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azazel the cat wrote: Dear OP: please do you own math homework, and then learn what a riddle is.
I assure you, this is not my math homework. I very much enjoy math riddles/brain teasers, and this is one that I came across. I'm not expecting anyone to solve this for me, I understand the solution just fine. I'm just sharing it, and interested in hearing other riddles and/or brain teasers (mind puzzles... whatever you want to call them).
You could put the solution in spoiler tags for those who have no idea how to figure it out... and for the grackles...
Dakka Bingo! By Ouze "You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry.
purplefood wrote: You could put the solution in spoiler tags for those who have no idea how to figure it out... and for the grackles...
Or for those of us that don't care enough to figure it out, but are curious as to the answer. Like I said, it looks suspiciously like homework, and I have a $120,000 piece of paper that says I don't have to do homework.
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DR:80+S++G+M+B+I+Pwmhd11#++D++A++++/sWD-R++++T(S)DM+ Ask me about Brushfire or Endless: Fantasy Tactics
purplefood wrote: You could put the solution in spoiler tags for those who have no idea how to figure it out... and for the grackles...
Or for those of us that don't care enough to figure it out, but are curious as to the answer. Like I said, it looks suspiciously like homework, and I have a $120,000 piece of paper that says I don't have to do homework.
THE GRACKLES DEMAND AN ANSWER!
Dakka Bingo! By Ouze "You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry.
The answers are further down the linked page. They require a fairly good understanding of advanced mathematics from what I can tell.
Asking a wargaming forum if they can solve it is like asking someone to recite Homer's Iliad word for word. Sure, someone might be able to, given time, but the chances are highly unlikely.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Every word problem ever:
"If I have 12 apples, how high do I need to throw a pancake for it to land on the roof?"
"Answer: April, because unicorns don't wear hats."
No advanced mathematics necessary. Mathematicians are smart people, so they cheat :-P.
Spoiler:
The mathematicians number themselves, and only open one box each..
Mathematician opens box #1, and passes the number inside on to Random Joe, who is not a mathematician.
Random Joe walks to mathematician #2, who opens box #2, passes the number inside on to Random Joe and "guesses" the answer to #1 (which Random Joe just told him), and so on until Random Joe returns to mathematician #1 with the number in box #100.
Since they all communicated only to Random Joe, not each other, they didn't even technically cheat :-P .
Lateral thinking is so much fun :-D.
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If one train leaves Manchester at 6am and travels for 3 hours at 50mph, and the Irishman chooses 3 socks of different colours from the drawer, how does the goat cross the bridge safely without the wolf or guard seeing him?
*brain frazzles*
"Hard pressed on my right. My centre is yielding. Impossible to manoeuvre. Situation excellent. I am attacking." - General Ferdinand Foch
Super Ready wrote: If one train leaves Manchester at 6am and travels for 3 hours at 50mph, and the Irishman chooses 3 socks of different colours from the drawer, how does the goat cross the bridge safely without the wolf or guard seeing him?
*brain frazzles*
Yes.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Super Ready wrote: If one train leaves Manchester at 6am and travels for 3 hours at 50mph, and the Irishman chooses 3 socks of different colours from the drawer, how does the goat cross the bridge safely without the wolf or guard seeing him?
*brain frazzles*
He seeks advice from the chicken that keeps crossing the road
"To be truely evil you must acknowledge the right thing to do in a situation, and then do completely the oposite"
Super Ready wrote: If one train leaves Manchester at 6am and travels for 3 hours at 50mph, and the Irishman chooses 3 socks of different colours from the drawer, how does the goat cross the bridge safely without the wolf or guard seeing him?
*brain frazzles*
It takes the jelly fish to the ping pong pool, hops on a bus to the jam rolie polley. Gets off when it see's the traffic cone, and bares a left at the ice cream factory. Just in time to meet the Irishman with his three pairs of socks on that distracts the wolf and the guard with the tail of the three pairs of socks. Leaving the goat, a vegetable.
Come into my web, said the spider to the fly.
Come rest your wings, and let us talk eye to eye.
For I am a spider, and you are the fly. Now that you are here, let us sit, and say hi.
But I have have no morsel to share, nor anything to eat. But wait, what is that stickiness upon your feet.
Ah now I have you, now I can eat. Now I can enjoy you, or store you as meat.
For I am the spider, and you are the fly. How else could it have gone, between one such as you, and one such as I.
Answer: This riddle is obviously working under an illusion of free choice, whereas we all know Dakka is a facist state where the opinions of its citizens means about as much to the malevolent supreme dictators in power as a penny does to the richest man in existence.
So whether or not this thread needs to be baned is completely up to whichever totalitarian happens upon it first.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Answer: This riddle is obviously working under an illusion of free choice, whereas we all know Dakka is a facist state where the opinions of its citizens means about as much to the malevolent supreme dictators in power as a penny does to the richest man in existence.
No more riddles for me. Last time I played riddles that fething hobbit stole my ring.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
13 x 7 = 28. Don't believe me? Just watch this....
Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf
ed riddle itself....
" -KingCracker
"Hard pressed on my right. My centre is yielding. Impossible to manoeuvre. Situation excellent. I am attacking." - General Ferdinand Foch 
