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Yes, that's the right answer! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm, does their refer to all three listed objects? If so...

The original boiler might have aged with the ship, even though it was removed. Thus, we have

Ship = BoilerA
2 * BoilerB = Ship
Ship + BoilerA + BoilerB = 49

=> 2 * BoilerB + 2 * BoilerB + BoilerB = 5 * BoilerB = 49
=> BoilerB = 49/5
=> BoilerA = 2 * 49/5
=> Ship = 2 * 49/5

Ship: 17 and 3/5 years old
Current Boiler: 9 and 4/5 years old

What if it didn't?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ship = 2 * BoilerA
BoilerB = BoilerA
Ship + BoilerA + BoilerB = 49

=> 5 * BoilerB = 49
=> BoilerB = 9.8 years,
=> BoilerA = 9.8 years,
=> Ship = 19.6 years.

Hmm, still don't like them.

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Sorry, Jack, keep at it. If it is any consolation, the first time I saw this, I couldn't do it. I have seen this problem again a couple of times when I was in college.

Hint: If I am 30 years old now and you are 25 years old now, how many years ago was I the same age as you are now? how old were you then?

(I always have to start this way.) Now if you can quantify that and apply it to this question, you can do it.

Slick.

[ July 31, 2003, 16:20: Message edited by: Slick ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I love word problems

age of ship now = x
age of boiler now = (49 - x)

The ship was as old as the boiler is (x - (49 - x)) years ago

At that time, the boiler was (49 - x) - (x - (49 - x)) years old

Therefore

x = 2((49 - x) - (x - (49 - x))

remove parentheses (watch your signs though) and combine terms

x = 2(49 - x - (x - 49 + x)
x = 2(49 - x - x + 49 - x)
x = 2(98 - 3x)
x = 196 - 6x
7x = 196
x = 28

Ship is 28 years old
Boiler is 21 years old

check
Boiler was 14 when the ship was 21 and 28 is 2 times 14.

[ July 31, 2003, 17:07: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I love word problems

age of ship now = x
age of boiler now = (49 - x)

The ship was as old as the boiler is (x - (49 - x)) years ago

At that time, the boiler was (49 - x) - (x - (49 - x)) years old

Therefore

x = 2((49 - x) - (x - (49 - x))

remove parentheses (watch your signs though) and combine terms

x = 2(49 - x - (x - 49 + x)
x = 2(49 - x - x + 49 - x)
x = 2(98 - 3x)
x = 196 - 6x
7x = 196
x = 28

Ship is 28 years old
Boiler is 21 years old

check
Boiler was 14 when the ship was 21 and 28 is 2 times 14.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bravo! Absolutely right.

Slick.

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More riddles...

These are joke riddles. The answers aren't real answers but plays on words.

1. How does a mother sheep carry her babies?

2. What do you get if you cross an insect and a rabbit?

3. What invention lets you see through walls?

4. What fly has laryngitis?

5. How many animals did Moses take into the ark?

6. How much dirt is in a hole measuring 2 feet x 5 feet?

7. What do you call an alligator's helper?

8. I have two U.S. coins totaling 6 cents, but one of them is not a penny. What are the two coins?

9. Why is a giraffe's neck so long?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">4. hoarse fly
5. none
6. none
8. the nickel is not a penny

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'll take a stab at a few.

1. On her baaaaack? [edit: wait a second, ewes are the females.. doh!]

2. no answer

3. windows

4. no answer

5. Noah did the ark thing, not Moses

6. holes are empty

7. lunch?

8. a nickel and a penny (the nickel is not a penny)

9. to reach its head?

[ July 31, 2003, 19:35: Message edited by: DarkHorse ]

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Stonemill, you got the four you ansered all right.

Dark Horse, you got 3, 5, 6, 8 , and 9 correct.

Still need answers for:

1. How does a mother sheep carry her babies?

2. What do you get if you cross an insect and a rabbit?

7. What do you call an alligator's helper?

[ July 31, 2003, 19:38: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Was my edited answer to 1 correct?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, that wasn't right either. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. Bugs Bunny (I should have known this one...)
7. Gatorade!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

#1 still throws me.

BTW nice ones, Geo.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yep and yep.

Yeah, #1 is a toughie.

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in her belly??
(should i go and remember the bio name? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's a kangaroo.

Answer to number 1: in her fur?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, that's kind of what I thought the first time I saw it. I said Ewe-terus. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

The answer they were looking for though was:

Ewe-Haul http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Probably won't make sense to non-Americans. It's a company that rents moving trucks.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And a bad one it is.

(I'm talking about both the company U-Haul and the joke.)

Edit: Anyhow, here's my riddle:

How many letters are in the Alphabet?

[ July 31, 2003, 22:48: Message edited by: TerranC ]

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11 or 12 if you count the space. (Being a programmer http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

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Bah. I think that one was too easy. Here's a harder one IMHO.

A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody else, other than the woman, was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan's doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?

Edit: Slight typo. Sorry folks.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:34: Message edited by: TerranC ]

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alphabet has 8 letters
Or two letters - Alpha and Beta

TC: the wife had the keys? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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It was a convertible.

