Braingle: 'On the 7th Day' Brain Teaser

On the 7th Day

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Puzzle ID:	#3737
Fun:	(3.02)
Difficulty:	(1.09)
Category:	Trick
Submitted By:	rayneeday
Corrected By:	luckylefty

On July 7th, I had a most unusual day. I woke up at exactly 7:07, stumbled to my refrigerator and had a 7up. I got dressed, went downstairs, and caught the number 7 bus to go to my office on 77th street. While sitting in my office on the 7th floor, it dawned on me how my day was going so I called my bookie and placed a $777 bet on the number 7 horse in the seventh race, whose name was Seventh Heaven, to win.

Do you know what happened?

Answer

He came in 7th.
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Comments

cathalmccabe Apr 30, 2002	And you got the sack from your job for wasting company time :-P
einat16 May 06, 2002	I solved it! Yey me!
sarobot May 06, 2002	The question wasn't very specific.
godscook May 11, 2002	wasn't exactly a good trick.. as its just a pure guess.... as anything could have happened
dumbass May 13, 2002	not really considered a brain teaser is it? more like a joke.
librashorty May 17, 2002	Great work.
beth Jun 05, 2002	Good for you!!!
kool_lil_girl Jul 03, 2002	hee hee i like it one of my favs definetly! keep it up
Shoobop May 15, 2003	VERY GOOD JOKE!!!!!
jessicag Jul 01, 2003	This is a joke not a trick. The answer is a guess and you don't need to even think about it anyway. Better luck next time!
beanie89 Aug 28, 2003	Ha Ha Ha!! I loved it!!!!!
Katelin Dec 02, 2003	lol! I thought it was great, even if it was more of a joke!
bobyrogers Dec 22, 2003	lol. Great joke. But, you should of made you wake up at 7:77.
sftbaltwty Mar 02, 2005	how are you going to wake up 7:77? there's no such time..........
mi2mo2tx May 01, 2005	I got it! This may have been the easiest one I've done... but it is always nice to have an ego boost!
healthybrain26 May 23, 2005	Funny! In life that's the way the "7" seems to go...Can't always bet it but don't dare bet againt...typical
flirtmaster123 Jun 21, 2005	you should have made it a one day so the horse could have came in 1st place!! LOL
drussel3 Jul 12, 2005	I don't get it?
Muzozavr Sep 29, 2005	Good job! DON'T LISTEN TO OTHERS, teaser was good. But you should do something with time.
signmeup74 Oct 05, 2005	I laughed out loud! Thanks!!
peppamintp Nov 25, 2005	Guessed it easily but it was fun to read.
Question_Mark Dec 29, 2005	I feel sorry for your $777 loss .
exterminator Jan 06, 2006	I got it wrong >.< lol Nice teaser, very clever
npf2005 May 01, 2006	cute teaser
calmsavior May 12, 2006	this teaser should be id 777 or 7777 or 77777...
hadel2u May 13, 2006	this one was fun to read
Crazycriely Jul 13, 2006	what the heck? joke...and it doesnt make sense
akl21 Nov 18, 2006	A joke, but at least it gave me a chuckle.
OldChinaHand Nov 21, 2006	I think this is an old Eddie Canter joke, but it's still good for a laugh or two.Thanks.
Rukia Nov 21, 2006	it was really lame. would have been better if you bet it to take 7th placed. but since it never said if the bet was he took 1st or not, it doesn't matter.
coachpisco Nov 21, 2006	The answer was obvious, but I could see where you were trying to take us. Thanks.
MurfQ Nov 21, 2006	Very cute! The answer was obvious but I got a kick out of it!
bradon182001 Nov 21, 2006	It had to be.
rhmaustin Nov 21, 2006	Cute and fun. I don't care if it was easy. Easy puzzlers can be just as fun as hard ones. Oh, and Dear Editors: Please ignore Imurray's rant. What is it with this guy? He ought to try following Thumper's father's advice for a change: If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
maka10 Nov 21, 2006	Cute!! Made me laugh!
RRAMMOHAN Nov 21, 2006	The result was on expected lines! Cute teaser!
Synlapse Nov 21, 2006	Good thing I had my toasted oat cereal this morning. It gave me the horse sense to figure this one out. However, what really caused him to lose was that the jockey was 7 lbs. overweight.
locutus13ds Nov 21, 2006	Good one-- I'm in 7th heaven!
rrn0rrnrrnY Nov 21, 2006	I've heard this joke before, so I knew it, but you could still submit to Wocka. I don't see it as a teaser either but I didn't mind at all.
FatHead Nov 21, 2006	Saw that one from 7 miles away!
scallio Nov 21, 2006	I LOVED IT!!! Hilarious!
casarussell Nov 21, 2006	He/She could have woken up at seven minutes before seven. Imurray, your nose hairs are showing. please don't turn your nose up so high next time. . .
phyllisa Nov 21, 2006	Good one, it got me!
choptlivva Nov 21, 2006
greenerndn3 Nov 21, 2006	though easy to figure out, i gotta appreciate your cute sense of humor. thanks for the smile, and here's one for you:
