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Heh heh heh! Yes, yes, I simply gets turned on when I see cute gurls tucking their hair behind their ears with their fingers! Imagine they do that while they're looking at you, or better still, while talking to you......or better still, while they're talking and sitting besides you, really really close.......or better still, in.....:p
It's more than enough to send me into a sudden, terrible shock of extreme paralysis and after that, 3 months of coma. Weird but true! :):D:D
I've been reading through all the threads, trying to find out how the Wise Man knew the color of the hat.
"KILL" me if I'm right and I wasn't supposed to post the answer. Call me a "Holy Man" if I'm rong and I'm pointing people in the rong direction.
I think the wisest is the old man. The one who said the color of his hat first was guessing.
The old man out smarted the wise men by putting black hats on everyone's head, preventing any of them from answering the question with logic.
Or the wisest was the man who answered and he knew that the old man was trying to out smart the lot of them.
I'm also late to that thread, and I think I've found the answer (not the chicken chop but the HAT stuff), could someone post it on the thread so everyone can see if they are right? And start a new riddle! (that do not contains any chicken chops.... [HomerVoice]hummmm, chicken chops...[/HomerVoice] :) )Quote:
Originally posted by Goodz13
The old man out smarted the wise men by putting black hats on everyone's head, preventing any of them from answering the question with logic.
Ok and if I'm OK for the riddle, there is a logical way to solve it, it is not preventing any of the wise man to answer with logic by putting 3 black hats, actually, using RANDOM hats could also be answered with logic ;)
JeffB
Ok! I solved this task more than 2 years ago and remember it
now and wrote here for every one.
I have got right answers from: Simon666, Yves M, Ungi,
Marina Vaillant, GlassOnion.
And as U are interesting in right answer, that is from Yves M answer:
call the wise men A, B and C. let's follow A's reasoning. He sees two black hats, so he draws this conclusion :
- if I had a white hat then B would see one white hat and one black hat. But B would quickly realize that he has a black hat. If B had a white hat, C would see two white hats and know immediately that he has a black hat. But B doesn't say anything, neither does C...
- Hence A has a black hat.
OK, and now a new one. And on global request the new rules : only send the answer to the poster as private message until such date that this is requested no longer to or too much time has passed (say 3 days?).
I think that the simplest answer could be that because all men had to have the same possibility to guess the answer they all must have had black hat.
More complicated answer:
A) If there were 2 white hats, the 3rd man would answer immediately.
B) If 1 white hat was used, 2 of the men should have answered after a few seconds (sooner than a minute - they have to wait just enough to exclude possibility A). However, 3rd man (the one with the white hat) has to wait longer to base his reaction on the remaining two. Therefore this test is not a fair test.
I agree with U Simon.
This weekend I will try to find another interesting task. :rolleyes:
Jan, that's true ;)
But sometimes life isn't fair, so the guy who set the task might have preferred one of the wise men. ;)
Here's one. If you've herd this one before, please don't spoil it.
I heard it a long time ago and just found it again. Please don't cheet.
There are 2 rooms, one with 3 light bulbs (that never burn out) mounted on the wall, one with 3 switches (that never wear out). Your goal: to figure out which switch goes to which light bulb.
These 2 rooms are separate and once inside one, you cannot not see inside the other. The room with the 3 switches has 1 switch connected to 1 light bulb in the other room.
There are no tricks to the wiring, each individual switch goes to exactly 1 light bulb, and vice versa. You are only allowed to go into each room once. You are not allowed to damage anything (Bulbs, wiring) or even look at the wiring.
How do you find out which switch goes to what bulb.
Switches
1 2 3
Bulbs
1 2 3
Religeous conversations only cause controversy. I ask that everyone keep the conversation focused on the thread topic or else start a new thread. I ask this as the site admin.
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Here is a super-simple riddle/question to throw into the mix. I'll post the answer on Monday (if I remeber :)):
You have two coins that total thirty-five cents. One of the coins is not a quarter. What are the coins you have?
For those that don't know US currency:
penny = 1 cent
nickle = 5 cents
dime = 10 cents
quarter = 25 cents
half dollar = 50 cents
etc.
Brad!
For Goodz13 :
This riddle is actually pretty much the same as the one I posted before ;) The solution is also the same :)
I'm sorry, I missed that one.Quote:
For Goodz13 :
This riddle is actually pretty much the same as the one I posted before The solution is also the same
Here is a simple (but not as simple as the one from Brad Jones :) :) ... and not as funny as the one from Brad!! :D)
There is a man that own a sheep, a wolf and a lettuce. He's traveling with them in a dark forrest. One day, while walking with his animals, Wolfy and Sheepy, he find a river with a little little boat left alone. He don't care and decide to take a break since it is hot that day, and that it is noon. Some minutes later, he heard a big BOOM coming from the valley, and then an earthquake shaking and smoke in the sky. He take some minutes to understand, there is a volcano in erruption!! Oh my God, is he saying... Knowing he must cross the river (in the next hour), he prepare himself:
-The river cannot be cross by swimming, it is a strong speedy river...
-The boat is so small, he can only bring one of these with him : the wolf, the sheep or the lettuce
-He knows he cannot let the wolf alone with the sheep, he'll eat it!
-He cannot let the sheep with the lettuce alone, the sheep will eat the lettuce!!
-But, the wolf hate lettuce, he'll not eat lettuce if left alone with it
-Wolfy and Sheepy can be left alone (but not together), they will not try to flee since they love the man
-When the man is with his wolf, he make sure the wolf will not eat the sheep
-When the man is with the sheep, he keep the lettuce so the sheep will not eat it
-The man prefer to DIE instead of letting any of these (wolf, sheep and lettuce) be killed by the volcanic eruption or be eatten...
Now, the man must find a way to cross the river with the sheep, the wolf and the lettuce... time is limited, the volcanic erruption has started... who will find how to???
If you have question or interrogation, like "Is there a bridge that can be seen?", just ask it, I'll answer it "No, there is no bridge available in that desertic forrest"
JeffB :D
hmm, Jeff, you said that everyone would die in 1 hr. How long does it take to make a trip on the boat to the other side?
Fierytycoon
Good question, it takes 5 minutes, including getting in and off ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Fierytycoon
hmm, Jeff, you said that everyone would die in 1 hr. How long does it take to make a trip on the boat to the other side?
Fierytycoon
JeffB