Brain teaser thread

[Marjo]

Ok I saw something cool in the papers the other day and thought it would make a great start to a "brain teaser" thread.

Here goes:

There is a simple reason why 2 baby siblings are both the eldest. What's the reason?

[jonsie]

Pine and larch are easy but I see mahogany, though is that actually a tree?

[gmarkj]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Have a go at this teaser 

The names of three trees are hidden in the sentences below. The letters are in consecutive order. Can you find them?

On this farm, we get ham from a hog any time. The farmer will help in every possible way. He faced two very similar choices, both bad

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[Cleoriff]

Easy for me to see when I read what others have posted ...

[gmarkj]

Apologies @Cleoriff, should have put it in a spoiler...

[Cleoriff]

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@gmarkj wrote:
Apologies @Cleoriff, should have put it in a spoiler...

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No it wasn't a criticism @gmarkj....I am so busy I needed someone else to tell me....

[gmarkj]

Maybe not, but would have been polite to hide it behind a spoiler tag in case others wanted to work it out...

[Anonymous]

Well done all. Nice spot. Think you would all be so good in a pub quiz team 

[jonsie]

Well suffice to say that I, my son and my brother in law won many a quiz night competing as Norfolk & Chance....:smileywink:

[Anonymous]

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@jonsie wrote:

Well suffice to say that I, my son and my brother in law won many a quiz night competing as Norfolk & Chance....:smileywink:

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HA HA Love that team name 

[jonsie]

It was so funny listening to the unsuspecting quizmaster reading out the name and everyone wetting themselves