speedqueenkmw Nov 21, 2006
tonjawithaj Nov 21, 2006	I like it!
thriftstorediva Nov 21, 2006	It was a cool idea...but really easy, given the theme of the thing was the number 7...
auntiesis Nov 21, 2006	Hilarious!!! Easy, but still funny. I don't know why people [like imurray] can't just have fun. It worked for me.
varie4ever Nov 21, 2006	this really wasn't a brain teaser. but as a joke it was alright. it was preety predictable.
LaDyFlYeR Nov 21, 2006	i like it keep sending in more plez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NatetheGreat Nov 21, 2006	Yea, it's a joke, but I still thought it was hilarious. (For being so predictable that guy should have had more since...)
puttumup Nov 21, 2006	east but fun.. :
BrenBeadSP Nov 21, 2006	I loved it, thanks. Just the giggle I needed today..........
sccrclssc5 Nov 21, 2006	Nice one!
eamon Nov 21, 2006	Henny Youngman would be proud. I think...
natureluver Nov 21, 2006	Imurray has NO sense of humer.Please ignore him.I loved it.
jcann Nov 21, 2006	I laughed out loud and immediately read it to one of my co-workers (who also enjoyed it). It seems to me that it could be classified as a teaser. You have to try to figure out that the answer would probably have something to do with the number 7. I thought it was a lot of fun.
PWT227 Nov 21, 2006	Very dumb. What a waste of time.
tay514 Nov 21, 2006	That was way to easy!!
Icecream-Queen Nov 21, 2006	That totally made my day!!!!!!
ljsamona Nov 21, 2006	Lol that was really fun/fun & easy
jabdr Nov 21, 2006
ngalvin Nov 21, 2006	When I envision all those writing comments I picture some really cool, upbeat, tolerant people and then I picture the mean spirited, negative ones. I'm thankful that the nice outnumber the snobs! It is posssible to give an opinion without being mean. Perhaps that is the puzzle you were meant to figure out.
feste Nov 21, 2006	Since a.m. or p.m. is not stated for 77, the thing lacks credibility
junesun6789 Nov 21, 2006	that was cute! thank you for makeing my day a little better!
sweetblood Nov 21, 2006	funny
blondebookworm Nov 21, 2006	that was so cute! The final question was slightly ambigous, but if you would have been anymre specific it would have been obvious, so I think it's fine the way it is.
I_Write_Books Nov 21, 2006	Thanks for the smile!
patpat553 Nov 22, 2006	I LAUGHED OUT LOUD ON THIS ONE,TOO. I DIDN'T GET IT EITHER! DUH! BRAIN WORN OUT,MUST GET NEW ONE!
vlerma Nov 22, 2006	Thank heavens you used 7's instead of 6's or we would all be in troubled. Cute.
Pizzazz2u Nov 22, 2006	I can partially agree with LM, but the teaser is a good teaser. Easy, but there does seem to be quite a few repeats! Great one to the creator, though! Let us remember, everyone, this is a comment section, and different people have different views, good and/or bad! Also, the delete this comment is available, if the comment sound offensive.
reptile5000 Nov 23, 2006	lmurray Nov 21, 2006 DUH! CAN'T GET ANY EASIER THAN THIS. WHERE'S THE TRICK? DEAR EDITORS: THIS IS THE WEAKEST TEASER I HAVE SEEN. PLEASE DO NOT RE-RUN IT AGAIN. A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE, AND MINE AND PROBABLY ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE'S WILL BE WASTING READING THIS ONE.
starsky13 Nov 26, 2006	This was really cute; easy; a joke with lucky 7! I liked it. lmurray, please keep your negative comments to yourself since we collectively get pleasure out of the creativity of each unique person; perhaps you should find out if you are suffering from depression!LOL
jacstop Nov 27, 2006	the funny thing is that I solved it on today, Nov.27th!
sumZ Dec 08, 2006	when i solved it u had exactly 77 comments !! FREAKY !!! [wink]
Qrystal Dec 12, 2006	What really got me is ... well, I have this thing with the number 37. It haunts me. So anything about numbers that keep repeating in any story makes me remember my "thing" with 37... So can you guess, without looking, what this teaser's ID number is? 3737. faint (I didn't get the answer. I was thinking the answer was: "Yes, I know what happened. You woke up at 77, stumbled to your refrigerator, had a 7up, got dressed, went downstairs, caught the number 7 bus to go to work, called your bookie and placed a $777 bet on the number 7 horse in the seventh race." The end. OR: And then you left the story unfinished. OR: And then you woke up.)
natureluver Dec 13, 2006	II. Ignore Imurray. Gr8 teaser
luvdoritos706 Dec 14, 2006	thats just wrong.....good one
lukeschett Jan 08, 2007	It was cool no matter what anyone (coughImurraycough) has to say. Imurray, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
