A few brainteasers for today

Please use this forum for general Non-Football related chat

Postby account deleted by request » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:34 pm

your probably right mate its too hot to even care today :D
account deleted by request
 
Posts: 20690
Joined: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:11 am

Postby 112-1077774096 » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:45 pm

s@int wrote:your probably right mate its too hot to even care today :D

welcome to my world, thats how i feel 365 days a year      :D
112-1077774096
 

Postby Judge » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:47 pm

peewee wrote:
s@int wrote:your probably right mate its too hot to even care today :D

welcome to my world, thats how i feel 365 days a year      :D

then he goes out with a couple of LBFM's, and has roast locusts for lunch  :Oo:

:D
Image
User avatar
Judge
>> LFC Elite Member <<
 
Posts: 20477
Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:21 am

Postby dward » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:08 pm

stmichael wrote:today's simple batch to start with:

I have two US coins totaling 55 cents. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?

Is it correct that seven and five is thirteen or seven and five are thirteen?

A train leaves New York for Boston. Five minutes later another train leaves Boston for New York, at double the speed. Which train will be closer to New York when they encounter?

1) 1 fifty pence piece and 1 nickel. It's right because one is not a nickel but the other one is.

2) 5 + 7 = 12

3) Same distance
User avatar
dward
>> LFC Elite Member <<
 
Posts: 3220
Joined: Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:07 pm

Postby account deleted by request » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:22 pm

A woman has 7 children half are boys - how is this possible?
account deleted by request
 
Posts: 20690
Joined: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:11 am

Postby 112-1077774096 » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:23 pm

dward wrote:
stmichael wrote:today's simple batch to start with:

I have two US coins totaling 55 cents. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?

Is it correct that seven and five is thirteen or seven and five are thirteen?

A train leaves New York for Boston. Five minutes later another train leaves Boston for New York, at double the speed. Which train will be closer to New York when they encounter?

1) 1 fifty pence piece and 1 nickel. It's right because one is not a nickel but the other one is.

2) 5 + 7 = 12

3) Same distance

Image
112-1077774096
 

Postby dward » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:35 pm

s@int wrote:A woman has 7 children half are boys - how is this possible?

they're all boys
User avatar
dward
>> LFC Elite Member <<
 
Posts: 3220
Joined: Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:07 pm

Postby account deleted by request » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:44 pm

correct Dward :D
account deleted by request
 
Posts: 20690
Joined: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:11 am

Postby ConnO'var » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:51 pm

stmichael wrote:A few brainteasers for today.


1. It takes a man an hour to dig a hole. How long does it take two men to dig half a hole?


2. A water lily growing in a circular pond doubles in size every day. It takes thirty days to cover the whole pond. How long does it take to cover half the pond?


3. A builder builds 100 houses. He has to number them all so he goes to the hardware store. How many no. 9's does he buy?



4. A man is travelling from the country to Dublin. He comes to a T-Junction. There are no signposts. He spots a house down the road and decides he will go and ask whoever lives there the way to go. Just before he enters the garden, a little boy comes up and tells him that there are twins living in the house on their own. He says that one of them always tells the truth and one of them always lies and that no one can tell which is which. He also says that anyone who wants information can only ask them one question and that is it.

Bearing in mind that he won't know which twin answers the door.. what question does he ask, and then, what action does he take to make sure he goes the right way?



5. Spot the error in this? There was a taxi outside a hotel. A man came out, hit the taxi driver on the head, took all the money out of the meter and started to run off, only to be rugby-tackled by the commissionaire?


6. A farmer has to transport a fox, a goose and a sack of grain across a river. The boat is so small that there is room only for him and one of the others at a time, but if he leaves the fox and goose together the fox will kill the goose, and if the goose and the sack of grain are left together the goose will eat the grain. How does he get them all over?


Answers to follow within the next 48 hours.

No 3. = 18
Image
Image
User avatar
ConnO'var
 
Posts: 3643
Joined: Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:30 pm

Postby dward » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:57 pm

ConnO'var wrote:
stmichael wrote:A few brainteasers for today.


1. It takes a man an hour to dig a hole. How long does it take two men to dig half a hole?


2. A water lily growing in a circular pond doubles in size every day. It takes thirty days to cover the whole pond. How long does it take to cover half the pond?


3. A builder builds 100 houses. He has to number them all so he goes to the hardware store. How many no. 9's does he buy?



