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 Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:51 pm
Yup, both of you are right.
This one got me for a while, untill I asked for the answer
A-town and B-town are 10 miles apart. A man rides from A-town to B-town on Friday, stays in B-town two days, and rides back to A-town on Friday. How?
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:58 pm
Whee!
Should I just say it, or should let other people guess? Mrr. I've heard this one before. I'll just stay quiet.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:15 pm
Lmfao. I mean seriously, who names their horse, or whatever you're using for transport, Friday?
Always read riddles carefully, yes? A good pointer to some of those that didn't get this.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:31 pm
It was five am when I first saw it, so my brain was going "Wha? I don't get it....."
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:34 pm
?
What are you talking about?
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:38 pm
Carefully reading the riddle to understand it. Kind of hard to understand a riddle when you havn't slept. Now, this is a hard one.
One December morning after a particularly heavy snow storm, the power fails. You have an old wood stove with which you can prepare breakfast. But you have a problem, your grandfather likes a single egg boiled for exactly nine minutes.
You aren't wearing your watch, and all the clocks in the house are electric. You are able to find two exquisite hourglasses, able to precisely measure in hand-crafted Swiss sand seven and four minutes, respectively.
How quickly using only these two hourglasses can you provide your grandfather with his egg?
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:47 pm
I hate Math based riddles, so I'm not even going to try xD.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:52 pm
Yes! I have found the one riddle to defeat the self proclaimed "god of riddles"! *does a small little happy, hyper dance*
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:26 am
That's not really a riddle though, it's a Math question. But if you insist....
Uhh let's see here. Two hourglasses, one filled with seven minutes of sand, and one with four. I think you start both at the same time. When the four minute runs out, flip it over. Then when the seven runs out, flip that over too. Once the four finishes, flip the seven back over. Since there's only a minute of sand in there, you get nine minutes. Boo ya. I can't beleive I wasted over twenty minutes of my life on this riddle evil mad .
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:30 am
Haha, good. You got it. I would have just said "Bah, I don't care enough."
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:09 am
hehe, I would have just said nine minutes. It doesn't ask how you get to nine minutes, it only says how quickly you can provide your gradfather with the egg, you can take out the 'using only these two hourglasses' part. xd
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:53 am
It says to use them though. If the answer to the riddle were as simple as you said it would be, than you could provide your grandfather with the egg from any timespan between one second and the end of eternity.
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:38 pm
Well, i never said you had to explain how you used them, just to use them. So, if he likes it cooked at nine mintues, then fastest you can cook it or the slowest you can cook it is by nine mintues, since that is the time limit you have.
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:52 pm
...This is where the smart people linger.
Myth is an idiot here. -slips away-
Here: What has four maybe five hands but is normal?
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:05 pm
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