Relative explains 1427 crossings: Relative made a mistake, he only counted 357 men, and forgot the poor officer. He unknowingly liberated a small patch of pacifists waiting to get rid of their captain..
Why not 1428? The last ride, the child returning with a boat, is unnecessary. Although the riddle says '..leave the two children finally in joint possession of their boat..' the two children are in joint possesion of the boat without the last crossing.
Relative has thus explained himself and his bloody mistake.
kev wrote:Tryagain wrote:"
"how many places are there on earth, where you can walk exactly 1 kilometer south, then 1 kilometer east and then 1 kilometer north and end at the same point where you started"
Kev wrote.
"One--- the north pole"
I wrote, "The same place where a scientist lives in a hut from which he walks one kilometer directly south. He then hikes exactly one kilometre directly east. He then sees a bear and in terrible fright runs for one kilometre directly north back to the hut."
What colour was the bear?
The answer is obvious, if you are standing at the north pole it doesn't matter which way you walk you are heading south. You walk 1 K. south, 1k east and 1k north you are back where you started.
If you are anywhere else on earth and you walk 1k south, 1k east and 1k north you would be 1k EAST of where you started.
Oh, and the bear must be white cos its a polar bear.
If Magnum disagrees with that then either its a gag and not a riddle or Magnum is wrong.
try answerd the riddle by posting an other riddle
and the answer to that riddle is that the bear is white, i just say that the northpole is not the only place think about for one day, or 2 :wink:
maybe mou can think of something
Four people meet in a room. Each person shakes hands once with each other person. How many hand shakes are there in all
6
oops last answer was already given
When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow
the day was sunday
magnum : "and the answer to that riddle is that the bear is white, i just say that the northpole is not the only place think about for one day, or 2"
The answer to that question is also a circle 1+1/(2*pi) km away from the south pole. Begin on any point, go 1km south (you are at the circle 1/(2*pi)km from the pole). 1km east gets you around the earth to the same piont back, and 1km north gets you to the original point.
South pole itself is NOT the solution, as well as circle 1km from south pole. BUT, all circles with
d = 1+1/(2*k*PI) are the solution, with k=1,2,3,..
In the limit, when k approaches infinity, we get close to the 1km radius circle, but the limit itself is not a solution (because of singularity when going east).
Well, it took me more that 2 days, but here it is.
Relative.
"And yet, the first police man who saw him put him under arrest. How come ?"
The mirror was a portret of the beautician's father, or so?
"Should Whim believe MyO"
No!
"What are the three cards?"
4 diamonds, 3 diamonds, 4 hearts
"If at least one of them is lying, who is which?"
If the child with black hair is lying, it must be a girl.
But then the red haired child must be lying too
since there are a boy and girl on the porch.
So boy = red hair
girl = black hair
"What it the least number of ducks to meet the conditions "
4 ducks
whim
So if i was there and i do not deny it, where were you searching for???
MyO and Whim went to a theme party one night. The rule for the gathering is that some people speak only truth while others tell nothing but lies. This, of course, kept everyone guessing about the identity of everybody else--are they truth-tellers or liars.
After walking around for a while, MyO came back to Whim and whispered: "See that girl over there? She just revealed her identity to me. She said she's a liar."
this the same problem as the question of the bridge
no one can say he's/she's a liar cause if a persons always tells the truth it would be a lie, and if a liar said that he told the truth. So with that in mind Myo is a Liar ( with a capital L
)
Sh*t that's the second post in 24 hours wich has already been answered
1) What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
Mountain
2) It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, and cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
Darkness?
3) You can see nothing else, when you look in my face, I will look you in the eye, and I will never lie.
a mirror
4) It comes only before, It comes only after, Rises only in darkness, But rises only in light. It is always the same, but is yet always different.
?
5) How could you give someone $63 using six bills, without using one-dollar bills?
1x $50 + 4x$2 + 1x$5
6) All about the house with his lady he dances, Yet he always works and never romances
?
7) The thing all things devour: Birds, trees, beasts, flowers. Gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal; slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountains down.
Time
8) If I were to offer you 1 penny to clean my entire house, and double the wage every day for a month, would you do it, and if so, how much money would you make?
yes (31 days 1073741824 pennies)
9) I've got ten or more daughters. I've got less than ten daughters. I've got at least one daughter. If only one of these statements is true, how many daughters have I got?
you must have none, since if you have any number of duaghters, there always are two statements true.
10) What two words can be made from all of the letters in the word AUCTIONED?
cautioned, Education, Noctuidae
11) Jan likes weights but not pounds. She likes planes but not buses, and she likes plains but not hills. Following the same rule, will she like reins or harnesses?
?
12) What object has a key that opens no locks, has space but no room, and you can enter, but not go in?
Keyboard
13) Which is correct to say, 'The yolk of the egg are white' or, 'The yolk of the egg is white'?
Yoke of egg is yellow
14) What word, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?
SOS
15) What is the common trait between the following 6 words: pride, slime, grant, price, globe, whole?
?
16) What do trousers, braces, knickers, underpants and spectacles have in common that socks do not?
They all come in pairs, but soks in two, and the rest in 1 piece.
17) What the first man-made object to break the sound barrier was?
Arrow (and bow)
18) Rearrange the 17 letters to form a familiar advertising phrase, including a common repetition: C E E I L L N O O O P R R U W W W
19) Can you read the following? Yy u r yy u b I c u r yy 4 me.
Too wise you are, too wise you be. I see you are too wise for me.
20) Do you say, "Nine and five is thirteen," or "Nine and five are thirteen" ?
Nine and five is fourteen.
21) How can you tell the difference between a can of chicken soup and a can of tomato soup?
Read the label?
22) How can you tell twin witches apart?
?
23) How did the man feel when he got a big bill from the electric company?
Charged
24) How do pigs write?
In a Pen
25) How does a boat show affection?
?
whim
"How long will it take for the bells to signal twelve o'clock (midday) ?"
5/6 *12 = 10 seconds
whim
"Â…the very hardest riddles ever devised. Think twice before you answer, then think again.
"
Now, two 5's would not be exactly difficult would it?
Sorry, wrong answer.
5/6 *12 = 10 seconds
