In magic tricks, the magician makes you think he is doing one thing, say stuffing a handkerchief into his thumb, when he is really doing something else. Riddles are a kind of word magic: The question is put so as to fool you, instead of helping you get the answer. The first three questions below are old-fashioned riddles, but the last two are different. After all, how can you know how many bones you have in your body unless someone tells you?

1. A farmer in Kent has a beautiful plum tree. The main trunk has 24 branches, each branch has 12 boughs, each bough has 6 twigs and each twig bears 1 fruit. How many apples are on the tree?

2. How do you pronounce VOLIX?

3. A rope ladder 12 feet long is hanging over the side of a ship. The rungs of the ladder are one foot apart, and the lowest rung is resting on the top of the ocean. The tide rises six inches an hour. How long will it take for the first four rungs of the ladder to be underwater?

4. A very fat woman and two very thin women have to cross a stream in a boat that can carry only 90 kilos. The fat woman weighs 90 kilos and the two very thin women weigh 45 kilos each. How can they cross?

5. When Alexander says to Elliot, "I'll break every bone in your body," how many bones is he talking about? 100? 200? 500? 1,000?

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