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Brain teasers

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:52 pm
by Seafoam Understone
1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?

4. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

5. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

6. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:56 pm
by Landwaster
1. Well the lions are probably dead by now!
2.
3. Freeze one of the jugs of whatever and then chuck it in as ice.
4.
5. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
6. No 'E's, most common letter in the English alphabet.

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 9:50 pm
by Gil galad
4 is a newspaper

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:45 pm
by Landwaster
Thanks Seafoam for PMing me with how I went, and with the answers ... I won't blab.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:19 pm
by [Syl]
2.
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photography - take/shoot the picture, develop it (though it takes more than water), and then hang it up (or lay it on a mesh mat) to dry

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:55 pm
by birdandbear
4. is
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Charcoal

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:15 pm
by CovenantJr
1
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Dead lions
2
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No idea
3
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Ditto. I thought something to do with dye, but...
4
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Yes, a paper
5
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I would say Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day
6
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No idea again

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:15 pm
by The Leper Fairy
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I thought 1 was the assassins because maybe they were friendly assassins that didn't want to shoot him... :oops: CovJr, I was thinking along the same lines as you for the 'day' one... like Easter and Thanksgiving...etc...
anyone know anymore?

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:19 am
by Fist and Faith
1) The room with the dead lions.

2) Is "holding under water" what they do in a darkroom in all the movies and tv shows? So she shot his pic with a camera, developed it, then hung it on the wall?

Or they're REALLY REALLY into S&M.

3) Freeze the jugs and put the blocks of ice in the barrel?

4) ok, I give up. I want to go look at other threads now. :)

5) Not sure what to do here.
-January 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
-New Year's Eve/New Year's Day/My brother's birthday

There's gotta be a million possibilities.

6) Well, I've heard of the book without the letter "E", so I kinda had a hint.

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:58 pm
by The Leper Fairy
I was thinkin about number 1 today... and I've decided that there really isn't a solution and maybe I was right with the friendly assassins afterall! :twisted: Because if one lion died of hunger the others would eat him and not be hungry anymore and then not die!!! And therein lies the geniusness of my primary choice of the assassins. 8):D

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:06 pm
by Forestal
yeah but 3 years is a long time....

i suppose it depends on the size of the room, number of lions, and if they would have killed each other, which is far more likely...

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:01 pm
by CovenantJr
The Leper Fairy wrote:I was thinkin about number 1 today... and I've decided that there really isn't a solution and maybe I was right with the friendly assassins afterall! :twisted: Because if one lion died of hunger the others would eat him and not be hungry anymore and then not die!!! And therein lies the geniusness of my primary choice of the assassins. 8):D
Good call 8)

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:58 pm
by Forestal
i do wonder how many lions could be eaten in 3 years... as, by my estimation, it takes a pride of lions a few hours to eat a whole wilderbeast... it would take less to eat a lion... so therefore taking into account that lions would need to eat at least once a day... after 3 years, you would need to have a room filled with over 1000 lions... now that would b one big ass room...

Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:03 pm
by z
Don't make me smack you. I don't like my brain teased. That's not nice. Now do me right~!