling was always my best area. Duh. LOVED IT THO!!!
pretty good, yeah. Puts the "gray matter" into motion, and we can all use that as a daily mental workout.
Keep 'em comin'.
Keep 'em comin'.
whoa, that was a head slapper... (You know where you slap yourself in the head when you hear the answer ) I guess sitting here staring at the computer didn't help me cuz i still didn't get the answer right. But it was definitley clever clever...
THE LOGICAL ANSWER IS THREE.
GEE..I'M GLAD I GOT IT RIGHT. I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE REJECTED.
EXCELLENT UT. KEEP EM COMING.
GEE..I'M GLAD I GOT IT RIGHT. I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE REJECTED.
EXCELLENT UT. KEEP EM COMING.
I was stuck somewhere on 1.5... hehehe...very good! Nice setting
nice i had it half-way through the story
tricky
haha. i got it.
excellent
LOVE IT
Enjoyable, and not hard enough to frustrate. Good one.
Very good. I enjoyed it.
bravo...very nice one. something finaly worth my time very clever..
Very interesting. It took me all of 20 seconds to figure it out.
Cute!!
You got me good.. Shows I need to think outside the "box"..This is good for my brain but not so good for my pride..hahaha
Geeez, that was coool, i got hang up
Very good teaser. Super! Those characters who are negative or say it was simple need to come up with some that surpass yours.
Ya got me, too. Great teaser, good and tricky. I really liked this one.
Boo for me! I gave up too soon. Very clever.
Duh, I didn't go for a lot of math because I knew it was going to be a trick but I just couldn't find it. Of course maybe if I had taken a little more time.....
Great teaser!! I would have guessed 5 but knew there was a trick to it so I took some time and finally figured it out! Good Job!!
yesssssssssssssssssssssss i got it gd one m8
Great Trick! Fooled me!
This is a classic puzzle, but is written in a creative way so it's ok.
Very clever!!!
that is very clever! I loved it Well done
Fantastic! I enjoyd it, thoroughly! Keep up the terrific work! I have ehard this before, but it still was a great one to be able to pull on a few friends!
I really liked this one... it really makes you look at something simple other than math... nice teaser.
I recognized that I had read it before but STILL could not get the answer
(sorry my apostrophe key is not working, so my syntax sounds even more stilted than usual!!!)
(sorry my apostrophe key is not working, so my syntax sounds even more stilted than usual!!!)
HAHAHA I GOT IT!!!
sorry for caps lock, but great teaser!
sorry for caps lock, but great teaser!
Didn't get it! Fun one though
Lateral thinking! That is what was needed here!
You got me! I got caught up in the math!
Good job!
You got me! I got caught up in the math!
Good job!
I got to 2, like RT Atlanta.
nice. seems like people came up with lots of diffent math ways to do it. i figured it must not be math, but didnt think of that. (i always think in #'s, not spelled out)
A very good teaser...but you do have to think a bit. Well done.
Arghh, I didn't even try to think too hard about it since it was a "trick" question. Oh well. Lot's of ways to figure it out though. Wasn't this type of password system used in Monkey Island 2? Ahh, great game.
QUITE EASY, HOW DOES THIS TEASER QUAILFY AS A "TRICK," IT IS A LOGICAL ANSWER, NO TRICK OR DECEPTION INVOLVED.
OldChinaHand**
Feb 10, 2006
My brain hurts...good teaser.
OldChinaHand**
Feb 10, 2006
My brain hurts...good teaser.
Another solution would be 8. In the first two the sum of the digits equaled 9 (1+2+6 and 6+3). since the guard said 10, responding with 8 would make the sum of the digits 9. It is obvious that our guy was a bit too anxious to get in. He or she should have waited.
I kinda gave up just knowing it was a trick, and knowing the answer wasn't going to be five, but when I saw the actual answer I kicked myself because I kinda thought it would be "something like that" but didn't bother to check if it actually WAS that. Oops. Anyways, this was supposed to be a break from work, and I didn't want to hurt myself thinking more than I had to... instead, I hurt myself whacking my forehead. Ow.
There is also a T-S conection here. Twelve and Six, Six and Three. So, When given the number Ten, Six or Seven could also work. The T-S are also alternating.
i got it... i was actually tested with a sequence exactly like the pattern of the numbers... so it was kinda easy..
Cheater this is a duplicate of #495
Hey this is a duplicate!!!!!!
This teaser is a duplicate of teaser 495.
Any editors please report this as a duplicate of #495 . I wonder how it got approved.
Very good! But I didn't get it though.
I even remembered seeing this one before and STILL didn't get it!
Wow, another new teaser that has never been on here before. Oops I meant another repeat again,again,and a few more times.
The good thing is that my brain doesn't get a workout.
The good thing is that my brain doesn't get a workout.
Didn't get it. I thought the answer might have something do with the face of a clock since they used numbers up to 12.
Yeah ! I got into the members only club .
Fun! Even though I didn't get it!
Didn't get it again this time.
No, I did not get the correct answer, but I thought this Teasers was great.
One of the best Teasers I have encountered, and I have encountered many.
Good Work.
One of the best Teasers I have encountered, and I have encountered many.
Good Work.
I knew it! Great teaser, one of the best I have ever seen.
Nicely done.... poor outcast
I guessed "with five" as the first two responded "with six" and "with three" and the reject only responded "five". Good teaser nonetheless, it had me thinking
This is a duplicate of #495
Gr8 trick... It made me going wild but i noe the pattern is contradicted
Lets see, I've seen this teaser 7 times now, with about 4 different versions of the same teaser.
Yes, I've also played Monkey Island 2.
Over used and worn out. How about giving us some new teasers!!!!! Did you get this one GW?
Actually I didn't get this one. But I liked it. The word for the day is: "friend" - response: "6"!
Think I heard this one for the first time when I was about five. And given my advanced age, that was not yesterday!
I would have gotten into the club.
I GOT 2 ANSWERS FIRST WHAT THEY GAVE.SECOND 8 SUM OF DIGITS OF GUARD NUMBER +RESPONSE MUST BE 9
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New to me and I have been on here a while. I still did not get it and thought it was just to half it. Obviously It was wrong
I never would have figured it out even though IMurray says it was easy and simple.
I never would have figured it out even though IMurray says it was easy and simple.
I came up with 2. Multiply the number by 2, then add the digits.
This isn't a trick teaser, is it? It's not hard, just requires a different way of thinking.
I've seen this one on 7 Second Answers.
Fun and entertaining teaser. Unfortunately I did not catch on and get the answer but thought this teaser was very clever.
VERY TRICKY GOOD JOB
I really like this one. It's the change of direction - you think it's a mathematical trick, but it turns out it's about words. I.e., you think it's about "12" but it's actually about "twelve", and they aren't the same.
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