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.
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.
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.
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.
