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Puzzles - Part 1+1
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Naemanson Date: 12 Dec 00 - 08:11 PM MULES! I agree with Jeri! Now let's discuss the removal of Bernard's body parts. "...crooked as a ram's horn..." A politician? A lawyer? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 12 Dec 00 - 07:39 PM the curves in a mountain road are both crooked and sharp. (we call them kiss me a** curves). Do you have those in WV? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jeri Date: 12 Dec 00 - 07:15 PM Briar, Br'er Allan? If it's a woman's tongue, you're in trouble! |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 07:05 PM I like that one a lot, Mary! Not the one they were after, though. However, you were looking in the right place. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 12 Dec 00 - 06:59 PM Allan - crooked and sharp - gotta be a backwoods Southern lawyer. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 12 Dec 00 - 06:53 PM Re: Wolfgang's matchsticks - I now say five. Assuming they are all the same length, basically cylindrical in shape, and all must touch each other. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 06:27 PM NW, I understand your thinking. Such a trick was used in: Railroad crossing. Look out for the cars. Let's see you spell that without any "r"'s. Not the case for this one. (Had I been the originator, I might have included at least one additional hint - but, alas, I was not.) It is a tough one. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: NightWing Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:56 PM Allan, On the "crooked as a ram's horn" one: The word "that"? Still thinking about the "mute, blind, and deaf" one.
BB, P.S. A poem for your edification and elucidation:
Hickory dickory dock *EG* |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:41 PM Here's one from Louisiana: As crooked as a ram's horn, teeth like a cat, guess all your lifetime, you'll never guess that. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jeri Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:26 PM Jon got it.
Bernard, where did you say you lived again? No, no - not what country - where exactly, with directions if possible. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jon Freeman Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:18 PM I didn'y start on it till this afternoon but it has been bugging me for a few hours. I'm glad I went back and re-read the thread and found kicking was a clue. I don't think I would have got it without that. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Bernard Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:18 PM The mammal in question is commonplace, a land creature, and domesticated (although not a pet, usually). The question is not a 'catch' question, and the answer is very simple. The 'young' will grow up to be adults of this animal; there is no trick of the International Dateline (or any other computer dating agency...!). It is just as possible that all traces of this creature could be lost for ten years - above or below ground, on or in water, or anywhere else. But significantly large numbers (or even just one!) could be borne after ten years, twenty years, five seconds - elapsed time is not an issue, just a red herring. It is difficult to give many more clues without giving away the answer - but this creature shares its name with a type of footwear... NO! It's not a kinky leather... thigh... length... boot... ooooo-er!! |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jeri Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:15 PM Jon - ggggrrrrr! I thought mule, then the obvious escaped me... I'm glad I got to at least READ the answer. I keep losing power here, and would go nuts if I had to try to come up with it for another night. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:09 PM Jon, you got it!!! |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: mousethief Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:07 PM a whale? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jon Freeman Date: 12 Dec 00 - 05:05 PM A mule? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: MMario Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:57 PM a mammal bigger then a breadbox. That eliminates shrews, mice, voles, squirrels, most bats, in fact most rodents... Is it a domesticated animal? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:54 PM Yes. It is bigger than a breadbox. (heh, heh) |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jeri Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:52 PM Is it bigger than a bread box? (Bernard needs to start looking for a bodyguard :-) |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:37 PM Good guess, Mario. No cigar. When Bernard sees the havoc his question has wrought, he will be totally amazed. Meanwhile, I will attempt to field the questions for him. Those that would be born would be of exactly the same classification as the deceased. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: mousethief Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:36 PM Flies aren't born; they hatch. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: MMario Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:28 PM would the syria one be "History"? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Naemanson Date: 12 Dec 00 - 04:15 PM Which mammal, which is not egg-laying (e.g. duck billed platypus), could theoretically be completely wiped off the face of the earth, yet, the following day thousands of young could be born?" You know, he never said thousands of young MAMMALS would be born. Next day thousands of young flies would be born to feed off the ensuing carnage. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:57 PM Sorry, Jeri. I thought you saw your folly when you said, "I know, I know - try again." But I have to admit, it was very creative logic. Here is one from Syria: He is quite mute, blind and deaf, yet he has seen and heard all that has occurred in the past and he will see and hear all that is to come in the future: just now he tells us all. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Margo Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:49 PM The kicking made me think immediately of a Kangaroo. The baby could emerge from the pouch even if the mama was dead... if it was mature enough. Am I close? Margo |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: MMario Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:42 PM snookers = nostrils ? 4 dilly-danders = teats |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jeri Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:40 PM Allan, ahem...what did you think of my answer? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:38 PM Nostrils and teats were all that were missing, NW. You and Mario have shown remarkable creativity in thought. And I follow your logic totally. But none of these is the answer that was sought. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: NightWing Date: 12 Dec 00 - 03:21 PM Can someone please explain the "two hookers" puzzle?