Draw 9 dots in a 3x3 grid.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">. . .
. . .
. . .</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now, connect all the dots with only 4 straight lines, each beginning where the previous one ended. (Ie, don't take your pen off of the paper)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ha! Got ya! It says in the riddle that the car is a sedan. Not a convertable.

and Taera, that's not the answer.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The woman was the stranger - she was already in the car, hiding (the trunk, perhaps?) (Alternately, the woman was the stranger and had the keys). There isn't anything in the riddle itself that says the woman was the man's wife; the wife could already have been dead at the outset.

Another possibility, requiring a few typos on your part: car should be plural; they were driving seperately. The woman's car broke down, and the man went for help for her. He locked up his own car, and found the stranger in her car, not his. Again, the wife was already dead, as there is nothing to say that the woman was the man's wife.

Another possibility: the woman was the man's wife, but opened the door for the stranger (she had the keys), who killed her.

Another possibility: There are methods for getting into a locked car without damaging it physically. The stranger could have gotten in with one of those methods. The man's wife was either the woman (who the stranger killed) or was already dead.

This one isn't hard, it's open-ended; there are many possibilities, but of course only one is what happened. There is no real way to choose which one is correct without already knowing the answer. If you care to contradict me on this, find a problems with all the answers I gave that are wrong.

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Okeydokey.

The stranger in the car was an Ex-CAA/AAA police officer investigating the murder of the guy's wife (who was outside the car at the time, as stated).

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The woman was the stranger - she was already in the car, hiding (the trunk, perhaps?) (Alternately, the woman was the stranger and had the keys). There isn't anything in the riddle itself that says the woman was the man's wife; the wife could already have been dead at the outset.

The woman is not a stranger, as referring somebody as a stranger means that he or she wasn't previously known to the protagonist.

Plus, the woman could have been the man's girlfriend, or Roommate, or Close Friend, and etc.

Another possibility, requiring a few typos on your part: car should be plural; they were driving seperately. The woman's car broke down, and the man went for help for her. He locked up his own car, and found the stranger in her car, not his. Again, the wife was already dead, as there is nothing to say that the woman was the man's wife.

[Edited] Edit: There was a typo on the riddle, but not like the ones you suggested.

Another possibility: the woman was the man's wife, but opened the door for the stranger (she had the keys), who killed her.

Although possible, that's not the answer.

Another possibility: There are methods for getting into a locked car without damaging it physically. The stranger could have gotten in with one of those methods. The man's wife was either the woman (who the stranger killed) or was already dead.

Thinking too much into it, aren't you? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Could be possible, but not the answer.

This one isn't hard, it's open-ended; there are many possibilities, but of course only one is what happened. There is no real way to choose which one is correct without already knowing the answer. If you care to contradict me on this, find a problems with all the answers I gave that are wrong.

Indeed. As you said, there's only one answer.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:36: Message edited by: TerranC ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nope. Think simpler Dr. Nick.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:33: Message edited by: TerranC ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Negatory, there. You've got the opposite of what he said.

"If you care to contradict me on this, find a problem with all the answers I gave that are wrong."
Please do.

PS:
Hardly needs to be much simpler than that.
Police investigate murders all the time, and cruise the highways and roads, and also know how to get into cars without damaging them.
Makes perfect sense to me.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:36: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I thought I already did on the ones I could.

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"Could be simpler" isn't a problem with the answer, its a problem with the question.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The "this" I meant was "...only one is what happened. There is no real way to choose which one is correct without already knowing the answer." - which TC agreed with; he wasn't contradicting me, near as I can tell.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:39: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In that case, a few more possibilities:

1) The woman opened the door for the stranger (easy from the inside) - wife was either already dead or was the woman and was killed by the stranger.

2) Stranger to who? Most readings will assume that the riddle means stranger to the man, but that isn't necessarily the case. I haven't met this woman, so she is a stranger to me. The woman could thus be the stranger, and have already been in the car. With such a case, the wife would have already been dead, or the wife was the woman and died from heat stroke/heart attack/whatever (if a dead person can qualify as a stranger).

3) If stranger doesn't imply human, it could refer to an insect/spider/rodent/whatever that got in; cars aren't usually air-tight. If the woman was the wife, she could have died from something while in the car (perhaps a bite). If the woman was not the wife, the wife was already dead.

4) The stranger could have gotten in if the woman rolled down a window. Then, either the woman was the wife and the stranger killed her or the wife was already dead.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Woman died giving birth to the "stranger".

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In that case, a few more possibilities:

1) The woman opened the door for the stranger (easy from the inside) - wife was either already dead or was the woman and was killed by the stranger.

Taera already implied this, and I already posted that that implication was wrong.

2) Stranger to who? Most readings will assume that the riddle means stranger to the man, but that isn't necessarily the case. I haven't met this woman, so she is a stranger to me. The woman could thus be the stranger, and have already been in the car. With such a case, the wife would have already been dead, or the wife was the woman and died from heat stroke/heart attack/whatever (if a dead person can qualify as a stranger).

