Good for you Tuttle.
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain in the world?
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Good for you Tuttle.
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain in the world?
The same mountain. It was just as tall, but nobody knew about it.Quote:
Originally posted by Calpitor
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain in the world?
Hi all..
There was a riddle I read on VRDR a few years ago that I can no longer remember exactly... it had to do with three (four?) guys staying in a hotel and sharing the cost of the room. They paid the hotel mgr equally but when they got their change back the amount never quite added up correctly.. (figuring out why was the riddle). Does anyone remember the exact conundrum? :confused:
It drove me crazy for days trying to figure it out and then I guess something else pushed it out of my brain (probably suddenly remembering how to tie my shoelaces or a donut with lots of sprinkles or something :D )
An airplane crashes on the US\Canadian border. Where do you bury the survivors?
OK its lame but I'm running out of riddles I remember. :o
While you are all struggling with that last one here is another to be going on with:-
As we approach the end of yet another year,
In what year does Christmas Day and New Years Day fall in the same year?
Calpitor,
Burying a survivor would be disgraceful- unless his name was Tony Bliar (no typo) :D In which case I'll bring my own shovel.
Big Fred - Errr .... every year ??:D
Hope nobody mind me posting this - everyone's heard of Mensa ... but who here is cut out for Densa ?
http://www.pressanykey.com/cgi-bin/c.../pak/jquiz.cgi
Don't forget to post your scores - and have a good weekend :)
The hotel one goes like:
Three guys are staying in a hotel, and they pay $30 for the night, split evenly. The next morning the manager notices that they should have only paid $25, and sends someone upstairs with the $5 refund. That guy keeps $2 for himself, and splits the rest amongst the guests. That means the guests have paid $27 total for the room, and the staff member kept $2. Where did the other dollar go?
And while we're on hotels:
A man is staying on the 10th floor of a hotel. Every morning he gets in the lift and takes it to the ground floor. When he gets home from work, he takes the lift to the 6th floor and climbs the stairs the rest of the way. Why? (It's not because he needs the exercise.)
He's a midget and can only reach that high.Quote:
Originally posted by Tuttle
The hotel one goes like:
A man is staying on the 10th floor of a hotel. Every morning he gets in the lift and takes it to the ground floor. When he gets home from work, he takes the lift to the 6th floor and climbs the stairs the rest of the way. Why? (It's not because he needs the exercise.)
There is no other dollar. Five dollars were rebated and each guest got one dallar and the bellboy (?) kept two; amounting to five dollars. Where the confusion come from is that they split originally at $30 @ $10 each and the rebated afforementioned sums.Quote:
Originally posted by Tuttle
The hotel one goes like:
Three guys are staying in a hotel, and they pay $30 for the night, split evenly. The next morning the manager notices that they should have only paid $25, and sends someone upstairs with the $5 refund. That guy keeps $2 for himself, and splits the rest amongst the guests. That means the guests have paid $27 total for the room, and the staff member kept $2. Where did the other dollar go?
A man walks up to you and says ‘Everything I say to you is a lie’.
Is he telling the truth or is he lying?
Heres one for ya
This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!
Quote:
Originally posted by TJolly
A man walks up to you and says ‘Everything I say to you is a lie’.
Is he telling the truth or is he lying?
Hes lying
In a fundamentally paradoxical sort of way that would be difficult to answer :)
I know that when my mum as a child was on her way home from school she heard the great Plato and Socrates engaged in a display of rhetoric.
Plato announced 'Socrates is about to lie to you.'
Socrates replied' Plato has just spoken truthfully'.
:D
P3-450,
I'm just glad that you don't take 'E' when you post here :o
Correct.Quote:
Originally posted by P3-450
Hes lying
Ok try this and please give a reason for your answer.
You walk along a path of no return and you reach a never ending wall that you are unable to get over. In front of you are two doors. Standing in front of each door is a guard, both guards are identical in appearance. One of the doors leads to salvation and the other to damnation but you don't know which one. One of the guards always tells the truth and the other always tells a lie but you don't know who is truthful and who is the liar.
You have to pass through one of the doors.
You can only ask one question of one of the guards.
What question would you ask to ensure you passed through the door to salvation?