Puzzle No.14

Paladin

John Jones is in a concrete room, with a small hole in the floor in he middle of the room. This hole is cylindrical in shape, is about an inch in diameter, and 1 foot deep.
John has dropped his ping pong ball into the hole.
He has in his possesion, a pin, 3 feet of rope, a magnet and a table tennis paddle with its rubber covering. Without any other devices John got the ball out. How? (he was locked into this room for arguments sake)

Mills

He could pi$$ into the hole and the pi$$ would cause the table-tennis ball to float to the surface where he can just pick it up.

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Mills

Snaggle

:0 but what about the pin?

SantaHoe

Thats a trick question.
If the hole was only 1-inch in diameter, a standard pingpong ball wouldn't fit down the hole.
The hole would need to be at least 1-inch in radius for this to be possible.

Thankyou Seattle, GOODNIGHT!

the celtic tiger

The way i see it is that if the ball did in fact fit into the hole......why the fupp did he drop it in?????? I mean...he knew he'd have to get it out again...otherwise what sort of a table tennis game was he going to play using a pin as a table tennis ball. I bet i'd beat him at table tennis....in fact...I HEREBY CHALLENGE YOU JOHN JONES TO A MATCH. That is all

tct

Paladin

Damn you mills ya clever ****or

Smurfy

Tct,
i have played table tennis with you on numerous occasions and you are not all that!

Ureka! i know the answer. But i don't feel i should tell everyone and ruin the question.
Tct shouln't be so smart! !Anyway i bet tct has the boardgame

Wyverne

grrr, baby, very grr

rubber covering,
reminds me of buffy

sigh

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This is Commander in chief of the USS Esses, signing off.