Riddle/\/\/\/\/\/\ Solve this!

TUTS

A Nightwatch man on duty one particular night in a
very large warehouse had a dream that his
boss would be killed in a train crash the following evening going
home from work -
The next morning when the nightwatch man was nearly
finished his shift - his boss arrived in work.
The nightwatch man informed him of his dream the previous night,
and warned his boss not to get on the train after work.
That evening the boss took the bus,
while having his dinner that evening, there was a newsflash -
the 6.00 train had crashed killing every passenger on the train -
following morning the boss arrives at work - walks up to the
nightwatch man and fires him ............ WHY -

emmmm

cianc_old

..because he was sleeping on his shift?

PrecariousNuts

Yeah because he was sleeping on the job to have that dream, what an ungrateful boss.

TUTS

ye'are a quick bunch:D No one at work has got that one yet.... ha!

Johnny Versace

OK, what about this (retarded) one -

There is a big pond.
On day 1, 1 leaf is dropped on the pond.
On day 2, 2 leaves are dropped into the pond.
On day 3, 4 leaves are dropped into the pond.
On day 4, 8 leaves are dropped into the pond.
On day 5, 16 leaves are dropped into the pond.
On day 6, 32 leaves are dropped into the pond.
...

The pond is full on the 100th day.

When was it half full?

You better get it straight away mongo!

Lafortezza

Originally posted by Johnny Versace
When was it half full?

on the 99th day!

threebeards

The 99th day???

ShayK1

Yeah I agree the 99th day!

so mmmm



What gets bigger the more you take away from it??

Lafortezza

Originally posted by ShayK1
Yeah I agree the 99th day!

so mmmm



What gets bigger the more you take away from it??

a hole!

Johnny Versace

Originally posted by ShayK1
What gets bigger the more you take away from it??

A negative number???

Pompey Magnus

a hole?

Imposter

Originally posted by threebeards
The 99th day???

Only if it has to be full of 'leaves' and all the leaves that are in the pond are removed before dropping the new ones in.

MiCr0

the 99th day

Raphael

Ok, 4 guys are buried up to their necks in sand. 2 are wearing red hats, 2 blue hats

They can only see straight in front of them

The first one to shout out what colour hat he's wearing will be freed, then the others will be left to starve to death

Which one will escape?

Johnny Versace

Yeah I know this one, so won't spoil the answer... it's my fav puzzle

padraigmyers

Is it the guy

....second from the right, he will wait about 10 seconds though before he says it.

I hadn't heard it before, its a good one.

Johnny Versace

Originally posted by padraigmyers
Is it the guy

....second from the right, he will wait about 10 seconds though before he says it.

Why the bit after the comma? Explain your answer in greater detail!

padraigmyers

OK, here you go...

If the rightmost guy see's 2 of the same hat he will say it immeadiatly because he know that there is only 2 of each color so if he see's 2 of the same color then he knows that his must be the other color, if he dosent say it within 10 seconds then the guy 2nd from the right knows that his hat must be a different color from the guy in front of him, so then the guy 2nd from the right can call the oppisite color to what the guy in front of him is wearing and be sure he is right.

Is that it?

Johnny Versace

Pretty much!

ixoy

These riddles are too easy - let's take it up a notch, let's put PuzzleDonkey puzzles on here :cool:

Victor

Originally posted by threebeards
The 99th day???

Actually it would be at the start (i.e. first leaf of the day) of the 100th day as **more** leaves would fall on that day, than all the other days put together.

Lafortezza

Originally posted by ixoy
These riddles are too easy - let's take it up a notch, let's put PuzzleDonkey puzzles on here :cool:

there was a massive thread floating through After Hours around Christmas, it fell by the wayside when everyone realised that the PuzzleDonkey puzzles are waaayyyyyy too hard.

ixoy

Originally posted by Johnny Versace
OK, what about this (retarded) one -

There is a big pond.
On day 1, 1 leaf is dropped on the pond.
On day 2, 2 leaves are dropped into the pond.
On day 3, 4 leaves are dropped into the pond.
On day 4, 8 leaves are dropped into the pond.
On day 5, 16 leaves are dropped into the pond.
On day 6, 32 leaves are dropped into the pond.
...

