So you think you are smart enough and your common sense can be challenged? Try yourself with these trick questions or brain teaser questions. These will give a pretty hard time to your common sense because, most of the times, the questions are really silly and there is no correct answer to them. At other times, there is no logic behind these and the answer will make you laugh really hard. Some of the trick questions are funny while others are based on logic that you will turn a blind eye to. Mostly, after listening to the answers, people go like ‘Oh, why didn’t I think about that?’ because answers are obvious but ignored part of the trick questions.
Trick questions are a fun way to kill time and have some good fun. Most of the kids have grown up playing these with each other and even making trick questions of their own. They are quite an entertaining source to test your common sense at times. People try their best to solve the riddles and don’t want to give up till they get tired of guessing. Some people intentionally give funny answers to such tricky questions just to spark funny conversations among a group. Trick questions are best to have some workout for your brain and as they say, the more you use your brain, the more it gets sharp. So, here are some great trick questions for brain teasers to try your commons sense with.
List of Trick Questions and Answers
Here’s completed list of funny trick questions and answers for your brain workout.
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“The attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he did not have a brother. Who is lying?
Answer: Neither one, because the accountant was his sister.
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A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible?
Answer: Friday was the name of his horse.
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A farmer had 752 sheep and took one shot that got them all. How did he do it?
Answer: He took a panoramic view!
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A girl kicks a soccer ball. It goes 10 feet and comes back to her. How is this possible?
Answer: She kicked it up. The ball comes back due to gravity
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A man went outside in the pouring rain with no protection, but not a single hair on his head got wet. How come?
Answer: He was bald.
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A rooster laid an egg on top of the barn roof. Which way did it roll?
Answer: It didn’t roll – roosters don’t lay eggs.
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A truck driver is going down a one way street the wrong way, and passes at least ten cops. Why is he not caught?
Answer: Because he was not driving his truck! He’s walking on the sidewalk.
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A young boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room, but the ER doctor saw the boy and refused to operate. “This boy is my son,” the doctor said. But the doctor wasn’t the boy’s father. How could this be?
Answer: The doctor was the boy’s mom.
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An electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the east at 10mph. Which way does the smoke blow?
Answer: There is no smoke with an electric train.
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Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest was still the highest even though it had not been discovered.
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Bob’s father has 4 children. Momo, Meme, and Mumu are three of them. Who’s the fourth?
Answer: Bob
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Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it?
Answer: Advice.
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How can a girl go 25 days without sleep?
Answer: She sleeps at night.
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How can a man go eight days without sleep?
Answer: No problem , He sleeps at night.
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How can the pocket of your pants be empty, but still have something in it?
Answer: When there is a hole in his pocket.
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How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer: The Egg won’t crack the concrete floor!
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How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
Answer: It is not a problem since you will never find an elephant with one hand.
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How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet?
Answer: He was bald.
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How do you make the number one disappear?
Answer: Add the letter G and it’s “gone”!
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How far can you walk into the woods?
Answer: Half way. After that you are walking out of the woods.
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How many birthdays does the average person have?
Answer: Just one, all the rest are anniversaries.
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How many legs does an elephant have if you count his trunk as a leg?
Answer: Four. Because calling the trunk a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
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How many sides does a circle have?
Answer: Two. An inside and an outside.
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How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
Answer: Once. Next time you would be subtracting 10 from 90.
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How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide?
Answer: None, or else it wouldn’t be a hole.
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I have all the knowledge you have. But I’m so small, you can hold me in your fist. What am I?
Answer: Your brain.
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I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?
Answer: Your bed.
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I have teeth but can’t eat. What am I?
Answer: A comb.
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I have three apples. If you take away two from me, how many do you have?
Answer: 2
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I start out tall, but the longer I stand, the shorter I grow. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
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If a plane crashes on the border between the US and Mexico, where do they bury the survivors?
Answer: Survivors generally are never buried.
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If I drink, I die. If I eat, I’m fine. What am I?
Answer: A fire.
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If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
Answer: A secret.
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If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
Answer: No time at all it is already built.
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If Mr Smith’s peacock lays an egg in Mr Jones’ yard, who owns the egg?
Answer: Peacocks don’t lay eggs, just peahens.
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If Mrs. John’s bungalow is decorated completely in pink, with the walls, carpet, and furniture all shades of pink, what color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs, because bungalows do not have a second floor.
