Wanna bet it's a blonde day? ;)

[wenwilder]

1 Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?

2 If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills are taken?

3 I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being woken by the alarm?

4 Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?

5 A farmer had 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left?

6 If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first?

7 A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear?

8 If you take 2 apples from 3 apples, what do you have?

9 How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark?

10 If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from London and stopped at Liverpool to pick up 7 more people, what's the name of the driver?

11 Do they have a 4th July in England?

12 How many birthdays does the average man have?

13 Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?

14 How many two pence stamps in a dozen?

15 An assistant in a butcher's shop is 5'10" tall. What does he weigh?

16 What do you put in a toaster?

17 Say "Silk" 5 times, now spell "Silk". What do cows drink?

18 If a red house is made of red bricks and a blue house is made of blue bricks, what is a green house made of?

19 A plane crashes on the Canadian - US border. Where would you bury the survivors?

20 If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute, how many degrees will it move in an hour?

21 Johnny's mother has 3 kids, one is named April, one is named May. What is the other one named?

22 In a one storey house the floor is blue and the walls and ceiling are white. What colour are the stairs?

23 A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent the night, and left on Friday. How can this be?

24 I have two coins which add up to 15 pence and one of the coins is NOT a 10 pence piece. What are the two coins?

25 If a rooster laid an egg on the apex of a slanted barn roof, which way would the egg roll, left or right?


Answers will be posted when I figure them out...hmmmm maybe you'd all have better luck figurin' them out on your own. Let's see whatcha come up with. ;)

[jdiben]

Answers

I got them all but #23, anyone know the answer?

1. 12 months
2. 1 hour
3. 12 hours
4. 70
5. 9
6. The match
7. White
8. 2 Apples
9. Moses didnt have an ark
10. You are driving the bus. Its your name
11. Yes
12. Only 1
13. No, If he has a widow he's dead
14. 12
15. Meat
16. Bread
17. Milk
18. Green bricks or Glass
19. You dont bury survivors
20. 1 degree
21. Johnny
22. No stairs in a one story house
23. ????
24. 10 pence and 5 pence
25. Roosters dont lay eggs

Joe

[wenwilder]

18. is glass
23. His horses name is Friday

WOW! Good Job!!

I'll have to see if I can find some harder questions!

[Reece]

Friday is his horses name :)

[jdiben]

doh!!

number 4 should be 25

[wenwilder]

Pssstttttt

#3 isn't 12 hours and #17 isn't Milk ;)

[jdiben]

nevermind I was right the first time about #4.

OK I was wrong on 17

what is #3 if its not 12 hours

[wenwilder]

#3 is 1 hour. It's a wind up alarm clock which cannot discriminate between a.m. and p.m.

[jdiben]

I was starting to feel smart. Thanks for ruining that for me :)

Joe

[wenwilder]

awwwww You still figured out more than I did! I had to look at the answers, but SsssssHhhhhhh don't tell. ;)

Anyone have any similiar questions to add?

[jdiben]

Here is on that requires some thought. It took me about 45 minutes to figure out.

Einsteins riddle
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row.
In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Other facts:

1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house`s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.


The question is : WHO OWNS THE FISH?

[wenwilder]

I always liked Einsteins Fish riddle. You do know that Einstein supposedly wrote it and said that 98% of the world would not be able to solve it.

I can't wait to see what members come up with!

[cyanide]

Uhhh, let's see:

The German lives in the Green House, Drinks Coffee, Smokes Prince Cigarettes and Owns the Fish.

Time: 30 minutes

[cyanide]

BTW.

I think #4 is 12

[jdiben]

BTW.

I think #4 is 12

30 divided by .5 = 60
60 + 10 = 70

Good job on Einsteins riddle. You beat my time.

Joe

[cyanide]

LOL! thanks


30 divided by .5 = 60
60 + 10 = 70
I dunno ?? half of what ?

30 divided by 15 = 2 + 10 =12

[wenwilder]

Anyone want to provide the next lateral thinking/brainteaser?

Here's an easy one.

If you were to put a coin into an empty bottle and then insert a cork into the neck, how could you remove the coin without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle?

