Finding Adam

[ss_11000]

yep:2tsup:

wasnt a very hard one was it...oh well, your turn:)

[funkychicken]

Google is a wonderful tool ain't it :fisch:

The Puzzle Of The Bothersome Brother

>snip<

'Well it was like this," said Hughes. 'There was a man named Charlie Smith. He was born in Sydney nut he ran away from home when he was just fourteens years old. Why, I don't know-I never found out-but he did. Anyway, he had no contact with his family for the rest of his life.
'For most of that life he travelled around the outback doing a variety of jobs. But in late middle age he settled in Lightning ridge, and a few years later, as luck would have it he struck a rich vein of opal. He ended up being a very wealthy man. He never married. He just had a local woman come in three days a week to do his housekeeping for him. He lived very simply and kept his money in the local bank.
'As he was dying in the local hospital he gave an envelope-and old, yellowed envelope-to the nurse on duty and asked her to give it to his brother jack. She showed the envelope to the doctor who looked inside and found a hand written note leaving all of Charlie's considerable property to his brother Jack. So the doctor took it to the local bank manager, whose bank looked after Charlie's account, and the bank manager passed it onto his head office and the head office of the bank came to my law firm to find this missing brother - Jack Smith.
'We had no information about the man except his name and a yellowed old photograph of the two brothers standing side by side as young boys. It had been taken nearly sixty years earlier. We knew it was a photo of the two brothers because Charlie had written on the back, 'Me and Jack at the age of ten.' But that photo and the man's name was all we had to go on - and my job was to find this brother and pass on his inheritance to him. And I didn't have much information about Charlie Smith himself either - just a clipping from the local newspaper showing him with a large opal. taken a year or so before his death and deeds to his mining claim and so on.
'Now the name Jack Smith is not that uncommon so the name didn't help very much. But I put an ad in The Herald Sydney Morning calling on Jack Smith, Brother of the late Charlie Smith, to come forward. Well, about a hundred blokes did come forward. Nevertheless I was able to pick out the real Jack Smith-the real brother-out of the crowd immediately. How did I do it?'

Lifted from "Aussie Yarns" by Kel Richards

[corbs]

Eeny meeny miny mo...:doh:

[Groggy]

He was a twin - "me and Jack at age ten"

[funkychicken]

He was a twin - "me and Jack at age ten"

Dangnabbit, That thing took me ages to type out and you get it in a day


Good work though:2tsup:

Your turn

[Gingermick]

Go Skew:2tsup: (thought that one might have taken a bit longer)

But they couldn't move to see, you said they can't move their heads so can't turn to see who is besides. Good solution though Skew.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

But they couldn't move to see, you said they can't move their heads so can't turn to see who is besides. Good solution though Skew.

Ah, but the wall is the line beteen #1 & #2. So #1 is facing to the right and the rest are facing to the left. So #3 can see the back of #2's head without moving and #4 can see the back of #2 & #3's heads...

(It took me a while to work out how they were facing, too.)

[Gingermick]

Inadequate drawing was the problem, if you look at the pic they are all facing the same way aligned shoulder to shoulder.
Though I didn't read it very carefully, like all my exams.

[Groggy]

A very rich man tells his two sons to race their horses to a distant town to see who will inherit all of his fortune. The one whose horse is slower will win. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, are sitting at a campfire discussing their plight when, suddenly, one of the brothers has an idea and tells it to his brother. They then jump on the horses and race as fast as they can to the town.

What was the brother's idea?

[Groggy]

elmoticus, Gingermick, More_Firewood, Ozkaban, Skew ChiDAMN!!, underfoot

I can see you all looking, but who is going to have a go :roll:

:U

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

:seald:

[funkychicken]

I read something like this in a book once The two riders rode each others horses so the owner of the horse which crossed the line first lost.

Do I have half the answer?

[ss_11000]

I read something like this in a book once The two riders rode each others horses so the owner of the horse which crossed the line first lost.

