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.
  • #251


verty said:
It's far simpler than that: through the doorway (there's no door).

nooo there meant to be a table there as well && he rubs his hands until they get sore saw's the table in half... two halfs make a whole climbs through the hole shouts until his voice is hoarse jumps on his horse and rides away... easy :D
 
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  • #252


verty said:
It's far simpler than that: through the doorway (there's no door).

nooo there meant to be a table there as well && he rubs his hands until they get sore saw's the table in half... two halfs make a whole climbs through the hole shouts until his voice is hoarse jumps on his horse and rides away... easy :D
 
  • #253


cherryanoeh said:
... he rubs his hands until they get sore saw's the table in half...
I think you missed a step in there.
 
  • #254


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  • #255


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've done it before.

Heres one for you guys: write eleven thousand, eleven hundred and eleven in numbers.
 
  • #256


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?

Well, surely it would be the room with the lions because if they have not eaten in 3 years they'd surely be dead.
 
  • #257


Alsdfj12 said:
5000. I've done it before.

Heres one for you guys: write eleven thousand, eleven hundred and eleven in numbers.

No you are wrong.
Many people THINK it is that, but it's not.
It's 4,100.
Check your calculator.
 
  • #258


alsdfj12 said:
heres one for you guys: Write eleven thousand, eleven hundred and eleven in numbers.

12,111.
 
  • #259


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?"

no soil! it's a hole
 
  • #260


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?

ofcoarse the 3rd room ,cus lions are dead by now!
 
  • #261


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...

4100
 
  • #262


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?

it was daytime
 
  • #263


2 daughters and 2 mothers went to a mall and each bought a pair of shoes. In the end, they had 3 pairs of shoes. How?
 
  • #264


atthepointe said:
2 daughters and 2 mothers went to a mall and each bought a pair of shoes. In the end, they had 3 pairs of shoes. How?
They were pirates. Two of them had pegs.

Grandmother, mother, daughter.
 
  • #265


A man and his son are off to a baseball game. They drive into town headed for the stadium, but when crossing the railroad tracks the car stalls. A train hits the car, the father is killed but the son is sent to the hospital. He is wheeled into the operating room whereupon the surgeon comes in and says "I can't operate on this child, he's my son."

How is this possible?
 
  • #266


DaveC426913 said:
A man and his son are off to a baseball game. They drive into town headed for the stadium, but when crossing the railroad tracks the car stalls. A train hits the car, the father is killed but the son is sent to the hospital. He is wheeled into the operating room whereupon the doctor comes in and says "I can't operate on this child, he's my son."

How is this possible?
The doctor is his other father. A man had the child by his wife before they divorced. Then he married a doctor. The new husband(?), the doctor, adopted the child. Then the man died in the car crash and his PSSWUSLQ (person of the same sex who used to share living quarters), the doctor, came up with this phoney baloney reason why he couldn't operate. So the son died too and the doctor collected insurance from both deaths and with double indemnity to boot. Now he's taken early retirement and relaxes on the beaches of the Caribbean with his trophy husband.
.
 
  • #267


jimmysnyder said:
The doctor is his other father. A man had the child by his wife before they divorced. Then he married a doctor. The new husband(?), the doctor, adopted the child. Then the man died in the car crash and his PSSWUSLQ (person of the same sex who used to share living quarters), the doctor, came up with this phoney baloney reason why he couldn't operate. So the son died too and the doctor collected insurance from both deaths and with double indemnity to boot. Now he's taken early retirement and relaxes on the beaches of the Caribbean with his trophy husband.
.

Why yes. That is exactly correct. Most people miss the double indemnity aspect in their answer but you nailed it.
 
  • #268


DaveC426913 said:
A man and his son are off to a baseball game. They drive into town headed for the stadium, but when crossing the railroad tracks the car stalls. A train hits the car, the father is killed but the son is sent to the hospital. He is wheeled into the operating room whereupon the surgeon comes in and says "I can't operate on this child, he's my son."

How is this possible?

It's easier to assume that doctor is his mother.
 
  • #269


It is a homosexual couple, and the boy is adopted.
 
  • #270


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?
third room. if a lion have'nt eaten in 3 years,is dead!
 
  • #271


DaveC426913 said:
A man and his son are off to a baseball game. They drive into town headed for the stadium, but when crossing the railroad tracks the car stalls. A train hits the car, the father is killed but the son is sent to the hospital. He is wheeled into the operating room whereupon the surgeon comes in and says "I can't operate on this child, he's my son."

How is this possible?

2 fathers
 
  • #272


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?
third room. if a lion haven't eaten for three years,is dead!
 
  • #273


pinkpenelopy said:
third room. if a lion haven't eaten for three years,is dead!

This riddle has now beeen answered eleven times in the preceding 270 posts.
 
  • #274


An Easy one, but it made me laugh when I first heard it in 8th grade.

What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
 
  • #275


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.

I don't think the assassins are prisoners. Prisoners with guns?
 
  • #276


MotoH said:
What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

Well you have a quarter tank of life now of course!
 
  • #277


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?"



Answer: None! it's a hole!
 
  • #278


hey guys...
a friend asked me this but uptill now i am unable to solve it. Can someone help me out and tell the answer with a sensible logic??
here it goes:
What is the next number in the series...
0, 1, 3, 13, 183...??
 
