The worlds first riddle!

48:
What song did he sing?

Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday dear 'Tryagain'
happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuu.

whim

48:
What song did he sing?

Happy birthday to you.


Whim, you are a mastermind, very well done.

Five pirates have 100 gold coins. they have to divide up the loot in order of seniority (suppose pirate 5 is most senior, pirate 1 is least senior), the most senior pirate proposes a distribution of the loot, they vote and if at least 50% accept the proposal the loot is divided as proposed.

Otherwise the most senior pirate is executed, and they start over again with the next senior pirate. What solution does the most senior pirate propose

Assume they are very intelligent and extremely greedy (and that they would prefer not to die). (To be clear on what 50% means, 3 pirates must vote for the proposal when there are 5 for it to pass. 2 if there are 4. 2 if there are 3. etc... )


Problem: you have 100 doors in a row that are all initially closed; you make 100 passes by the doors starting with the first door every time. The first time through you visit every door and toggle the door (if the door is closed, you open it, if its open, you close it). the second time you only visit every 2nd door (door #2, #4, #6). the third time, every 3rd door (door #3, #6, #9), etc, until you only visit the 100th door.

for example, after the first pass every door is open. on the second pass you only visit the even doors (2,4,6,8...) so now the even doors are closed and the odd ones are opened. the third time through you will close door 3 (opened from the first pass), open door 6 (closed from the second pass), etc..

Question: what state are the doors in after the last pass? Which are open which are closed

Five pirates have 100 gold coins. they have to divide up the loot in order of seniority (suppose pirate 5 is most senior, pirate 1 is least senior), the most senior pirate proposes a distribution of the loot, they vote and if at least 50% accept the proposal the loot is divided as proposed.


this is a classic problem in the modern psychology.

It seems easy. Everyone 20 gold coins done!
but if we divide it this way then other 4 pirates will kill the first thinking: with the four remaining we will get 25 coins and that's more than 20. So we can see that dividing the loot fair isn't a solution.

So we will approach the problem an other way -->

What if there's only one pirate, his proposal will be i'll keep all the money and because he is the only one that will be the division.

what if there were 2 pirates. The first will still say i'll get all the money and because they're just 2 pirates at least 50% will vote for this division.

what is there were 3 pirates. (now comes the trick)
if the first one still says i'll keep de money more than half will vote against that proposal and he will be killed. but what if he proposes this:
i'll keep 99 coins en 2nd one gets nothing and the 3th one 1 coin. If the 3th will vote against this we will go to situation 2 and then he will get nothing, therefore pirate number 3 and number 1 will vote for this division of the loot.

Looking at situation 3 we can deduce the division with 5 pirates

pirate 1 - 98 coins
pirate 2 - none
pirate 3 - 1 coin
pirate 4 - none
pirate 5 - 1 coin

I hope i made it clear

Since when does this topic have 107 pages:?

when i arrived here there were only 18 pages. now you can tell me a lot, and when i'm drunk you can tell me even more, but you cannot tell me that one day we have about 25 pages and the next 107

a riddle on its own

Quote Magnum,
"Since when does this topic have 107 pages:?"
"a riddle on its own"

A very good point. I think they have made the pages smaller as there is a world paper shortage.

Read the question very carefully;
How many times can you subtract 6 eggs from a carton holding 24 eggs

A train leaves from New York City (NYC) heading towards Los Angeles (LA) at 100 mph. Three hours later, a train leaves LA heading towards NYC at 200 MPH. Assume there's exactly 2000 miles between LA and NYC. When they meet, which train is closer to New York City

I have been asked to make clear what still remains outstanding from earlier questions. The more interesting ones are below;

There is a number less than 3000 that when divided by 2 leaves a remainder of 1, when divided by 3 leaves a remainder of 2, when divided by 4 leaves a remainder of 3, When divided by 5 leaves a remainder of 4, when divided by 6 leaves a remainder of 5, and so on up to nine.

What is that number

What phrase is represented by Phillip's action below
Alex constructed 30% of "it".
Phillip built 3/5 of "it".
Casey created 1/10 of "it".