Do I have half the answer?
sounds good to me:2tsup:

[Groggy]

That's it, your turn.

[funkychicken]

Oh..Okay..


A man has has bought a new car and is so excited about the prospect of showing it to his girlfriend that he isn't paying much attention on his trip home. He goes through a red light, bumps into someone in front of him and turns down a no entry road.
A police officer sees all this but makes no attempt to caution him.

Why?

[corbs]

Monopoly?

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

'E's walking home?

After splashing out on a new car, I guess 'e couldn't afford a tank of petrol too! :D

[funkychicken]

'E's walking home?

After splashing out on a new car, I guess 'e couldn't afford a tank of petrol too! :D

Correct:2tsup:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Can I retract my answer on the grounds it was just a smart-asre comment? :rolleyes:

[funkychicken]

Can I retract my answer on the grounds it was just a smart-asre comment? :rolleyes:

Uhh sure:roll:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Hehe... OK... so... hmmm... :think:

You're in a room with three switches that operate three lightbulbs in a separate room and you don't know which switch turns on which light. How do you find out which switch goes to which lightbulb by entering the other room only once? You don't have any help, you can't see the other room while you are in the room with the other switches or vice versa, you can't make any device that extends your reach into the other room, etc.

[Groggy]

Turn on one switch for ten minutes then turn it off.
Turn on one other light.
Go to the other room.
One light will be cold, one warm and one on. Each can then be matched to a switch.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Sheesh! Only 7 minutes? :doh:

I really should find myself some harder puzzle books...

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Just to fill in some time while Groggy locates his puzzle books... :D

...I spotted this mnemonic in the newspaper. Can you work out what it's a mnemonic for?

My Very Excellent Mum Just Sits Up Near Pop

(As a bonus question, can you tell my it's not considered correct today?)

[Ozkaban]

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto?

Oh, and Pluto isn't a planet any more.... Apparently he's not up to it anymore. Do they have Viagra for planets?

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

He obviously doesn't have an email address. :D

[Ozkaban]

A woody one...

When James was nine years old he hammered a nail into a tree to mark his height. Ten years later, James returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by four inches each year, how much higher would the nail be?

Cheers,
Dave

[corbs]

As high as when he nailed it in when he was 9, trees grow from the top. But as a woodie I am not happy with James as his nail stuffed the blades on the thicknesser:doh:

[Ozkaban]

As high as when he nailed it in when he was 9, trees grow from the top. But as a woodie I am not happy with James as his nail stuffed the blades on the thicknesser:doh:

agree on all count, sir :2tsup:

[corbs]

Not really what we have been doing in this thread but thought some might like to try it. I posted it a few years ago so first to save the planets wins...

Enjoy (http://amanita-design.net/samorost-1/)

Corbs

[funkychicken]

Oi Groggy!

[Groggy]

A man looks in a mirror but the face looking back at him is not his. How can this be?

[funkychicken]

It's a two way mirror, he's looking at the see through side and there's someone else on the other side

[Groggy]

:2tsup: Your turn.

[funkychicken]

A man is crossing the road when he sees a car heading straight for him. He freezes in his tracks and is hit head on by the vehicle but miraculously survives without a scratch.

Why?

[DavidG]

The video game finished

[funkychicken]

Uhh no

[Groggy]

He was a truck driver :D

[funkychicken]

nup

[Groggy]

Train or tram driver ("freezes in his tracks")

[Ozkaban]

the car is a toy car?

[funkychicken]

No and nope

[Johncs]

conclusion ...you suck at maths:rolleyes:

if you add 1 and 1 you get 1 pair :?

In boolean algebra, 1 and 1 is 1.

Also in logic (as in argument)
if proposition 1 is true (1) and proposition 2 is true (1) then proposition 1 and proposition 2 is true(1).

eg
I'm a male (true)
I'm married (true)
Therefore, I'm married and a male.

[ss_11000]

In boolean algebra, 1 and 1 is 1.
.
my teacher the other day mentioned something similar to that:cool:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

The car was travelling vveerryy sslloowwllyy??

