The fact that I refer to today’s answer as being an “American English” word might provide a hint, so keep that in mind:

HERE is the answer.

Once kids learn how to count, the next logical step is learning how to add. Youngsters have a built-in knack for this, quite often, as they (like the rest of us) want to accumulate as much as possible. “It’s all about the toys,” eh?

HERE is the answer.

You may or may not have seen today’s Brain Game elsewhere. Even if you have, it’s still a fun challenge and a good mental exercise.

The goal here is fairly simple: you attempt to speak aloud the names of the colors of each word in succession. Not the words, but the color of the words. The first word, for instance, is in pink text, so you’d say “pink” (even though the word printed in pink is “blue”). The challenge is best done with a partner also looking at the screen, to either recite along with you or to check your answers as you go along. Otherwise, you might not realize if and when you’ve made a mistake. Enjoy!

Those of you who are colorblind, please remain quietly at your desks until everyone else has completed the task. Thank you.

It’s time for All in the Family! The Bunkers (Archie & Edith) and the Stivics (Mike & Gloria) went out to a little Italian restaurant in Queens to enjoy some pasta. The four dishes ordered were cheese ravioli, chicken parmesan, macaroni & cheese, and spaghetti & meatballs. The drinks were beer, soda pop, water, and wine. Based on the following five clues, can you figure out which person enjoyed which dish and which drink?

HERE are the answers.

Here are the titles of three number one U.S. pop song hits from the past. The artists are correctly listed, but we’ve mixed up all the letters in the song titles. Can you straighten them out?

HERE are the answers.

We’ve offered three Really, Really Bad Rebuses thus far in the Brain Game series. We’ve yet to offer a good rebus. And guess what? We’re not about to start now:

HERE’S the answer.

The following didn’t really happen, but pretend it did:   I was conversing with an older gentleman (yes, older than me) outside our local library recently. He’d just celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary, and was reminiscing about what he referred to as his “courtin’ days.” The man grinned as he recalled how much fun he’d had with his wife-to-be back in 1956… borrowing his dad’s Thunderbird, picking up his girl, and heading to a joint called Perry’s Place to get milkshakes. Then the couple would drive over to a local drive-in theatre for a double-feature, where they’d “get busy in the back seat” (his words, not mine).

“But I always managed to get her home by 11 on a Friday,” the gentleman reminded me. “You’ve gotta keep the parents happy.”

The story was a quaint one,
but I knew the old man had told a fib,
or was at least misremembering things a bit.

How did I know?

HERE’S the answer.

For today’s Brain Game, we’ll define vowels as A, E, I, O and U. All other letters are considered consonants. Given that:

Name a fairly common two-word English term
in which both words contain 3 consecutive vowels.

HERE’S our answer.

A publisher named George printed monthly calendars to give away to his customers, but he soon grew tired of changing all the dates around for each subsequent month. So he designed a basic calendar body that displayed nothing but the days of the week and the date numbers. It looked like this:

“Great,” George thought. “Now I just have to make a printing plate for each possible month. When it’s time to print the next month’s calendar, I’ll simply grab the necessary plate, add the month name and year at the top, and I’ll be done.” Unfortunately, this plate-making job proved more daunting than he anticipated.

How many different plates
did George have to make?
And why?

HERE is the answer.

On the morning of September 1, Bill bought a fancy gold watch with diamonds all around it and an AM/PM indicator. At 1:00 that afternoon, he set the watch for exactly 1:00 PM. An hour later, he noticed that the watch was two minutes slow. After another hour, it had lost another two minutes. The watch looked so good on his wrist, though, that he didn’t want to take it off. “I’ll just wait,” he said. “It’ll show the correct time again one of these days.”

Without making any adjustments,
at what date & time would the watch
show the exact correct time again?

HERE is the answer.