Riddles.

[Colleen Thomas]

Re: Riddle

A man is in a square room with 4 walls. Each wall has one window in it. Each window faces south. A bear walks by out side.

What color is the bear?

White

 

[Guest]

Re: Riddle

A man is in a square room with 4 walls. Each wall has one window in it. Each window faces south. A bear walks by out side.

What color is the bear?

White

Damn! Colly beat me to it. ((((((Hugs))))))) anyway.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Three men each get a hotel room. The desk clerk charges them $30.

Later he realizes he overcharged them, and it should have been $25 for the 3 rooms.

The clerk gives the bellhop $5 to return to the men.

The bell hop figures he'll just give each man $1 back. They'll be happy and never know the difference and he can pocket $2.


Now the men have paid $9 each. 9 times 3 is 27. The bellhop has $2. 27 + 2 = 29. What happened to the last dollar?

There is no missing dollar. There are 25$ in the till. Each man got 1 back, making 28 and the bellhop Kept 2. For a total of 30.

It's all in how you state it

-Colly

 

[Colleen Thomas]

What's the difference between a peeping tom and a pick pocket?

What's the difference between a tribe of pygmies and a womens track team?

What's the difference between a blonde (sorry, had to) and the Panama Canal?

the answer to #2 is one is a group of cunning runts.



-Colly

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Riddle

White

Damn! Colly beat me to it. ((((((Hugs))))))) anyway.

It's all in how you count it. If you count backwards, as in the riddle it comes out wrong.

 

[matriarch]

Three men each get a hotel room. The desk clerk charges them $30.

Later he realizes he overcharged them, and it should have been $25 for the 3 rooms.

The clerk gives the bellhop $5 to return to the men.

The bell hop figures he'll just give each man $1 back. They'll be happy and never know the difference and he can pocket $2.


Now the men have paid $9 each. 9 times 3 is 27. The bellhop has $2. 27 + 2 = 29. What happened to the last dollar?

Ignore the 3 x9 = $27.
Take the $25 for the room,
Add the $3 dollars returned by the bellhop: $28.
Add the $2 retained by the bellhop:
total $30.

I think.



Matriarch

 

[matriarch]

There is no missing dollar. There are 25$ in the till. Each man got 1 back, making 28 and the bellhop Kept 2. For a total of 30.

It's all in how you state it

-Colly

Dayummmmmm.
You young 'uns are too fast for me.
I'm going back to bed.

Night all.

M

 

[gauchecritic]

The bellhop one is because integers of two seperate equations are swapped around.

First equation: 3 X 10 - 3 - 2 = 25

Second: 3 X 9 - 2 = 25

Therefore 3 X10 - 3 - 2 = 3 X 9 - 2

cancelling out leaves: 3 X 10 - 3 = 3 X 9

These are true, but what the conundrum then attempts to state is that 3 X 10 - 3 - 2 is still = 3 X 9. Which it isn't, because it includes a previously cancelled integer.

Gauche

 

[Guest]

I'm with Gauche.

Perdita

 

[snooper]

Something for the weekend:

There are only nine men in the village of Moth Eaton and each has a different vocation. Their names might have been drawn out of a hat, for by some curious chance they are the same as the names of the vocations represented in the village.
Stranger still, each of the men is married to the sister of one of the others.
I found all this very confusing, and my confusion was increased when the barber attempted to explain the relationships to me.
He told me, for example, that Mr. Smith’s brother-in-law, the tailor, was married to Mr. Smith’s sister’s sister-in-law; that Mr. Tinker was his brother-in-law, but that his wife was not Mr. Tinker’s sister, nor was she Mr. Tinker’s sister’s sister-in-law, and that she was ,in fact, the sister of Mr. Carter, whose other brother-in-law, the smith recently married the sister of Mr. Barber.

After this I listened with some relief to the more straightforward narrative of Mr. Wheelwright, who told me that the driver was the namesake of the vocation of the namesake of the vocation of Mr. Driver and that there was a similar connection between the barber and Mr. Barber, and I gladly accepted his invitation to act with him as joint referee at the duplicate bridge tournament which Mr. Cooper and the driver had organised, and at which his namesake’s two brothers-in-law were to play against the tinker and the miller, and Mr. Carter’s two brothers-in-law were to play against Mr. Miller and Mr. Cooper.

What are the chosen vocations of each the nine men and what were the maiden names of their respective wives?

Answer on Monday - I promise, but the explanation of the answer - perhaps, perhaps not!

 

[snooper]

OOPS!

That stopped this thread stone dead!

The answer is:
Mr. Barber is the cooper, and married Miss Miller
Mr. Carter is the miller, and married Miss Driver
Mr. Cooper is the tailor, and married Miss Wainwright
Mr. Driver is the smith, and married Miss Barber
Mr. Miller is the wainwright, and married Miss Tinker
Mr. Tailor is the barber, and married Miss Carter
Mr. Tinker is the driver, and married Miss Tailor
Mr. Smith is the tinker, and married Miss Cooper
Mr. Wainwright is the carter, and married Miss Smith


It helps to solve it if you draw two diagrams:

 

[bg23]

My head hurts.

Damn you people for making me think.

Have no riddle. Am riddlleless.

Bah!