[carju1]

Thats an easy one,

Push the cork right into the bottle then tip the coin out through the now empty neck :)

Julian

[wenwilder]

You're right Julian that one was rather simple...how about a couple of harder ones?

A survey was conducted of all the various mechanical modes of transportation people use to get to work each day. What did it find was the most common method of transportation?



"Try that story on Principal Pringle," said Scheming Suzie's school teacher. Suzie stood before Pringle and began, "I was on my way to school, and I cut through the park like I always do. Since I was early, I sat down on a bench to rest. I put my essay in my lunch bag, and set it beside me. Just then I noticed a black squirrel run past and scamper up a nearby tree. He was halfway up the tree when he suddenly froze and slowly backed down the tree trunk before taking off. I was curious to see what had frightened him so I looked up the tree and saw a red scarf. I climbed up to get it and just then a big dog grabbed my lunch bag with my essay in it, and ran off." Pringle sighed and replied, "Suzie, you can't possibly expect me to believe that one can you?" Why not?


How many cubic meters of dirt are in a hole 6 meters long, 2 meters wide, and one meter deep?

[carju1]

Ok if no one else is going to jump in here's my answers

1. Lift
2. IF this was a Eiropean post I'd say lie because you only get Red or Grey squirels. Alternatively squirrels can't back down tree's they can only walk forwards.
3. None its a hole

Julian

[jdiben]

I would think that number 1 would be walking.

Joe

[wenwilder]

Ok if no one else is going to jump in here's my answers

1. Lift
2. IF this was a Eiropean post I'd say lie because you only get Red or Grey squirels. Alternatively squirrels can't back down tree's they can only walk forwards.
3. None its a hole

Julian

Once again you've outsmarted the questions!

1. Elevator/lift.
2. Lie. A squirrel would never back down a tree trunk, but rather, turn around and run down head first. Is there such a thing as a black squirrel? I've never seen one.
3. That one was easy...there is no dirt in a hole.

It's going to be hard to stump you guys. But I'm going to try one more time......

3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is US$30, so each man paid US$10 and went to their room.

A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only US$25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with US$5. On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split US$5 evenly between 3 men, so he decides to give each man US$1 and kept the other US$2 for himself.

This meant that the 3 men each paid US$9 for the room, which is a total of US$27. Add the US$2 that the bellboy kept brings the total to US$29.

Where is the other dollar!?

[Sammi290]

FYI ....we have black squirrels here in Montreal Cananda :)

Thought you would like to know that they do exist...lol
Sam

[cyanide]

ooohh, triicckky, triicckky !

well the dollar is still there, in the 3 guy's hands I presume.
Lemme see... the room is $25, which means each guy really paid $8.33.
Add the $3 they got back and the $2 to the bellboy

(8.33 x 3)25 + 3 + 2 = 30

nice one Wen !

[wenwilder]

That is cool! I never knew black squirrels existed! I'm going to have to find a picture of one.

Good answer cyanide, and you're right!

[cyanide]

That is cool! I never knew black squirrels existed! I'm going to have to find a picture of one.

I'm getting my digi-camera today.
I'll get'cha a pic !

[jdiben]

Heres another one

There are four people that need to walk across a bridge in the middle of the night to get to the other side. Only two people can cross the bridge at a time and they have only 1 flashlight, which they all must use to cross the bridge. They need to cross the bridge and have all four people on the other side in 17 minutes. One person can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another person can cross the bridge in 2 minutes, another in 5 minutes and the other in 10 minutes. How do all four people get across the bridge in 17 minutes using 1 flashlight?

[wenwilder]

Heres another one

There are four people that need to walk across a bridge in the middle of the night to get to the other side. Only two people can cross the bridge at a time and they have only 1 flashlight, which they all must use to cross the bridge. They need to cross the bridge and have all four people on the other side in 17 minutes. One person can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another person can cross the bridge in 2 minutes, another in 5 minutes and the other in 10 minutes. How do all four people get across the bridge in 17 minutes using 1 flashlight?


