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Thread #51820   Message #796677
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
04-Oct-02 - 06:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: Does anybody know good riddles?
Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles?
You are in a remote cottage, with a wood fire built up, but not lit. You also have a kerosene lamp which needs lighting, and a gas burning stove.
Unfortunately, you have only one match.
Which do you light first ?

You are stranded on a small desert island, and your only hope of rescue is to light an oil lamp. Unfortunately there is insufficient oil in the lamp to reach the lower end of the wick (which is short from overtrimming) how do you manage to light the lamp ?

Four men in a lifeboat find that all they have left is a full packet of cigarettes, but no matches. How do they manage to get a smoke ?

Nigel