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| Theaterfan101 |
brain teasersI am a big fan on brain teasers. I will post one, and as soon as someone gets it right, I will let them know and they will post the next. Remember, only post a new teaser after you personaly got the previous one right. No cheating!Here it goes: Use the following letters to spell just one word J S U W N O O D T R E N |
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| ClareBell |
Just one word | ||||||||
| Jenko |
hahaha gutted... spoiled!!
Ok I have one: There is a cabin on a side of mountain, there is blood everywhere, broken windows, all the furniture is scattered everywhere. No one knows that the cabin is there. And everyone is dead.... But how did they die?!?!! |
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| Matthew |
the cabin was on teh top of the mountain, but then it slid down killing all! | ||||||||
| Jenko |
nope NEXT! |
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| The Drama Queen |
EDIT: hehe, I thought FutureMungo had gotten it right...
Did they get attacked by mountain goats? ---------------------- I've got one! Your are in the center of a room. There are 4 walls, a ceiling, and a floor. No windows. There is 1 light in the room, shining from a corner. But you can't see your shadow. Why? |
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| Jenko |
you've got ur eyes closed? | ||||||||
| The Drama Queen |
Nope. | ||||||||
| Jenko |
you're facing the light, so your shadow is behind you
OR you're peter pan and can't find your shadow? no they didnt get eaten by goats!! lol |
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| The Drama Queen |
Haha, I thought about the Peter Pan solution.
Both are wrong though. Hint: the light is also shining from different places, even though its only source is in the corner. |
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| Jenko |
the walls are mirrors so there is no shadow? | ||||||||
| The Drama Queen |
Yep!
And I still have no idea what yours is... Did they kill eachother in a violent rampage? |
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| Jenko |
it's an airplane | ||||||||
| Matthew |
ughhhh
i knew it. in theory i was right. if i had been more specific. |
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| The Drama Queen |
Now that makes perfect sense. | ||||||||
| Jenko |
haha yeh slightly more specific
i like that one, takes a while for people to work it out 
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| The Drama Queen |
The furniture bit doesn't really make sense though because there really isn't a lot of "furniture" on a plane, except the seats of course. | ||||||||
| Jenko |
can be classed as cabin furniture 
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| The Drama Queen |
Ok then, it's a good one, I think I'll try that out on my dad. 
Anyone else have any? |
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| Jenko |
you can always say chairs instead of furniture lol | ||||||||
| norayouadora |
One of my personal favorites:
Romeo and Juliet are dead. They are in a room, locked from the inside. There is a table in the room, a puddle and some broken glass. The wind is blowing the curtains of the only window in the room, which is a few feet from the table. Apart from the bodies of the recently deceased, there is nothing else in the room. How did Romeo and Juliet die? Took me forever to figure this one out... Don't spoil it if you've heard it before.
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| Luc |
They killed each other with the broken glass. | ||||||||
| Cake_in_Song |
They were fish, and the tank broke.
Old joke! |
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| Quique |
They smashed each other's noggins on the window, causing fatal lacerations as punishment for their stupidity. | ||||||||
| Glinda Upland |
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My Teacher has an obsession with Brain Teasers. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ John, Charlie, Chris, Jake, and Sam are 5 frenchmen. John speaks English and Japanese. Charlie Speaks Japanese and German. Chris speaks Chinese and Japanese. Jake speaks Chinese and German. Sam can speak all four. How many ways can you place them in a row, such that there are no problems in communication? ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ |
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| ALoneWanderer |
Well presumably they all speak french... | ||||||||
| Glinda Upland |
yep.
It took me so long to figure it out, that when I found out how simple it was, I felt really stupid. |
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| norayouadora |
I know that...
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| Jordan |
Guy lives on the 20th floor of a block of flats, every morning he gets in the lift, presses the button to go to the ground floor and goes off to work. When he returns from work, he gets in the lift, presses button 10, rides to the 10th floor then gets out and walks the rest of the way. He does not need the exercise so why does he do this? | ||||||||
| Matthew |
he is a little person and cannot reach the top buttons | ||||||||
| Jordan |
Bah. Correct. 
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| Luc |
New rule! If you know the answer... shut up!! |
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| Matthew |
then how will the puzzles ever be solved?
if you already knew the riddle, do not say the answer. |
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| Pounce |
This has been around in recent years but I think it is a good problem.
