PuZzLe ThReAd !!!!!!!!!

[summerlin]

cool thread!

when a boy is sentenced to death but asked for another option, his captor tells him: say any statement. if it is true, i will hang you. if it is false, i will beat you to death. somehow the boy manages to avoid death. what does he say???

I'm going to guess: "You will beat me to death" ???

 

[birdman94]

he say nothing so the person cant kill him because he said nothing

 

[sassymom]

Just trying to keep the thread alive. Could he have said something silly like the chicken came first or the egg did so that it couldn't be true or false?

 

[saltnpepper]

This Sentance Is False!

Correct!
sorry i have not been mantaining this i have not been on much since school statred

Another puzzle:







You can imagine an arrow in flight, toward a target. For the arrow to reach the target, the arrow must first travel half of the overall distance from the starting point to the target. Next, the arrow must travel half of the remaining distance.

For example, if the starting distance was 10m, the arrow first travels 5m, then 2.5m.

If you extend this concept further, you can imagine the resulting distances getting smaller and smaller. Will the arrow ever reach the target?

 

[jkmj]

yes it would reach the target because you keep on extanding the concept

 

[dancegrl1093]

Correct!
sorry i have not been mantaining this i have not been on much since school statred

Another puzzle:







You can imagine an arrow in flight, toward a target. For the arrow to reach the target, the arrow must first travel half of the overall distance from the starting point to the target. Next, the arrow must travel half of the remaining distance.

For example, if the starting distance was 10m, the arrow first travels 5m, then 2.5m.

If you extend this concept further, you can imagine the resulting distances getting smaller and smaller. Will the arrow ever reach the target?

sorry to but in, but that's not the answer. the answer that summerlin said is correct...............

oh, and i believe the arrow will eventually reach the target

 

[saltnpepper]

Yup it deffiantly reaches the target !

Another brain twister :

I was having trouble sleeping last night and I tossed and turned well into the night. Our local town hall has a clock which strikes on the hour and also strikes just once on the half hour. During one of my more awake moments I heard the clock strike once, but I could not tell what time it was. Half an hour later it struck once again, but I still could not tell what time it was. Finally, half an hour later it struck once again and I knew what the time was. What time was it?

 

[ShadowKittyKat]

Another brain twister :

I was having trouble sleeping last night and I tossed and turned well into the night. Our local town hall has a clock which strikes on the hour and also strikes just once on the half hour. During one of my more awake moments I heard the clock strike once, but I could not tell what time it was. Half an hour later it struck once again, but I still could not tell what time it was. Finally, half an hour later it struck once again and I knew what the time was. What time was it?

1:30 AM?

 

[saltnpepper]

1:30 AM?

Yup 1:30


Brain boggler :

As my birthday approaches I start to collect leaves - a little bizarre perhaps, but I enjoy it! On the first day of the month I collect one leaf, on the second day I collect two and so on. So by my birthday I will have collected 276 leaves altogether. On which day of the month is my birthday?

 

[wdeversole]

Your birthday would be the 23rd.

 

[Mnementh]

Bumping this up for an answer and a new question...

 

[sassymom]

Awaiting the answer and next puzzle...I am bound to be able to figure one of them out.

 

[sassymom]

Trying to keep this thread alive.

 

[Baseballmaniac]

Bump.. Plz post a new one.

 

[saltnpepper]

Finally !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 i am back on the dis. Man homework gets annoying. But i am going to post a new puzzle now.







U2 has a concert that starts in just 17 minutes and all of the band members must all cross a bridge to get there. The four men begin on the same side of the bridge and you must help them to get across to the other side.

Due the age of the bridge, a maximum of two people can cross at one time. To make matters worse, it is night-time and there is only one torch. The torch is always required when crossing the bridge and the torch must be walked back and forth, it cannot be thrown, etc. Each band member walks at a different speed and a pair must walk together at the rate of the slower man:

Bono takes 1 minute to cross
Edge takes 2 minutes to cross
Adam takes 5 minutes to cross
Larry takes 10 minutes to cross

For example, if Bono and Larry walk across first, it takes them 10 minutes to cross. If Adam then returns with the torch, a total of 15 minutes will have passed. There is no trick behind this, it is the simple movement of resources in the appropriate order.





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