Puzzle

stuckie27 · Post by **stuckie27** » June 6th, 2004, 2:02 am

Boy goes to school looks at clock in mirror without realizing it, arrives at school 20 minutes later and finds that it's an 2hrs 30 mins later than the time he saw in the mirror. What time did he arrive at school?

PaperMate · Post by **PaperMate** » June 6th, 2004, 6:31 pm

Aha, I know this one, but I won't reveal all. I'll leave it to you.
The 'mirror' is the key, isn't it, Stuckie ?

Anyway, here's another poser in a similar vein:

I'm a wealthy London businessman/woman and I'm leaving for work.
It's 7.00 am and I have a meeting at 8.00 am, but my journey will take at least 3 hours ! Not to worry I've got plenty of time

Easy, think supersonic flight and time zones.

My meeting's in New York. I've got Concorde parked in my (big) front garden....so, even allowing for flight time of 3 hours, with the time difference I'll be in New York for 5. 00am !!

On second thoughts: I'm rich, (afterall, I bought Concorde)... to hell with work, I'm going back to bed.

origami93 · Post by **origami93** » July 27th, 2006, 3:34 am

here's one.

a horse is tied to a 10 foot rope. the horse's food is 15 feet away from the horse. how does the horse reach the food without breaking the rope?

here's another.

a man goes drinking at a bar.
he gets really drunk and starts walking home in the middle of the road. a car comes, the driver sees the man, and stops. the car's headlights are broken, and the streetlights don't work. how did the driver see him?

rokonacdc · Post by **rokonacdc** » July 27th, 2006, 5:18 am

the rope wasnt tied to anything

kenongab · Post by **kenongab** » July 27th, 2006, 1:52 pm

The second one: It was in the middle of the morning

(or something sunny)

Tjips · Post by **Tjips** » July 28th, 2006, 3:48 pm

A Rancher has three sons and 17 horses. In his will is stated that the oldest son gets half the horses, the second oldest a third and the jongest a ninth. Without chopping any horses to pieces, or rounding, how are they devided?

theorigamist · Post by **theorigamist** » July 28th, 2006, 4:01 pm

A half plus a third plus a ninth adds up to 17/18. So they buy another horse, the sons get 9, 6 and 2 horses respectively, then they sell off the extra.

Post by **snkhan** » July 30th, 2006, 8:11 pm

Okay, this one was popularised by BBC radio 1 (no cheating please!).

What's more evil than the devil; kinder than God; the poor have it and the rich need it?

There is a logical answer!

franz · Post by **franz** » July 30th, 2006, 8:26 pm

oh, thatÂ´s easy: nothing!

(but I have to confess that my 5-year-old nephew asked me the question some weeks ago ...

)

hahahahiloveyou · Post by **hahahahiloveyou** » August 20th, 2006, 10:09 pm

here's quite a few puzzles

http://digggames.com/games/clickdrag.swf

polop · Post by **polop** » August 21st, 2006, 2:34 pm

origami93 wrote:here's one.

a horse is tied to a 10 foot rope. the horse's food is 15 feet away from the horse. how does the horse reach the food without breaking the rope?

here's another.

The horse is attached to his rope but he is on one side of his circle. so he is 10 foot from the centre and there is another 10 foot on the other side of the circle. therefore he can move 20 foot. 5 foot to spare

Joseph Wu · Post by **Joseph Wu** » August 21st, 2006, 4:04 pm

polop: that makes no sense.

The answer is much simpler: the other end of the rope isn't tied to anything.

Post by **Daydreamer** » August 21st, 2006, 4:09 pm

Actually I think that polop's answer is quite clever if you look at it this way:

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|          rope = 10 feet       |     5 feet    |

Horse-------------------------Pole            Food

|................distance = 15 feet.............|

Joseph Wu · Post by **Joseph Wu** » August 21st, 2006, 4:50 pm

Thanks for the picture, Daydreamer. I totally misunderstood what polop was saying. Sorry, polop!

Turtle13oi · Post by **Turtle13oi** » August 23rd, 2006, 6:17 pm

what comes once in a second once in a minute twice in a week and one in a year