you butchered the set up...from the parking lot, take a left and go one block, then another left for one block, then left again for one block, and that puts you one block from where you started..., I'm going back to sleep!
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Denist: The point of a set-up is to hide the answer, not give it away. You are correct though, the apartment is a block away, but they are one-way streets so it is three blocks of driving.
It is surprising to find that we highly intelligent chess players can't solve a riddle that listeners to a car repair talk show are expected to understand.
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There is a Saturday morning radio talk show called "klick and klack the tapit brothers" all about car repairing and such. Its a commedy hit! They do a weekly "puzzler" for both listeners to solve. Thats why ivandh and I knew this one.
You've been sentenced to death in an obscure foreign country which has a strange law. Before the sentence is carried out, two papers -- one with "LIFE" written on it and one with "DEATH" written on it -- are folded up and placed in a hat. You are permitted to pick out one of the papers (without looking), and if you choose the one with "LIFE" written on it, you are set free. Otherwise, the death sentence is carried out. On this occasion, a mean-spirited acquaintenance of yours, bent on your demise, has substituted the paper with "LIFE" written on it with another one with "DEATH" written on it. This person gleefully informs you of what he has done and that you are doomed to die. You are not permitted to speak to anyone about this misdeed, nor will you have a chance to switch the papers or the hat yourself in time. How will you avoid certain death?
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this reminds me of the "truth tellers" and "liers" rid,s. I would choose the paper that say's death, but then i would swallow it, or destroy it, but just keep it unseen...then I would ask the court to reveal (if possible of course, ) the content of the paper still in the hat. Wala, waaaallllaaa! freedom
denis you might want to think of getting on jeopardy
After you draw one of the papers, swallow it. The jailer will be forced to check the remaining paper to determine what the one you drew said. The jailer will of course see a paper with "DEATH" written on it, assume you drew the one with "LIFE" written on it, and set you free
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How many times can you subtract 2 from 21 without getting a negative number for an answer? |
Assuming no funky math systems, a countably infinite number of times. Subtracting 2 from 21 will always give 19, which is not a negative number.
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Make 383 out of 1, 2, 25, 50, 75, and 100. |
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just once!!! if you take 2 away from 21 you have 19 left. thats it, you can't take 2 away from 21 again because you only have 19. Close??
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Make 383 out of 1, 2, 25, 50, 75, and 100.
Calling all Masters of Mathwell I gave it 24 hrs. I guess ther are no masters of math for this one
(((50 + 2) ÷ 25) + 1) × 100 + 75
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What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? |
Correct !!
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Hey, Scutters...what is the only word in the English language that gets shorter, when you add letters to it?
Chicken is one answer the other is corn.
Denis. Might that be short
Dr. Leary; what is once yearly,twice weekly, but never daily?
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The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it? |
It is a coffin, my little igor
Brilliant - No. Over educated - yes. 8-)
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Drive one car and get the other tomorrow. Or just walk home it's only 3 blocks. Call a taxi yeh call a taxi