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If there are 12 fish and half of them drown, how many are there?
Answer: 12, fish don’t drown!
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If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?
Answer: The 4 you took.
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If you had only one match, and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?
Answer: The match.
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If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
Answer: It will become Wet. Duhh 😛
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Imagine you are in a sinking row boat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?
Answer: Stop imagining!
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Imagine you’re in a room that’s filling up with water quickly. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Answer: Stop imagining.
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Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
Answer: No, but since he is dead it would be hard to do so.
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It took 20,000 workers to build the Taj Mahal in 20 years. How many workers would be required to build it in 10 years?
Answer: Sorry, the Taj Mahal cannot be built again.
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Larry’s father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty…Guess what would be the name of the fifth?
Answer: Larry! He would be the fifth son
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My neighbor Bob is a blacksmith. He is 45 years old, 7 ft. tall, and eats all the time. Guess what does he weigh?
Answer: Iron
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Name all the numbers from 1 – 100, which have the letter ‘A’ in their spellings?
Answer: None!
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Name four days of the week that start with the letter “t”?
Answer: Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow.
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Name the most recent year in which New Year’s came before Christmas.
Answer: This year. New Year’s always comes before Christmas of the same year.
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Of you sit a cup on the table facing south while you are on the north side of the table, on which side is the cup’s handle?
Answer: No matter which way the cup is turned, the handle is always on the outside.
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Thanks to me, you can see straight through the wall. What am I?
Answer: A window.
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footprints.
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There was an airplane crash, every single person on board died, but yet two people survived. How is this possible?
Answer: The two were married.
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Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one slice of pizza, yet only three slices were eaten. How’s that possible?
Answer: The group included a grandmother, her daughter and her daughter’s daughter.
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Uncle Bill’s farm had a terrible storm and all but seven sheep were killed. How many sheep are still alive?
Answer: Seven
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We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What is it?
Answer: The letter “e”
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What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
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What belongs to you but gets used by everyone else more than you?
Answer: Your name.
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What breaks and never falls and what falls and never breaks?
Answer: Day breaks and night falls.
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What can be broken, but is never held?
Answer: A promise
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What can one catch that is not thrown?
Answer: A cold
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What can you hold without touching it at all?
Answer: A conversation.
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What can you make that no one—not even you—can see?
Answer: Noise.
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What can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Dinner.
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What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night?
Answer: A widow.
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What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
Answer: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush
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What gets bigger and bigger the more you take away from it?
Answer: A hole.
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What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.
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What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
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What goes up and never comes down?
Answer: Age!
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What goes up as soon as the rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella.
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What happened when wheel was invented?
Answer: It caused a revolution.
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What has 4 wheels & flies?
Answer: The garbage truck
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What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
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What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
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What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t actually alive?
Answer: Your gloves.
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What has one eye but can’t see anything at all?
Answer: A needle.
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What is always coming, but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
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What is it that if you have, you want to share me, and if you share, you do not have?
Answer: A secret
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What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it a drink?
Answer: Fire
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What looks like half an apple?
Answer: The other half.
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What moves faster: heat or cold?
Answer: Heat. Because you can always catch a cold.
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What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
Answer: Your cellphone.
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What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter in it?
Answer: An envelope.
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What travels the world while stuck in one spot?
Answer: A stamp!
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What two keys can’t open any door?
Answer: A monkey and a donkey.
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What two words, when combined hold the most letters?
Answer: Post Office
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What was the American President’s name in 1960?
Answer: Exactly the same as today.
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What will you actually find at the end of every rainbow?
Answer: The letter “w.”
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What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly.
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What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?
Answer: Normal, because people usually have half their fingers on one hand.
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What’s as big as an elephant but weighs absolutely nothing?
Answer: Its shadow.
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Which is heavier, 100 pounds of rocks or 100 pounds of feathers?
Answer: They both weigh the same – 100 pounds
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Which letter of the English alphabet flies, sings, and stings?
Answer: ‘B’ bee.
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Which one is correct?
Answer: “Penguins flies” or “A Penguin flies” Neither. Penguins don’t fly.
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Who is bigger, Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby?
Answer: The baby, since he is a little Bigger.
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Why is it against the law for a man living in North Carolina to be buried in South Carolina?
Answer: Because he’s not dead yet.