The pond is full on the 100th day.

When was it half full?

You better get it straight away mongo!

Argh! Hold on this doesn't make sense

Day 1: 1 leaf falls, and there is 1 leaf in the pond.
Day 2: 2 leaves fall and there are now 2+1 = 3 leaves in the pond
Day 3: 4 leaves fall and there are now 4+2+1 = 7 leaves in the pond
Day 4....

Do you see? Now I don't have a program handy but can anyway calculate how many leaves are on the 99th and 100th days respectively and see if these figures work? It's a geometric series, if I recall correctly and - as it happens - this makes the riddle tricky :dunno:

Kappar

If it's Zero degrees C today and twice as cold tomorrow how cold will it be tomorrow?

Victor

Originally posted by ixoy
Argh! Hold on this doesn't make sense

Ignore the 100 days (the same principles apply), imagine there are only 10 days, at day nine the pond is nearly half (511/1023) full of leaves.

Day	Today	Total
1	1	1
2	2	3
3	4	7
4	8	15
5	16	31
6	32	63
7	64	127
8	128	255
9	256	511
10	512	1023

Johnny Versace

Originally posted by ixoy
Argh! Hold on this doesn't make sense

Day 1: 1 leaf falls, and there is 1 leaf in the pond.
Day 2: 2 leaves fall and there are now 2+1 = 3 leaves in the pond
Day 3: 4 leaves fall and there are now 4+2+1 = 7 leaves in the pond
Day 4....

Do you see? Now I don't have a program handy but can anyway calculate how many leaves are on the 99th and 100th days respectively and see if these figures work? It's a geometric series, if I recall correctly and - as it happens - this makes the riddle tricky :dunno:

No, no, no... the answer is the 99th day... think about it...

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by Kappar
If it's Zero degrees C today and twice as cold tomorrow how cold will it be tomorrow?

-8.888888888888888888888(etc) Degrees C

(Farenheit converter tbh)

mr_angry

Originally posted by Kappar
If it's Zero degrees C today and twice as cold tomorrow how cold will it be tomorrow?

I presume the answer is 0 degrees, although since "cold" is a perception rather than a defined state of the environment, the answer could be absolutely everything. If it was half the temperature again the next day, we can all mull over the divide by zero problem to ourselves - made all the more fun by visualising it as the Tan of 90 degrees, geometrically, and slowly melting your brain...

Evil_Bilbo

Alive without breath - cold as death
Never thirsty - always drinking
clad in mail - never clinking

What am I?

Raphael

A fish



Greater than god
More evil than the devil
The poor have me
The rich want me

What am I

[edit: what say we make this like the funneh caption thread, whoever gets the riddle, posts a new one]

Jam

If it's Zero degrees C today and twice as cold tomorrow how cold will it be tomorrow?

Zero degress C is the same as 273.15 Kelvin (0k being absolute zero), and I would consider twice as cold to be the same as 'half as hot'. So my answer is 273.15k divided by two. So minus 136.575 degrees C.

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by Raphael
A fish



Greater than god
More evil than the devil
The poor have me
The rich want me

What am I

Nothing... isn't there more to that riddle though?

Evil_Bilbo

greater than god
More evil than the devil
the poor have it
the rich want it

The answer is

NOTHING

Thirty white horses upon a white hill
First they stamp
Then they champ
Then they stand still

Anyone???

Evil_Bilbo

Sorry, thats

30 white horses upon a RED hill

Raphael

Well if there is i dont know it.

Evil_Bilbo

Its pretty dumb

Teeth!

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
Thirty white horses upon a red hill
First they stamp
Then they champ
Then they stand still/B]

Can I give a friend a ring ?

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You are in a room with three light switches on a wall.
In a while you will be taken to room with a light.
There you have to work out which switch controls the light.
The usual provisions apply you are not allowed back in the first room and the winged monkeys haven't been feed in ages so you had better get it right.

Civilian_Target

Originally posted by Jam
If it's Zero degrees C today and twice as cold tomorrow how cold will it be tomorrow?

