If it's a question you be seeking, Snukes and Nightshade both have outstanding questions you can marinate on if you wish :p
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If it's a question you be seeking, Snukes and Nightshade both have outstanding questions you can marinate on if you wish :p
I think Jay answered Snukes' question in some other thread and I hadn't seen Night's post...
Still you are supposed to leave a question when you answer one! :D
My daughter has many sisters. She has as many sisters as she has brothers. Each of her brothers has twice as many sisters as brothers. How many sons and daughters do I have?
Sun?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Three?Quote:
Originally Posted by Basil
A monk has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First he climbs up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces east until he hears a bird singing. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the remaining steps three at a time which only takes him 9 paces. How many steps are there?
Correection! After many prompts from Basil, the answer is 3 sons and 4 daughters! :goof:Quote:
Originally Posted by Basil
No, nay, neigh, alas! My donkey problem is not solved! I can't remember Jay's answer in the other thread, but I remember thinking no no, that's not right...
The problem is, the setting is Egypt, ca. 2500 bce. No airplanes, no technology... just donkeys and jars. They can't even pull carts through the desert. It's not a trick question, it's logic question. I think it might be a bit like "if you have a fox, a chicken, and a bag of chicken feed, how can you cross a river in a boat that only fits you and one other item without having either the chicken or the chicken feed get eaten?"
I'm probably just rambling myself into a hole which I will never get out of.
The answer should have something to do with leaving jars of water at intervals throughout the desert. I just can't figure out how they could get far enough to leave the water if they need the water to get there in the first place...
This is egypt right?
well the Ancients had their ways and means, underground spring s and wells plus back then the dried valleys were only recently dried so oasis were more frequent plus there are 2 sides to the desert so each goes as far as they can and there are the dessert settlements
Is this the kind of thing you are looking for??
No sher the answer is not the sun so my q againQuote:
The sun???
Chickens come home to roost,
I come around I go around, what am I?
Okay, as suggested to me by a classmate with more brains than myself: if the nice little donkeys go as far as they can and leave their jars at a designated rest stop, some more donkies can then come along with more than enough water to fill the jars (using lighter means of transportation, such as skin sacks). Once that rest stop is established, another rest stop further into the destert can be established. And so on until you have a chain of rest stops at regular intervals all the way across the desert. Still, the only way this would work is if you have some people (and donkeys) whose job is to do nothing at all other than make sure the jars stay full. If every caravan had to bring their own water and left none for the next people to come, it still wouldn't work.
Hm. I guess I feel better about that. And no, no Ancients with a capital A. ;) No matter what Stargate would like us to believe, the people who lived back then were no smarter or more clever than we are today. No whacky otherworldly machinery to help them suck water out of a dry desert. It's not quite far enough back for there to be so many oases. In fact, the two oases that can be confirmed as still being wet at that point - Dahkla and Kufra - are on opposite ends of this trail that I'm trying to figure out. You have to tack on another thousand or so years before it's still that wet.
Hehe. Thanks for the tries!
So... Nighshade... how about a cukoo (kucoo? cucoo? kooku?) clock that had it's cukoo evicted by some evil chickens?
I hate chickens...
why didnt I think of that answer to Snukes riddle thing??
No Snukes its not a cuckoo---
here is a hint I made it up ( proves Im useless at riddles mabe Ill join the person who made up the Raven and writing desk riddle) and its more based on laungauge than what the words actually mean, okay?
Chickens come home to roost,
I come around I go around, what am I?
The answer is Karma or bad wishes, you know what they say yor chickens will come home to roost? when somthing bad you have done comes back to haunt you??
What goes around comes around and all that
;)
I think 48 steps... :goof:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
It is 49 steps actually :)
What gets wetter as it dries?
A piece of writing in ink describing wetness - when the letters are foggy and undried, the point of wetness is not that clear than when they are nice and dry.
Somewhy we don't think it is the right answer.
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Oh, I know this one, but I don't know a new riddle
Below is the answer, so don't read!!!!!!!
Code:A Towel
Which pair of letters comes next in this sequence:
on et wo th re ef ou