The worlds first riddle!

WIDOW REVISITED
or $109.59, 21 daughters

Stop already, the widow is loosing daughters by the bushel.


Mark also wrote, "…I did what I could with what was provided."

So, you were given a bunch of straw and you made the White House. However, what have you done today


Is the bucket half full or, half empty? I always look on the bright side. So I only ask because I see another 60%. :wink:


I,ve gotta go, leave you with:


In order to encourage people to study arithmetic, a psycho agrees to pay posters 8 cents for every problem correctly solved and to fine them 5 cents for each incorrect solution. At the end of 26 problems, neither owes anything to the other.

How many problems did the poster solve correctly



If you do the following correctly, you will change the name of an American President into the name of a European country.

- Write the words GEORGE WASHINGTON.

- Take out all the "E"s.

- Counting only the remaining letters, add an "L" after each seventh letter.

- Move the second "G" to the beginning and put the last letter in its place.

- Whenever three consonants appear together, change their order so that the first consonant in the group becomes the last, the one in the second place takes the first position, and the one in the third position becomes the middle consonant of the group.

- Take out the last two vowels.

- Where a double consonant appears, take out both letters.

- Beginning with the third letter from the left, interchange each two letters.

- Take out the last two letters.

- Move the last letter so it will be the first letter.

- Add a "D" after each fourth letter.

- At the beginning. Replace every "S" with an "N".

- Take out the middle three letters.

- Take out the final letter and put the first letter in its place.

You should now have the name of the European country, and that is

[size=7]PSYCHO
10[/size]

Yeah, I messed up. To make up for it, here's the general solution for a circle of radius r_o going x revolutions around a fixed circle of radius r_i (no slippage):

rotations of outer circle = x * (r_o + r_i)/r_0

Any objections? As for socks, who wears two of the same color anyway? That's just plain boring.

Many thanks to:

X
Mark
Drewdad

Who between them came up with the answers.


Imagine Wheel A with a diameter x, rolling around fixed Wheel B, with diameter 2x. How many revolutions about its own axis will Wheel A make in rolling once around Wheel B ?

Wheel A makes three revolutions about it own axis in rolling once around Wheel B. Since the circumference of Wheel A is half that of Wheel B, this produces two rotations with respect to Wheel B, and the revolution adds a third rotation with respect to an observer from above.


There are three boxes, one containing 2 black marbles, one with 2 white marbles, and one with a black and a white marble. The boxes are all labeled wrongly.
How many times must you pick a marble blindly out of one box, to correctly identify what each box contains?

Two. Since all the boxes are mislabeled each box has two possible correct label choices. Pull two marbles out of any one box. Once you know what that box should be labeled, that choice is eliminated for the box that wasn't already using the particular label, and all the others fall into place.


A tennis tournament starts with 100 players. How many matches must be played until a winner is arrived at?

You may consider the answer a bit on the harsh side, and we do take your views seriously, however the judge's decision is final.

One. There will be a winner and a loser after each match.

You have 112 black socks and 123 white socks mixed up in a drawer. How many socks must you pull out, blindly, to be sure of getting a matching pair

Three.


A barbecue grill holds two steaks at a time. It takes 10 minutes to grill one side of a steak. How long will it take to grill 3 steaks on both sides

30 minutes.

Steak 1-side 1 and Steak 2-side 1,
Steak 1-side 2 and Steak 3-side 1,
Steak 2-side 2 and Steak 3-side 2



Thank you Dadpad, I have tried it out, with one change in the rules - ?'cuts' .

This involves any person who has already called out a non 7 related number being able to take another place in the group. This resulted in people standing at 5 or 6 suddenly finding they were in the ?'hot seat'.

Anyhoo, good fun and more difficult than it first seems, and this is whilst sober.


?'X' having xposed the secret of a circle, writes, "As for socks, who wears two of the same color anyway? That's just plain boring."


Man, you guys must be rich. I can only dream of socks next to my skin.



A man went into his local US post office, walked up to the lady behind the counter, proffered a dollar, and said, "Give me some 2¢ stamps, ten times as many 1¢ stamps, and the balance in 5¢ stamps."

How was this puzzling request met


What is the one thing shared by all three items in the same group

A: a cow, a shoe, a baby
B: a doctor's office, a post office, music
C: a zipper, a shark, a comb
D: restaurant goer, a bird, the Senate
E: a potato, a hurricane, a target
F: a river, a person, a cave



Answer the following question with a simple "yes" or "no":

If the day before the day after the day before today was hotter than the day after the day before today, was the day before today hotter than today

Is the glass 1/2 full of water, or is it 1/2 empty?
Neither, it's 1/2 full of polluted water.

