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Subject: Logic Questions

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Posted by: free tibet
Two builders want to get a metal pole through a door. The door is 1 meter wide, 1 and a third meters tall, and the pole is 1.7 meters long. How do they get the pole through the door? Will the pole even fit through the door?


that's easy, you just carry it so it goes through end first. unless there's a wall just inside the door. then you have a problem.

  • 01.08.2005 5:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: wambobob
Can you take me to your island?


Well, that still wouldn't work, but you're so close I'll give it to you. He would just say "yes" if he was telling the truth, and "no" if he was a liar.

The correct answer is to tell him to point to his village. A truth teller would point to his island, and the liar would also point to the truthful Island

  • 01.08.2005 12:14 PM PDT
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Here's a new one:

You are on a gameshow with 3 prizes. Prize A is $1000, Prize B is $100, and Prize C is a pile of rotten bannanas. All you have to do is say a correct statement, and you will get either Prize A, or Prize B. If you make a false statement you will get Prize C.

How can you assure yourself of prize A?

  • 01.08.2005 12:18 PM PDT
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State your gender. Then present the proof.

EDIT: or you can just say a correct statement and win either one, because its money and you dont care how much you get because you get some.

[Edited on 1/8/2005 12:26:20 PM]

  • 01.08.2005 12:25 PM PDT
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How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

Does anybody have a DEFINITIVE and scientific answer???

  • 01.08.2005 12:49 PM PDT
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Its impossible to tell.

  • 01.09.2005 10:04 PM PDT

Someone at a party introduces you to your mother's only sister's husband's sister in law. He has no brothers. What do you call this lady?

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Posted by: Nalliac1
YOU DONT BURY SURVIVORS


And that is something I should have known two weeks ago!

  • 01.10.2005 5:23 AM PDT

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it would be your mother, right?

  • 01.10.2005 5:34 AM PDT

Posted by: hitokiri 1000
it would be your mother, right?

Yes.

If, having only one match, on a freezing winter day, you entered a room which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove, which should you light first.

  • 01.10.2005 5:38 AM PDT

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you would have to light the match first, wouldn't you?

  • 01.10.2005 5:41 AM PDT

Posted by: hitokiri 1000
you would have to light the match first, wouldn't you?

Yes sir, you are on a roll.

  • 01.10.2005 5:48 AM PDT

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3 of 3 so far, next!

  • 01.10.2005 5:55 AM PDT

Posted by: hitokiri 1000
...next!

What English word can have 4 of its 5 letters removed and still retain it's original pronunciation?

  • 01.10.2005 5:58 AM PDT
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Yawn. Queue. NEXT.

  • 01.10.2005 6:02 AM PDT

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hmmm...this one's a little harder...

  • 01.10.2005 6:02 AM PDT

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oh

  • 01.10.2005 6:03 AM PDT

Posted by: Link Lance
Yawn. Queue. NEXT.

*claps for Link Lance*

You are given 5 bags. There are 10 beads in each of the bags. In four of the bags, the beads each weigh 10 kilograms. In the remaining bag, each bead weighs only 9 kilograms. All the bags and beads look identical. You must find out which bag has the lighter beads. The problem is that all the bags look identical and all the beads look identical. You can use a scale, but it has to be a single-tray scale, not a two-tray balance scale. Also, you may use the scale only once. How can you find out which bag has the lighter beads?

  • 01.10.2005 6:04 AM PDT

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ok...you got me on this one...

  • 01.10.2005 6:48 AM PDT

Posted by: hitokiri 1000
ok...you got me on this one...

Yeah, that one is a little tough. But since Link Lance seemed to be bored because it was too easy, I decided to put a more difficult one. I will answer it shortly if no one else comes up with it.

  • 01.10.2005 6:59 AM PDT

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well right now he's too busy writing 'trifle' everywhere...

  • 01.10.2005 7:05 AM PDT

Posted by: hitokiri 1000
well right now he's too busy writing 'trifle' everywhere...

I guess he is too busy.

OK, here is the solution:

Label the bags from 1 to 5. Take 1 bead out of Bag 1, and label it 1. Take 2 beads out of Bag 2, and label them both with a 2. Take 3 beads out of Bag 3, and label each with a 3. Continue this pattern with Bags 4 and 5. Put these 15 beads on the tray of the scale.

If all 15 weighed 10 kilograms, the scale would register 150 kilograms. But since one or more of the beads weighs only 9 kilograms, the scale will register less than 150. Subtract the number on the scale from 150. Your answer will tell you the number of the bag with the lighter beads. (If the scale registers 148, it’s bag #2. If the scale registers 145, it’s bag #5.)

  • 01.10.2005 7:55 AM PDT
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Hot damn. I was taking a trifle break, and you set this hard question behind my back! More!

  • 01.10.2005 8:05 AM PDT

Posted by: Link Lance
Hot damn. I was taking a trifle break, and you set this hard question behind my back! More!

Those trifle breaks are a killer.

Anywho:
Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29. Where is the remaining dollar?

  • 01.10.2005 8:12 AM PDT
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Pah. It's just word trick. You wouldn't add the $2, just the $3 to make £30. The bellboy kept the $2, meaning it counts as part of the £27.

NEXT.





Trifle...

  • 01.10.2005 8:32 AM PDT

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