Here's a riddle, though its kind of an easy one:
A flower is floating in the middle of a lake. Every minute the flower doubles in size. In an hours time the flower is the size of the lake. At what time was the flower half the size of the lake?
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Here's a riddle, though its kind of an easy one:
A flower is floating in the middle of a lake. Every minute the flower doubles in size. In an hours time the flower is the size of the lake. At what time was the flower half the size of the lake?
one minute before... ie, 59 mins.
Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. 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 missing £1?
I dont think that there is a missing dollar..... 25 pounds is with the hotel manager, 2 pounds is with the bell boy, and 3 pounds have been given back to the 3 people. 25 + 2+ 3 = 30....
have I done this right? Lol :p
Okay, here's another easy one :p
A little boy lives on the 17th floor of a building. When he needs to reach ground floor, he takes the elevator straight down. But when he needs to go back up to the 17th floor, he has to get off at the 6th floor and walk up a flight of stairs to reach his destination. Why is this so? ...And no, the elevator isnt broken past the 6th floor, lol :p
He is not tall enough to push higher than the 6th floor button.
Two trains 150 miles apart are traveling toward each other along the same track. The first train goes 60 miles per hour; the second train rushes along at 90 miles per hour. A fly is hovering just above the nose of the first train. It buzzes from the first train to the second train, turns around immediately, flies back to the first train, and turns around again. It goes on flying back and forth between the two trains until they collide. If the fly's speed is 120 miles per hour, how far in sum will it travel?
120 miles.
You are your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It's her birthday, and you want to give her the cakes you've made.
Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.
How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arrive at Grandma's with exactly 2 cakes?
Two.
How many F-s are there in this sentence:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS
OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
6
Last week I bought a word processor small enough to fit in my pocket. It can write in any language and also add, multiply, subtract, divide. It has a delete facility that will correct any error made and no electricity or batteries are required to operate it. Amazingly, it only cost me 25 pence. Why?
Its a pen?
Now a question series:
a) How many moves it takes to put an elephant in a fridge?
b)How many moves it takes to put a giraffe in a fridge?
c)Lion, the king of the animals, annunced a assembly of all animals. All animal but one came. Which one did not come?
d) You need to cross a river full of crocodiles. There is no bridge, there is no raft, no boat, nothing actually. How do you cross the river?
a) open fridge and put elephant in and close
b) open fridge take elephant out and put giraffe in and close
c) the giraffe dosen't come, he's in the fridge
d) the crocodiles are at the assembly so you swim over
What can a mouse drag just as easaly as an elephant?
His feet?
Study this paragraph and all things in it. What is vitally wrong with it? Actually, nothing in it is wrong, but you must admit that it is most unusual. Don't just zip through it quickly, but study it scrupulously. With luck you should spot what is so particular about it and all words found in it. Can you say what it is? Tax your brains and try again. Don't miss a word or a symbol. It isn't all that difficult!
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess, weeee undeeerstand.
What is the next number in sequence: 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 131112221....
Does it contain every letter in the alphabet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
The letter E is not used.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Yes, the letter 'e' is not used... as Tal pointed out yesterday... ;)