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Freestyler
01-10-2007, 02:02 AM
Post the brain teaser here. Feel free to give up the answer or make them squirm trying to figure it out. It can be a legit brain teasing question or something as simple as "Why do you park on driveways and drive on parkways"?
After you post, add a note if you want people to try to figure it out. You do not need to figure one out in order to post. If you have one, post it. Simple.
Post away.
brvheart
01-10-2007, 09:19 AM
Sports Scene
Ten teams in the league each played 12 games during the season.
The Hornets lost 10 games.
The X-men won and lost the same number of games.
The Jaguars won one third of their games, and the Asteroids won twice as many as the Jaguars.
The Mountaineers won 1 out of every 4 games.
The computer listing showed the Dragons as winning .583 of their games.
The Firebirds won .083 of their games, and the Tigers won .83 of theirs.
The Pirates won less than half their games but more than the Jaguars.
The Saturns won 3 more games than the X-men.Beginning with the first place team, list their rank order at the end of the season.
[B]Hint
Sports Scene
Establish either the number of games won or the percentage of games won for each team. Then make a chart to track each team.
Freestyler
01-10-2007, 12:56 PM
I think this is right.
1-Saturns
2-Asteroids
3-Dragons
4-X-men
5-Pirates
6-Jaguars
7-Mountaineers
8-Hornets
9-Tigers
10-Firebirds
Easye1982
01-23-2007, 08:34 PM
A man leaves home running.
He runs for a little while, and turns left.
He runs a little more and turns left again.
He runs some more and turns left again.
He arrives back home, where he sees the same two guys in masks he ran from in the first place.
Who is the man, and why was he ruinning?
Python
01-25-2007, 04:00 PM
He is running from 2 guys robbing his home and he is the homeowner or renter:D
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Car crash occures involving the father driving and the son is a passenger. The son is rushed to a hospitol in Maryland and the father is flown to a hospitol in Virginia. The son is in need of immediate surgery. He is rushed in the operating room upon arrival at the hospitol. The Doctor goes in the OR for surgery and recognizes the boy and says I can't operate on him he is my son.... How is this possible No it is not a grandparent and it is the Biological Parent.
Easye1982
01-25-2007, 06:45 PM
He is running from 2 guys robbing his home and he is the homeowner or renter:D
Nope, thats not it ;)
The Dr. is the boys father, the driver was not the boys father...just "a" father
Python
01-26-2007, 09:05 PM
Nope, thats not it ;)
The Dr. is the boys father, the driver was not the boys father...just "a" father
Ah HA you are wrong to. I will ponder on your still and you ponder on mine.
Double post prevented :) see post below
A man leaves home running.
He runs for a little while, and turns left.
He runs a little more and turns left again.
He runs some more and turns left again.
He arrives back home, where he sees the same two guys in masks he ran from in the first place.
Who is the man, and why was he ruinning?
He is the father of 2 kids dressed up in holloween outfits and he was out for an evening jog to get ready for his fight in the morning:D
Easye1982
01-27-2007, 03:22 PM
LOL @ Python's creativity, but still a no.
rightcrosslefthook
01-27-2007, 10:31 PM
The Barber Puzzle
(circa 19th century)
In a certain town there is a male barber who shaves all those men, and only those men, who do not shave themselves.
Question: Does the barber shave himself?
Easye1982
01-27-2007, 10:35 PM
His wife or a female shaves him.
rightcrosslefthook
01-27-2007, 10:37 PM
His wife or a female shaves him.
Its implied that every man either shaves himself or the barber shaves him. So, does the barber shave himself?
Python
01-28-2007, 12:50 AM
I say yes and we need to answere easye's first if possible. But I think Yes he fits both profiles in one. He is a male and even if he didn't shave himself then he would as the barber:D
rightcrosslefthook
01-28-2007, 09:11 AM
Sorry Python, I thought the previous teasers were solved. I'll start reading all the posts from now on lol.
A man leaves home running.
He runs for a little while, and turns left.
He runs a little more and turns left again.
He runs some more and turns left again.
He arrives back home, where he sees the same two guys in masks he ran from in the first place.
Who is the man, and why was he ruinning?
The man hits a homerun. The two masked men are the umpire and the catcher.
Easye1982
01-28-2007, 10:52 AM
The man hits a homerun. The two masked men are the umpire and the catcher.
^ Correct RCLH :thumb:
rightcrosslefthook
01-28-2007, 10:31 PM
The Barber Puzzle
(circa 19th century)
In a certain town there is a male barber who shaves all those men, and only those men, who do not shave themselves.
Question: Does the barber shave himself?
I got this out of a discrete mathematics textbook. It seems dumb at first but it's interesting because it creates a logic paradox.
Python
03-20-2007, 07:51 PM
I say yes and we need to answere easye's first if possible. But I think Yes he fits both profiles in one. He is a male and even if he didn't shave himself then he would as the barber:D
Right or wrong??
Easye1982
03-24-2007, 02:47 PM
The Barber Puzzle
(circa 19th century)
In a certain town there is a male barber who shaves all those men, and only those men, who do not shave themselves.
Question: Does the barber shave himself?
Neither yes nor no. So, the situation described in the puzzle simply cannot exist in the world as we know it.
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NEW:
Question 1. What number comes next in the sequence:
61, 691, 163, 487, 4201, ?
Question 2. A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One day, his wife asked, "How many gold coins do we have?"
After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two unequal numbers, then 32 times the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two numbers."
The wife looked puzzled. Can you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold coins they have?
Question 3. Who is your father's only son's brother's uncle's wife's daughter's brother's father's son?
Easye, I believe the answer to both of your questions is: Who Cares?
Easye1982
03-24-2007, 02:59 PM
Close Uber.... but try harder next time.
Question 3. Who is your father's only son's brother's uncle's wife's daughter's brother's father's son?
You're a jerk man.
Not really.:)
Python
03-24-2007, 05:39 PM
No fun, teazes me brain to much:(
Freestyler
04-05-2007, 10:51 PM
Car crash occures involving the father driving and the son is a passenger. The son is rushed to a hospitol in Maryland and the father is flown to a hospitol in Virginia. The son is in need of immediate surgery. He is rushed in the operating room upon arrival at the hospitol. The Doctor goes in the OR for surgery and recognizes the boy and says I can't operate on him he is my son.... How is this possible No it is not a grandparent and it is the Biological Parent.
The Doctor is the boys mother.
Easye1982
11-16-2007, 11:46 AM
NEW:
Question 1. What number comes next in the sequence:
61, 691, 163, 487, 4201, ?
Question 2. A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One day, his wife asked, "How many gold coins do we have?"
After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two unequal numbers, then 32 times the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two numbers."
The wife looked puzzled. Can you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold coins they have?
Question 3. Who is your father's only son's brother's uncle's wife's daughter's brother's father's son?
:bump:
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