ArgenRaquet May 24, 2007	Hillarious!! Even though I guessed the right answer, I laughed out loud! This is a great joke to tell to anybody
kiss Aug 31, 2007	But he might have made the bet that the horse ran the 7th place, so he might have won. It didn't say that he had bet the horse ran the 1st place, did it?
AndrewWalker Jul 15, 2008	I said he lost I shouldda KNOWN I am out of it, man a great teaser going in my favorites!
gottalovetacsc Oct 15, 2008	this is a joke but it's still awesome! nice job! these people are upset because they couldn't figure it out! keep it up!
Calehay Oct 31, 2008	As others have mentioned, this is more of a joke than a teaser, but quite funny.
Quickq Nov 27, 2008	HOW IS THIS A TEASER?!?!?!
here2 Jan 25, 2009	maybe not a teaser, but pretty funny.
jonas Nov 19, 2009	HAHAHAHA!!! i love this.. im going to remember this.
Frada8D Nov 21, 2009	DUH! I can't belive that others didn't get this in.... 7 seconds! Hahahahahaha!
sammydj Nov 21, 2009	I thought 'I lost a lot of money'
doehead Nov 21, 2009	This has been on here for 7 years and it was designed for 7 year old children.Time to bury it 77 feet deep!!!!!!
auntiesis Nov 21, 2009	Cute, cute. The people who don't like these teasers should stop coming here to read them, And if they are compelled to come here anyway, then they should stop posting and save the rest of us from wasting our time to read their negative thoughts. I liked it, it was cute. Thanks for repeating it so the newer folks get to see it.
UptheHill Nov 21, 2009	I thought that would happen!!!
crocodile Nov 21, 2009	Something like this happened for real to a man in Dublin.
wordmama Nov 21, 2009	I can picture Henny Youngman or Rodney Dangerfield delivering such a joke. It didn't take me as long as 7 seconds to supply the natural, logical (based on the rhythm of the set-up) answer to the question--but it sure gave me a smile when it was actually right!
Jake10 Nov 21, 2009	I got it! One time i kept seeing 9:11 every time i looked at the clock for a week!!!
cherry7 Nov 21, 2009	lol! thats funny
precious1026 Nov 21, 2009	And, With Seven Staring You in the Face, How Could you Loose? Sorry, I am Sick...
leroyleroy Nov 21, 2009	WITH ALL THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON HERE, I DONT THINK I WILL SAY ANYTHING.....................
hubbamutt777 Nov 22, 2009	yes, ignore imurray, he's always. . . . well. . . GRUMPY. really fun, but the question was so open, i thought it meant "how is this possible?" and i immediately gave up, as usual. great job, though.
avonma Nov 22, 2009	That was fun! I didn't get it, (I should have!),but I liked it.
elentir Nov 23, 2009	I noticed that a few comments went unanswered... so I thought I'd throw this out there. In horse racing, a bet to 'win' is a bet for 1st place. Other position bets are 'place' and 'show', which are 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Those bets pay if your horse comes in that position or better. I've personally never seen a horse race that allows you to bet on any position less than 3rd.
sashomarine Jan 16, 2010	Great, original, and put a smile on my face!
mathisnice Feb 28, 2010	Very good trick! I laughed when I saw the answer.
beyonce123 May 31, 2010	Got it in seven seconds but still really good. . I'm not surprised that it was excellent because it was submitted by rayneeday. Your teasers always rock, Rayn!!!!
thebrain789 Jun 20, 2010	I've seen it before, but it's obvious. Actually, I think the trick is you think he WOULDN'T come in seventh, because you think it's tricking you into thinking he WOULD.
crocodile Aug 18, 2010	Actually, something like this happened to a guy in Dublin. True story.
crocodile Aug 31, 2010	Oops, sorry for double-posting.
Babe Nov 21, 2012	Boy is that ever an oldie, and the answer was so obvious even if you had not heard it before. Glad those of you who never heard it before enjoyed it.
HABS2933 Nov 21, 2012	I've never heard it before, but as Babe said it was an obvious answer. I however would not consider this a teaser of any kind, trick or otherwise. At best it was a groaner of a joke.
gaylewolf Nov 21, 2012	Yes it was very obvious - but it was a joke!
cutebug Nov 21, 2012	I've known about the terrible 2's, but this was the terrible 7's. This non teaser should never surface for another 7777777 years.
katamaster Nov 21, 2012	One of the oldest jokes around
iggy39 Nov 21, 2012	So predictable.
Panther91 Nov 21, 2012	That was pretty funny. Don't worry about the negative comments. I liked it.
ThePurpleTurtle Nov 21, 2012	This is an awesome joke. I feel bad for the guy though
30angel100 Nov 21, 2012	Loved it!