The 'How many letters' question - I would hazard '30'.
As for 'the right leg travelling further than the left' question - if the words are given their immediately apparent meaning, this can only be possible if the guy travels a counter-clockwise circular path IMHO. Lighthouse keeper with a spiral staircase? An athlete on a circular track? Who knows? Beyond that, I am still thinking about it.
There are no letters in the answer to that question.
Point taken, there was a very good reason why I used ?'round', however I was misleading (not for the first time) and you can keep the point. :wink:
Double or quits.
Whilst digging in your backyard you find a Pirates chest, inside there is an old bottle of Spanish wine. The seal is still intact, so you decide to sell it on eBay and retire.
As you cannot open the bottle, and using only a standard ruler how could you mathematically calculate the volume.
Short legs? You are correct. The result of running 10,000 metres.
As for the letters, it is a number, but which best fits?
Four as in zero, none, and nada if you want it written. Or just accept my original answer: 0
Measure the water it displaces when you submerge it into an already full container.
It seems to me that the 'number of letters' is a regression. By that I mean, suppose that the answer were fifteen. The number of letters in fifteen is seven, and that becomes the answer. But if seven is the answer then the answer must now be five. But if five is the answer then the number of letters is four and that becomes the answer. No matter which number or number of letters you begin with it always settles at four with four letters.
OCCOM BILL wrote:Measure the water it displaces when you submerge it into an already full container.
What I ment was, the volume of the liquid
in the bottle.
Please feel free to add any other missing words. :wink:
Will try harder.
"It seems to me that the 'number of letters' is a regression. By that I mean, suppose that the answer were fifteen. The number of letters in fifteen is seven, and that becomes the answer. But if seven is the answer then the answer must now be five. But if five is the answer then the number of letters is four and that becomes the answer. No matter which number or number of letters you begin with it always settles at four with four letters."
Thank you for a better explanation than I had. The only thing I can add is, Four is the only number when spelt out in letters, has the same amount of letters as the number specifies.
I think that makes you all 2-1 up in this best of five challenges. So this is make or break time.
We all know the ?'green door' who eats the fish? Set-up.
However, what is still unknown is the answer to the following.
Five employees of the Acme Lift Company are waiting to use the lift.
They are starting from the department in which they work.
They need to travel to another level in the building.
Each level of the five-storey building contains a different department.
Accounts, Data Processing, Marketing, Personnel or Purchasing.
Can you match each person with their department, and say on which level they got on, and where they got off?
CLUES
I. Jonathan (who works in Data Processing) went up three levels.
II. The Purchasing department is on level two
III. The journey that started on level three went down.
IV. Annabel (who is not from Marketing) went up one.
V. The man from accounts went down two.
VI. One journey went from level two to level one.
VII. Neither Melanie nor Norman works on level three.
VIII. To avoid confusion call the fifth person Pat.
Set out, NAME DEPT START Floor END Floor
1
2
3
4
5
Please note the judge's decision is final. Good luck.
J - dp - 1 to 4
M - pur - 2 to 1
P - mar - 3 to 2
A - per - 4 to 5
N - ac - 5 to 3
IMHO I think Mungo has done very well to answer a tough problem.
However, do you agree with her/him?
For those who do not, I offer a starting hint.
Use clues 1 and 2 immediately to decide Jonathan's level.
I will post my answer on SundayÂ…While you are waiting you might like to consider the following.
Five national newspapers, Evening News, Gossip, Post, Press and Times, each publish a weekly children's cartoon on different days of the week. (Monday-Friday)
Each cartoon follows the adventures of an animal. Can you match up each animal with its name and say which newspaper it appears in and on what day?
They are an Aardvark, a Badger, a Fish, a Snake and a Yak. They are called, Lucy, Millie, Peter, Simone and Trevor. (In some order)
CLUES
1. Lucy the Snake appears two days before the Press features the exploits of Millie.
2. Trevor appears on Wednesday.
3. The Evening News publish on Friday, but it is not Simone the Fish.
4. The Aardvark appears in the Gossip, but not on a Monday.
5. The Post does not have cartoons on Mondays either.
6. Peter is not a Yak.
Quickie.
A guy takes a couple of tablets. As a result, he becomes famous.
What is his name?
I don't see what possible objection there might be to my reply to the 'five floors' problem. Not because I am above criticism but because the answer seems to be fully consistent with all of the clues.
And your 'hint' - that one uses the first two clues to establish J's floor:
1) He goes up three floors. It follows from this that he must be on floor 1 or floor 2, as no other floor has three floors above it.
2) This clue says that he is not from floor 2. So he must be from floor 1. - and this is precisely what I said.
So where is there an error?
Try
I've 'messaged' you a reply to the cartoon problem.
Done and done. Let the world see.
OK
Monday; Simone the Fish, in the Times.
Tuesday; Lucy the Snake, in the Post.
Wednesday; Trevor the Aardvark, in the Gossip.
Thursday; Millie the Yak, in the Press.
Friday; Peter the Badger, in the News.
Mungo, is of cause correct. Probably just 15 wild guesses. :wink:
The day is not far off when, the answer will be posted before I finish typing the question.
So, perhaps someone could save me some time by giving the answer, thus saving me the bother of setting up the experiment.
A ball bearing is to be dropped into each drum. In which will the ball travel slowest?
?'A' Water at 20 Fahrenheit. ?'B' Milk at 40F. ?'C' Oil at 60F ?'D' Tar at 80F.
Sorry Mungo, no, its not a coconut through Jell-O.
I would say, "You have cracked it"
Now, what about the world's shortest riddle?
"A guy takes a couple of tablets. As a result, he becomes famous."
What is his name?
BIG clue. He has appeared in many films.
Make that World famous.
Moses? Although, I think he was famous before the tablets.
