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ClockWork said:
How about this...

Hank is on the 31st floor of an office building, looking through a dirty window, and all of the sudden, overcome with depression, Hank slides open the window and jumps through it. It's a sheer drop from the 31st floor to the ground, yet Hank lands completely unharmed.
How?
He's a window washer. Jumping inside.

kjrubberducky said:
Here's one I don't think has been posted yet:

A blacksmith has 5 sections of an iron chain. One section has 3 links, two have 4 links, one has 5 links, and one has 6 links. He is tasked to connect the links into one long chain. It takes him 5 minutes to open a link, and 8 minutes to close it.

What is the fastest that the blacksmith can complete the chain?
He only has to open the three rings in the short link and then use those three to join the other four links together. 39 minutes.
 

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Equidistantly out of Reach said:
A man was looking at a wanted poster stuck to a brick wall when a sherrif walked up and asked him if he knew who it was. The man replied "brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's son is my father's son." Who was on the wanted poster?
His father.
 

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a man and his son are in a car accident. the father is killed and the son is rushed to the hospital. the surgen says i cant opperate this is my son. how?
 

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kjrubberducky said:
Here's one I don't think has been posted yet:

A blacksmith has 5 sections of an iron chain. One section has 3 links, two have 4 links, one has 5 links, and one has 6 links. He is tasked to connect the links into one long chain. It takes him 5 minutes to open a link, and 8 minutes to close it.

What is the fastest that the blacksmith can complete the chain?
He only has to open the three rings in the short link and then use those three to join the other four links together. 39 minutes.
Correct! Nice job.
 

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Here's a riddle I read earlier today, but for the life of me can't remember where... hoping it wasn't on this site. :)

One Sunday the police get a call from a woman claiming her husband had been killed in his study. A detective shows up at the mansion and interogates everyone present.

The wife claims she had been asleep and had awoken to find her husband dead.
The butler claims he had been in the dressing room, shining shoes.
The maid claims she had been busy outside walking down the driveway to get the mail.
The cook states he was in the kitchen, preparing a breakfast of pancakes.
The gardner swears he had been out in the greenhouse, picking fresh vegetables.

After getting these statements, the detective immediately arrests the murderer. Who did the crime?
The maid cuz theres no mail on sunday
 

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Equidistantly out of Reach said:
A man was looking at a wanted poster stuck to a brick wall when a sherrif walked up and asked him if he knew who it was. The man replied "brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's son is my father's son." Who was on the wanted poster?
Its your(the guy looking at the poster) father.
 

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anybody heard of einsteins riddle. apparently about 2% of people can get it, i couldnt.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
 

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Weasellord21 said:
anybody heard of einsteins riddle. apparently about 2% of people can get it, i couldnt.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

dude my brain hurts
 
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1)Work the following problem out completly in your head:
Take 1000, add 20, add 1000, add 30, add 1000, add 40, add 1000, then add 10. What is the total?

2)Imagine a wine bottle with a string on the bottom of the cork so that the string dangles inside the bottle. On the string is tied a coin that dangles an inch from the bottom. Without touching the bottle, the cork, the string, or the coin with your hand or anything you might hold (like a stick or gun), how could you make the coin fall and hit the bottom of the wine bottle.

3)In a family, there is a mother, a father, and 7 daughters. Each daughter has exactly one brother. How many people are in the family?

4)There are three boxes containing fruit. The first box is marked CHERRIES, the second box is marked BANANAS, and the third box is marked CHERRIES AND BANANAS. Each of the boxes is labelled incorrectly. How could you label each box correctly if you were allowed to select only one fruit from one of the boxes?

5)If it takes seven men three hours to dig five holes, how long would it take for one man to dig half of a hole?
 

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Weasellord21 said:
anybody heard of einsteins riddle. apparently about 2% of people can get it, i couldnt.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
I got it!!!




It's the German in the green house. Took me a while though
good 1
 

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Equidistantly out of Reach said:
1)Work the following problem out completly in your head:
Take 1000, add 20, add 1000, add 30, add 1000, add 40, add 1000, then add 10. What is the total?

2)Imagine a wine bottle with a string on the bottom of the cork so that the string dangles inside the bottle. On the string is tied a coin that dangles an inch from the bottom. Without touching the bottle, the cork, the string, or the coin with your hand or anything you might hold (like a stick or gun), how could you make the coin fall and hit the bottom of the wine bottle.

3)In a family, there is a mother, a father, and 7 daughters. Each daughter has exactly one brother. How many people are in the family?

4)There are three boxes containing fruit. The first box is marked CHERRIES, the second box is marked BANANAS, and the third box is marked CHERRIES AND BANANAS. Each of the boxes is labelled incorrectly. How could you label each box correctly if you were allowed to select only one fruit from one of the boxes?

5)If it takes seven men three hours to dig five holes, how long would it take for one man to dig half of a hole?
5100. Just gotta know how to keep them decimals in line.
Ten. Mom, Dad, seven sisters, and one brother.
Take a fruit from the cherries & bananas box. If it is a cherry, then it must be the real cherry box. Then the cherry box has to be the real banana box, because if it had cherries & bananas, then the banana box would have bananas, but we know all the box labels are wrong. Therefore, the banana box has both cherries & bananas in it.

If you pulled out a banana, then switch cherries and bananas in the above paragraph.
 

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ClockWork said:
How about this...

Hank is on the 31st floor of an office building, looking through a dirty window, and all of the sudden, overcome with depression, Hank slides open the window and jumps through it. It's a sheer drop from the 31st floor to the ground, yet Hank lands completely unharmed.
How?
He is a window cleaner and he is jumping into the building.
 

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MicrosoftPaysMe said:
a man and his son are in a car accident. the father is killed and the son is rushed to the hospital. the surgen says i cant opperate this is my son. how?
This has been done a lot in the thread.
Surgeon is his mother.
But I never understood why that factor would stop her from operating.
Hell, by the time it takes to switch surgeons, she could have just killed her son.
Good job...