Bloke sticks a pin - actually a needle would be better - into the table, attaches a thread to it and walks out of the room, feeding the thread through the gap at the top of the door. He locks the door and slips the key over the thread. The key slides down the thread to the small table. The bloke yanks the pin out and pulls it back through the gap.
I have another version that involves a gymnastic mouse and a drinking straw, but it might be a bit far-fetched.
Correct. One of several locked room scenerios from the murder mystery genre.
Last edited by prendrelemick; 07-27-2011 at 11:11 AM.
Kasie?
Hello, people - I'm back.....
Apologies - I posted that reply and swanned off to London for a few days, little thinking it was the right answer. I remembered reading something like it in a whodunnit years ago (Christie? Conan Doyle?) but can't recollect exactly how it worked though I think Mark has the gist of it.
Will post a puzzle as soon as I've recovered from the trip - all these late nights, I can't keep going like I used to.... Chat among yourselves for a bit unless anyone has something to keep us going until my brain catches up with me, I think it's still changing trains, Bristol or Cardiff, or somewhere...
OK - a day later....
Forgive me if we've had this one before - I know I've seen it somewhere but maybe it's just that the cousin who sent it to me today has sent it some time previously.
What have the following words in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
There - that should keep you busy for all of, oh, five minutes?
If you take away the first letter in each word, they are all palindromes?
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
You're heading in the right direction, Annamariah - do something with that first letter....
Firstly I reckon Annamaria got it, because without her I wouldn't've noticed that if you put the first letter to the end you can read them backwards.
Last edited by prendrelemick; 07-31-2011 at 04:29 PM.
Well done, Mick and Annamariah - you decide who goes next.
I can't think of any puzzle at the moment, so if you've got one, Mick, go ahead
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Ok then
T'other year I built a circular sheep pen out of concrete blocks. The pen was 10ft in diameter, the walls were 4ft 6inches high. there were 2 x 3ft gaps in the wall for gates. A concrete block when laid (ie including morter) is 18x9x6 inches. How many blocks were needed to complete the pen?
I'll just nip down to Travis Perkins - they have this useful computer programme which works out how many blocks/bricks etc you need to order for your project. It designs patio layouts too doing clever things with different shaped slabs, did me a lovely one last year, printed out a plan as well so that the chaps doing the patio could get the pieces in the right places......Oh, yes, the sheep pen....
Ahh, Travis Perkins the builder's merchant that sounds like a country and western singer.
1 foot = 12 inches (1.5 feet = 18 inches)Originally Posted by prendrelemick
circumference= diameter x pi
In this case, we also will subtract out the two gaps (3 feet each)
circumference - gaps = 10pi - 6
the wall will be 9 bricks high (each brick is 6 inches "tall", so 9 of them make 4 feet 6 inches, if we ignore the mortar...). Therefore, we want circumference (minus the gaps) multiplied 9 times.
(10pi - 6) x 9
90pi - 54 = 283-54
229 feet of bricks is needed. Each brick is 1.5 feet "long".
229 divided by 1.5 = 152.7
So, 153 bricks? (17 per layer?)
The bricks are 9inches tall and 6 inches thick. However this is NOT a maths question!
I am prepared to receive plenty of scorn when answer is revealed.
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