In a highly simplified form, we could look at the old test of perception - is the glass 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? Our perception will determine the reality of the answer...to us the quality of the perception can "make" it real, that is, real to others who are also looking at the glass.

Perception is that action of connecting with the outside world and having it imprint on the mind as to form, content, scent, taste, texture, meaning, etc. We learn that the actual cause and effect process is somewhat different from what a material conceptualization of this is.

From a material perspective, perception consists of the world showing itself to us. However, we are deciding (or expecting or concluding) that we will perceive the environment in a particular way, attracting the necessary energies from the Universe to manifest in the way that we expect, and then perceiving them in that way. From the perspective of the subconscious, there really are no surprises, though we may certainly experience them from our ordinary, daily consciousness.

To carry it forward even further, depending on the quality of belief, the glass will get filled without any physical effort on her/his part, or will become emptied. This is the "attractive" power of perception, and if we look, we will see it in action in our daily lives. Thus, the relative "emptiness" or "fullness" of the glass is made manifest.

Such is the power of perception.

....and the meaning is

ECNALG

This is wrong. You only have to take one marble out of the box labeled "black and white." Since the two marbles in this box can't be black and white, the second (unpicked) marble must be the same color as the marble you picked.



Hmmm.

[size=7]STAMPS
5 2-cent stamps, 50 1-cent stamps, 8 5-cent stamps

GROUPS
A. tongue
B. staff
C. teeth
D.?
E. eye
F. mouth

HOT DAYS
yes[/size]

The glass is twice as large as it needs to be.

backward glance

georgewashington
gorgwashington
gorgwaslhingtonl
ggorlwaslhington
ggolwralhsigtnon
ggolwralhsgtnn
olwralhsgt
olrwlashtg
olrwlash
holrwlas
dholrdwlasd
dholrdwland
dholland
holland

I wrote:
There are three boxes, one containing 2 black marbles, one with 2 white marbles, and one with a black and a white marble. The boxes are all labeled wrongly.
How many times must you pick a marble blindly out of one box, to correctly identify what each box contains?

The answer I gave was:

Two. Since all the boxes are mislabeled each box has two possible correct label choices. Pull two marbles out of any one box. Once you know what that box should be labeled, that choice is eliminated for the box that wasn't already using the particular label, and all the others fall into place.


Mark pointed out in a delicate roundabout sort of way:

This is wrong you freeking idiot. You only have to take one marble out of the box labeled "black and white." Since the two marbles in this box can't be black and white, the second (unpicked) marble must be the same color as the marble you picked. So, shape up or ship out.


What we have here is a classic case of a breakdown in communication. To wit; my brain has no idea what I am typing. I would like to extend to Markr and his family, neighbors , friends colleagues and the guy in the deli, my sincerest and abject apologies. This gross oversight will not reoccur, until the next time.

Great answer though.


He also wished it be known, with a raised eyebrow, "Hmmm. "

Well, in this neck of the woods that is taken as a sign of high praise, providing you were only standing on one foot when you wrote it. Otherwise, no I don't want to go there, just too painful. :wink:


Mark:

STAMPS
5 2-cent stamps, 50 1-cent stamps, 8 5-cent stamps

GROUPS
A. tongue
B. staff (Works well)
C. teeth
D.? (Yes, a billhook)
E. eye
F. mouth


B. a scale (or a key)
D. a bill


HOT DAYS
yes


The day before the day after the day before today was yesterday. The day after the day before today is today. And the day before today was yesterday. So yes, yesterday was hotter than today.



"The glass is twice as large as it needs to be."

Only an engineer would say that.



....and the meaning is?

ECNALG


Whim:

backward glance



Wait, there is more…

georgewashington
gorgwashington
gorgwaslhingtonl
ggorlwaslhington
ggolwralhsigtnon
ggolwralhsgtnn
olwralhsgt
olrwlashtg
olrwlash
holrwlas
dholrdwlasd
dholrdwland
dholland

Holland

Nice one Whim.



Reduce the word ACCEPT to the single letter A in 8 steps

A step consists of either deleting a single letter to make a good English word, or substituting a single letter for another letter to create a new English word. Note: There are a number of answers to this.

For example:
CARE
CAR (deletion)
CAT (substitution)
AT (deletion)
A (deletion)





In the farmyard are a number of sheep and hens. There are twice as many hens as sheep, and if you add the total number of heads between them to the total number of legs, you get 187.

