Half Full Or Half Empty

There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. 'This barrel of wine is more than half full,' said Curly. 'No it's not,' says Mo. 'It's less than half full.' Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?




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Let's play a word game. Following are some meaningless words that can be completed by adding random letters on either side of the word.

For example, the word "rdo" can be formed into "pardon".

Using the same technique, can you complete the given words?
ecalc
airb
rinci
tibac
uidel
gorit
igna
eyho

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Castles in a line

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How can you measure exactly 8 litres?

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My cousin lives in one story house in Antarctica. His house is made the of-of sandstone. what is the color of stairs?

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Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it, and it will not speak back until spoken to. What is it?

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using four eights (8) and a one (1) and one mathematical symbol , create the number 100

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