Let's see if my brain works today. *keeping fingers crossed*

First #1 and #2 go across which takes them 2 minutes. #1 comes back which takes 1 minute for a total of 3 minutes. He sends #3 and #4 across which takes 10 minutes (13 minutes total). #2 comes back (now 15 minutes). #1 and #2 go back across which takes 2 minutes (17 minutes). They can make it across in 17 minutes.

[mikmik]

17 = water

If it takes 5 men 5 minutes to build five boxes, how long does it take ten men to build ten boxes?

(rating = easy)

More please

[mikmik]

I'll give you a hint...It takes one man five minutes to build one box.

Somebody has to have a better one than mine?
I am warning you ... mu-ahahahaha..cough*..*ack*...sigh...

[DOA]

Unless my brain has left home for the weekend (more than likely) it should take 10 men 5 minutes to build 10 boxes.

But like I said the brain may have packed and gone for a walk / holidy / or just sat at my office desk waiting for monday morning.

[mikmik]

Yes, I think you are right.
Seems my brain is off somewhere right now as well :O)

[EJRS.COM]

I'm blonde... with a hair discoloration.
It's all gone black, brown, blue and purple (for real! My girl friend dyed my hair recently.)

[mikmik]

Pictures, man, we want pictures!

That is pretty cool, EJRS, i like the 'dare to be different' attitude. Let a wife do something like that to me, but it is good to get YOUR turn as well. (Hint, go second muahahahaaa)

Here is something sent to me, and I don't know the answer to this one...


A good one!

A woman is 21 years older than her son. Six years later, the son´s age will be equal to 1/5 of his mother. Where is the father?

OBS : It´s not a joke, is a solvable problem"

This message was sent to community 'Logic Puzzles' (orkut.com)

Yikes!

The first thought was 'jail?' But, not for age issues, in any event. LOL

[carol]

I'm going to take a wild guess here, the father is at that moment procreating with the mother.

Figure it this way (if you are mathematically challenged and your eyes are going to glaze over here, sorry, just skip to the next paragraph...)

Let x= the son's age and m= the mother's age,
then [1]m=x+21. We don't care about the mother's age since we are going to solve for x, the son's age.
We are also told that [2] x+6 =(m+6)/5 : in 6 years, the son will be 1/5 of the mother's age. Remember to add 6 to the mother's age, too, since she will be 6 years older as well. Combine the two equations by substituting the value in equation [1] for m, and you will finally arrive at x= -3/4.
The negative means before birth, and the 3/4 is three quarters of a year = 9 months. (email me for interim steps - no charge! lol)

Slick little puzzle!

ps - no pictures for this one...

[mikmik]

first I show this from carol:
ps - no pictures for this one...
You don't have multi colored hair, you don't get pictures, yes!

now, carol postulated (lol)
I'm going to take a wild guess here, the father is at that moment procreating with the mother.
Well, you could have taken a 'stab at it'...;]

So, you are correct. It seems to be that way.
in six years, Johnie will be 5.25 years old.
His mom will be 26.25, which is 5 x 5.25.

What took you so long LOL <-- satire, really, pretty quick there, carol.

I knew it was a fractional age after a couple of the old 'multiples of 5' whole numbers search, for they all yeilded...nothing plausible, that I could see.

More...!

[carol]

actually I was going to "take a stab" at it until I realized what I had written!...

[mikmik]

carol, LOL:

actually I was going to "take a stab" at it until I realized what I had written!..

Yes, that is what created this problem in the first place! Puzzle. Oh, nevermind :O)

NEXT:

lateral thinkin.... 6/15/2004 11:22 PM
I think many of u must be knowing it anyway here it goes..

A woman tries to drop a man into the ocean by his own request but when she tries, he blows back in.

Posted by 'vinod'

Oh, that is easy, i see it..haha.
Well, not haha for the reason behind the situation...sigh... :O)))

Peace

[mikmik]

This...Yikes!


Of two unknown integers between 2 and 99 (bounds included) a person P is told the product and a person S is told the sum. When asked whether they know the two numbers, the following dialog takes place:

P: "I don't know them."

S: "I knew that already."

P: "Then I know now the two numbers."

S: "Then I now know them too."

