New riddle

[LineLefty]

Correctamundo!

[simon c]

OK

I put my answer in in and switched the 'puter off, I must have felt confident.

Appears to be my turn for a puzzle. Well, I've got a long list so I'll crank em out:

You have 2 pieces of string. They are different lengths and varying thicknesses but have 1 thing in common, they both take exactly 1 hour to burn. Using just the two pieces od string and a box of matches, how do you time 45 minutes. Note, as the string thickness varies, you can't assume that after 30 mins the string will be half their length or anything like that.

I like this one, so if you've already heard it then let the others have a chance.

[kiwigeo]

... is the right answer!

Your turn, simon c

Time...time!!????

Ill tell you what ******ng time it is...time for alcohol in large quantities.

Oh yeah.......just after I typed my last pathetic attempt at solving the time riddle my bldi watch stopped working!!!

[RETIRED]

how do you time 45 minutes.

I would use a stopwatch.

[hexbaz]

If you light both ends of one and one end of the other and allow them all to burn until the burning ends meet, that should be 30 minutes.

Now the second string (which you only lit one end of) has also burned for 30 minutes, so there is 30 minutes of burn time remaining.

So, you light the other end of the second string as soon as the ends meet on the first... The point where the burning ends meet on the second string will be 15 minutes... Total time will be 45 minutes.

There are probably other ways to do it?

[simon c]

pretty good hexbaz

back to you

[hexbaz]

... back to you

I am tied up at the minute - you said you had a long list. How about doing another of yours?

[simon c]

But in the meantime, here's a quick one.

Two brothers were born on the same day of the same year from the same parents but they are not twins. How come?

[AlexS]

would they be 2/3 of triplets?

[simon c]

yep

over to you

[simon c]

But in the meantime:

in a room are three light globes labeled 1,2 & 3 they are all off
in the next room are three switches labeled A,B & C
each switch controls one light
you can't see the globes from the switches or vice versa
you can flick any of the switches but then you must go into the next room and say which switch operates which light
how do you do it?

[AlexS]

haven't got one in mind at the moment - back to you SimonC or Hexbaz

[journeyman Mick]

Switch one light on for a minute and then turn it off, switch a second light on and leave it, don't touch the third. Go to other room, bulb that's hot but not burning was #1, lit bulb is #2, cold dark bulb is #3.

Mick-who's too itchy to think of any clever questions

[simon c]

Nice one Mick

That's me for the night - I might come back with more in a new thread later this week

[kiwigeo]

Okay...enough of this Professor Brainstorm mathie stuff...lets move onto more important matters.

Can someone tell me the occupation of Bon Jovi's father?

P.S. Winner gets a schooner of port