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A fun individual or group project to test your logic skills!  Good for a short, interesting activity during your Study Circle.  Use one per session!

1. Does the Baha'i Faith allow a man to marry his widow's sister?

2. A group of youth travel to the House of Worship in Wilmette, near Chicago to volunteer for a week. Upon their arrival, they are instructed to clean the walls of the House of Worship. It takes one day to do one side. Do they complete the job?

3.          Legs I have but seldom walk;

            I backbite all, but never talk.

            What am I?

4. What is it,

            Which is the beginning of eternity,

            The end of time and space,

            The beginning of every end,

            And the end of every race?

5. Two fathers and two sons from Cape May came to Unit Convention. There were three funds: Convention Expenses, the Kingdom Project Fund and the National Fund. Each person gave money to one and only one fund. None gave to the same fund. All funds received money from them. How was this accomplished?

6. Can you read the following?                 XUR, XUB; X, 2X, U R 2 me.

7. Can you read the following?                 Yy u r, yy u b; i c u r yy 4 me.

8. Two cars start from Camden to come to Unit Convention in Matawan, NJ.  Both are the same make of car, and both are driven at the same speed. One of the cars makes the distance in 80 minutes, the other takes one hour and twenty minutes. Can you explain the reason?

9. If 110 people in a town elect a Local Spiritual Assembly in 110 minutes, how long does it take 8 people to elect a Local Spiritual Assembly?

10. A woman has volunteered to host Feast. In her apartment, she has only a bed and a calendar. What is she planning to serve her guests?

11. Papa, Momma and Baby went to Unit Convention. When they left, Baby said, "Didn't we all four have a lot of fun?" Why did baby say four instead of three?

12. A wife testified: "My husband was very tired and did not want to go to Feast. Ben and Layli, our children, begged and badgered him until he agreed to come. In getting ready, my husband lost his collar button and could not find it. I came to help him and found the collar button in the cuff of his pants. When we got to Feast, he was so tired that, during the beautiful devotional music, he fell asleep. He was thinking how great it was that the kids liked to come to Feast. He dreamed that the Assembly was coming to find him and asking him to head the Feast committee. At the conclusion of the consultation, I shook him to wake him up, but he was dead."   What is wrong with the wife's story?

13. At Feast, the children are starting to take turns saying prayers. However, one of the children does not seem to be paying attention. Her father bends down and whispers in her ear, "Reverance please. Devotions have started." The child, quite loudly, responds, "Ignorance is bliss." What is the father's reaction?

 14.      What does man love even more than life,

            Hate more than death or mortal strife?

            That which contented men desire,

            The poorest have and the rich require,

            The miser spends and the spendthrift saves,

            And all men carry to their graves.

15. A woman died and left $20,000 to be divided equally between her three children, the Local Baha'i Fund and the National Baha'i Fund. The children, however, agreed among themselves to give half of their shares divided equally between the two funds. How much did each fund receive?

16. In a Baha'i school class, each boy sees twice as many girls as boys, and each girl sees the same number of boys as girls. How many boys and girls are there?

17. A Baha'i conference planner asks the attendees of the conference to break up in groups. Sometimes they are in groups of 2, sometimes 3, sometimes 4 sometimes 5 and sometimes 6. Each time, there was always someone left over. When he arranges them in groups of 7, none remain. How many attendees came to the conference?

18. A youth left New Jersey for a youth year of service working in the gardens at the Baha'i World Center. On the first day, the garden supervisor asked him to plant 21 trees in nine straight rows so that there will be five trees in each row. The youth prayed for guidance, then planted the trees. How do you suppose he did it?

Answers below!

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 Answers

1. No. A man who has a widow is a dead man.

2. Two possible: No, the building has nine sides.  Of, yes, one day for the inside and one for the outside.

3. A flea.

4. The letter E.

5. There were only three men from Cape May - a grandfather, a father and a son.

6. Cross you are, cross you be; cross, to cross, you are to me.

7. Too wise you are, too wise you be; I see you are too wise for me

8. Eighty minutes and one hour twenty minutes are the same amount of time

9. It takes 9 people to elect an Assembly.

10. Water from the "springs" and dates from the calendar.

11. The baby was too young to count.

12. It would have been impossible to know what the husband dreamed.

13. He was happy. It is a quotation from the Bible, Mathew ch. 17, and the Bible, as well as other sacred texts, may be read in the devotional section of Feast.

14. Nothing.

15. $7,000.

16. Four girls and three boys.

17. 301.

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