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If there are forty cups on the table and one cup breaks, how come there are 3 tea cups left?
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What does forty sound like?Answer
There are 4 tea (For-ty) cups at first. When one breaks, there would be 3 tea cups left!Admittedly, this doesn't work when written, but go use it on your friend.
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of course, the even cheesier answer would be that although there are forty cups total, only three of them are tea cups, and you broke one of the other 37 cups... =P hehehe...
you know verbal teaser never work
i got it! YES!
Perhaps the 4 cups had 40 cups worth of tea distrubited evenly between them and when one cup was destroyed, the cup loses all the 10 cups of tea or... Nvm...
i got this 1 easy 8P
If there were 4 teacups on the table and one broke, there'd still be 4 there--just that one of them was broken!
It could be because there were 40 cups made up of 3 tea cups and 37 coffee cups. One cup (a coffee cup) breaks so there are 3 tea cups left.
Oops! I've just realised I said the same thing as BlueTwo. Sorry. )
Thats a great teaser. The hint makes it too obvious, maybe you should rephrase the hint?
I thought there were forty cups and only four of them were teacups. I thought maybe some were tumblers, maybe some measuring cups.
That would be cute as a verbal teaser. I wouldn't say only 3 tea cups left though, just only 3 cups left. Otherwise it becomes too obvious.
YAYYYYYY!!!! I got my 20th one right! My goal is now 40.
I just read it aloud and got it right away, good one.
I thought there were like, forty cups (cups being a unit of measurement, like tablespoons), and those forty cups were distributed into four cups of tea. One broke, and there were three cups of tea left.
I think mine's a better one ^_^
I think mine's a better one ^_^
I go tthe same answer as bluetwo andd sir_col
Oct 09, 2004
thats like the first one i got that was so awsome!!
Dat was a little corny. Mayb not a good idea to tell your friends about, unless, u kno...if ur a geek or sumthin.
Oct 09, 2004
That was a good one.I am laughing my brains out.
I was also thinking that the rest of the cups besides the four weren't teacups. The hint might have gave yours away if I were paying attention.
I presumed that there were 40 cups of dried tea, strewn messily upon the table, but only 4 glass tea cups and only one of them broke...
How easy was this one? I loved it! Great work! Keep 'em coming!
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