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On the 7th Day
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?
Do you know what happened?
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He came in 7th.Hide Answer Show Answer
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And you got the sack from your job for wasting company time :-P
I solved it! Yey me!
The question wasn't very specific.
wasn't exactly a good trick.. as its just a pure guess.... as anything could have happened
not really considered a brain teaser is it? more like a joke.
Great work.
Good for you!!!
hee hee i like it one of my favs definetly!
keep it up
keep it up
VERY GOOD JOKE!!!!!
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!
Ha Ha Ha!! I loved it!!!!!
lol! I thought it was great, even if it was more of a joke!
lol. Great joke. But, you should of made you wake up at 7:77.
how are you going to wake up 7:77? there's no such time..........
I got it! This may have been the easiest one I've done... but it is always nice to have an ego boost!
Funny! In life that's the way the "7" seems to go...Can't always bet it but don't dare bet againt...typical
you should have made it a one day so the horse could have came in 1st place!! LOL
I don't get it?
Good job! DON'T LISTEN TO OTHERS, teaser was good.
But you should do something with time.
But you should do something with time.
I laughed out loud!
Thanks!!
Thanks!!
Guessed it easily but it was fun to read.
I feel sorry for your $777 loss .
I got it wrong >.< lol
Nice teaser, very clever
Nice teaser, very clever
cute teaser
this teaser should be id 777 or 7777 or 77777...
this one was fun to read
what the heck? joke...and it doesnt make sense
A joke, but at least it gave me a chuckle.
I think this is an old Eddie Canter joke, but it's still good for a laugh or two.Thanks.
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.
The answer was obvious, but I could see where you were trying to take us. Thanks.
Very cute! The answer was obvious but I got a kick out of it!
It had to be.
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.
Cute!! Made me laugh!
The result was on expected lines! Cute teaser!
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.
Good one-- I'm in 7th heaven!
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.
Saw that one from 7 miles away!
I LOVED IT!!! Hilarious!
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. . .
Imurray, your nose hairs are showing. please don't turn your nose up so high next time. . .
Good one, it got me!
though easy to figure out, i gotta appreciate your cute sense of humor. thanks for the smile, and here's one for you:
I like it!
It was a cool idea...but really easy, given the theme of the thing was the number 7...
Hilarious!!! Easy, but still funny. I don't know why people [like imurray] can't just have fun. It worked for me.
this really wasn't a brain teaser. but as a joke it was alright. it was preety predictable.
i like it keep sending in more plez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yea, it's a joke, but I still thought it was hilarious. (For being so predictable that guy should have had more since...)
east but fun.. :
I loved it, thanks. Just the giggle I needed today..........
Nice one!
Henny Youngman would be proud.
I think...
I think...
Imurray has NO sense of humer.Please ignore him.I loved it.
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.
I thought it was a lot of fun.
Very dumb. What a waste of time.
That was way to easy!!
That totally made my day!!!!!!
Lol that was really fun/fun & easy
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.
It is posssible to give an opinion without being mean. Perhaps that is the puzzle you were meant to figure out.
Since a.m. or p.m. is not stated for 77, the thing lacks credibility
that was cute! thank you for makeing my day a little better!
funny
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.
Thanks for the smile!
I LAUGHED OUT LOUD ON THIS ONE,TOO. I DIDN'T GET IT EITHER! DUH! BRAIN WORN OUT,MUST GET NEW ONE!
Thank heavens you used 7's instead of 6's or we would all be in troubled. Cute.
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.
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.
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.
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
the funny thing is that I solved it on today, Nov.27th!
when i solved it u had exactly 77 comments !! FREAKY !!! [wink]
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.)
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.)
II. Ignore Imurray.
Gr8 teaser
Gr8 teaser
thats just wrong.....good one
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.
Hillarious!! Even though I guessed the right answer, I laughed out loud! This is a great joke to tell to anybody
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?
It didn't say that he had bet the horse ran the 1st place, did it?
I said he lost I shouldda KNOWN I am out of it, man a great teaser going in my favorites!
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!
these people are upset because they couldn't figure it out!
keep it up!
As others have mentioned, this is more of a joke than a teaser, but quite funny.
HOW IS THIS A TEASER?!?!?!
maybe not a teaser, but pretty funny.
HAHAHAHA!!! i love this.. im going to remember this.
DUH! I can't belive that others didn't get this in.... 7 seconds! Hahahahahaha!
I thought 'I lost a lot of money'
This has been on here for 7 years and it was designed for 7 year old children.Time to bury it 77 feet deep!!!!!!
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.
I liked it, it was cute. Thanks for repeating it so the newer folks get to see it.
I thought that would happen!!!
Something like this happened for real to a man in Dublin.
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!
I got it! One time i kept seeing 9:11 every time i looked at the clock for a week!!!
lol! thats funny
And, With Seven Staring You in the Face, How Could you Loose?
Sorry, I am Sick...
Sorry, I am Sick...
WITH ALL THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON HERE, I DONT THINK I WILL SAY ANYTHING.....................
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.
That was fun! I didn't get it, (I should have!),but I liked it.
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.
Great, original, and put a smile on my face!
Very good trick! I laughed when I saw the answer.
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!!!!
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.
Actually, something like this happened to a guy in Dublin. True story.
Oops, sorry for double-posting.
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.
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.
Yes it was very obvious - but it was a joke!
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.
One of the oldest jokes around
So predictable.
That was pretty funny. Don't worry about the negative comments. I liked it.
This is an awesome joke. I feel bad for the guy though
Loved it!
funny
How did I not get this?
Its an old joke, but a goodie, thanks 4 the laugh!
The answer was obvious BTW.
The answer was obvious BTW.
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