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 Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:58 pm
Tammy-Seignfree Katya_Stevens Rhoswen Aegea Katya_Stevens I believe: The poison was in the ice cubes. The woman drank her punch quickly, leaving little to no time for the ice cubes to melt, thus any poison she ingested was not toxic. Everyone else, however, drank their drink slowly, the hot weather causing the ice cubes to melt faster than normal, thus the poison mixed with the punch and everyone else died. Tada! You win. biggrin You get to post the next one. Yay biggrin Okay, let's see how this one goes down. A man's walking along a country road with no lights. There's no moon and no stars visible, and the man's wearing all black clothing. A car comes along with no headlights on, and yet he manages to swerve to miss the man. How? It must be day. XD Hence even without lights, and in the country, the moon and stars are not visible, and the car had it's head lights off. Well, the version I know gives the answer as "it's daytime", so...you're posting the next question smile
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:07 pm
Katya_Stevens Tammy-Seignfree Katya_Stevens Yay biggrin Okay, let's see how this one goes down. A man's walking along a country road with no lights. There's no moon and no stars visible, and the man's wearing all black clothing. A car comes along with no headlights on, and yet he manages to swerve to miss the man. How? It must be day. XD Hence even without lights, and in the country, the moon and stars are not visible, and the car had it's head lights off. Well, the version I know gives the answer as "it's daytime", so...you're posting the next question smile A man without eyes saw plums on a tree; He neither took plums, nor left plums, Now how can that be?
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:42 pm
Tammy-Seignfree A man without eyes saw plums on a tree; He neither took plums, nor left plums, Now how can that be? I think the man is reading a book in braille, and he has come across the prase "plums on a tree."
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:08 am
Okay: I've got two possible solutions.
"Plums" is the blind man's cat stuck in the tree, and he 'saw' Plums in the tree because he wasn't always blind and could imagine it after heard the cat mewling, but he can't get Plums down.
Alternately, it's a semantics puzzle. The man has no EYES because he has one EYE.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:22 am
Rhoswen Aegea Okay: I've got two possible solutions. "Plums" is the blind man's cat stuck in the tree, and he 'saw' Plums in the tree because he wasn't always blind and could imagine it after heard the cat mewling, but he can't get Plums down. Alternately, it's a semantics puzzle. The man has no EYES because he has one EYE. Yup, it was the second one! Semantics FTW. Your turn.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:09 pm
Maybe he saw plums in his imagination...
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:08 pm
Okayo. My Poppy told me this one:
"As I was going toward St. Ives
I met a man who had ten wives,
And each wife had seven sacks,
And in each sack were twenty cats,
And every cat each had nine lives,
So how many were going to St. Ives?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:50 pm
Rhoswen Aegea Okayo. My Poppy told me this one: "As I was going toward St. Ives I met a man who had ten wives, And each wife had seven sacks, And in each sack were twenty cats, And every cat each had nine lives, So how many were going to St. Ives?" Just one person, the narrator. It doesn't say that the man was going to St. Ives, he could have been going in the other direction. As for his wives and cats, there's no mention that they were with him.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:32 pm
Kukushka Rhoswen Aegea Okayo. My Poppy told me this one: "As I was going toward St. Ives I met a man who had ten wives, And each wife had seven sacks, And in each sack were twenty cats, And every cat each had nine lives, So how many were going to St. Ives?" Just one person, the narrator. It doesn't say that the man was going to St. Ives, he could have been going in the other direction. As for his wives and cats, there's no mention that they were with him. Tada! You win. ^^
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:07 pm
A simpler less frilly version is "If you have two pails, one can hold 3 gallons and the other holds 2 gallons. How many pails do you have?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:08 pm
Humm... You guys probably all know the only one I know, lol, but here goes anyway...
A farmer is going to the market to sell a goat, a wolf, and a cabbage. On the way, he has to cross a river. Unfortunately, there's only a small boat that can only carry him and one of his products. He can't leave the goat alone with the cabbage because he will eat it. He also can't leave the wolf alone with the goat because the worlf will eat the goat. So how does he get all three across the river without losing any of them?
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:10 pm
ManateeMan A simpler less frilly version is "If you have two pails, one can hold 3 gallons and the other holds 2 gallons. How many pails do you have?" Rofl, I remember when I was little, it was all the rage to ask questions like "what was the color of Napoleon's white horse?" You would be amazed by how many people got it wrong (or yelled at you that they don't know history and why should they because history is boring!).
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:52 pm
Kukushka Humm... You guys probably all know the only one I know, lol, but here goes anyway... A farmer is going to the market to sell a goat, a wolf, and a cabbage. On the way, he has to cross a river. Unfortunately, there's only a small boat that can only carry him and one of his products. He can't leave the goat alone with the cabbage because he will eat it. He also can't leave the wolf alone with the goat because the worlf will eat the goat. So how does he get all three across the river without losing any of them? *Take the goat across first *Go back for the cabbage *Bring the cabbage across and switch the cabbage for the goat *Go back to get the wolf and switch it with the goat *Drop the wolf off with the cabbage on the other side *Lastly bring the goat across again
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:01 am
Here's a riddle:
A man is trapped in a prison cell. The cell has two doors, one leads to freedom and the other to certain death. Also, each door is guarded by a soldier, one only tells the truth and the other only tells lies. You can go through either door whenever you like, but you don't know which door is which and you don't know which soldier is guarding which door. If you can ask one question to only one of the soldiers to help you figure out wich door leads to freedom, what question would you ask?
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:09 am
Wyedg Here's a riddle: A man is trapped in a prison cell. The cell has two doors, one leads to freedom and the other to certain death. Also, each door is guarded by a soldier, one only tells the truth and the other only tells lies. You can go through either door whenever you like, but you don't know which door is which and you don't know which soldier is guarding which door. If you can ask one question to only one of the soldiers to help you figure out wich door leads to freedom, what question would you ask? Ask the following: "If I asked the other guard which is the door to freedom, what would he answer?"
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