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@Sgt Pepper wrote:
Please… nobody start with the..
“If a train leaves such a place at such a speed at 8am and picks up so and so at 9am and cuts its speed by half etc.. so what colour is the driver’s underwear? etc..” scenarios!!!Please…
Don’t… [-o<
Psssssst…he wasn’t wearing any :wink: :lol:
ok…. was he wearing a uniform?
@mrs_teapot wrote:
ok…. was he wearing a uniform?
I don’t know, but it wasn’t how they identified him.
OK I know the answer because I cheated and looked it up on google… see even here I cannot tell a lie… sooo I will let others have a guess…. thing is I wish I hadn’t cheated now because ladies… the answer is simple :D
Good one jen :D
@jen_jen wrote:
Analytical mind and also a skill from the days when I worked in the corporate world and my team used to take it turns to set a riddle of the day. :D
OK here’s my riddle:
Acting on an anonymous tip off , the police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don’t know what he looks like but they know his name is David and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter, a lorry driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they’ve got their man?
He was losing to three skilful, strong competent women.
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@jen_jen wrote:
@eve wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
@sceptical guy wrote:
And my guess is that people such as yourself who think quicky about numbers are not good at recognising how dumb the rest of us are lol
Oh that made me laugh! :lol:
To the contrary Mr SG, I have dyscalculia, the number equivalent of dyslexia, and numbers are often a blank spot for me as my accountant has quickly realised! I have to really think about a poser like that, as I did the first time I read it around 5 years ago. What I lack in numerical ability I had to make up for by applying logic and where that failed, just sheer gut instinct.
Thank God im not the only one. I cant even write phone number down properly!
It’s not as common as dyslexia but there’s lots of us around eve…I always repeat phone numbers back to people to make sure I’ve got it right, doesn’t stop me misdialling the number though! I wish I’d known about it when I was at school, my maths teacher made my life hell…it was only a few years ago reading an article about dyscalculia that suddenly it all made sense and I thought “that’s me!”
I have never heard of the word but it makes so much sense. I truly do see numbers in diff orders to other ppl and i do mix phone numbers up when i write them down. Maths at school was hell for me too.
@jen_jen wrote:
Analytical mind and also a skill from the days when I worked in the corporate world and my team used to take it turns to set a riddle of the day. :D
OK here’s my riddle:
Acting on an anonymous tip off , the police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don’t know what he looks like but they know his name is David and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter, a lorry driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they’ve got their man?
The others were all women and he was the only man?
Three prisoners are brought into a separate jail cell with no one around them. The guard tells them that he has a bag containing 5 hats which 3 are green and the other two are red. He tells them that he is going to place a hat on each of their heads and the first prisoner to correctly tell the guard the colour of his hat will win his freedom. But there are two conditions that MUST be respected; 1. none of the prisoners can communicate with each other and 2. none of the prisoners can look at he colour of their own hat.
He places a hat on each of their heads and leaves. About an hour goes by and one of the prisoners calls the guard and tells him that he knows the colour of his hat and tells him how he knows. The guard tells him that he is correct and he wins his freedom. The unusual thing was that the only prisoner to win his freedom… is blind.
How did he do it?
Words and A.Groanup, you’re both right although I prefer Words’ phrasing :D
@jen_jen wrote:
Words and A.Groanup, you’re both right although I prefer Words’ phrasing :D
Just indulging my fantasies . . . . . . .
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