4. A man is travelling from the country to Dublin. He comes to a T-Junction. There are no signposts. He spots a house down the road and decides he will go and ask whoever lives there the way to go. Just before he enters the garden, a little boy comes up and tells him that there are twins living in the house on their own. He says that one of them always tells the truth and one of them always lies and that no one can tell which is which. He also says that anyone who wants information can only ask them one question and that is it.

Bearing in mind that he won't know which twin answers the door.. what question does he ask, and then, what action does he take to make sure he goes the right way?



5. Spot the error in this? There was a taxi outside a hotel. A man came out, hit the taxi driver on the head, took all the money out of the meter and started to run off, only to be rugby-tackled by the commissionaire?


6. A farmer has to transport a fox, a goose and a sack of grain across a river. The boat is so small that there is room only for him and one of the others at a time, but if he leaves the fox and goose together the fox will kill the goose, and if the goose and the sack of grain are left together the goose will eat the grain. How does he get them all over?


Answers to follow within the next 48 hours.

No 3. = 18

no :D
User avatar
dward
>> LFC Elite Member <<
 
Posts: 3220
Joined: Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:07 pm

Postby Sabre » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:17 pm

Let's test your concentration.

First, move your right foot as if you were making a clockwise circle with it (as if you had to paint a circle in the sand with it)

Easy? right. Now try to write an imaginary 6 with your right hand at the same time, 98% can't do it simultaneously!
Image
SOS member #1499

Drummerphil, never forgotten.
User avatar
Sabre
>> LFC Elite Member <<
 
Posts: 13178
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:10 am
Location: San Sebastian (Spain)

Postby dward » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:20 pm

Sabre wrote:Let's test your concentration.

First, move your right foot as if you were making a clockwise circle with it (as if you had to paint a circle in the sand with it)

Easy? right. Now try to write an imaginary 6 with your right hand at the same time, 98% can't do it simultaneously!

sometimes I can do it...not continuously for ages though
User avatar
dward
>> LFC Elite Member <<
 
Posts: 3220
Joined: Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:07 pm

Postby weringo » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:59 pm

Sabre wrote:Let's test your concentration.

First, move your right foot as if you were making a clockwise circle with it (as if you had to paint a circle in the sand with it)

Easy? right. Now try to write an imaginary 6 with your right hand at the same time, 98% can't do it simultaneously!

Too hard, my foot just starts moving up and down when I make the 6 :D
Image
User avatar
weringo
LFC Super Member
 
Posts: 757
Joined: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:42 pm
Location: Richmond, London

Postby Lando_Griffin » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:36 am

stmichael wrote:today's simple batch to start with:

A. I have two US coins totaling 55 cents. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?

B. Is it correct that seven and five is thirteen or seven and five are thirteen?

C. A train leaves New York for Boston. Five minutes later another train leaves Boston for New York, at double the speed. Which train will be closer to New York when they encounter?

A. I'm not familiar with the US mint.

B. 7+5 is 12, but grammatically, "Is".

C. Same distance.
Last edited by Lando_Griffin on Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
Image
Image

Rafa Benitez - An unfinished Legend.
User avatar
Lando_Griffin
>> LFC Elite Member <<
 
Posts: 10633
Joined: Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:19 pm

Postby account deleted by request » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:33 pm

dawson99 wrote:ok, a riddle:

AND A LIGHT BULB

>=P 100 prisoners are imprisoned in solitary cells. Each cell is windowless and soundproof. There's a central living room with one light bulb; the bulb is initially off. No prisoner can see the light bulb from his or her own cell. Each day, the warden picks a prisoner equally at random, and that prisoner visits the central living room; at the end of the day the prisoner is returned to his cell. While in the living room, the prisoner can toggle the bulb if he or she wishes. Also, the prisoner has the option of asserting the claim that all 100 prisoners have been to the living room. If this assertion is false (that is, some prisoners still haven't been to the living room), all 100 prisoners will be shot for their stupidity. However, if it is indeed true, all prisoners are set free and inducted into MENSA, since the world can always use more smart people. Thus, the assertion should only be made if the prisoner is 100% certain of its validity.

Before this whole procedure begins, the prisoners are allowed to get together in the courtyard to discuss a plan. What is the optimal plan they can agree on, so that eventually, someone will make a correct assertion?

Whats the correct answer Dawson?
account deleted by request
 
Posts: 20690
Joined: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:11 am

PreviousNext

Return to General Chat Forum

 


  • Related topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot] and 41 guests

  • Advertisement
ShopTill-e