loosely inspired by Crusader's 'jokes' thread, i thought i might open up this one for those of you who like mind games.

every couple days or so (assuming theres enough interest in this thread), ill post a new brainteaser, riddle, or puzzle of some kind, as well as the solution to the previous one.

if you have your own brian-benders that youd like to share, by all means, feel free. im always open to hearing some new ones. (hopefully thisll get enough interest so people do that before my own supply runs out..)

the rules of the game, for challengers and players:

1) if theres more than one challenge going on at a time and someone has a question about one, remember to quote it to aviod any confusion.

2) perfect grammer, spelling, and capitolization will be used for anything in the 'riddles' catagory to avoid any confusion on what's a subtle hint, and what's a typo.

the following only applies to the challenges that i post. if someone else feels like putting one up, they make their own rules. if they choose not to, mine remain in affect.

3) necessary hints for the riddles that arent part of the riddle itself will be placed in parentheses.

4) if you come up with the answer before i post it, color it black so it appears invisable to those who havent figured it out yet.
durration is at my disgression.
to avoid spoiling it for anyone who wants to keep working on it, i too, will color it black, so the only way to read it is by highlighting it.

5) after i post each one, you may ask only yes/no questions about them. ill make some exceptions on this rule, but try to keep it to that anyway. ill check this thread about once each day to try and keep up with answering them.

6) hints will be given at the request of several people. hints will not be given if several others contest those requests.


so withough further adieu, the challenges:
usualy itll be one at a time, but ill start with a few this time:

puzzle- place 8 queens on a chess board in such a way that none of them are capable of attacking eachother from that spot using traditional chess movements.

riddle- Put an olive in 'stine', mix it up, and get the equivalent of a fool's London subway.
(the answer is something that can be found at home)

brainteaser- a black dog stands in the middle of a dark road under a broken street lamp. a car with two broken headlighs approches the dog, but somehow turns to avoid him. how could the driver have seen the dog in time?