You are on a game show and are shown three doors. Behind one of the doors is a prize and the other two have nothing. The game show host knows where the prize is and asks you to pick a door. After you tell him your pick the game show host opens one of the remaining two doors to reveal it is empty. So with two doors remaining closed the game show host asks you if you wish to change your choice and pick the other closed door. Should you make the the switch? |
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| Luc |
Very clever. 
That's what I meant. |
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| Matthew |
I'm only messing with you, friend. | ||||||||
| Theaterfan101 |
Yes, you should switch because the door you choose still has only 1/3 chance while the other door has 50% chance. You are standing at the end of a field with thorns that kill humen upon contact to skin. You must go through it. How do you do it? |
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| Kaiana |
^With a machete or with a full body suit? | ||||||||
| Glinda Upland |
Ummm...
I don't know. ride a horse through it since it kills humans and not horses? You got me.
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| Pounce |
Almost. The other door has a 2/3 chance (or 66.7%). The chance of picking the correct door is 1/3 and chance of getting it wrong is 2/3. So by switching your choice, if you first picked the correct door then after the switch, you'd end up with the wrong door and the chance of that is still 1/3. And if you first picked the wrong door the switch would give you the right door which is a 2/3 chance.
1. Drive a tank through it. 2. Burn it down 3. The deadly plants are far enough apart that I can just walk through it. 4. It's only thorns and they are on the ground so with shoes with soles thick enough, I can walk over them. 5. It kills humens and I'm a human so I just walk through. |
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| Amber |
I'm at the end of it. Why would I walk through it if I'm already at the end? | ||||||||
| christinadaae |
Wouldn't it be the same whether you made the switch or not? |
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| Theaterfan101 |
Since no one has gotten it I will post the answer. Glinda Upland was almost right.
Answer You yell and yell until your voice gets hoarse and ride the horse across |
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| Pounce |
Here's an oldie but goody.
There are two passageways, one leads to freedom and the other to your destruction. You must choose between them. There are two guards standing beside the passageways and they know where each passageway leads. But one always lies and the other always tells the truth but you don't know which guard is which. You can only ask one question of one of guards to determine the passageway to freedom. What question do you ask? Oh, and this will be my 2,000th post! Yay! And apparently, I've peaked in my attributes. 
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| Pounce |
You'd think so but all that stuff prior to your final decision between the two doors gives you information as to which action is the best. |
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| christinadaae |
No, because each door holds a 33% chance of having the prize no matter how many times you change. |
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| LesMisForever |
Hello
Ok. One of my favourites. The Lost Pound ========== 3 people go to buy a book. They ask the cashier about the price. He tells them it is £30. Each pay £10. Once they walk out, the owner comes and learns what happend. He tells the cashier that the book costs only £25, and asks him to return the £5. The cashier gets greedy. He gives back each one only £1 back (£3 in total), and keeps £2 for himself. Now, lets stop. Each guy paid £10, and got £1 back. So, each paid £9. £9x3=£27. £27+£2 (The Cashier took)= £29. Where is the remaining £1. Hints: The answer is not a linguistic trick, but a little bit logical/mathematical, but not heavy maths. Just try to look at things from all angles, and construct it correctly. |
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| ALoneWanderer |
Wrong. Statistcally it's true you want to switch doors, you have a much better chance. Think of it this way. If you have 3 doors and you pick door one, are told that door 2 has nothing behind it and stay with door, then you have a 33% chance of getting the prize door. If however you pick door one knowing that you're going to switch, you've affectively chosen both door two and three before you've even been told which one doesn't contain the prize. If you choose door one, and they tell you door 2 has nothing behind it and you switch to door three, it's as if you've chosen twice, giving you a 66% chance. It's a hard thing to wrap your head around, but it's true. If you don't get this, then try it yourself. Get someone to help you and a deck of cards. Give them two kings and an ace, your job is to get the ace. They know what card is which, you choose one and they tell you that one of the other two cards (as there will be at least one obviously) is not an ace. Then switch. Do this every time for quite a few times and you'll find around 66% of the time you'll get the ace. Now do the same thing only never switching, you'll find you only get it right around 33% of the time. Hope that makes sense. |
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| Pounce |
But your chance of being right is 33.3% and being wrong is 66.7% when you pick. There are two scenarios: If you picked the wrong door (and the odds for that is good 66.7% i.e. 2 out of 3) then the game show host opens the other wrong door you didn't pick leaving you with only the correct door to choose when you switch. So the odds of this happening is 66.7% If you picked the correct door (odds of that is 33.3%) then the game show host opens one of the two wrong doors and you switch your pick to the other wrong door. But the odds of this is 33.3% |
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| norayouadora |
Okay, I don't know if this makes sense, but couldn't you ask one of the guards what the other guard would say is the path to freedom? So the one who lies will lie and say the wrong door, or the one who tells the truth with truthfully tell you that the liar will tell say the wrong door. So you just go through the OTHER door. Whoa, my head hurts. Hehe, but is that it? (I will feel so smart if it is).
