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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:11 pm
by Bastian-Bux
Klingon solution to the two rod problem:

hammer both rods strongely and repeteadly on the floor, and to be safe also on the head of the asking person.

Answer. non of the rods is magnetic.


Cardassian solution:

Depending on the size of the rods invent a torturing approach to get the asking one to confess you which rod is magnetically. Additonal informations are a bonus.

Vulcan solution:

Think 10 minutes about the ethic implications of a mindmeld with an unwilling subject. Think another 20 minutes about the countless times mr. Spock ignored those ethic implications.
Think logical...


Kirks solution:

If the asking one is female, well you know the drill.
If the asking one is male, well, sometimes a starship captain has to go where no man has been before...

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:34 pm
by Moriarty
Another one:

I am sometimes strong and sometimes weak,
But I am nobody's fool,
For there is no language that I can't speak,
Though I never went to school.
What am I?

Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:28 am
by Moriarty
2 weeks and no-one has made an attempt?! hmm.

Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 7:03 pm
by skdiw
translator or a dictionary?

Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 7:46 pm
by MisterMerf
Moriarty wrote:Another one:

I am sometimes strong and sometimes weak,
But I am nobody's fool,
For there is no language that I can't speak,
Though I never went to school.
What am I?
The voice?

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:26 pm
by Moriarty
Nope. the answer is...

*wanders off to find answer*

Ah yes, it's:

An Echo :)



Another one then:

Three fat people were standing under a small umbrella, and none of them got wet. How?

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:12 pm
by pd
because it's not raining?

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:23 am
by Ablaze
You have a seven link golden chain. You want to stay at an inn in which you have worked out the price of one golden link per day. What are the fewest amount of cuts in the chain that you can make in order that you can pay the inn keeper upfront each day, but still have the liberty of leaving at any time you wish without losing money?

Hint: It is acceptable to give the innkeeper three links and take back the two you gave him the previous day.

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:45 pm
by Bastian-Bux
you make 2 cuts -> 3 pieces. 1,2, 4.

1st day: 1 link
2nd day: 2 link, 1 link back
3rd day: 1 link
4th day: 4 link, 1 and 2 link back
5th day: 1 link
6th day: 2 link, 1 link back
7th day: 1 link
8th day: you better leave

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:35 pm
by Ablaze
Good job, but remember it's a golden chain, so if you make just one cut in the third link you can take the chain apart like this: ** * ****

What can be held by anyone, is lighter then a feather, and yet even the strongest man can't hold it for long?

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:16 pm
by Bastian-Bux
breath

PS: Thought you where talking about a closed chain, then you'd need 2 cuts. :).

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:33 am
by Ablaze
This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. Actually nothing is wrong with it, but it is unusual. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. If you work at it a bit, you might find out though!

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 4:33 am
by PowerCrazy
There are no e's? the most common letter in the english alphabet?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:47 am
by Ablaze
hehe.. these are too easy for you all.


What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:22 am
by Bastian-Bux
The railing.

Boah, had to look up that word in a dictionary :).

Whats endless and still finds enough space to prosper in a humans brain?

PS: Severall correct answers possible.