Riddle of the Day

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:20 pm

Well done to Greg, Rob, Nicck, Paul, and Burge. Burge is right with the 100 cents in a rand. That's all of them except we haven't quite solved number 32 with the bit in brackets:

70 = 3 S Y and T (BA)
70 is three score years and ten (??)

That was the only bit I never worked out either. "By age" ??? Anyone got a better idea?

CB · Post by CB » Fri Jul 26, 2002 9:04 pm

On 2002-07-26 13:18, Burge wrote:
Cousin,

All the others are a specific sex and cousin could be male or female?

Burge

Quite right Burge!

How about this:

Henry VIII gave his wife a bottomless container with the instruction she was only to keep flesh, blood and bone in. What was she given?

Alex LS · Post by **Alex LS** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 1:51 pm

A hat.

CB · Post by CB » Sat Jul 27, 2002 2:32 pm

No...a hat has a bottom if you turn it upside down...

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 3:06 pm

A wedding ring?

Alex LS · Post by **Alex LS** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 3:28 pm

A crown/coronet then. And a hat still has no bottom whether it's upside down or not. If you put a car on its roof, it's still the roof, not the floorpan.

CB · Post by CB » Sat Jul 27, 2002 3:53 pm

Good point AlexLS...but the answer i had was from Matt ...

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Alex LS · Post by **Alex LS** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:51 pm

Can I appeal?

CB · Post by CB » Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:55 pm

No.

How about this...

3 Mountaineers are climbing a mountain. They reach the summit and upon arriving are dismayed to find a cabin with 3 frozen bodies inside. Since these mountaineers are the first people to climb to the summit of this particular mountain, how can this be?

rob · Post by **rob** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 12:19 am

the CABIN is that of a crashed aeroplane, and the 3 bodies are either the crew or passengers

CB · Post by CB » Sun Jul 28, 2002 12:22 am

Too easy! how about a tricky one then Rob?

why are 1990 American dollar bills worth more than 1989 American dollar bills?

rob · Post by **rob** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 12:35 am

because you mean the qty not the year

CB · Post by CB » Sun Jul 28, 2002 12:41 am

damn your eyes Rob!!!

how about this then:
You are in a concrete room. There is a steel pipe 25 centimetres in length cemented into the centre of the concrete floor. The pipe protrudes 15 centimetres. a ping-pong ball is dropped down the pipe. There is a fraction of a centimetre clearance around the ping-pong ball and the pipe. Your task is to get the ping-pong ball out of the steel pipe undamaged. The only items that are available are a wooden ruler, a ball of string, a pocket mirror, a paper clip and a small magnet. Since nothing else is allowed into the room, how could you get the plastic ping-pong ball out of the steel pipe?

rob · Post by **rob** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 12:46 am

if the pipe is blocked at the other end then pee in to the pipe, it will float to the top

CB · Post by CB » Sun Jul 28, 2002 12:49 am

God you're clever Rob!

In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Any idea why not?