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An elderly pool attendant is starting to get sick of having to open the swimming pool every Monday, so he decides that the pool will remain closed on Mondays from now on. Being of reasonably limited English, he makes up a sign which he hangs from the front gate. What's special about his sign?
NOW NO SWIMS ON MON
NOW NO SWIMS ON MON
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If you spin the sign upside down it will still read the same thing as it did.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Good one D.
NICE ONE!
Wouldn't you have to turn it upside down and backwards?
Very visible answer but still good!
i saw this teaser in a book once. did u copy it? or did u originally make it up?
Oops! This is a gotcha! I figured it out in 2 seconds flat! "It's a palindrome", I said! Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
Very nice!
Very nice!
I have to admit that this is probably one of about 2 or 3 of my teasers that I got from somewhere else. A friend told me it and I thought I would share it. I thought it was quite neat.
Angel.. no, you try it, write it on a piece of paper and simply 'spin' the paper around as if you had put a pin in the centre of the paper so that it is upside down.
Lalael, yes I guess it is simple, don't know about pre-school simple but I imagine it's still fun.
Thanks everyone for stopping by and voting and commenting.
D^2.
Angel.. no, you try it, write it on a piece of paper and simply 'spin' the paper around as if you had put a pin in the centre of the paper so that it is upside down.
Lalael, yes I guess it is simple, don't know about pre-school simple but I imagine it's still fun.
Thanks everyone for stopping by and voting and commenting.
D^2.
well i liked it!!!!!!!!
ditto w/ wut u said the person before i wrote this comment ;)
hey, this was cool, but I have to admit, my 7 year old got this one too.
I have to say, right when i saw the solution, i still didn't think it'd work out, then when i wrote it out, it worked nicely! Great Teaser! Keep em up!
pretty good : )
well, jizz, from what i've heard, your seven-year-old is a child prodigy?
I heard this one at school and I forgot what it was and it's been bothering me so thanks
that was the easiest brain teaser i have ever read. I wonder who can even consider that to have the title, "brain teaser."
That's cool. A "funny kid" can't turn it upside down!!
great one
a tad simple ...
nice of you to admit it here....
Wow, there's been a few visitors since I last stopped by. Thanks for all the comments. Chelsie, I hope you don't make anyone feel stupid because you proclaim that it's simple yet others may not find it so... teasers can be like that you know. .
i got it in a few seconds (one of the only ones mind u!!) any way it's a good one though i've read it in a book before did u copy or just hear it and decided to put it on?b
Just because it is simple doesn't make it any less clever.
The answer to this is wrong, if you flip the message upside down the ms and ws will switch.
er..yes they will...your point?
I guessed that it didn't say "one" in between "NOW NO SWIMS ON MONDAY" GREAT TEASER!
lol.. good one.. could have been a little harder.. I figured it out.. over all good though.
Hmmmm, busy busy again. Thanks for the comments.
i thought now no swims on monday.it would read backword.
Great one! It didn't take too long to figure out, but the way you incorporated the clever word trick into a story was fabulous
Thanks
ambigram
Cute... but very easy....
Very, very nice
Not just a palindrome, but a palindrome with rotational symmetry as well. I wonder if there's a special term for sentences that meet those two criteria?
Not just a palindrome, but a palindrome with rotational symmetry as well. I wonder if there's a special term for sentences that meet those two criteria?
Easy still nice palindrome
u guys its not really a palindrome... it wouldnt be the same if it were read backwards...
anyw/ great teaser! a little too easy tho, i got it pretty quick.
anyw/ great teaser! a little too easy tho, i got it pretty quick.
FIRST THINGS 1ST ... CAN WE GET
NOT "AWESOME 100" OFF OF
HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2ND I liked the teaser. I got it
in about 2 minutes. I never knew
what a palindrome was. Now I do.
I had fun solving it.
Thanks for submitting it.
NOT "AWESOME 100" OFF OF
HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2ND I liked the teaser. I got it
in about 2 minutes. I never knew
what a palindrome was. Now I do.
I had fun solving it.
Thanks for submitting it.
I agree with Rose about Awesome 100's comment being uncalled for. And I also agree that this teaser is fun and easily solved. Good job.
thought it was a very lame and boreing
got it immediately.
Palindrome, it made my day to be right so early for a change LOL
Palindrome, it made my day to be right so early for a change LOL
It wasn't 'simple' or boring. In fact, only one person truly got the answer - that was Calm Savior. The type of teaser this is, is called an ambigram. (A palindrome is a word/phrase/etc. that can be read the same forward and backward. An ambigram is more artistical. Remember the Da Vinci Code and the symbols? Those were ambigrams. Ambigrams can be read the same or make different words/pictures in different positions.)
Have a great day, everyone! =)
Have a great day, everyone! =)
That was fun!!!
