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cristo said:
Oh yeah! That works...
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Can a monkey outrun a bullet and still save her litter?
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The discussion revolves around a series of tricky questions and riddles shared among participants. Key questions include the amount of soil in a hole, the safest room for a condemned murderer, and a math challenge involving sequential additions. Participants engage in solving these riddles, offering various answers and reasoning, with some humor and banter included. The thread showcases a mix of logical puzzles and lateral thinking challenges, encouraging creative problem-solving among the members.
Oh yeah! That works...
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soln:
1. Willow
2. Pine
3. Oak
4. Maple
5. Bonsai
6. Palm
7. Apple
8. Elm
9. Aspen
1. Willow
2. Pine
3. Oak
4. Maple
5. Bonsai
6. Palm
7. Apple
8. Elm
9. Aspen
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:::>A man dressed all in black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly a large black car without any lights on comes round the corner and screeches to a halt.
How did the driver know there was a man in the road?
How did the driver know there was a man in the road?
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A prisoner is in jail. There are two doors, one leads to freedom one leads to death. There is a guard at each door. One guard always tells the truth, the other always tells lies. The prisoner is allowed one question to either of the guards.
What is the question that will take him to freedom.?
What is the question that will take him to freedom.?
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powergirl said:
Because the driver could see the man- it was daytime, so lights were not needed.
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Correct...cristo said:
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Ask one of the guards what the other guard would say if you asked him if his door led to freedom. Then take the other door to what he tells you.powergirl said:
Like in the Labyrinth
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Q. A truck driver is going the wrong way on a one-way street and then goes up onto the sidewalk brushing several pedestrians. Many people see this happen and yet go about their business as if nothing had happened. Why?
A. The truck driver was walking.
A. The truck driver was walking.
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He's walking 
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J77 said:
Hmm..
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That's an old one, like:powergirl said:Hmm..
A bloke's found dead, hanging above a puddle in a locked room. How did he die?
(or words to the effect of what I've put there.)
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That one was posted a few weeks ago J77, he used a cube of ice to hang himself.
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dontdisturbmycircles said:That one was posted a few weeks ago J77, he used a cube of ice to hang himself.
It's a classic
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J77 said:
Someone killed him, hanged him, left the room and locked it. The puddle? Well, it could be anything.
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Exactly how many slices of 1.5 cm each can you cut from a whole bread which is 22.5 cm long?
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A landlord is threatening to evict a father and his beautiful young daughter, unless she agrees to marry him. In a false gesture of sincerity, he offers her an opportunity for her and her father to remain in the house, without marrying him. He has a silk bag in which he says he has placed a white and a black stone from the footpath on which they're standing. If she picks the white stone from the bag, without looking, she wins; if she picks the black, she loses. However, the young girl saw him place two black stones in the bag. She can't expose him in front of the witnesses without angering him and making things worse. How does the clever girl win?
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3)Three switches outside a windowless room are connected to three light bulbs inside the room. How can you determine which switch is connected to which bulb if you may enter the room only once?
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Everybody knows that 4 cuts divide something into 5 slices.powergirl said:
So 16.
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She picks a stone out of the bag and accidentally drops it on footpath before anyone can see it. Thge only way to know which she picked is to look at the other one in the bag. Since it's black, she must have chosen the white one.powergirl said:
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Flick one switch on. Flick another switch on for 30 seconds then turn it off.powergirl said:
Now enter the room.
One bulb will be on, one will be off and the third will be off but still warm.
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There exist simple English language sentences composed of only common words that can be correctly spoken but cannot be correctly written down. Provide an example (which will be incorrectly written of course).
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DaveC426913 said:
I don't get it... She's asking how many slices, right? And each slice has to be exactly 1.5 cm long? And the whole bread loaf is 22.5 cm long? And 22.5/1.5 = 15, so 15 slices, right? Which means 14 cuts? And that's assuming each cut is perfect and infintesimally thin. Am I missing some hidden caveat of the problem? Does an end piece not count as a slice or something?
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davee123 said:
That's because I am wrong and you are right.
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davee123 said:
I think that U must approach this Question in a tricky way...
ANSWER is not right anyway...
Am waiting for someone to think of this question once more..and gimme a tricky ans:
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powergirl said:
The stones in the bag problem is a derivative of a black and white grape, the person in question quickly pulls out and eats one of the grapes, saying look in the bag, and lo and behold the grape in the bag is black so his must of been white.
A man is told that he is to be sentenced. The judge asks if he has anything to say and the man says, if I can plunge my hands into boiling water and keep them there for a few minutes would this not show that the Gods favoured me, and that I was innocent?
Interested by the mans show of piety the judge acceeds. How does the man plunge his hands into boiling water for a few minutes without sustaining injury? Assume that he has no protective measures on his hands, such as gloves,any sort of barrier.
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Well no one said the slices must be of the same volume, so I would think of slicing perpendicularly to the longest diagonal. Of course we haven't been given the other two dimensions for the bread. With a perfectly sharp knife, no substance would be lost through cutting.
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"tricky" answer...powergirl said:
Well, 14 cuts will give you 15 slices of bread, each 1.5cm in thickness. If there is more to this puzzle, I'm afraid you haven't communicated it.
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Schrodinger's Dog said:
They are on the peak of Mount Everest? In space? Um...
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Schrodinger's Dog said:
Hm. Possibilities:
1) The water is boiling, but at a lower temperature (as suggested, maybe at extremely high altitudes or in space or something)
2) The water does not sustain its boil
3) The amount of water is insignificantly small
4) He somehow is able to avoid contact with the water
5) His hands are artificial and unaffected by boiling water (or perhaps are already damaged sufficiently so that they aren't negatively affected)
6) "His" hands are not the hands which are attached to his physical body
I think I like number 5 best, though...
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I suspect the answer is more elegant than any of DaveE's - it'll be of "the truck with its lights off" variety. The answer is based on information we already know, the trick is the assumptions we apply.
I was wondering if it were something like "the water 'boiling' off the surface of regular luke warm water into the air" but that's not boiling at all.
Schrodinger: I notice that the puzzle itself doesn't say anything about him not being injured, though the question asks how he can not sustain injury. Can we safely say that "he holds his hands in the boiling water through sheer willpower and they come out horribly scalded" is not the answer we're looking for?
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