Riddle contest! It's been a while...
#1
Posted 02 January 2008 - 07:02 AM
New year, new riddle contest! Seems like I start a new one every year, and it goes well for 6 months or so, then slowly dies out. Should be fun for a while though.
I'll be keeping score of people who get correct answers, however there probably won't be prizes, it'll just be for fun. And insanity, really.
Try to keep the posts on-topic with the riddle.
Oh and pleeeease, don't google the answers. Yes, they're most likely on lots of different sites, but this thread isnt a race. It's for riddles. Try and work them out.
Scoreboard
Rat - 7777.
I'll start us up with a simple sanity test.
Question -1:
During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria is that defines if a patient should be institutionalized.
"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask the patient to empty the bathtub."
Okay, here's your test:
1. Would you use the spoon?
2. Would you use the teacup?
3. Would you use the bucket?
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would choose the bucket, as it is larger than the spoon."
What was the director's response?
I'll be keeping score of people who get correct answers, however there probably won't be prizes, it'll just be for fun. And insanity, really.
Try to keep the posts on-topic with the riddle.
Oh and pleeeease, don't google the answers. Yes, they're most likely on lots of different sites, but this thread isnt a race. It's for riddles. Try and work them out.
Scoreboard
Rat - 7777.
I'll start us up with a simple sanity test.
Question -1:
During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria is that defines if a patient should be institutionalized.
"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask the patient to empty the bathtub."
Okay, here's your test:
1. Would you use the spoon?
2. Would you use the teacup?
3. Would you use the bucket?
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would choose the bucket, as it is larger than the spoon."
What was the director's response?
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#5
Posted 02 January 2008 - 08:14 AM
Woo!
Yep. That's the sane answer.
Scoreboard:
Phalanx - 1
Question 2:
A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist and you to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.
The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient.
The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best.
It's now your turn. How do you make the largest area?
Yep. That's the sane answer.
Scoreboard:
Phalanx - 1
Question 2:
A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist and you to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.
The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient.
The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best.
It's now your turn. How do you make the largest area?
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#6
Posted 02 January 2008 - 08:16 AM
you wouldnt make a fence, becasue then you have the largest area with the least amount of fence?
#8
Posted 03 January 2008 - 02:51 AM
I'm not sure, but I have to say that either that Physicist sees something I don't, or he is a fool, since a one dimensional (open) curve cannot cover an area.
#: ssh God@Heaven.org
Password: CurvedSpace
/God> rm *
The BEST error message ever: "Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive."
Password: CurvedSpace
/God> rm *
The BEST error message ever: "Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive."
#10
Posted 03 January 2008 - 03:38 AM
You would make a fenced any size then you would say it is the largest, because the engineer said it was the most efficent and the physicist said it was the best, so to the farmer yours would be the largest, the engineers would be most efficient and the physicists would be the best.
Im assuming the farmer is a redneck who is not very smart.
Im assuming the farmer is a redneck who is not very smart.
#11
Posted 03 January 2008 - 04:42 AM
Question 2:
A farmer challenges ... you to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.
A farmer challenges ... you to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.
Not quite.
I'll just point out that this is a trick question. Quite a funny answer to it, really. =P
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#12
Posted 03 January 2008 - 04:49 AM
Well... why don't you just make a small little circle on the fence... and then just say that what you'd -think- was the inside is really the outside? Meaning the outside is the really small part between the fence, and the -inside- is the rest of the world
“In the valley of hope, there is no winter.”
#13
Posted 03 January 2008 - 05:15 AM
Muahaha yep. Make a little circle of fence around you, and say that you're on the outside.
Scoreboard:
Darkness - 1
Phalanx - 1
Question 3:
You will need thirty-three matchsticks for this puzzle.
Arrange all the matchsticks into the number 700000, as the number would appear digitally.
Moving only two matchsticks, can you make a value well over 1,000,000,000?
You cannot:
Break the matchsticks.
Stack the matchsticks.
Remove the matchsticks.
Make a factorial.
Make the symbol for infinity (an 8 rotated 90 degrees).
Use exponents.
(Here's what it's meant to start off as: Pic)
Scoreboard:
Darkness - 1
Phalanx - 1
Question 3:
You will need thirty-three matchsticks for this puzzle.
Arrange all the matchsticks into the number 700000, as the number would appear digitally.
Moving only two matchsticks, can you make a value well over 1,000,000,000?
You cannot:
Break the matchsticks.
Stack the matchsticks.
Remove the matchsticks.
Make a factorial.
Make the symbol for infinity (an 8 rotated 90 degrees).
Use exponents.
(Here's what it's meant to start off as: Pic)
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