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Postby Ian The Magic-Ian » Jan 17th, '09, 14:22



lozey wrote:An old lady is sleeping in her bungalow one afternoon. A man comes over to the house. He is not a burger and does not enter the house. When he leaves the lady is dead. The man does not know that he has killed her. What happened?


Note- This is a very old riddle that I heard years ago, so the solution may no longer be realistic


He was a very careless night time exterminator...

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Postby moonbeam » Jan 17th, '09, 19:02

lozey wrote:An old lady is sleeping in her bungalow one afternoon. A man comes over to the house. He is not a burger and does not enter the house. When he leaves the lady is dead. The man does not know that he has killed her. What happened?


Note- This is a very old riddle that I heard years ago, so the solution may no longer be realistic


He's doing some work on the gas pipe outside her house so he turns the gas off whilst he does the necessary work. He then turns the gas back on and leaves.
Unbeknown to him the lil' old lady had her oven/gas fire or some other gas appliance switched on. Switching the gas supply back on fills the house with gas which kills her in her sleep.

This may, or may not, be the correct answer - but it certainly works :wink: .

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Postby EckoZero » Jan 17th, '09, 19:07

He could also be the psotman. Obviously now we dont have afternoon post but we also used to!
So he dropped a parcel through the door which contained poison gas. She was sleeping in a chair near the front door, the drop caused the poison gas canister to break and she inhaled and died...

Or not.

You wont find much better anywhere and it's nothing - a rigmarole with a few bits of paper and lots of spiel. That is Mentalism

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Postby lozey » Jan 18th, '09, 01:52

According to how i heard it the gasman theory is right. He turns the gas off to take a reading. She has the gas fire on (note- it doesnt say that this is nightime, only that she is sleeping, so the reasoning that a gasman would not call at night is invalid). The pilot light goes out when the gas goes off. When he turns it on, the gas supply carries on, but with no ignition, so the house fills up with the gas.


I suppose the exterminator theory would also work though :twisted:

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Postby Farlsborough » Jan 18th, '09, 02:08

Ooh, ooh, let me do one...

This was told to me as a joke that most people don't get, but I think it's more of a riddle. Actually - no one write the answer to this please - just want to see who gets it, and how long it takes some people :D


A little boy and his father go to the zoo one day. All day the boy is bothering his father - "Dad, Dad! I want to see the camels! Please take me to see a camel Dad!" They see the fat bored looking lions, the timid monkeys and the stationary rhino, and finally, at the end of their visit, they get round to the camel enclosure.

In front of the double fence there is a big sign which says, "Beware! This camel spits!"

The father says to his son, "see that sign lad? Beware, this camel spits. Just be careful, OK?"

The son edges closer and closer to see the majestic desert beast. But the camel spies him out of the corner of his eye... too late, it snorts fiercely and spits right at the boy, covering him in camel saliva.

The boy shouts "Eeeeew! Dad! Dad! The camel just covered me in camel spit! It's gross!"

The father says, "I warned you! Didn't you see the sign?! "Beware, this camel spits!"

...the boy says, "but I was!"


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Postby Beardy » Jan 18th, '09, 04:42

i dont get it...upon thinking however, is this something to do with the odour variety of the arm zone?

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Postby werr » Jan 18th, '09, 09:43

The turn belongs to moonbeam

Farlsborough please wait for your turn, and by the way, I don't think this is a riddle it doesn't make any sense

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Postby EckoZero » Jan 18th, '09, 12:26

It does make sense.
I got it so its not impossible.

You wont find much better anywhere and it's nothing - a rigmarole with a few bits of paper and lots of spiel. That is Mentalism

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Postby moonbeam » Jan 18th, '09, 15:31

Farlsborough wrote:"Beware, this camel spits!"

...the boy says, "but I was!"


I think I get it - is it just a matter of reading it in a way that one of the letters is moved ???


Anyway ........ on with another riddle .......


You have 3 tokens:

one is gold on both sides (gold/gold)
one is silver on both sides (silver/silver)
one is gold on one side and silver on the other (gold/silver)

You enter into a game for money with one other person.

All 3 tokens are placed into a bag (the tokens cannot be distinguished between, merely by touch) and whilst you close your eyes the other person removes one token and places it on a flat surface and moves the bag containing the other 2 tokens out of sight. You open your eyes and say for example the upper side of the token is gold, you place a bet on what the colour of the underside will be. You explain to him that because the upper side is gold, then that token can only be gold/gold or gold/silver (it obviously cannot be silver/silver ), and therefore it is a 50/50 chance on what the underside will be - gold or silver.

You make your guess and either pay up or receive your winnings.

The token is placed back in the bag, the bag is given a good shake and everything is repeated with the same stake used for each game. This goes on for, say, fifty goes.

What is your best strategy to help maximise your winnings :?: .


At first glance it appears that your odds of winning are only 50/50 . However, there is a strategy that you can employ that will increase your chances of winning :shock: .

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Postby Dominic Rougier » Jan 18th, '09, 15:41

Ah, 'tis the Monte Hall problem :)

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Postby moonbeam » Jan 18th, '09, 16:05

Dominic Rougier wrote:Ah, 'tis the Monte Hall problem :)


Not the actual Monte Hall problem itself - but you are correct insofar as the reasoning is basically the same .....

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Postby Beardy » Jan 18th, '09, 17:22

but with the mony hall problem you have a chance to switch? or am I way off course?

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Postby moonbeam » Jan 18th, '09, 18:03

Blapsing_Beard wrote:but with the mony hall problem you have a chance to switch? or am I way off course?


This has nothing to do with switching boxes, as in the Monte Hall problem - it's just that the reasoning behind the solution is very similar to the Monte Hall problem.

Just to clarify - if you just make random guesses as to what the underside of the token will be (gold or silver), then probability says that you'll end up guessing correctly 50% of the time. However, there is a method that you can employ that increases your chances of winning.

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Postby Beardy » Jan 19th, '09, 01:32

technically, every go won;t be 50/50, when the gold/silver coin comes up and faces silver up, you know gold will be underneath

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soooo......

you wait until silver comes up and hope they are thick enough and say "double or quits"?

:D

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Postby werr » Jan 19th, '09, 09:02

Blapsing_Beard wrote:technically, every go won;t be 50/50, when the gold/silver coin comes up and faces silver up, you know gold will be underneath

...

soooo......

you wait until silver comes up and hope they are thick enough and say "double or quits"?

:D

You got it all wrong, becouse there is a silver/silver token :?

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