The following is something a physicist might do:

ABCDEFG HIJKLM

What is it

What term is expressed below
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What does the following represent

tantantantantan
tantantantantantantan
tantantantantantan
tantantan
tantantantantantantantan

When the top moves, the bottom is happy.
When the bottom moves, the top is happy.
When the top moves hard, the bottom's mouth hurts.

What is this activity

What happens on everyday of the week except Monday and Friday

P is to L.
M is to OK.
Hence, D is to

A man killed his mother, was born before his father, and married his sister.

How did the man do all three things legally

P is to L.
M is to OK.
Hence, D is to .... RT


whim

ABCDEFG HIJKLM

A to M splitting


Whim

Whim, is on fire!

"Hence, D is to .... RT"

ABCDEFG HIJKLM
"A to M splitting"

Or as something a physicist might say: 'Splitting the AtoM'.

A train leaves from New York City (NYC) heading towards Los Angeles (LA) at 100 mph. Three hours later, a train leaves LA heading towards NYC at 200 MPH. Assume there's exactly 2000 miles between LA and NYC. When they meet, which train is closer to New York City


when they meet they're at the same point, so neither of them is closer to New York

Quote Magnum, "when they meet they're at the same point, so neither of them is closer to New York"


Pick and mix.


What flies when it's born, lies when it alive, and runs when it's dead

A store for wine production contained 100 kg of grapes. An analysis showed that the water content of the wine grapes is 99 %. Later on, the analysis was rerun with a result of 98 % water.

What was the weight of the grapes at that time


According to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, objects travelling at close to the speed of light appear to get shorter when viewed by stationary observers. But from the viewpoint of those on the moving object, the observers - who are receding at close to the speed of light - appear shortened instead. Other dimensions remain the same.

When these notions are applied to a submarine just below the water's surface, an inconsistency seems to arise. Spectators on an anchored ship would see the submarine shrink as it moves parallel to the surface at near-light speed. The resulting density increase would sink the vessel.

The submarine crew would see the opposite: water rushing past them would contract and get denser, making the submarine more buoyant and causing it to rise.

Relativity insists that both viewpoints are equally valid - so does the sub sink or swim

What flies when it's born, lies when it alive, and runs when it's dead?


Hail or snow.


Whim

What flies when it's born, lies when it alive, and runs when it's dead?

Quote Whim, "Hail or snow."

I had 'snowflake' but hail is cool!


The worlds most difficult Rebus;

What does this mean

if the B mt put:
if the B. putting:


Think of a lamp with a button to turn the lamp on/off. You can switch on the lamp by pressing the button once, and can switch off the lamp by pressing the button a second time.

Now you switch on the lamp and wait for 60 seconds. Then you switch off the lamp and wait for 30 seconds. Another switch-on for 15 seconds, and so on, ad infinitum. Every switch requires half of the time of the switch before.

Let's say the lamp cannot be destroyed by this handling, and it would be also possible to do an infinite number of switch operations -
after 120 seconds, will the lamp (the "infinity machine") be on or off



A casino in Las Vegas: You want to join a game with three cards. One is white on both sides, one is red on both sides, and the third is white on one and red on the other side. Every card is in a black case. You have to chose one of these cases and pull out the card so you can see one side of the card.

Let's say the visible side of the card is white. The banker offers you a bet of 50:50 that the back side is also white.

Would you play this game

I know this one, it has two more lines.

if the B mt put:
if the B. putting:
Never put : a -der
You'd be an * it.
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If the grate be empty, put coal on.
If the grate be full stop putting coal on.
Never put coal on a high fender.
You'd be an ass to risk it.


Whim

Whim, I did not know about the other two lines. Just as well, as I did not get the first two and hell would freeze over before I gave up on the other two. Thanks for the answer.

(0! + 0! + 0!)! = 6

remeber the math lessons i took ;-)

Quote Magnum;
"(0! + 0! + 0!)! = 6" Smart!

I like that one. It's so easy but the answer just doesn't "feel" right.

'Twould be 50kgs.