  • #279


cool_arrow said:
Hi everyone. I saw this problem in a logic textbook I had in a class many years ago:

Two friends meet after having been out of contact with one another for some
years. They have the the following conversation:

A: I have three sons.
B: What are their ages?
A: The product of their ages is 36.
B: That is not enough information.
A: The sum of their ages is the same as the the number on the building across the street.
B: Give me a minute to work it out with pencil and paper.

B: I've almost got it but I need one more clue.
A: The oldest one has red hair.
B: I've got it.

What are the ages of the three sons?
well my logic is that to do it, first write down all the real possibilities that the number on that building might have been. Assuming integer ages you get the following which equal 36 when multiplied:

Ages = 1,1,36 (sum = 38)
Ages = 1,2,18 (sum = 21)
Ages = 1,3,12 (sum = 16)
Ages = 1,4,9 (sum = 14)
Ages = 1,6,6 (sum = 13)
Ages = 2,2,9 (sum = 13)
Ages = 2,3,6 (sum = 11)
Ages = 3,3,4 (sum = 10)

The big clue is that the second friend DID NOT KNOW after having been told the sum equalled the number on the house. Why didn't he know? The only reason would be that the number was thirteen, in which case there are two possible answers. For any other number, the answer is unique and the friend would have known after the second clue. So he asked for a third clue. The clue that the oldest had red hair is really just saying that there is an "oldest", meaning that the older two are not twins. Hence, the answer is that the redhead is 9 years old, and the younger two are both two years old.
 
  • #280


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?

full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. because there dead
 
  • #281


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?

full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years.
 
  • #282


Jia said:
hey guys...
a friend asked me this but uptill now i am unable to solve it. Can someone help me out and tell the answer with a sensible logic??
here it goes:
What is the next number in the series...
0, 1, 3, 13, 183...??

x_{n+1} = x_n^2 + x_n + 1
 
  • #283


hey thanx...=)
 
  • #284


re: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 answer is room 3:full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years the lion is dead he's safe there
 
  • #285


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 Lions would be dead, so that is the safest!
 
  • #286


lol I see i am not the only one to get this question right!
 
  • #287


In a hole there is no soil , coz its hole ...simple.
 
  • #288


A tricky one
there is a glass jar and it contain one bacteria,which doubles itself in one second and again that two doubles mean becomes 4 again in 1 second.if it goes like this and the whole jar is full in 1 minute , then at what time the jar was half?:bugeye:
 
  • #289


sugandh said:
A tricky one
there is a glass jar and it contain one bacteria,which doubles itself in one second and again that two doubles mean becomes 4 again in 1 second.if it goes like this and the whole jar is full in 1 minute , then at what time the jar was half?:bugeye:



dtz easy..,..59 min
 
  • #290


well jia answer is correct in numbers but minutes is wrong well u got the concept good work.
 
  • #291


another simple one
Larry's father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty...Guess what would be the name of the fifth?
 
  • #292


Larry?
 
  • #293


hunnnn.....
 
  • #294


K now comes a difficult one :-

some people went for vaccation. unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were there. but whenever it rained in the morning, they had clean afternoon and vice versa. In all they enjoyed 11 morning and 12 afternoons.
how many days did they stay there totally?
 
  • #295


13 days is 6 mornings and 7 afternoons (or vice versa), 11 mornings - 6 mornings is 5 more days, so the total is 18 (or do you have to add 5 more for the 12 - 7 afternoons? - enjoyed throws me off, I enjoy the rain)
 
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  • #296


YOUR ANSWER IS CORRECT
Well logic could be anyone like,(11+12+13)/2=36/2=18 Days
 
  • #297


May be easy,lets chk out.
How many knouck out soccer games has to be played to chose one team as winner if the no. of participating teams are 1000?
 
  • #298


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?"

nothing...it's a hole...
 
  • #299


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 second is the safest, as the room is full of nutrition (ie. assassins). He will live here the longest...Why? because the assassin's will think of themselves as more skilled killers than him, thus he will be of no threat to him. So each will try to recruit him to kill the other assassins (they need to eat too since they are stuck in a room as well). Now of course, this would mean that if the murderer were in fact an assassin, he would have to pretend to not be an assassin, so as to not pose a threat. Now, because he is getting food, albeit in a way most would prefer not to think of, he will survive longer than in the rooms without food (rooms 1 and 3).

Am I right, or am I right?
 
  • #300


Mazer Rackham said:
The second is the safest, as the room is full of nutrition (ie. assassins). He will live here the longest...Why? because the assassin's will think of themselves as more skilled killers than him, thus he will be of no threat to him. So each will try to recruit him to kill the other assassins (they need to eat too since they are stuck in a room as well). Now of course, this would mean that if the murderer were in fact an assassin, he would have to pretend to not be an assassin, so as to not pose a threat. Now, because he is getting food, albeit in a way most would prefer not to think of, he will survive longer than in the rooms without food (rooms 1 and 3).

Am I right, or am I right?
This is correct. In fact, the assasins haven't eaten in 4 years, and are all dead, whereas the lions ate well 3 years ago.
 

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