Comments on: Brain Game: Our Usual Punctuation Mark

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:34:00 +0000

Cells! OK, so they’re ALL small but not compared to each other — some are quite a bit larger. But they all double. :)

And sure, CELL has just four letters, but it says THEY have five…and they do!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:54:00 +0000

I came up with “teeth,” too. With small baby ones and large adult ones, replacing one set with the other, I think it fits the clue just as well. You and me, Matt! Great minds think alike.

By: Dinosaur

Dinosaur — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:34:00 +0000

Surprised at how quickly I got it, and impressed with the sheer genius at coming up with the riddle in the first place.

By: NateJ

NateJ — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:14:00 +0000

I went for lungs. You have 2 and as you inhale and exhale they get bigger and smaller.

But I guess they may not actually double in size, does anyone know the proportional difference between deflated and inflated lungs?

PS, Matt I like your logic.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:56:00 +0000

I thought the clue in the title might give it away too… “our usual punctuation mark” in the title of our Brain Games is the colon. :)

Good thing I didn’t go with my first choice, which was “Ailimentary, My Dear Watson…”

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:32:00 +0000

I went with teeth, thinking you have relatively large and small teeth, the word is five letters long, and with losing baby teeth as adult teeth come in, you double the number you have.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:21:00 +0000

I went for “joint.”

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:24:00 +0000

Wow! That was a good one. I didn’t get the solution, but when I saw it, I loved it. Awesome. This one’s getting shared on Google Reader.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:49:00 +0000

They certainly work for me, Amanda. :X

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:51:00 +0000

“boobs” works too.