With the above data we are requested to determine the two numbers, and to establish that our solution is unique

The person who gave this said he solved it in his head, while laying in bed before going to sleep, over the course of a couple of nights.

[wclew]

That is cool! I never knew black squirrels existed! I'm going to have to find a picture of one.


They are in the Midwest too, Wynn. Heck, I had one for a pet at one time when I was kid. Pretty cool, I use to share a bag of pistachios with him watching tv sometimes. ;o) Until he got loose and tore up my Mom's plants! lol. Then he had to go! ;o) Not a very good pet anyway, he bit a lot!

[pete61uk]

Squirrels are light-weights, I used to have a pet Wolf spider that'd eat one for breakfast. Or, was I her pet human and she could eat ME for breakfast?

She was huge, her body was about 1.5 inches long, about 3 to 3.5 inches total length taking into account her legs when extended.

She used to eat woodlice (which I hate) and anything else that got in her way, and lived in a corner next to the TV inside a caverty where the plumbing went through.

On occaision she'd come out for a run across the carpet and just sit there. I'd swear blind she were watching me and, now and again, I caught her sneaking up behind me on the wall. Once, when a friend was visiting, she "literally" scared the - you know what - out of him. COOL!

She's gone now, I know not where, but I'm sure her decendants are still around, somewhere, LOOKING FOR YOUR SQUIRREL!

[mikmik]

Boris! I call all my pet spiders that haha

And, FYI, the black ones are called chipmunks .

When I lived on the coast, I would find wolf spiders in the bathtub most mornings, not as big as Boris, but about half sometimes.

I had to wait for 1/2 hour sometimes untill they finished, and they always left a damp towel on the floor.
Sheeesh!

FYI, oh, forget it LOL
Hey, you'll never guess what happenned when I went to google image search and typed "blacksquirrel" into the box. http://www.bonney.org/TOTW346.HTML
They are tough!

You can never be to careful around them, they look friendly enough, but don't get complacent.

They will go 12 rounds with a Boris, anyday!


http://factor1.net/temp/wpw/squirrel.jpg

[mikmik]

Look out!!!!


http://factor1.net/temp/wpw/blacksquirrel.gif

Stanley park, west coast, BC, I hope there is a spider around to save her!

[wclew]

Squirrels are light-weights, I used to have a pet Wolf spider that'd eat one for breakfast. Or, was I her pet human and she could eat ME for breakfast?


Yeah, you're spider might tougher than my squirrel but it's still not as good of pet...You couldn't share food with it, which in my opinion is a prerequisite for the title of "pet". What could you do, share a box of flies with your spider?? ;o) I didn't think so. LOL!

[pete61uk]

Bearing in mind what squirrels most like to eat - nuts - "pet" might be a bit of an exageration. Paying "guest" is, perhaps, more acurate?

"Wolfy" was the best of all possible guests. She payed her way by eating the pests I most hate and not the food I most love. She cleaned her own bed without complaint, didn't monopolise the bathroom, was silent and, with the infrequent exception where she would sit in the middle of the carpet, went largely unseen.

Top all that with the occaisional visitor getting their pulses racing and I would say that she more than earned her keep. And all without threatening the family jewels!

[mikmik]

Why do otters swim an their backs while they eat?

They don't want their nuts to get wet.

[thehappysmoker]

Try this one.

A man who can neither read nor write receives a letter which he knows to be important. He must
reply by the next post. He has three friends, all of whom can read and write, but they live in
different directions, so he has only time to visit one of them on his cycle, before he must mail the
reply. He has no telephone or other artificial means of communication, and neither do any of them.
The first of them is deaf. The second is mute. The third is blind. Which one should he visit in order
to discover the content of the letter, and to dictate a reply to it ?

[esiegel]

Try this one.

A man who can neither read nor write receives a letter which he knows to be important. He must
reply by the next post. He has three friends, all of whom can read and write, but they live in
different directions, so he has only time to visit one of them on his cycle, before he must mail the
reply. He has no telephone or other artificial means of communication, and neither do any of them.
The first of them is deaf. The second is mute. The third is blind. Which one should he visit in order
to discover the content of the letter, and to dictate a reply to it ?