(They must be very quick these Booles. I'm told that thousand of Boolean operations are done every second in my computer, but whenever I open it up to look they've already dismantled the Surgery AND the waiting rooms! :doh: )

[Ozkaban]

You're a midget, and the car was a mining truck?

[Grumpy John]

He was dreaming?

[Ozkaban]

you're the michelin man and just bounced off?

[Grumpy John]

He's superman :D.

[funkychicken]

The car was travelling vveerryy sslloowwllyy??




Sir you are correct:2tsup:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Sir you are correct:2tsup:

:doh:

OK, time to revert to childhood riddles...

If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?

[funkychicken]

green bricks???

nah just kidding - glass

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

hehe. Back 2 U

[funkychicken]

You've gotta pick harder riddles, that one only lasted 2 minutes



I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champagne bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle? (correctly)

[Ozkaban]

wind? or light?

[DavidG]

Pressure

[funkychicken]

No

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

yes. :p

[DavidG]

boyles (sp) law

[funkychicken]

nope

[Grumpy John]

.....................
Can you guess the riddle?

The answer to the last line is. NO

[DavidG]

weather

[funkychicken]

The answer to the last line is. NO

Well done:2tsup: I'd expected that one to last longer

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Wrong. It's "yes."

You can guess the answer. You may not get it right but a guess is still a guess. :p

[Grumpy John]

My go I guess
4 guys go fishing on Sydney Harbour when a big swell comes up and tosses them all overboard. As strange as it may seem not a single man gets wet, why is it so?

[funkychicken]

They're fishing off the bridge?

[Grumpy John]

Wrong. It's "yes."

You can guess the answer. You may not get it right but a guess is still a guess. :p

Not sure if the last line has been edited, but it does say correctly :D.

[Grumpy John]

Nope, they were all in the boat and ended up in the drink.

[funkychicken]

Not sure if the last line has been edited, but it does say correctly :D.
:wink:



Nope, they were all in the boat and ended up in the drink.


Hmmm...

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

They fell onto the pier/breakwater/wharf/dock/riverbank the boat was still tied up to?


Not sure if the last line has been edited, but it does say correctly :D.

Ahhh... but my answer is correct! (Not that I wanted to think of a new poser, either. But if a riddles answer is based on nitpicking, then nitpicking should be the order of the day! :D:p And I'm better at that than I am at thinking up riddles. :wink:)

[Grumpy John]

No, they fell into the water.

Let's call it even Stevens on the last one Skew :D.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

They were all married? ie. none of 'em were "single?"

[Grumpy John]

They were all married? ie. none of 'em were "single?"

Correctamundo, give the man a kewpie doll.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

OK... what's the next number in this sequence?


2
12
1112
3112
132112

[funkychicken]

1113122112

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Smartasre. :p


:D

[funkychicken]

:D


Riddles....

I pass the baton onto corbs or groggy or whoever wants it (that ain't Skew:p)

[Grumpy John]

OK... what's the next number in this sequence?


2
12
1112
3112

132112


2
one 2 = 12
one 1 and one 2 = 1112
three 1's and one 2 = 3112
one 3, two 1 and one 2 = 132112
one 1, one 3, one 2, two 1, one 2 = 1113122112

I think.
My head's hurting now, so I'm going to lie down.

[corbs]

FC, I'm no good here... still trying to figure out how your's was right:-

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

GJ showed how it's worked out.

He can take it from here, if he hasn't gone for a nap. :)

[Ozkaban]

the boat they were in was against a wharf and the wave hit the boat and threw them onto the warf?

[Grumpy John]

the boat they were in was against a wharf and the wave hit the boat and threw them onto the warf?

Nope. Check page 12 post#172

[Ozkaban]

Nope. Check page 12 post#172

bugger. where'd that lot come from then, eh? refreshed the page this morning and didn't see any of it....

[funkychicken]

Soo.... Next up