Pretty easy for me.
GROWUP AWESOME
GROWUP AWESOME
enjoyed it though i found it very easy...
First of all, it's not a palindrome. It can't be read the same way backwords and forwards. Secondly, neat teaser! Easy, but that's not a bad thing.
Oops! Just realized I spelled "backwards" wrong in my previous comment!
Upside down and backwards! Neat! Thanks!
For the last time, people. This is NOT a palindrome. It does NOT read the same backwards to forward. If you read it backwards, it would make no sense.
It's an ambigram, because you have to flip it upside-down.
It's an ambigram, because you have to flip it upside-down.
i found this teaser fun and easy, but that doesnt mean that it would be easy for everybody... awesomes comment was deleted before i got here, which by the looks of it, was a good thing... i liked this teaser and never saw it before until now... thanx and keep 'em coming
so sorry... i need to correct my grammar... my statement should read "doesnt mean it will"
Nice one!
Easy but clever and fun!
No you people its not a
P A L I N D R O M E
its just the same upside down.
P A L I N D R O M E
its just the same upside down.
I got it quite quickly, but I think it is very clever, very clever indeed. I truly enjoyed this teaser. Many thanks.
Liked it, nice.
i so did not get that
just rotate 180 degrees, just 1 action instead of turning upside down nd backwards, 2 actions. TOOsimple for here
Very cute!!
Does it matter............
Easy but cute....no matter what it is or isn't (Happy to say I don't 'see' awesome 100's remarks.) The system works
that is funny
This is an actual event from M C Escher's childhood. It was an epiphany for him (or at least an inspiration - can't find my book right now...).
Great teaser, I got it fairly easily because all during algebra this week I've been writing messages on my calculator by turning it upside down. (4=h, 3=E, 7=L, 0=O; 0.7734=hELLO!)
Yeah, my mom got kinda mad at me, because I stupidly kept showing my discoveries to her! (I'm homeschooled)
Yeah, my mom got kinda mad at me, because I stupidly kept showing my discoveries to her! (I'm homeschooled)
The capital letters stood out to me, so I read that sentence and I figured out the answer before I read the whole teaser...pretty wierd how I could get to exactly where this teaser was going...
Well, this teaser was awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this teaser with us here at Braingle!
Well, this teaser was awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this teaser with us here at Braingle!
That one was easy peasy. I like it anyway. Sometimes they just jump out at you, and then sometimes you can't see for lookin.
Thanks
Monday~
Thanks
Monday~
Thanks so much for all the comments. Missed the gem from awesome. Good to see there are still those types around on Braingle . Just so everyone knows, and I'm not sure if I already shared this but this is not a dsquared original I did receive it somewhere at some point and thought it a good one to share.
Nov 28, 2008
I'm sure many folks have enjoyed your submission, Dsquared. Originality not important ! Difficulty not important ! Sharing is !!!
And for your teachings, Composer and Teri12265, thanks too, though technically, if you fold the expression over its horizontal line of symmetry, the " Ns " are backwards. So not a 100% true Ambigram, but only 99%.
That 1% discrepancy was enough to fool many into thinking forwards and backwards is identical [ Palindrome ].
But our imaginations didn't worry about that minor technicality. It certainly didn't spoil our fun and SATISFACTION, jumping to a quick solution, often before finishing the reading of the sign.
Your storyline was well written, and I admire your clever touch in the title.
Many thanx !!!
And for your teachings, Composer and Teri12265, thanks too, though technically, if you fold the expression over its horizontal line of symmetry, the " Ns " are backwards. So not a 100% true Ambigram, but only 99%.
That 1% discrepancy was enough to fool many into thinking forwards and backwards is identical [ Palindrome ].
But our imaginations didn't worry about that minor technicality. It certainly didn't spoil our fun and SATISFACTION, jumping to a quick solution, often before finishing the reading of the sign.
Your storyline was well written, and I admire your clever touch in the title.
Many thanx !!!
Bit late steve8rox, but thanks so much for your well thought out words.
Great teaser!
I started to read it as a palindrome but then I was like nooo... And then it jumped out at me.
I thought it was a palindrome, but I guessed the correct answer as I clicked the 'Show Answer' button..... Darn!
Great teaser.
cute, i give up on these things way to easy though, i read it, looked at the question, shrugged and said "oh well", and then looked at the answer
Easy, but good! I got it the second I read it, but that was just me. ^^ Great Teaser!
God Bless all the turkeys who have sacrificed their lives to feed all the hungry mouths.
had it not been for Braingle practice, I'd have had a more difficult time! this was good-
That was an fun and easy teaser; got it right away.
More suited to the juniors, me thinks?
Easy teasy, especially seeing it written out. But this is interesting nerd trivia that I'm going to keep in my back pocket and share. Thanks!
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