Hand in Hand
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Can you figure out a meaning for the following sentence?
Hand a hand a hand a hand and hand a hand a hand a hand.
HintHand has many meanings.
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Answer
One possible meaning is:
Pass a hired worker your fingered appendage four inches and pass him a poker hand the same distance.
Did you find any others?
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speedyg1000 
Nov 29, 2002
| can someone clarify that? I am compeeetely lost |
destini94
Dec 01, 2002
| it doesn't make sense |
electronjohn 
Dec 02, 2002
| OK let me try to explain it better. ‘Hand’ can mean pass as in ‘hand me that pen’(call this meaning hand1). ‘Hand’ can also mean a hired worker (the answer has a typo, hire should be “hired”, sorry) as in ‘the rancher hired five more hands to round up the cattle’ (call this meaning hand2). ‘Hand’ can also mean a fingered appendage as in ‘I have two feet and two hands’ (call this meaning hand3). ‘Hand’ is also a unit of measure equal to four inches as in ‘the large black horse was 18 hands tall’(call this meaning hand4). ‘Hand’ can also mean the five cards a poker player is dealt as in ‘when playing poker the player with the best hand wins’(call this meaning hand5).
So if we add the right meanings to the sentence we get the following; Hand1 a hand2 a hand3 a hand4 and hand1 a hand2 a hand5 a hand4. In other words it is saying move your hand (hand3) a short distance to the hired worker and pass him a poker hand (hand5) that same distance. Clear as day. Hand a hand a hand a hand and hand a hand a hand a hand.
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speedyg1000
Dec 02, 2002
| oooohhh.... pass a hired worker a hand four inches and pass a hired worker a poker hand four inches. I get it..... thanx a lot. its all clear. (btw, good riddle) |
Codammanus
Feb 11, 2003
| Perplexed as I don't know what. But you gotta love it. It's why we visit. |
Rowsdower
Dec 13, 2003
| Whatever you ingested or inhaled to think this one up, Can I have some?  Fun teaser. |
seanlandrews
Aug 29, 2006
| Uhhh! Wow!! Huh!!! |
lukeschett
Jan 17, 2007
| Uh... *drool*
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