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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

Remember: You do not have to use the title builder - simply enter the title and question as you normally would and click submit!

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Christmas riddle

JohnnyF | 14:18 Wed 02nd Jan 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Hi, I need some help with this riddle please. It doesn't make sense to me.....

A woman is wrapping Christmas presents and has to cut a roll of ribbon into one metre lengths. If it takes her 2 seconds to measure and cut one length how long will it take her to do the whole roll?

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Catron

Length of ribbon, in metres - 1, with the result multiplied by two.

(x-1)*2 seconds is the mathematical formula where x is the length of the roll of ribbon.

Quizmonkey

If the question really doesn't give the length of the full roll, surely this is impossible to answer?

JohnnyF

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That's why it doesn't make sense to me.....

excelsior

maybe some info has been missed from the question

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