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Another mental puzzle

Postby fletch » Jan 12th, '04, 13:21



There are 17 pigeons on a wall, 3 black, 7white and 7black and white.
A gunman takes a random shot, he has 50% chance of hitting a pigeon.
Which kind of pigeon has the highest probability of being the most populous on the wall after one shot is fired.

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Postby andycoates » Jan 12th, '04, 15:59

They all fly away after hearing the first shot!!!!

OK then heres another.

your driving a buss from Leeds, toy pick up three people and then continue on to Sheffield pick up 10 people ad drop off 1. You then travel up to Newcastle drop off 6 people and pick up 5. Now you travell up to Glasgow drop off 4 people and pick up 2 befor going all the way back to Leeds to drop everyone off...What is the name of the bus driver!!

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Postby fletch » Jan 12th, '04, 16:01

Well done Andy, i see i won't catch you with your trousers.....

And the name of the bus driver would, of course, be fletch.

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Postby panther1004 » Jan 12th, '04, 16:08

if it is "you" who picks up people, then the bus driver is called andy coates!

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Postby andycoates » Jan 12th, '04, 16:26

fletch is correct the driver would be yourself..

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Postby seige » Jan 12th, '04, 17:45

Blimey - mental puzzles...

You wait and wait and wait, and then 2 come along at once.

Which came first, the Pigeon or the Egg?

(Not strictly a mental puzzle, but a profound and baffling question!)

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Postby panther1004 » Jan 12th, '04, 17:48

humm.. the pidgeon, in my opinion lol, i like these wierd questions like that seige :D

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Postby seige » Jan 12th, '04, 17:57

Indeed it is true... surely the egg didn't just appear out of thin air? Perhaps pigeons decided that an egg was a far more decorative and pleasant way of giving birth - as opposed to our messy mammalian effort...

I say, the pigeon is a clever animal. Oh yes.

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Postby panther1004 » Jan 12th, '04, 20:45

heres one..

A man is lying dead, face down in the desert. There's a match near his outstretched hand. What happened?

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Postby Jing » Jan 12th, '04, 21:34

Did he die, with a match in his hand...

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Postby magicdiscoman » Jan 12th, '04, 23:19

if a peacock lays an egg on a hill and the wind is blowing south west were will the egg roll?.

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Postby seige » Jan 13th, '04, 10:43

a: The man with the match... he was in a balloon flight across the desert... the balloon was out of gas, and the 5 men inside would crash-land and all die in the middle of the desert. If the balloon was one-man lighter, it would float high enough to get out of the desert... so they drew matches to see who would jump out to sacrifice himself. This poor bloke got the short one...

b: Peacocks don't lay eggs???

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Postby nickj » Jan 13th, '04, 12:43

down the hill surely?

Cogito, ergo sum.
Cogito sumere potum alterum.
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Postby magicdiscoman » Jan 13th, '04, 13:50

seige correct.

peahens lay eggs, peacocks arn't equiped.

boy in room says mummy mummy i can go round in circles, mummy says shut up or i'll nail your other foot to the floor, (not supported by the nspcc).

a miser has five bags of gold one is real and four are fakes he gives you a penny scale and says you can only use the penny scale once if you can tell him which bag is real you can keep it.
how do you find the right bag.
fake gold :- 3 grames.
real gold :- 3.25 grames.

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Postby bananafish » Jan 13th, '04, 14:51

miser has five bags of gold one is real and four are fakes


1 coin from bag one.
2 coins from bag two
3 coins from bag three
4 coins from bag four
5 coins from bag five.

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