ECON riddle....

[yyz]

You are locked in a room with beantownjim and Eddie Haskel. You are given a gun, with only one round.

Q: Who do you shoot?


A: Yourself!



Sorry........I don't know any good ones.

 

[taoist]

p.s A River

LOL. you are correct, sir.


...that's a good one yyz.



here's another.... got to make it a little harder....


Sally and her younger brother were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting, and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn't touch each other. How did she accomplish this? :shrug:


...this should be an easy one for you parents out there....

 

[yyz]

Did she do that thing where you cut the paper in a circular fashion, and can open it up so big that you can walk through it?

 

[BahamaMama]

yup, a real easy one

slide the newspaper under a shut door....one on one side, one on the other.......WOOOOO HOOOOOO (they still find a way to tick each other off tho, even tho they can't touch each other)

 

[taoist]

BM, i see you've used this method....


...maybe a little harder this time?




A man walks into a his bathroom and shoots himself right between the eyes using a real gun with real bullets. He walks out alive, with no blood anywhere. And no, he didn't miss and he wasn't Superman or any other caped crusader.
How did he do this? :shrug:

 

[BahamaMama]

BM, i see you've used this method....


...maybe a little harder this time?




A man walks into a his bathroom and shoots himself right between the eyes using a real gun with real bullets. He walks out alive, with no blood anywhere. And no, he didn't miss and he wasn't Superman or any other caped crusader.
How did he do this? :shrug:

will his medicine chest mirror ever be the same again?

 

[taoist]

...that didn't take you long....


...i know this one's a little harder. LOL


another:

Old Mr. Tidy was found dead in his study by Mr. Fiend. Mr. Fiend recounted his dismal discovery to the police. "I was walking by Mr. Tidy`s house when I thought I would just pop in for a visit. I noticed his study light was on and I decided to peek in from the outside to see if he was in there. There was frost on the window, so I had to wipe it away to see inside. That is when I saw his body. So I kicked in the front door to confirm my suspicions of foul play. I called the police immediately afterward." The officer immediately arrested Mr. Fiend for the murder of Mr. Tidy. How did he know Mr. Fiend was lying? :shrug:

 

[BahamaMama]

UGH, you have me so STUMPED on this one Taoist......


and no time left to work on it either ride gets here in a half hour, and i KNOW this is gonna be bugging me all night guess THAT won't make for a fun time, huh? LOL

anything i've come up with so far doesn't apply.....you're MEAN

 

[Hypatia]

Frost forms on the INSIDE of house windows, so he couldn't have wiped it away from the outside?

 

[KotysDad]

Frost forms on the INSIDE of house windows, so he couldn't have wiped it away from the outside?

I was thinking the same thing, but frost forms on the outside of car windshields in the morning. (?) If there is moisture on the outside of the house window (maybe from morning dew or a misty rain?) and it gets below freezing, wouldnt you get frost??

The solution has to have something to do with the frost. I have read this damn thing 25 times and havent found the catch.

By the way, if anyone likes these kinds of mystery solving problems, there are books called "5 minute mysteries" that contain dozens of these.....all about 3-5 pages long. You just have to either read them 10 times or read them very carefully.

 

[Hypatia]

OMG, I love these things, but I hate getting stumped and finding out it was something fairly obvious!!! On the 5+5+5 problem, I was thinking about putting a diagonal line through the equals sign, too, but then someone posted the real answer. I still think that not-equals answer wasn't too shabby!

I think the difference between the house and the car frost has something to do with humidity/condensation on the inside of the house and, of course, temperature, but I'm not exactly sure what!

 

[KotysDad]

Hypatia,

You're probably right. I have never noticed frost on the outside of my house windows. I only notice frost on cold mornings when I open my front door to get the newspaper then when I get back the entering cold air has caused moisture from the air inside of the house to form on the inside of the door window.

So he would have had to been inside of the house to wipe frost.

 

[KotysDad]

Ok I think I may have figured it out

If in fact there was frost on the outside of the window, that implies that the ambient air temperature inside of the house would have to be cold enough to cause the moisture in the air outside of the window to form condensation on the outside of the window. This is most likely to happen if the door were already open...which means he would not have had to kick it in.

Is this correct, or close? LOL

 

[taoist]

...don't want to keep you up all night, KD.... LOL


I was just thinking that frost forms on the inside of the window, not the outside. so, congrats, hypatia....


...although i have to admit, that is a pretty deductive answer, Kotysdad...have to give ya credit on that one....

...headed out for tonight....may post some more later. have a good night, guys.

 

[maximus]

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here is one guys: A man is found dead laying on the floor, next to him is a knocked over table and 53 bicycles. What happened?

 

[Hypatia]

LMAO...

LMAO...

I think that is perfectly feasible, too...another alternative answer...I was also trying to tie-in the temperature inside the house being low enough to cause frost on the outside, but I could only come up with the heat being off somehow...and I already KNEW that was not relevant. Talk about thinking something through! Wow...

Damn, I gotta go out for awhile, but I will be eager to come back here later for more brain torture, errrr, I mean teasers, LOL

 

[BahamaMama]

COOL....thanks Hypatia and KD.....now maybe i can get enough sanity back to enjoy the rest of the night.....guess it's just my house that naturally frosts on the outside, too, huh? (gee....think it has anything to do with the quality of the windows?) LOL since anything left NEAR the windows in the winter ends up frozen solid?

 

[KotysDad]

Here are two for ya ......


1. A girl is 8 on her first birthday. How is this possible?

2. I personally am not a chess player. I know where the pieces are allowed to move, thats about my knowledge of chess. Yet, I would bet anyone that I could play the two top world chess players at the same time and guarantee that I would not lose to both of them. I would either beat one of them, or bring them both to a stalemate (or whatever its called when you tie lol).
How is this possible? And just for clarity, the games are legit. The answer isnt "you could pay one of them to lose on purpose".

 

[Hypatia]

Leap year is going to skip a year somewhere along the line and she is going to be an unlucky girl who not only is deprived of annual birthday presents and parties, but also happens to skip a leap year birthday, causing her first birthday to fall on her 8th year?

Number 2??? Gonna definitely have to think about that one for a little bit...

 

[ozball]

Every 400 years we skip a leap year 1600, 2000, I believe. It's a catch up with a slow time leak that is necessary at this interval

Was she born on 29th Feb 1996?. 1st Birthday 29th Feb 2004???