Chief's Mind-Boggler - 021

PUZZLE
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Other facts:

1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house`s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.

Question: Who owns the fish, what color house does he live in, what does he smoke & drink?

(source: Joshua Felsher)
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Amber Alerts

Well, my year in Cleveland, Ohio is coming to an end... making plans to head back to our nation's capital to continue my residency... The research year has been great... lots of free time compared to the usualy schedule of a residency in general surgery... even was able to create this BLOG during the year...

Anyways... getting back to D.C. made me think about safety and national security... so I found this link for Wireless Amber Alerts... aparently it's a free service even for those people who don't have text messaging plans with their wireless carrier...

Hope you guys find this useful. Have a safe Memorial Day weekend...

Chief's Mind-Boggler - 020

PUZZLE
A man has nine children born at regular intervals.
The sum of the square of their ages is equal to the square of his own age.
What are the ages of his children?

(source: Joshua Felsher)
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Chief's Mind-Boggler - 019

PUZZLE
Name the 3 academy award winning (best picture) movies that were sports movies.

(source: Joshua Felsher)
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Font Facts

What is a serif? You know... as used to describe fonts...

Well, a serif is a small decorative line added as embellishment to the basic form of a character. Typefaces are often described as being serif or sans serif (without serifs). The most common serif typeface is Times Roman. A common sans serif typeface is Helvetica.



Someone once told me that serif fonts were ideal for the printing press since they stabilized the actual form of the letter making the letters last longer for repeated use. Maybe that's an urban legend... but the link above has some great history on fonts.

Chief's Mind-Boggler - 018

PUZZLE
What number, when spelled out (in English, not Canadian) includes no repeated letters and has each vowel (AEIOU, but not Y)?

(source: Joshua Felsher)
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