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An Interesting Book
Jeff got a new book in the mail. It is called "How to Feed Hamsters". On each page there are 10 words, and there are 50 pages in the book. How many words are there?
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504There are 500 words in the book and 4 words in "How to Feed Hamsters".
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quite easy
I had 500 then thought "Wait, that was too easy!" @ Then I got it! Thanks for letting me get one right for once!!!!!
Umm... very easy, but you also can't forget about the back cover and the copyright pages... It is just a simple bit of information which makes the teaser a bit messed up...
D00d. What about the title page and stuff like that? This puzzle was still awesome even though it involved highly unlikely situations.
yeah, it also doesnt say that the "How to Feed Hamsters" is written in the book (or in the cover for that matter). maybe its written in one of the pages. in that case, we'll get a different answer.
... don't forget that you would have to have information like:
"by A. Nimmelguy, illustrations: Takeda Hamtaro" or whatever ^_^
Hmm.. and that would get your cover up to 10 words also... maybe the front and back covers should be counted in the "10 words per" stipulation...
"by A. Nimmelguy, illustrations: Takeda Hamtaro" or whatever ^_^
Hmm.. and that would get your cover up to 10 words also... maybe the front and back covers should be counted in the "10 words per" stipulation...
EASY
but what about title pages, covers, copyright, etc.
but what about title pages, covers, copyright, etc.
There are many other things to be put into consideration like author if there is an illustrator publication rights maybe a summary on back to make it "correct" you should add in something like that the only words in the books are the title and the ten words on each of the fifty pages although that would make it quite obvious to include the title as words.
i didn put the title page how to feed hamsters is 4 words so 504 but it's my first! teaser! so it's not the best i no but it's my 1st!
WOW what a great teaser! it is rlly good, i hope u make more!
no need to worry folks i will make more and ill try my best to not disapoint u i promise!
It's pretty fun...but quite easy.
OMG im a dumb blond i didnt get it right man i said 500 ugh im so mad at myself
lol kk, dont worry, my first thought was that it was 500 too, but that would be too easy to be approved
Since i knew that 500 was way to easy.... read the riddle again an i seen that it said how many words are there? so i counted the words in the riddle and got 33...... i guess i am weird !!!!
500 was, for me the obvious answer, so I went for 1000 instead. I assumed the pages would be double-sided. ;)
It's a good teaser, when u think abt it the answer is so obvious. But i didnt even remember the title.
answer was kind of obvious... still pretty good
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i probably wouldn't have gotten it, but it's under the trick catagory so i thought about it before i answered and got it right
A very nice teaser.
I dont know about yall but i thought it was really easy but although it was i still thought it was a good teaser i hope that my brother can make more teasers on braingle yes he is my brother
lol tricky colt and i did ur teaser
ehhh. it was easy
that was easy
OK 10 words times 50 pages = 500. No one said the title is on the 51 page. It does not say there are 51 pages. Sorry, the correct answer would have to be 500. No exceptions.
10 pages equals 500 words...but a book needs a cover to be a book, no matter how simple a cover it is...so...good teaser.
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lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol tht was bad ok even tho u golt a big smile face tht wuz bad c-
I GOT IT! YAY! I got a teaser without having to look at the answer
This was pretty easy... but as many other people have mentioned already, the author, illustrator if any, publisher, and any other copyright info would have to be included
I overthought this one. I thought the answer was 250 because maybe the printing was only one side of the page. But hey I'm rusty...I haven't been on this site in almost two years. And I really didn't know feeding them was so involved.
easy easy
So many comments!Whoa must be THE MOST POPULAR teaser!!
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that was pretty good. i must admit i was confused at first but i still got it. yay.......!
i did not count the title
of course i 4get the title... haha... nys 1...
Apr 15, 2006
ha great job big bro nice!
how about the authors name???????? or the table of contents???????????????
THTS Y IT'S A N INTERESTING BOOK LOL
...and what about the bibliography?
colton you are fine fellow for coming up with a teaser like this. I wish i could
thx
I got it real quick
r u sure?
I got it!!!! Yay me!
lol
Why would it take that many words to tell how to feed a hamster?
because hamster feeding is a very hard thing to do lol
i find that silly and stupid because it said INSIDE the book not on the cover as well!!!!!!
there I commented on your teaser
IT MAKES SENSE!! lol at first i too was asking what about copy write pages..but it still would be a page...and have 10 words on it...so yeah it makes sense
Thank you.
for all u people who are like "what about the copyright and the aurthor and all" those things could be included in the 50 pgs. DUH it never says its not.
either way this was a fun teaser , a little too easy for me but its nice to have an easy one every now and then!
p.s. Congrats on ur fisrt teaser!!!
either way this was a fun teaser , a little too easy for me but its nice to have an easy one every now and then!
p.s. Congrats on ur fisrt teaser!!!
great teaser!!!
gave u the highest vote!
gave u the highest vote!
i didnt get that one right Oh well i never get them so its all good
Actually, the covers (front and back) are considered pages of the book. So, 50 pages, 10 words per page, 500 words total.
Loved it nice teaser!
HAHA!!!! i got it! nice one!!!!! keep them coming!!!!!!
Thanks teasers isn't really my thing, but I'm glad I made this one.
-Coltonr1-
-Coltonr1-
gud teasin', keep it up...
Thanks, I'll try.
-Coltonr1-
-Coltonr1-
Yeah...is the cover considered a page?
Some of u peoples are thinking too hard. If he had to give info about a copyright page etc. it would have been was too long and not a very good teaser. I applaude you. It was great!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
~Coltonr1~
~Coltonr1~
Good teaser Colton! Keep them coming!
Yeah one more and I got the blue star. I have one in the queue with 9-0 it's called not often? It's a rebus so I think y'all will enjoy it.
~Coltonr1~
~Coltonr1~
y wud u need 504 words to tell u how to feed a hamster?
I'm not sure if you do or don't, but it's just a teaser.
~Coltonr1~
~Coltonr1~
you are right
Yeah....
Any words on the back cover, how about the spine? Are you counting page numbers as words? Do you mean only original words? What about duplicated words? Oops, my hamster's dead...must have starved...
I don't get what you're trying to say. If it's the copyright or something on the front or back on the book it would still be considered a page. Therefore it's included in the 50 pages.
Shouldn't this be in math, not trick?
LOL, i thought none since the hamsters ate the pages.
WEEEELLLLLLLLLL it WAAAAS a hamster feeding book, don't look at me like that
WEEEELLLLLLLLLL it WAAAAS a hamster feeding book, don't look at me like that
There are hundreds of thousands of words. It never said to only count the number of words of the book plus the number of words of the title.
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