Brain Teaser for $DNF

[Jack Gordon]

A great king decides it is time to draw up his will. The dot-com bust has not been kind to his health, and he is on his deathbed. But he still owns a bunch of great domains.

He announces that one of his three sons will inherit his domain empire - the one who can buy exactly half the amount of domains as days the king has left to live.

The oldest prince, in despair over the king's failing health and not having any idea how many days he has left, spends $50 million on IHaveLostMyMind.biz and checks himself into a mental institution.

The middle prince, also in despair and equally clueless, attempts a hostile takeover of DNForum.com and fails, causing him to go into seclusion.

The youngest prince accepts his father's challenge and successfully completes it, inheriting hundreds of solid 2 and 3 letter.coms, as well as a few thousand great generics.

How did he do it?

$50 DNF for the correct answer

 

[Jack Gordon]

I can't believe nobody has taken a stab at his one. Where's your sense of adventure? I promise, it is solvable!

At the very least, leave a smart-ass answer and make us laugh!

Come on people - think about it!

 

[Cash Is King]

Wow! Very tough. The youngest prince would buy 1 domain every 2 days the King was alive.

 

[CoolHost.com]

Yah right!?!
LOL.

 

[Jack Gordon]

You got it - well done!

Webhold continues to take my money (as if he needs it!)

Who's next?

 

[stevo]

What?
And what if the king lived 11 days?
This scenario prevented me from making the same guess.

 

[Jack Gordon]

well, if you are going to nitpick....

you do have a point though - I suppose it would have worked better the other way (twice as many...)

it was really a theory question

 

[Jack Gordon]

Next Question:

These words fall into the same logical family:
chink
trance
stain
chime
tuba
perk

Which one of these does too, and why?
embargo
banana
germane
nightmare

$35 DNF to the winner

 

[Cash Is King]

germane is Germany

Countries above are

chink -- china
trance -- france
stain -- spain
chime -- chile
tuba -- cuba
perk -- peru

 

[Cash Is King]

Thanks for the dnf bucks FrontRow!!

 

[Jack Gordon]

ok, clearly I am making these too easy...

$35 DNF on the way

 

[stevo]

Wasn't trying to nitpick.
I just want to win BUCKS!

 

[Jack Gordon]

NEXT QUESTION...

These six words belong to the samelogical group:
undeceivable
simultaneous
alimentation
cautiousness
gladiatorial
foraminifera

Which of these words would fit in the above group, and why?
philanthropy
seismologist
onomatopoeia
reappearance
archeologist
terminator

$50 DNF to the provider of the correct answer

 

[DNS Kidd]

reappearance

Each of the six words has 6 vowels.

 

[Jack Gordon]

good eye, but that's not quite it...

 

[DNS Kidd]

philanthropy
seismologist
onomatopoeia
reappearance
archeologist

These would fit with the first six, 12 letters each.

 

[DNS Kidd]

reappearance

12 letters, and 6 vowels.

 

[Jack Gordon]

follow that statement to its logical conclusion

 

[Jack Gordon]

ok, close enough!

I was looking for 6 vowels AND six consonants

$50 DNF on the way!

 

[DNS Kidd]

...and six consonants...

I now have a headache

Cool quiz, thanks......