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You have a match and you enter a wagon with a candle, a lamp and a fireplace. Which one do you light first?
Answer: Your match.
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You spot a boat full of people but there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: Everyone on board is married.
Hope we gave a good exercise to your brain for some time while trying to solve these trick or tricky questions aka common sense questions. You can create your own too and challenge your fellows at school or office in order to get a break from your tiresome schedule. These trick questions will surely keep you energetic and your brain muscles to be engaged and more fit. You will get stuck at times and want to beat yourself up but the feeling is enthralling for sure and you will be more relaxed eventually.
So, tag your friends here or share these trick questions or brain teasers with them and have a great time making them feel puzzled. Since there is not a single answer to these questions so you can always change the trick to make them feel crazy. You can entertain yourself by making them uncomfortable while enjoying a good laugh with these tricky questions in the meantime.
I didn’t read all of them to my dead because my dad doesn’t like murder and death.
Anyways, I tricked myself a lot idk xd
question: A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. The rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long will it be until three rungs are covered?
answer: Never. The boat rises as the tide goes up
Mind blowing !!
Beyond my imagination
Question: Name all the numbers from 1 – 100, which have the letter ‘A’ in their spellings?
Answer: None! NOT ONLY A BUT B,C, &D ALSO.Ifyou count ZERO Also there is no ABCD IN THEM.Only you find hundred in Thousand
Question: Which letter of the English alphabet WE DRINK
Answer: ‘T’ (TEA).
Question: On Which letter of the English alphabet we travel
Answer: ‘C’ (SEA).
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Question: What can’t you eat for breakfast
Answer: Lunch And Dinner
u can also read this question at the top
wrong its dinner because you can eat Brunch ( Breakfast & Lunch )
You need to shorten your answers.
Q: Ten pears hanging high ten men come passing by Each took a pear and left nine hanging there.
How is this possible?
A: Each is the name of one of the men and he’s the only one who took a pear
*A son-in-law’s demand:*
A son-in-law calls his father in law to tell that next month he would come for dinner but the father in law needs to give him the gold equivalent to the date on which he comes. Say, on 25th he should get 25 gms of gold.
The father in law goes to a goldsmith and orders him to make 31 gold rings each weighing equal to the dates of a month, in gms.
However, the goldsmith is clever and makes only FIVE rings.
So what are the weights of those five rings, which satisfy the son in law’s condition??
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five rings will be of 1 gms., 2gms, 4gms, 8gms and 16gms so one can make combination of these five rings that will add up any no between 1 to 31
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Boring not funny at all so if you do a competition then you buggerd cause you won’t win cause their all boring
You’re a party pooper. you’re boring
It is very good tricky question and very intresting
Some of them were very tricky!
you are Bus Conductor. The bus starts from pune to sangli their are 29 passengers travelling. 5 persons are get down & 11 persons entered into bus. then in Karad 15 persons get down & only 5 persons entered into bus. At Islampur 8 persons get down but no passanger entered into bus to travel upto Sangli. Then what is the age of bus conductor.
Its your age cause you are the conductor 😛
A girl is sitting in the window, then suddenly a water drop has dropped on water colleceted front of window.
At that condition what does a girl think?
Q.Why does a soup stand have small holes in it??
Ans.bcause if it is big hole the soap will fall
IF YOU ARE A BUTCHER BUT YOU RETIRED AND BECAME A CHEF BUT YOU ARE 6 7″ AND YOU WEAR A SIZE “36” IN MEANS WHAT DO YOU WEIGH…?? ANSWER:. YOU CANT BECOME A CHEF YOUR ALREADY RETIRED YOUR GETTING PAID TO BE HOME YOU LAZY FUCKS… JK.
The age of ninny was 2 and her sister age is half of ninny age ! then what will be the age of her sister when ninny age is 99 ?
98
If there are 6 birds on a branch of tree one hunter shoot one how many left??
ANSWERE-none,because all will fly …
Q: When is a car not a car.
A: When it turns into a garage.
Peter saw John in a bus
Who was in the bus?
john?
john and peter
question:how old is the woodchuck chcuk woods hair?
Q:one woman gave birth to two children 1.rita 2.whatdidyou,so one day they went to fetch water in a nearby river so whatdidyousay fell inside the water ,who fell inside the water? A:does not have answer cause if u say whatdidyousay it means u didnt get me so am gonna keep repeating what i said
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