Can a monkey outrun a bullet and still save her litter?

  • Thread starter Thread starter powergirl
  • Start date Start date
Click For Summary
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.
  • #91
How about he puts the hat on the barrel of the gun?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
  • #92
daveb said:
How about he puts the hat on the barrel of the gun?

he said he's 50 feet from his hat...
 
  • #93
The man spins around 10 times, walks 50 feet away, puts his hat on a barrel, gets a gun, shoots the hat, walks back to the bartender (50 feet away from where he placed the hat) and puts a blindfold on. He wins the bet for doing everything he said he would.
 
  • #94
Blah sorry for the bad wording!


I mean to say: a man is in a bar. He bets the bartender 50$ that he can get a gun, walk 50 feet away, put his hat on a barrel, walk back to the bartender (50 feet away from where he placed the hat on the barrel), put a blindfold on, spin around 10 times, and shoot the hat. This man has never shot a gun in his life, yet still wins the bet.

Dave got the answer correct, even with it poorly worded!
 
  • #95
powergirl said:
NOt right;
Can anyone answer this?
2) A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

The safest room is the lions that haven't eaten in three years because they would die from hunger.
 
  • #96
Lunch is my fave subject. :)
 
Last edited:
  • #97
powergirl said:
3)(in your head!) Take 1000...

From what?
 
  • #98
What walks on 4 legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and 3 legs in the evening.

Warning: the last condition holds many assumptions :P

A man
 
Last edited:
  • #99
dontdisturbmycircles said:
I'd pick the assassins since they are perhaps sentenced to die too, hence no reason to shoot me. And then we could work on a plan as to how to get out of there.

ummm its the lion room coz if u dun eat 4 3 years then ur dead LOL
 
  • #100
lil.mizz.amie said:
ummm its the lion room coz if u dun eat 4 3 years then ur dead LOL
I ran this through a L33T-to-English translator but even it couldn't make sense of it, so here's my answer:

He should choose the the lion's room because if they haven't eaten for three years then they'll be dead.
 
  • #101
What walks on 4 legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and 3 legs in the evening.
The answer is a person. when ur a baby u crawl, when you're an elderly person you walk on 2 legs plus a cane and when ur a kid you walk on ur legs!
 
  • #102
lil.mizz.amie said:
What walks on 4 legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and 3 legs in the evening.
The answer is a person. when ur a baby u crawl, when you're an elderly person you walk on 2 legs plus a cane and when ur a kid you walk on ur legs!
Translation:
When you are a baby you crawl, when you're an elderly person you walk on 2 legs plus a cane and when you are a kid you walk on your legs.
 
  • #103
lil.mizz.amie said:
What walks on 4 legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and 3 legs in the evening.
The answer is a person. when ur a baby u crawl, when you're an elderly person you walk on 2 legs plus a cane and when ur a kid you walk on ur legs!

DaveC426913 said:
Translation:
When you are a baby you crawl, when you're an elderly person you walk on 2 legs plus a cane and when you are a kid you walk on your legs.

correct!
 
  • #104
powergirl said:
NOt right;
Can anyone answer this?
2) A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

it doesn't matter what room he picks anyway because all the rooms are full so they must set him free!
 
  • #105
powergirl said:
Let me ask the Ist Quest:'n.
"1) How much soil is there in a hole measuring one metre by one metre by one metre?"
there is no soil in a hole
 
  • #106
powergirl said:
NOt right;
Can anyone answer this?
2) A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

lion room. three years? come on, there dead!
 
  • #107
powergirl said:
3)(in your head!) Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?
pls sincerely add it in mind...

5000, i did it in my head easily, 1k+1k+1k+1k=4k+10+40=4.5k+20+30=5k
 
  • #108
verty said:
Q: A man is in a room with no windows, no door, no holes in the ceiling and no trapdoors in the floor. How does he escape the room?

i seen 1 similar to this but he had a mirror. he saw a way out
1)realese his inner hulk and bust out
2)call in the airstrike
3)are there walls completely surrounding him? if not, walk out
4)use the hole in the wall that wasn't said to be non-existent by the question
 
  • #109
powergirl said:
:::>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?

1)the sun illuminated the road. this ones right(i hope)
2)the black car guy has night vision goggles.
3)the black car guy was going to stop anyway.
4)the black clothing guy has telekinesis.
5)the black car guy has espn XD
6)the black cAR guy ran over him and felt it
 
  • #110
powergirl said:
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.?

first off, that is cruel and unusuall punishment. secondly, i would pull a "these are not the droids your looking for."

1)ask him what your name is
2)hold up three fingers and ask him "how many fingers am i holding up?"
3)ask him which door he is gaurding.(best one i think) ex.
truth guy;which door are you gaurding? "the one behind me."
liar guy;which door are you gaurding? "the one behind that guy right there"
 
Last edited:
  • #111
DaveC426913 said:
Translation:
When you are a baby you crawl, when you're an elderly person you walk on 2 legs plus a cane and when you are a kid you walk on your legs.

I hope my baby isn't born with 4 legs.
 
  • #112
J77 said:
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.

Like in the Labyrinth :biggrin:

no, ex.
truth guy; no he's a liar, and is protecting the death door, take this one. take the other one, ignoring what he told you, and your dead.
liar guy; no he's a liar(lie), and is protecting the death door(lie), take this one. take the other one, ignoring what he told you, and you live.
50 50 chance of living.
 
  • #113
J77 said:
That's an old one, like:

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.)
stood upon an ice cube and suicided himself

powergirl said:
Exactly how many slices of 1.5 cm each can you cut from a whole bread which is 22.5 cm long?
15
 
  • #114
powergirl said:
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?
pick up a white stone from the ground and pretend to pull it out of the bag

powergirl said:
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?

get threelong pieces of cloth or something, go take out the light bulbs, replace with cloth, turn on each one seperatly, and see which one catches which on fire. not very safe.
 
  • #115
Schrodinger's Dog 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.

either god loves him, he's the human torch, or he has fake hands or something
 
  • #116
Lol... the boiling water one... isn't water, theoretically, boiling as long as it is above freezing point? Water evaporates off the road at far less than 100 degrees. The boiling point is just the point where water will not naturally exceed any greater temperature - but boiling occurs at all temperatures above 0c. This means the water could be at any tolerable temperature and the man needs to just keeps his hands submerged for long enough to be freed. :)
 
  • #117
zidiane said:
5000, i did it in my head easily, 1k+1k+1k+1k=4k+10+40=4.5k+20+30=5k

ummm, check your math.

4,000 + 10 + 40 does not equal 4,500.
 
  • #118
powergirl said:
Let me ask the Ist Quest:'n.
"1) How much soil is there in a hole measuring one metre by one metre by one metre?"

Depends how much soil you put in. If it is a hole in the ground, then one would assume there was no soil in it as it would not be a hole if there were soil in, as the soil is what makes the edges of the hole.
 
  • #119
powergirl said:
NOt right;
Can anyone answer this?
2) A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?


None, he is going to die in them all. Unless he could take some water in the first room, bribe the assasins in the second and tame the lion in the third, or just find Danial from the bible and stay away from the second room.
 
  • #120
powergirl said:
:::>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?


Um, it was daylight.
 

Similar threads

  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11
Views
2K
Replies
7
Views
2K
  • · Replies 67 ·
3
Replies
67
Views
5K
  • · Replies 22 ·
Replies
22
Views
2K
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
672
  • · Replies 43 ·
2
Replies
43
Views
5K
  • · Replies 102 ·
4
Replies
102
Views
10K
  • Sticky
  • · Replies 0 ·
Replies
0
Views
4K
Replies
12
Views
2K