equals a cow. Also, on the mammals question, how about the bat? Off the face of the earth, but in the air. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: MMario Date: 12 Dec 00 - 02:46 PM considering the international dateline - any mammal. or another version - pick any mammal for which there are seperate names for the female and the male. For example - all "bulls" could be wiped off the face of the earth right now, and tomorrow thousands more will be born; because "bulls" do not equal "cows"; ditto "boars" and "sows" |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jeri Date: 12 Dec 00 - 02:37 PM Bernard said "wiped off the face of the earth" meant killed, as in dead, extinct, kicked the bucket, gone to meet their maker... Well, "Which mammal, which is not egg-laying (e.g. duck billed platypus), could theoretically be completely wiped off the face of the earth, yet, the following day thousands of young could be born?" Theoretically, all of us mammals could be wiped off the face of the earth on any particular day, but thousands of us could be born the next day. Of course, I'd go out on a limb and say the first "could be" doesn't happen. In other words, A could happen, OR B could happen. A and B both could not happen. I know, I know - try again. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 02:09 PM Naemanson gave the correct answer to the "Two hookers, two snookers..." question. Mrrzy & Naemanson, you are on the wrong track with your thinking about walrus, etc.. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Mrrzy Date: 12 Dec 00 - 02:00 PM What is that in answer to, Naemanson? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Naemanson Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:53 PM Cow! |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Mrrzy Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:51 PM I still like the walrus idea, they could all be eliminated from the face of the EARTH and then come out of the sea and bear 1000 young... but somehow I don't think that's what they are looking for... |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: MMario Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:42 PM gotta be some kinda animule... |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:23 PM Correct, Mario. The next one also claims Arkansas as its origin; but I swear that it sounds like PA Dutch to me. Two hookers, two snookers, two lookers, four dilly-danders, four stiff-standers, two flip-flops, one fling-by. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Bert Date: 12 Dec 00 - 01:02 PM Wolfgang, I'm getting six matches so far. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: MMario Date: 12 Dec 00 - 12:33 PM grass to milk to "butter" |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 12:15 PM Correct on the egg question - Nice going, Jeri and Naemanson. Here is one from Arkansas: What is it that takes in (goes in) green, comes out white and then turns yellow? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Mrrzy Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:48 AM Anybody been to brainteasers.com? Fun fun fun... |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: MichaelAnthony Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:38 AM Every match or cigarette touches every other match or cigarette? No limit to the number of matches or cigarettes in a box? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Naemanson Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:35 AM On the mammals question - Would the answer be a sea creature such as a walrus, seal, or sea lion? No longer on the land (earth) but coming ashore to breed. The halls of marble one is an egg.
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:33 AM Wolfgang, I shouldn't jump in here, because I know this is probably much more difficult than it appears...I'll guess six, but I won't bother to try to explain it unless I'm right. (I think it has to do with hexagonal close packing and stacking them upright like a pyramid.) |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: MMario Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:18 AM We had friends when I was young, seven very elderly (and also vegetarian) brothers and sisters sharing a house - they often would set us this type of mind puzzle. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Wolfgang Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:10 AM What is the maximum number of matches (matchsticks) you can place in a way that each of them touches each other (no bending or breaking, take the straight matches as they come out of the box)? Now, if you try the same task with cigarettes, what is the maximum number? Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jeri Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:04 AM Just guessing Allan - could be an egg? |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Steve Parkes Date: 12 Dec 00 - 11:01 AM I know this!! But since I didn't work it out for myself, I won't tell ... |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Allan C. Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:59 AM Right, Mario. BTW, thanks for the blicky. One more which is said to be from the same part of the U.S. although I suspect a UK origin: In marble walls as white as milk, lined with a skin of softest silk, within a fountain crystal clear a golden apple doth appear; no doors there are to this stronghold yet things break in and steal the gold. |
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Subject: RE: Puzzles - Part 1+1 From: Jeri Date: 12 Dec 00 - 10:56 AM The last thing I remember was Bernard asked: Which mammal, which is not egg-laying (e.g. duck billed platypus), could theoretically be completely wiped off the face of the earth, yet, the following day thousands of young could be born? and further clarified, "'Born' as in 'leaving the womb'!!" and "wiped off the face of the earth" as "One minute there's thousands of them, the next minute something kills the lot!" So we've got a non egg-laying mammal that can die and be able to give birth the next day, after being dead. Kicking also has something to do with it. I'm thinking it's more along the lines of the baby "kicking" its way out. Then again, if it isn't partially out already, it would suffocate...oy. Unless we're talking about the next day being one second after midnight, in which case we're talking about just about any mammal with babies capable of getting themselves out of mamma... Am I thinking too literally here?
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