Zero degress C is the same as 273.15 Kelvin (0k being absolute zero), and I would consider twice as cold to be the same as 'half as hot'. So my answer is 273.15k divided by two. So minus 136.575 degrees C.

Bull****. To get half of something, you have to have a reference point, eg. half of 8 is 4 but only because we assume 0 is the reference point. Assuming 0 is still the reference point, if it's 0c today then when it's half as cold it'll still be 0c. Otherwise the question is redundant.

PrecariousNuts

Yes but here we have the number 273.15K. Half it to get 136.575K. I don't see the problem. If you want it back in celcius subtract 273.15 to get -136.575C

All he was doing is changing the scale temperature is measured on.

Agent Smith

yawn

TheSonOfBattles

Originally posted by Captain Midnight
You are in a room with three light switches on a wall.
In a while you will be taken to room with a light.
There you have to work out which switch controls the light.
The usual provisions apply you are not allowed back in the first room and the winged monkeys haven't been feed in ages so you had better get it right.

Switch on all 3, at once if possible and leave them on.

Failing that, flick all 3 one at a time, and watch the area behind the switch on all 3, whichever one gives a little flicker of light just behind the switch is the one supplying electricity somewhere.

Magic Monkey

Flick switch #1, leave 3 mins. Switch off. Wait 5 mins.

Flick switch #2, leave 3 mins. Switch off.

Flick switch #3.

Enter room.

If light is on, switch #3 is active.

If lightbulb is warm, switch #2 is active.

If lightbulb is cold, switch #1 is active.


Dubious. Something to do with time intervals between flicking the switches and heat of the bulb. I heard this when that girl who won the Young Scientist for some crypto work was on the Late Late... :dunno:

kiffer

Originally posted by PrecariousNuts
Yes but here we have the number 273.15K. Half it to get 136.575K. I don't see the problem. If you want it back in celcius subtract 273.15 to get -136.575C

All he was doing is changing the scale temperature is measured on.

right, but thats assuming that that twice as cold is the same as half as hot ... but that's not really so...
.
I'd have to say that room temp is "not cold" so thats say 20C right so the loss of temp down to 0C is -20
then twice that much is -40 ...
so -20 is twice as cold as 0 ...

cold is a privative like darkness.
its not a lack of heat . it is the absense of heat.
so I'm just going to stop thinking about it now.

Privative
Consisting in the absence of something

Macseamusa

damm i was just about to post that riddle. heres an easy one
u are in a dark room, u cant see anything, ur directed to a box, in the box there are 50 white socks and 50 black socks. what is the minimum about of socks u have to take out to get a pair of the same colour

Magic Monkey

If you can't see anything, how would you know you've made a match?

I'd say 2, as with the absense of light, the white socks are black, so you only need 2. Unless you're blindfolded, and there is light...

Macseamusa

there is someone in the room with night vision gogles or something
and no

seamus

3.

There are only two colours, so at least two of those three must be the same colour.

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by Magic Monkey
Flick switch #1, leave 3 mins. Switch off. Wait 5 mins.

Flick switch #2, leave 3 mins. Switch off.

Flick switch #3.

Enter room.

If light is on, switch #3 is active.

If lightbulb is warm, switch #2 is active.

If lightbulb is cold, switch #1 is active.


Dubious. Something to do with time intervals between flicking the switches and heat of the bulb. I heard this when that girl who won the Young Scientist for some crypto work was on the Late Late... :dunno:

Not doubious at all.
- don't touch switch #1 at all
- leave switch #2 on for a while - so the bulb gets hot
then turn off
- turn on switch #3

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For those who don' t watch Mr Singh on BBC3

Two jars of tablets X,Y - one of each to be taken daily. Two have been removed from jar X and one from jar Y. - but they look identical - how do you go about getting the correct dosage with wasting any tablets ?

Dathai

A cowboy goes to his mothers house on Friday
2 days later he leaves on Friday,how is this possible?

Magic Monkey

Dathai: It's the name of his horse.

Cap'tn: Take another from jar Y to even the numbers? Hmm, but you could still be taking two of the tablets from either jar X or Y... :dunno:

Raphael

Friday is his horses name