04-12-2002 10:53									#61
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That would be the classic story with a hole. He's a midget. When it rains, he can use his umbrella to hit the 15 button. Otherwise, he can only reach up to the 7 button.

	04-12-2002 18:21									#62
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SnowFire has part of it right--he's a midget--and that is one of the correct answers now that I think of it. Knowing that he's a midget, does anyone else want to guess the other correct answer(s)?

Hey! Now the have Christmas caps!

	04-12-2002 18:37									#63
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When other people use the lift with him?

	04-12-2002 20:06									#64
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When there are other people in the elevator too, he asks them to push the right button.

	05-12-2002 01:00									#65
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quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell That's one answer, Tau.

Hey, you're learning fast!
(Sorry about it, but being called Zero seems somewhat... negative. Okay, that didn't make much sense, numerically, but you know what I mean.)

Now, let's have a new riddle:
You have nine glasses standing in a line, like this:

uUUUUUuuu

where the glasses represented by "u" are empty, while the glasses represented by "U" contain beer. Now, your goal is to make the glasses in the line alternate between empty and full. But you may only move two glasses!

How is it done?

	05-12-2002 01:08									#66
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Pour the contents of the third glass to the eight glass and put it back.
Drink contents of fifth glass (or otherwise dispose of them) and put it back.

	05-12-2002 01:12									#67
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quote: Originally posted by Zero-Tau Now, let's have a new riddle: You have nine glasses standing in a line, like this: uUUUUUuuu where the glasses represented by "u" are empty, while the glasses represented by "U" contain beer. Now, your goal is to make the glasses in the line alternate between empty and full. But you may only move two glasses! How is it done?

Empty the third cup into the eighth cup, and return it the third position:

uUuUUUuUu

Pour/drink the fifth cup:

uUuUuUuUu

Edit: I guess I was too slow.

	05-12-2002 02:21									#68
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Yep, that's right. Ignorance, your turn.

	05-12-2002 03:57									#69
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Immortal and Ignorance got the other answer i was thinking of right-- .

	05-12-2002 04:09									#70
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Not a brain teaser, but I found this funny and didn't want to start a new thread....

What is the optimum way of shoelacing?

Answer can be found at http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993136

	05-12-2002 04:43									#71
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Shopkeepers cash register is broken and he is using a calculator to add the values.
A customer buys 4 items for total of 8,19 dollars.
After he has taken the money shopkeeper realises that he had multiplied the prices instead of adding them.
Being a honest man, he quickly calculates the total again and is about to stop the customer from leaving, but to his surprise, the sum of the prices is exactly the same: 8,19

What were the prices of the items bought?

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*bump*

	05-12-2002 09:12									#73
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0.84 , 1.00 , 2.60 , 3.75 or
1.04 , 1.25 , 1.40 , 4.50

I wrote a program to check all these values.
If you allow rounding, there a dozens of valid combinations.

	05-12-2002 09:27									#74
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That is correct.
Bonus points for finding both sets of possible values

	05-12-2002 12:14									#75
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Well, I have no brain-teasers, so I'll leave it up for grabs to whoever does have one.

	06-12-2002 06:06									#76
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The king dies and two men both claim to be his long-lost son.
A test is proposed to determine the identity of the true heir.
One man agrees to the test, the other refuses.
The one who agreed is sent packing and the one who refused is identified as the rightful heir.
What was the test?

	06-12-2002 07:39									#77
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**** the queen

	06-12-2002 08:10									#78
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No.
But... interesting way to approach the problem

	06-12-2002 12:49									#79
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Engage the Gore-a-tron 4000 in a no-holds barred wrestling match. The real heir has hemophilia 'cause he's a noble and wisely refuses.

	07-12-2002 06:23									#80
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The test was to kill the King, and the one who refused is the King's son, the one who agreed was a rebel.

I don't know, do you expect me to? I'm going with Felch on this one.

	07-12-2002 08:35									#81
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That must have been a fascinating test, being that the kind is already dead. The king summons the two candidates, says "I've gone senile and can't remember which one of you is my boy, but we need to determine the heir to the throne since I will soon be dead. Why? Because whichever one of you kills me must be my son! Why am I creating this succession issue? I don't know! I'm CRAZY! HAHAHAHA!"

Some clues wouldn't hurt, Ignorance. There are too many right answers. For all we know, the test was to ride a wild wumpus. Because, ya see, at a young age they arranged with the prince that if he ever needed to prove who he was, all he needed to do was refuse to a wumpus-riding test. And then they spread lots of rumors that the prince was an awesome wumpus rider, his legendary wumpus was the best, blah blah blah, so the rebels go find the best wumpus rider they can when the time comes and have him pretend to be the prince, but hah! The joke's on him, he never actually knew how to ride wumpusi.

	07-12-2002 10:10									#82
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Maybe the fake heir is sent on a quest that the real heir knows is a wild goose chase.

	07-12-2002 13:07									#83
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heres a problem: rearrange the number so that

212 = 441

numbers cannot go across = (no 214 = 214)

you cant add signs. (no 2-2+1 = 4-4+1)

You cant add numbers

You cant drop a number either

Ill come by tomorrow to give u guys the answer.

Last edited by Zero on 07-12-2002 at 13:14

	07-12-2002 16:37									#84
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quote: Originally posted by Calc II heres a problem: rearrange the number so that 212 = 441

21^2 = 441

With pen and paper, you can simply write the 2 as an exponent, instead of using the ^ symbol.

You can also use 12^2 = 144, if you like.