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I have a guess. Either it's the same person (assuming the people at the edges belong to both a row and a column) or it's the shortest of the tallest people in each row.
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As a side note, reduced to its core this puzzle is about the difference between min-max and max-min decision rules.
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Drasir-Vel wrote:it's the same person
It indeed works for square array of four people.
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The seven seas contain seven C's

Antarctic, Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific
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Is it a puzzle or a statement?
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Either way it's flawed because, first of all, those are not the "seven seas", and more importantly, there's not even seven of them.
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It was more of a curiosity than anything.
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Afair Arctic is indeed called sea by some, but the rest are, to my knowledge, "oceans".
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eMTe wrote:Afair Arctic is indeed called sea by some, but the rest are, to my knowledge, "oceans".
The funny thing is, the actual "seven seas" do actually have seven C's: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Mediterranean, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

And the five oceans have five C's: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic.
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This one's great, however it's really tough and requires good English knowledge and creative imagination. What's good in it is that it is neither perfectly logical nor lateral, but has only one answer. Hardly soluble without hints, so feel free to ask if you don't know the answer (unfortunately it can be found via googling).

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What is represented by this sequence?

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZ
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The alphabet?
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Pater Alf wrote:The alphabet?
It's missing X. I'm assuming this is some kind of a word play around this fact.
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Yup.
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X-mas(miss)?
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Nah.

I won't torture you. The answer is "No excuse".
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eMTe wrote:Nah.

I won't torture you. The answer is "No excuse".
I really hate... actually, I really love to be the guy to point out that you should have had an additional line of Q's for this to make sense. (No Ex Ques). See puzzle 4 and here.
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I think I was outsmarted by this puzzle.
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The child whom the parents had commissioned a surrogate to deliver had been given no breakfast.

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Blind man is given a standard pack of cards (52). Ten of these cards are with faces up.

Now his task is to make two piles (they can contain different number of cards), but each pile must contain the same number of cards with faces up.

What does he do?

Hint: the man is blind, but the cruel puzzle creator didn't allow him to use cards with braille :P
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eMTe wrote:What does he do?
Gets really frustrated?
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