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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: -tronski- on November 12, 2003, 01:39:07 AM
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A guy my wife works with was sent these puzzles....
No-one knows (including me) what the hell the answers are.
Puzzle 1
An aged and, it appears, somewhat eccentric king wants to pass his throne on to one of his sons. He decrees that a horse race shall be held and that the son who owns the slower horse shall become king. The sons, each fearing that the other will cheat by having his horse go less fast than it is capable of, ask a wise man's advise. With only two words the wise man insures that the race will be fair. What does he say?
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Puzzle 2
A woman goes into a hardware store to buy something for her house. She asks the clerk the price, and the clerk replies, "The price of one is twelve cents, the price of thirty is twenty-fours cents, and the price of a hundred and forty-four is thirty-six cents." What does the woman want to buy?
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Puzzle 3
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
"The question is: Who owns the fish?"
Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house's owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
**Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said 98% of the
world could not solve it. It's not hard, you just need to pay
attention and be patient.**
Puzzle 4
Two men are talking. One says to the other,
"I have three sons whose ages I want you to ascertain from the following clues. Stop me when you know their ages:
1. The sum of their ages is thirteen.
2. The product of their ages is the same as your age.
3. My oldest son weighs sixty-one pounds."
"Stop," says the second man. "I know their ages."
What are they?
Tronsky
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puzzle 3: The German owns the fish.
Still working on the others. Hmmm sleep or try to solve...sleep or try to solve grrr.
:)
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Puzzle 1: Just guessing but here it goes: "Use his"? That way each heir rides another heir's horse, so he has to go as fast as possible.
Daniel
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bump.. to early to think.. post answers soon.
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#1 is "ride his"
#2 is she is buying house numbers.
.12 a piece:
1=.12
30=.24
144=.36
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Puzzle 3: Only cats, dogs, horses, and birds were mentioned. Who says that the 5th pet has to be fish? My answer is no one owns the fish.
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Ive shy the caffeine required to process these :cool:
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"Ride his"?????
That doesn't make any sense...you can still pull on the reins and slow the horse down no matter whose horse you are riding.
"Run backwards" might work.
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1. I WIN
2. house numbers
3. ill come back later when i've done it on paper (its not a riddle...its a logic problem...)
4. since we dont know the other mans age...
they can only be
11+1+1
9+2+2
8+3+2
7+3+3
6+4+3
5+5+3
and since the eldest weighs in at 61 pounds... hes at least 8 so that leaves us with
11+1+1
10+2+1
9+2+2
8+3+2
but since the man cant be under 18 that leaves us with
10+2+1 (the mans age is 20)
9+2+2 (the mans age is 36)
8+3+2 (the mans age is 44)
so out of those 3 choices im going to have to go with
eldest 8
middle 3
youngest 2
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Originally posted by Curval
"Ride his"?????
That doesn't make any sense...you can still pull on the reins and slow the horse down no matter whose horse you are riding.
Yeah, but the slowest horse wins. So if you "ride his" as fast as you can (and so does everyone else) it guarantees that all horses are being run to the best of their ability.
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Originally posted by Curval
"Ride his"?????
That doesn't make any sense...you can still pull on the reins and slow the horse down no matter whose horse you are riding.
"Run backwards" might work.
The puzzle wasn't for who would lose the race but rather who owned the slower horse. Ownership doesn't pass to the rider so each wants to win the race so that the horse they own will be the slowest.
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Originally posted by vorticon
and since the eldest weighs in at 61 pounds... hes at least 8
Where'd you get that from? I've heard of kids under 8 that weigh 100+ :D
It doesnt specify what culture/region they're from. They could be pigmies or chinese or american or german, etc... Weights differ at various ages =]
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Originally posted by AKIron
The puzzle wasn't for who would lose the race but rather who owned the slower horse. Ownership doesn't pass to the rider so each wants to win the race so that the horse they own will be the slowest.
Ahhhh...right. Thanks. Too tough to do these things at work...can't put the requited thought into it.
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Originally posted by vorticon
they can only be
11+1+1
9+2+2
8+3+2
7+3+3
6+4+3
5+5+3
umm sry bud but what about..
1 2 10 =20
1 3 9 =27
1 4 8 =32
1 5 7 =35
1 6 6 =36
2 3 8 =48
2 4 7 =56
2 5 6 =60
3 4 6 =72
3 5 5 =75
4 4 5 =80
?????
just in my head i came up with those numbers real quick.
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My brain froze after trying the horse, and hardware one (with no luck)...
although my guess for #1 was "swap horses"
Tronsky
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Originally posted by CyranoAH
Puzzle 1: Just guessing but here it goes: "Use his"? That way each heir rides another heir's horse, so he has to go as fast as possible.
Daniel
same concept, but I think he would say, " trade horses "
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crap, tronski beat me to it.
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Isn't it the Norwegian that owns the fish?
Cause what the hell does a German want a fish for?
:rolleyes: Everyone should get that.:lol
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Originally posted by JB73
umm sry bud but what about..
1 2 10 =20
1 3 9 =27
1 4 8 =32
1 5 7 =35
1 6 6 =36
2 3 8 =48
2 4 7 =56
2 5 6 =60
3 4 6 =72
3 5 5 =75
4 4 5 =80
?????
just in my head i came up with those numbers real quick.
crud...i never was very good at math...
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Puzzle #4 I'd guess the answer has to deal with averages.
I would pick 8, 4, 1.
Average age for sixty one pound boy is 8.
Since we might have to rule out twins as being the oldest as he said "oldest son" and not "one of my oldest sons."
Presuming the average ages of the two men would be relatively close.
Then we move onto the possibilities of the ages to determine the possible age range of the two men.
8x4x1=32, 8x3x2=48, on average, what would be the age that the average father would have his first baby? 24 or 40?
Dealing with averages, I'd say 8, 4, and 1 as the ages of the boys.
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Puzzle #3
Yellow---------Blue------Red-------Green-----White
Norwegian---Dane-----Brit--------German---Swede
Dunhill--------Blends---PallMall----Prince-----Bluemeister
Water--------Tea--------Milk--------Coffee----Beer
Cats----------Horse-----Birds-------Fish-------Dogs
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Puzzles 1 & 2 I couldn't figure out until the solutions were posted.
Then it was "Of Coarse!!"
Man, these made me think!!
Great thread!!! :)
Edited to add lines to #3 to keep the order visually