Ps.
I whole-heartedly agree... It takes all the fun out of it. |
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| Pounce |
Yes you are correct...now take a Tylenol or Advil. 
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| norayouadora |
^LOL, will do! But yay for me.  Hehe.
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| Soliloquial |
It disappeared into a random place of the multiverse. Haha, just kidding. The people gave £30 to the cashier. He gave £3 back to the people. Therefore, he had £27 and they had £3 which adds up to £30. Nothing happened to the other pound. I don't understand your logic.
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| Cake_in_Song |
Oh! That one was in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" (or however it goes). Very good book, but I never understood the math behind the riddle. |
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| christinadaae |
Yes, I understand what you are saying. But, if you have the wrong door, and you switch, there is only a 33% chance that the door you chose the second time is right, since you have two choices and the door you primarily chose. |
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| ALoneWanderer |
Read my explanation. If it still doesn't make sense to you, do what I recommend with the cards. Nothing proves things as well as actually seeing them work properly. I assure you it is the right answer, it's a very common statistics problem. It's just tricky to wrap your brain around it. |
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| christinadaae |
Oh, so they tell you more than I thought they did.
I didn't know they told you that much. Cool. I understand now. So, there is a tractor on an island. How did it get there? It has never been on a boat, any kind of flying vehicle, and it can't drive underwater. There is no one on the island, and there is no bridge to the island. |
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| Luc |
It was parked on land, and then it detatched and became in island?? | ||||||||
| Quique |
^ I have a feeling he's right.
But I'm going to say...it fell from the heavens above? lol. |
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| christinadaae |
Falso. It has been an island forever. Since the beginning of time and before. |
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| Matthew |
the island was built around it. | ||||||||
| christinadaae |
Now how are you going to go build an island around a tractor? | ||||||||
| Matthew |
How does Disneyland build islands around train tracks? | ||||||||
| Quique |
It's a toy tractor. Some kid dropped it into the ocean and then it washed up on the shore of the island.
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| christinadaae |
^ Thats a better answer than the actual answer.
But its not the one I heard. |
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| Pounce |
With the switch strategy, you only have one choice. If you pick the wrong door (there are two wrong doors out of three doors so the chance for this is 2/3) then the game show host (who knows what is behind all the doors) intentionally reveals a door with nothing behind it. That leaves only the door with the prize behind it so with your switch strategy you end up winning. In short, if you pick the wrong door first and the host opens a door with nothing behind it then the switch strategy forces you to end up with the correct door. However, if you pick the right door first then the switch stategy means you will lose. But the probability of picking the wrong door first is 2/3 and the probability of picking the right door first is 1/3 so given the host revealing a door with nothing behind it after your pick and asking you if you want to switch doors, you are better off using the switch strategy. |
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| Pounce |
It's actually a variation of the Monty Hall Problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem and was made famous as a question posed to Marilyn vos Savant. She answered it correctly but was flooded by angry letters saying that she didn't know what she was talking about. Some of the letters were written (sadly) by professors claiming to have Ph.Ds. |
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| Theaterfan101 |
The cashier lost his job once the owner found out what happened. |
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| InaraSanguine |
Why did three people have to go together for a $25 dollar book? Or did they each buy their own copy...in which case...that cashier is a total moron. Okay but seriously...there is no missing dollar/pound. The math in the riddle tricks you into thinking so. Each guy paid $10 $10x3=$30. Minus the money returned to the customers $30-$3=$27. Minus the money the cashier pocketed $27-$2=$25, which is the orginal cost of the book. No missing dollar. Just a math trick. |
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| Quique |
EDIT: Nevermind. Was unsure about my response to begin with. 
