30? Perhaps?
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30? Perhaps?
Nope
Actually, this is only a yes or nope problem - not even cold, tepid, hot clues I'm afraid - when it's solved you'll see why
Oh! Is it 1?
Damn if I haven't been undermined by the girl's sly cunning twice in one morning before breakfast!
Correctomondo, Babe - you win the jackpot of three million dollars billl has so generously offered (though it may take some time to pry it from his cold dead hands - but with the shrewdness in evidence of your womanly wiles, hmmm...)
Yes, I was going to St Ives - the others were going the other way - but before faithosaurus posts a new question I think it's only fair we learn how many were coming from St Ives
Yay!
Since some of the items weren't people...perhaps 22?
See post #8 in this thread, and a few following it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Funny, sure I'd read them all.
Well I guess no-one gets their hands on his moolah then (nothing new there)
Sorry Buddy - Go for it anyway, while no-one's watching (posting a new problem, I mean)
Then it must be 29...
Well, now I must think of one. Hmm..
Hopefully no one has posted this yet:
Romeo and Juliet are found dead on the floor in a bedroom. When they were discovered, there were pieces of glass and some water on the floor. The only furniture in the room is a shelf and a bed. The house in is a remote location, away from everything except for the nearby railway track. What caused the death of Romeo and Juliet?
Ah hah, a long overdue retwisting of the Bard's tale - and not before time
Firstly the glass has something to do with the lover's situation? But lack of blood would negate that. So something has broken as the result of another cause - 'tis it the yonder window through which what light breaks?
Or a bottle? A bottle that had contained the water?
Or had the water arrived from somewhere else? A hole in the ceiling perhaps? Or in a different container altogether?
Or had it been in a different form possibly? Unto ice?
A train on the nearby railway track thundered past; the vibrations caused the bottle of poison on the shelf to fall; it smashed as it fell to the floor; R&J ingested the poison/fumes: R&J died. Spilled poison looks like water - DO NOT TOUCH IT.
Possible Kas, but the problem clearly states water, not something that looks like water.
Your explanation sounds a little confident however, as though it were the standard answer for a similar poser. Though this could be enough to provide the missing clues.
Sympathetic oscillation from a train. Knocking something from the shelf - perhaps a large vase. Did it perchance also knock the shelf over also?
Large heavy vase of water falls on R's fat head - he is knocked out as J (untrained in first aid and therefore lacking knowledge of the correct position to place said noggin) lunges toward him catastrophically.
R dies of general head inuries, J carks it from an enormous oaken Shelf strikes a pressure point in the top of her spine (or her head to make it a poetic neatness)
Sorry Faithosaurus, we've had this one before too, somewhere back deep in the mists of time on this thread. Unless your's is a different solution.
So we have - it was Jack and Jill last time, wasn't it? I thought it sounded vaguely familiar - but I like MM's scenario!
Well if this was the solution to the last one, then it is not right. So perhaps it's somewhat different?Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
I guess it's the law of averages - you get a hopscotch of mathematicians all coming through the grinder of a limited number of institutions where they were instructed by another hopscotch of mathematicians...
And then we wonder why some problems are similar to others - it's because their cogs are all tuned by the same mechanics
Faithosaurus? You need to tell us what elements are near or far
Is the train wobble correct? The glass container? The shelf? The window?