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by **Part-Timer** » Mar 19th, '09, 21:44

Blapsing_Beard wrote:If you only see one girl in the house, then the chance that you are in house D is 0%, because it has 2 girls, and the other one you see is a boy?

It doesnt state you only see one child, who is a girl. It states that you only see one girl

Err, if you saw the other child, there would be no puzzle. Nice try at nit-picking, but you even managed to contradict yourself about "only". I didn't use the word at all. :lol:

Where I come from, houses have more than one room.

And people go out sometimes.

EDIT: You'd "love" 'Professor Layton and the Curious Village', which has puzzles full of annoying ambiguities.

by **Mr_Grue** » Mar 23rd, '09, 13:25

Well that killed it. You would expect to see more variations from the norm in the smaller hospital - the rule of big numbers means that with more births happening, the overall average is more likely to emerge. In other words, you are more likely to get "all heads" tossing a coin twice than you are tossing it six times.

Now then. A man moves in next door to his widow. Her peacock flies into his garden and lays an egg. The question is, where do they bury the survivors?

by **Nightfall** » Mar 23rd, '09, 13:29

Mr_Grue wrote:Well that killed, it. You would expect to see a bigger variation from the norm in the smaller hospital - the rule of big numbers means that with more births happening, the overall average is more likely to emerge. In other words, you are more likely to get "all heads" tossing a coin twice than you are tossing it six times.

Now then. A man moves in next door to his widow. Her peacock flies into his garden and lays an egg. The question is, where do they bury the survivors?

So the man is a ghost ?
Since when do male-birds lay eggs ?
I have a feeling that the survivors would strongly oppose their burial!

:lol:

by **Nightfall** » Mar 23rd, '09, 13:47

You are driving your luxury TWO-seated card on a stormy,winter night in the middle of nowhere when you bump to a Bus station. There you see an old lady who suffers from what it appears a heart-attack, a friend that once saved your life and the woman(/man) of your dreams. You only have on free seat in your car. What are you going to do ?

by **Mr_Grue** » Mar 23rd, '09, 13:53

Got it.

by **Lawrence** » Mar 23rd, '09, 14:07

Nightfall wrote:stormy,winter night in

I see an ice related answer coming up. We're back on track...

by **Jean** » Mar 23rd, '09, 14:42

For me personally I would probably let the old woman die on the street, she's lived long enough, give the person who saved my life a lift to wherever he's going and lock the woman of my dreams in the boot of my car for later.

Although I suppose the real answer is; let the man who saved my life save another, by giving him my car to take to old woman to the hospital and take the bus with the woman of my dreams?

Still both answers work for me.

by **Nightfall** » Mar 23rd, '09, 14:46

Jean Eugene Roberts wrote:For me personally I would probably let the old woman die on the street, she's lived long enough, give the person who saved my life a lift to wherever he's going and lock the woman of my dreams in the boot of my car for later.

Although I suppose the real answer is; let the man who saved my life save another, by giving him my car to take to old woman to the hospital and take the bus with the woman of my dreams?

Still both answers work for me.

Correct !

by **giznorm** » Mar 23rd, '09, 14:46

Jean Eugene Roberts wrote: let the man who saved my life save another, by giving him my car to take to old woman to the hospital

You're very noble. I would have left them some change for the bus while I drove away in my luxury car.

by **kolm** » Mar 23rd, '09, 14:55

Surely the most sensible answer would be to either take the old woman to the hospital yourself or to call an ambulance, before making a date to buy the guy who saved my life and the man of my dreams a pint each? (Not on the same night, of course...)

by **Lawrence** » Mar 23rd, '09, 15:15

The old woman / friend / woman of your dreams could even all be the same person. :wink:

so just take her to the hospital.

by **moonbeam** » Mar 27th, '09, 17:30

Time for another one folks:

You need to clear a field of grass, and you've chosen to use an army of goats. Keep in mind that the grass is always growing, even as it is being eaten.

If you set 120 goats loose, the field will be cleared in 30 days. If you set 48 goats loose, the field will be cleared in 90 days. If you want the field cleared in 16 days, how many whole goats do you need?

Enjoy

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by **Jean** » Mar 27th, '09, 18:25

You and your damn complex maths riddles.

by **kolm** » Mar 27th, '09, 19:07

moonbeam wrote:how many whole goats do you need?

F**k the maths, I want to know how a severed goat is going to eat grass...

by **moonbeam** » Mar 27th, '09, 19:18

kolm wrote:
moonbeam wrote:how many whole goats do you need?

F**k the maths, I want to know how a severed goat is going to eat grass...

..... which is why I asked for the answer in whole numbers of goats, 'cos the mathematical answer is not a whole number

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