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| Kaiana |
^Truly you have a dizzying intellect. | ||||||||
| Quique |
^ Actually, I still think my answer was right. It's the same as the answer above mine. Though I admit that I over explained it. | ||||||||
| Quique |
Here's a really cool one. It was originally posted by JPme over at Mf.net. Click the blue circle to start...
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| benjivaudeville |
God... that was difficult! But I got it... and quicker than I thought I would. 5minutes approx | ||||||||
| Quique |
That's really good. It took me about 15-20 min. | ||||||||
| katethegreat |
I don't get it - my brain hurts! | ||||||||
| christinadaae |
Can't we just push the thief into the river? | ||||||||
| LesMisForever |
Hello
Regarding the Missing Pound...Yes, both answers are correct. Personally, i tend to explain it more, or less like the second answer. The trick is in the way it is told, and you wouldn't believe how many people struggled to explain it. One guy even got himself 30 coins to try and find that "missing" one (I am not going to comment on his mathematical skills though )
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| norayouadora |
That's a good answer! I think the real answer is probably much lamer than that. How 'bout, they waited until the water around the island was frozen up, and they just slid the tractor on the ice?  Lol.
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| Kaiana |
What a disturbing family... |
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| Pounce |
That was fun...despite the referral credit. In case you need a warm-up, here is an easier version. http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/foxduck/jbfoxduck.htm |
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| Quique |
Darkside? lol. Um...the whole M.net/Mf.net fued has cooled significantly now. I don't know why you're always so against them. They've long stopped worrying about this place, yet you seem to enjoy bringing them up a lot. Really, they aren't that bad. They're actually very cool people.
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| Pounce |
Dude, I never bring them up. Someone else does, in this case yourself. Anyway, things have cooled because we split hence the perception of their coolness. Good fences make for good neighbors. Let's keep that wall intact.
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| Quique |
OK, let me rephrase that...why do you always insult them? Better? 
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| Pounce |
My comments are euphemisms for what I'd really like to call them. That place is not merely an alternative site. It was created for a reason. But let's not go on or this thread will get locked. Topic: Brain Teasers 10 people in a room greet each other by shaking hands. How many handshakes are there when they are done? |
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| Quique |
At least you're honest, hehe. I was just curious as it annoyed me a little. But guess you're right, don't want to cause an argument. So, on with the topic... | ||||||||
| LesMisForever |
45? |
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| Pounce |
Yup. For the more math astute. N people in a room greet each other by shaking hands. How many handshakes are there when they are done? I'm asking for a formula. |
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| LesMisForever |
Hello
The answer to your question, i think, is : n(n-1)/2. ***** For a very primitive demonstration (and not really practical if we have say 5434 people) if N is small : (n-1)+(n-2)+(n-3)+..........+1. |
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| Theaterfan101 |
there was a plane crash on the border on the US and Canada? Where were the survirors buried? | ||||||||
| Matthew |
Silly, survivors aren't burried! | ||||||||
| Theaterfan101 |
Yep, you can't guess how long that takes some people
Here is a hard one (for some reason it takes people for ever and I got it in like a minute or less )
A man looked at a photo and said about the man in it "Brothers and Sisters I Have None, But This Man's Father, Is My Father's Son?" Who was the photo of? |
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| LesMisForever |
Hello
It is almost 1:30 after midnight, so excuse my answer if it is dumb: It was his own photo? |
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| Jordan |
My neighbour owns a peacock and one day it lays an egg in my garden. To whom does the egg belong? | ||||||||
| LesMisForever |
Well, GayBoy, i would love to see this peacock  ., because as far as i know peacock don't lay eggs
(hey! we Londoners, aren't we supposed to be in bed now? ) |
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| Theaterfan101 |
wronge, but that is the most common answer
the peacock |
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| Pounce |
Yes, correct. Can you do the proof? n(n-1)/2 = (n-1)+(n-2)+...+1 The level of this problem is advanced high school math or Discreet Math in college. |
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| Jordan |
Absolutely right, peaHENS lay the eggs.
I'm off to bed right now
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| Matthew |
A man named Todd [ ] sailed around the world but was always in sight of land.
You got some 'splaining to do! |
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| Theaterfan101 |
Was he sailing around a Globe? |