The Deaf one...he can read and speak.

[thehappysmoker]

But he can't hear the dictated reply. Next.

[esiegel]

But he can't hear the dictated reply. Next.
hmmmm...good point. Unless he can read lips!

[ctabuk]

I'm away for a few days, Gene Pitney was Brilliant by the way. Is Today Tomorrow is a year old in two days well done.
A Blonde goes to her Doctor and say's that every time she prods her arms with her right index finger the arm hurts, same with her shoulder, neck, legs everywhere. What did the Doctor diagnose?

May the Borg be with you

[thehappysmoker]

hmmmm...good point. Unless he can read lips!
He can't - and he's not the one anyway.

[wenwilder]

Gene Pitney was Brilliant by the way.

Did he sing The man who shot Liberty Valance? I love that song - and a few others he does. :)

[thehappysmoker]

Okay, here's how it works.

We've already established that the deaf guy would be unable to hear the dictation, so it would be pointless taking the letter to him. Similarly, the mute would be unable to read the letter aloud, so he wouldn't be any help, either. This only leaves the blind one. He can both hear and speak, and we know that he can read and write, because he is one of the "three friends, all of whom can read and write" mentioned in the question, so he is the obvious choice.

How he is able to read and write is a puzzle, but not one which is relevant, or which needs to concern us, because we already know that he CAN.

http://users.pandora.be/eforum/emoticons4u/sad/021.gif

As my teachers always tried to drum into me "READ THE QUESTION".

[wenwilder]

If the first guy can not read or write, isn't it possible he is blind as well and the letter is in braille?

Just a thought

[thehappysmoker]

Possible, but what use would a braille letter be to a blind man who cannot read or write ? It would just make his problem more difficult, in that he would have to take it to a friend who could read braille. http://emoticons4u.informationalot.com/cool/601.gif

(and he'd probably fall off his bike)

[mikmik]

Couldn't the person who told our friend that the letter was for him, or that is had to be responded to immediately, just done that while they were on the phone?

Just trying yet another way to miss the point and drive a perfectly good puzzle asker insane LOL.

[mikmik]

This puzzle (also called the Monty Hall problem) has become fairly famous. If you've never seen it, you won't believe the answer that I will give below.

Suppose that Monty Hall (on TV's Let's Make a Deal) asks you to choose between three doors: #1, #2, and #3. Behind a random door is a new Rolls Royce. Behind each of the other two doors is a goat. Let's assume that you would prefer a Rolls Royce to a goat. You choose a door. Now, Monty, who knows which door hides the Rolls Royce, shows you a goat behind one of the two doors that you did not choose. He then gives you the opportunity to change your choice. Assume that Monty always does this, regardless of your guess. Should you change your choice?

There is a fairly simple solution to this. But, people don't believe it. There has been much heated debate over it. I'll show my reasoning below. And then, see if you agree. Originally, your chances of choosing the correct door are one in three. Monty, who knows where the Rolls Royce is, shows you a goat behind another door. It will turn out that he did not change your odds. You still have one chance in three of being right. So you should switch to the remaining door, which now has odds of 2/3.

You probably don't believe that Monty did not change the odds of your first guess being right. He showed you a door, seemingly at random. So, aren't the odds now 50-50 for the two unseen doors? Of course, Monty's choice of doors was not at random. But, what difference does that make?
Should you switch doors or not?

[thehappysmoker]

Couldn't the person who told our friend that the letter was for him, or that is had to be responded to immediately, just done that while they were on the phone?

Just trying yet another way to miss the point and drive a perfectly good puzzle asker insane LOL.

In the question, we are told that he doesn't have a 'phone. Congrats. You succeeded in missing the point magnificently. Balls in the air http://e4u.deltait.com.au/sport/sport28.gif

[thehappysmoker]

[quote] Now, Monty, who knows which door hides the Rolls Royce, shows you a goat behind one of the two doors that you did not choose. He then gives you the opportunity to change your choice. Assume that Monty always does this, regardless of your guess. Should you change your choice?

What happens to the odds if you want to win a goat ?