Close! You've got the concept of the answer, but not quite there.

3) If stranger doesn't imply human, it could refer to an insect/spider/rodent/whatever that got in; cars aren't usually air-tight. If the woman was the wife, she could have died from something while in the car (perhaps a bite). If the woman was not the wife, the wife was already dead.

It's assumed that there are no such things in or near the car.

4) The stranger could have gotten in if the woman rolled down a window. Then, either the woman was the wife and the stranger killed her or the wife was already dead.

Nope.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And there it is!

Here's another one:

During WWII, there was a bridge connecting Germany and Switzerland, and on the German side, there was a sentry tower with a guard in it. He would come out every three minutes to check on the bridge, and he had orders to turn back anyone who tried to get into Germany, and shoot anyone trying to escape without a pass. There was a woman who desperately needed to get into Switzerland, and she knew she didn't have time to get a pass. It would take her at least six minutes to cross the bridge, but she managed to do it. How?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The trick is long lines and going beyond the grid:

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">O
|\ /
. . .
| X
. . .
|/ \
.-.-.-O</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">1) Lower left to right of lower right
2) Go to above Upper Left
3) Go to Lower Left
4) Go to Upper Right

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Only half the bridge was German territory.

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The mess made by the birth would probably wreck the upholstery, but that's probably the answer being looked for.

Question:
Every day, little Joey's math teacher gave a math test. Joey managed to get a perfect score in the class.
If the only question on each test was "Square root of 4 = ___ ___", what THREE things must he have written on each test paper?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I see some possibilities:
1) "1" "+" "1"
2) "2" "-2" "Joey"

[ August 01, 2003, 00:15: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The woman waited for the guard to go into the tower and started across. Three minutes later, just before he came back out she was about halfway accross and she turned and started walking back into Germany. Guard comes out and sees a woman trying to get in without permission and per his orders commands her to turn back. She does and walks to freedom in Switzerland.

Geoschmo

[ August 01, 2003, 00:14: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Given the two separate blanks to fill in for the question, and the fact that square roots have two values, answering "1+1" on the test would be only half credit at best.

#2 is absolutely correct.

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Did you miss my answer to the dot problem? You haven't commented.

[ August 01, 2003, 00:20: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

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This is an old one, I am sure some of you have heard it...

You are standing in front of a room inside of which stands a lamp with a
lightbulb within it. You can not see when the light is on or off until you
enter the room. Once you enter the room you may not come back out again
until you solve this riddle...

Outside the room there are three switches.

You may turn any of the three swithes anyway you want to (but they only
have two positions: On/Off).

You cannot tell when the light goes on, but one of the switches does indeed
turn the light on and off (the light goes on when that particular switch is
in the on position and not so suprisingly off when it's in the off
position), while the other two switches do nothing.

Once you stop turning the switches on and off you must enter the room and
know exactly which switch turns the light on...

How can you do that?

Note: Here are a few answers to possible lines of thought and consequently
questions that people may have...

You have no tools with which to remove the panel nor to examine the wires
within the panel.

You are by yourself.

You cannot use mirrors.

There is no window within the room.

There are no switches or wires that are accesible from within the room.

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Nope, I think that one was most excellently done, and was quite self-evidently correct.

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Geo: that one's been posted before. I'll let it ride for those who haven't seen it.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Turn them all on, enter the room, and use the switch on the lamp.

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Sorry Jack:

"There are no switches or wires that are accesible from within the room"

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And now for a joke, it's a little long, but one of my Favorites. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

A young couple decides to become members at the local church. The minister tells them they are welcome to join, but that this church has a particular bit of doctrine. All new members as a show of their faith and dedication to God must abstain from any sexual relations for a period one month.

Being newlyweds and very much in love this is something of a difficulty for the couple, but they really want to be members of this church so they agree to the condition.

After a month they return for a meeting with the minister and he asks them how it went.

"Well Minister, it went ok for a few weeks. But then one day I turned around and my lovely bride was bent over getting some food out of the freezer. The very sight of her figure got my blood to racing and I had to have her. We tried to resist, but ended up making love right there on the floor in front of the freezer."

"Well my son, obviously you are a very passionate young man. But I am sorry, you are not suitable to join our church."

"That's ok Minister, I'm not suprised. They won't let us back in that grocery store either."

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In this thread? I looked for it but didn't see it.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Missed that Last part; most lamps have switches on them. Well, if it is an incindiary bulb, you could turn switch 1 on for an hour, turn switch 1 off, then turn switch 2 on, enter room and check bulb. If bulb is on, it's two. If it is off and hot, it's one. If it is off and cold, it's three (hot/cold determined by touch).

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It wasn't this thread i'm sure, but somewhere on shrapnel...

Here's one with an SE4 theme:
A single, low-tech Terran ship is ambushed by a Phong Destroyer. The scoutship loses its engines and supply bays to the piercing Shard Cannons, but miraculously emerges victorious in the combat (run strategically).
How is this possible?

[ August 01, 2003, 00:45: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]