How many are there of each animal



A racing driver drove around a 6-mile track at 140 miles per hour for 3 miles, 168 miles per hour for 1.5 miles, and 210 miles per hour for 1.5 miles. What was his average speed for the entire 6 miles

Reduce the word ACCEPT to the single letter A in 8 steps.

Accept
---------
accent
ascent
ascend
scend
send
end
Ed
d

not to the letter A but...

Reduce the word ACCEPT to the single letter A in 8 steps.

Accept
--------
accent
ascent
scent
scant
scat
cat
at
a

[size=7]FARMYARD
17 sheep, 34 hens

RACING
160mph[/size]

sheep n chooks =17 sheep 34 chooks

racing
depends which average you want mean median or mode

1.5@140
1.5@140
1.5@168
1.5@210
>(140+140+168+210)/4=164.5mph (MEAN)
or MODE = 140 as its the number that occors most.
or MEDIAN = 154 which is the number halfway between the higest and lowest speed. When the totals of the list are even, the median is equal to the sum of the two middle (after sorting the list into increasing order) numbers divided by two.

dadpad: Average speed is total distance divided by total time.

MEAN
MODE
MEDIAN





Mark, I recon we should cut DP (Duckbilled Platypus) some slack, after all he does hail from a country inhabited by some mighty strange critters:

The Australian platypus is often prefixed with the adjective "duck-billed" to form duck-billed platypus, despite there being only one species of platypus.

The Duck-billed Platypus, (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), is a primitive Australian mammal (a monotreme) that lays eggs.

Get well soon mate. :wink:

Whimsical: 2:23 pm

?'d'


Whimsical: 2:28 pm

Accept
--------
accent
ascent
scent
scant
scat
cat
at
a

What! It only took you five minutes. Amazing. Whim, you are sure good with words.


I had:

ACCEPT
ACCENT (substitution)
ASCENT (substitution)
SCENT (deletion)
SENT (deletion)
SET (deletion)
SAT (substitution)
AT (deletion)
A (deletion)



In the farmyard are a number of sheep and hens. There are twice as many hens as sheep, and if you add the total number of heads between them to the total number of legs, you get 187.

How many are there of each animal?

Mark:

FARMYARD
17 sheep, 34 hens



H + S + 2H + 4S = 187
H = 2S
2S + S + 4S + 4S = 187
17S = 187
S = 17 sheep
H = 34 hens



A racing driver drove around a 6-mile track at 140 miles per hour for 3 miles, 168 miles per hour for 1.5 miles, and 210 miles per hour for 1.5 miles. What was his average speed for the entire 6 miles?


Dadpad:

6x140x3x168x1.5x210.1.5x6 / six dingo's = and he sang as he tucked jumbuck in his tuckerbag. You'll come a waltzing matilda with me…Beaut, it's your Wally.

You know; Wally Grout - shout. I'll have a pot of good cheer.


Mark:

RACING
160mph


The key lies in converting miles per hour to miles per minute and in using fractions instead of decimals to avoid rounding errors.

Distance(D)
Using the formula Time(T)=-----------
Speed(S)

If driver travels 3 miles at 140 MPH, it takes him 9/7 minutes to cover the distance. Equally, 1 miles at 168 MPH will take 15/28 minutes and 1 miles at 210 MPH takes 3/7 minutes. Total time for six miles= 9/7 + 15/28 + 3/7 minutes. This reduces to 63/28 minutes for 6 miles.

D 6x28
Using above formula S= --- = ------- per minute
T 63
6x28x60
or: ------------ per hour
63
This reduces to 160 MPH.







Cute Whim type riddles:


What do all of the following words or phrases have in common

One-time
delegates
Camelot
paramedic
avocado
inoperative
ecumenical
misused
not on a bet
coverage




In each of the sentences below a word is concealed, such as the word "no" that is marked in CAPS in the fifth sentence. If you can find the other buried words and read them in order, they will form a well-known proverb

1. The word buried here has only one letter.
2. Did you find a jelly roll in Gaskin's Bakery
3. It's the best one I've ever seen.
4. The rug at her stairway was made in India.
5. He's aN Old friend.
6. Amos sold his bicycle to a friend.



What word, expression, or name is depicted below

EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
+
EVER

[size=7]WORDS/PHRASES
alternating consonants and vowels

CONCEALED WORDS
a rolling stone gathers no moss

EXPRESSION
forever and ever[/size]