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  1. Lil Pun

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    1. What falls but never breaks and breaks but never falls?

    2. What has four legs in the morning, two in the evening, and three at night?

    3. 3 cannibals and 3 soldiers are stuck at a river crossing with 1 boat. The boat can hold 3 people and must have 1 to guide it acroos the river, but you can't have a majority of cannibals in one area because they'll eat the soldiers and you can't have a majority of soldiers in an area because they'll kill the cannibals. How do they get all 6 across without anybody getting killed or eaten?

    4. Scientists in the South Pole discover two frozen bodies. They observe a feature that tells them directly that this is Adam & Eve. What feature did they observe?

    5. A man builds a two story house. Upstairs he has 3 lights installed in a row and downstairs are the 3 switches. He wants to find out which switch goes to which light and he wants to do it in 1 trip. How can he do this?

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    1. What falls but never breaks and breaks but never falls?

    It does both?

    I would say "water". Water falls, and waves break. I dunno.

    3. 3 cannibals and 3 soldiers are stuck at a river crossing with 1 boat. The boat can hold 3 people and must have 1 to guide it acroos the river, but you can't have a majority of cannibals in one area because they'll eat the soldiers and you can't have a majority of soldiers in an area because they'll kill the cannibals. How do they get all 6 across without anybody getting killed or eaten?

    All three soldiers get on the boat and cross. One comes back.

    When he gets there all three cannibals get on the boat, and let two off on the other side with the two soldiers.

    Then the cannibal comes back to get the last soldier and they cross together. Like peas in a pod

    4. Scientists in the South Pole discover two frozen bodies. They observe a feature that tells them directly that this is Adam & Eve. What feature did they observe?

    No belly buttons


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  3. RunninRaven

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    Neither of them have a belly-button...

    The other 4 I am still working on, but I have seen the 5th one before. I never did figure out the answer to it, and really frustrated me.

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  4. Lil Pun

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    #1 is wrong the rest are correct.

    What about #5?

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    You flip the first switch on, wait a few minutes, then turn it off. Then you turn the 2nd one one. You go upstairs. One lightbulm is on, one lightbulb is cool, and the other is warm (from having just been on).


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    Holy Geez! Is this the right answer? It must be... Damnit! It is so simple!!!!!! [​IMG]

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  7. Lil Pun

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    Yes that is the right answer and now #3, #4, and #5 have all been answered correctly, but the correct answers to #1 and #2 have yet to be posted.

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  8. Space Ghost

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    if that one soldier came back, wouldn't he have been eaten?

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    1. A River
    2. A Man

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  10. SamCassell

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    Props to you for including the riddle of the sphinx. A harder question might be, where was it first stated (and solved)?

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  11. Lil Pun

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    Answer to #1 is incorrect.

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  12. Lil Pun

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    True true. Wasn't it in Oedipus Rex? I usually can't remember but I know it was in a book I read.



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    Is #1 the temperature or rain?
    Or is it night?

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  14. Lil Pun

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    One of those three is right ubt it has to be put into different terms.


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    Night falls but never breaks and day breaks but never falls.

    Is that what you're looking for?
     
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    Yep! I only know cause I was talking with a coworker about it last week. The nerd alert was blaring that day, I'll tell you.

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  17. Lil Pun

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    Well that's the answer.



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  18. Castor27

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    Actually I knew it was night and day but the network at work crapped out so I couldn't edit my post until now.

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    Uh huh, excuses excuses. [​IMG]

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