Riddles and Brain Teasers
 

Hey people,

I noticed that a lot of you tried to answer the brain teaser that Titan posted (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=294) so I thought it would be cool to try have another one. Maybe if there is enough interest then I can make it like a weekly or bi-weekly thing.

So, on to the first one... (A riddle this time)

Magnificent Seven:

Eight and five, last name and given,
We are one six six six even;
The first in cow, the last in oxen
Three in damsel, three in vixen.

Question: What are we called?

I'll post a hint next week Sunday, and give another week till posting the actual answer (unless of course someone figures it out).

Good luck... :shock:

Could it be the letters V, O, X, E, N, S & I?

These are the only letters that appear more than once in all the words, and there are seven of them :?

I know the answer.. but i'll just PM it to Mika :terror:

Muhahaha..

Tom: that's a good direction to take. Keep going...

nah. tom I think ya wrong... I think he's tricking eh?
Nah amn, with puzzles like this ya gotta think outside the box! :terror:

I know the answer but i am not going to tell it ;) i'm serious i really know the answer.

:terror: :terror: yay new emoticon!! :twisted:

Considering I'm going away for a week, I'll post the hint now...

One of five, I the only one,
One in cat, two in mitten,
Two are odd, five are even
Seven in all, one in seven.

Interesting to see that only 1 person has actually attempted to answer the riddle other than the people that already *know* the answer of-course.

Any takers? Come on Tom, you can do it ;)

WOW...i dont get this :(

Hehe - I see that maybe this one might have been a bit too hard? (I didn't get it either). So anyway, here's the answer:

ROMAN NUMERALS.

Explanation of the riddle:

The last name has eight letters (NUMERALS) while the first or given name has five (ROMAN).

Using each of the numerals once gives MDCLXVI, which is 1,666.

C ( which is found in Cow) is first of the seven in the alphabet while X ( which is found in oXen) is last.

Three of seven are found in DaMseL. Three are also found in VIXen.

Explanation of the hint:

I is the only one of five vowels among the seven Roman numerals.

C is found in Cat, M and I in MItten.

I and V are odd numbers. The rest are even numbers.

There are seven Roman numerals. One of them is found in seVen (the V).

Sorry Tom, you were close...

Dang!
A-Ding-dang-doo!!!
:x

Ok....
New one! :)