What is your favorite word logic problem

[motely36]

Guys in my office are telling these. Things like if you have 2 coins that add up to $0.35 and one of the coins is not a quarter, what are the coins?

Give me some good ones to stump them. One of my coworkers insists he can't be stumped!

[Dr. Strange]

1. You could do this math problem:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=8193045

[motely36]

2. I remember that one

thanks

[BurtWorm]

3. Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's father is my father's son

Who am I talking about?

[motely36]

5. we did that one

:hi:

[BurtWorm]

6. Oh yeah? Well, fuck you, buddy!

;)

How'd ya like that logic?

[motely36]

11. But dad....

:hide:

[HamdenRice]

4. This is a grammer puzzler: "Tell me, who am your friend, your troubles."

or is it:

"Tell me, who is your friend, your troubles."

or is it:

"Tell me, who's your friend, your troubles."

It's a conjugation puzzle. "who am your friend" is a clause that modifies "me." "Me" is the first person, and the verb, "to be," when conjugated in the first person, is "am."

So despite how it sounds, the correct way to say it is:

"Tell me, who am your friend, your troubles."

[AirmensMom]

7. Fox, chicken, and corn.

You have a boat and need to get them all to the other side of the river.
You can only take one at a time.
You can't leave the chicken with the corn or the fox with the chicken.
How do you get them all across safely?

[HamdenRice]

17. I remember this one!

Take the chicken across first, leaving the fox and corn. The fox won't eat the corn.

Come back empty, and take the fox across.

But bring the chicken back.

Now take the corn across, leaving the fox and corn on the far side.

Come back empty again.

Now take the chicken across and go on your merry way.

[AirmensMom]

26. You got it!

:applause: :fistbump: :toast:

[Bertha Venation]

8. Does this qualify?

Dick and Jane are lying dead in a puddle. What happened?

I guess that's more of a riddle.

[motely36]

10. Is there broken glass around?

;)

[Bertha Venation]

14. noooooooo

they be stealin' my punchline

[BurtWorm]

12. Sally and Spot peed them to death?

:shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

15. Bah!

[Deep13]

22. The puddle was electrified.

Either by a fallen wire or lightning. It is the only thing I could think of that would cause both deaths at the same time.

[Bertha Venation]

28. Nope!

Try again.

[Deep13]

29. I shot, two kills?

:shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

30. Broaden your imagination.

I mean, really broad.

[Deep13]

31. BOTH dead in a puddle.

I am really stumped.

Is the puddle what's left of New Orleans in '05?
:dunce:

[Bertha Venation]

32. Heh. Nope. Good guess though.

Do you want me to tell you?

[Deep13]

34. No, I would rather wait until I get home...

...before I start smacking my own head for missing what is probably obvious.

[Deep13]

36. "Dead" has other meanings, of course.

Dead center of the puddle comes to mind in this case.

"Lying" has one meaning and it is the progressive form of a verb that means an attempt to deceive by statements known or suspected to be false.

So why are they making false statements in the dead center of the puddle?
:shrug:

[motely36]

37. You are thinking too hard

just keep fishing around and you will figure it out

[Dr. Strange]

33. Is there a cat in the vicinity?

[Bertha Venation]

40. Yeah - in your sig line.

*gasp* he tutched the but!

[Dr. Strange]

41. Did he also touch some fish?

[Bertha Venation]

63. mmm... yeeesssss...

[Dr. Strange]

64. Poor Dick and Jane.

[Bertha Venation]

66. glub glub *choke*

:taps:

[gizmonic]

39. Murder-suicide involving icicles??

Icicles melt..leaves a puddle.

:shrug:

[woo me with science]

62. very nice!

[Dr. Strange]

65. That reminds me of this riddle:

George was found hanged in his apartment. The doors were locked (from the inside) and the only thing in his apartment was the rope he was hanging from. How was he able to commit suicide? Or was it suicide?

[BOSSHOG]

9. How bout

the two nuns who got in a car wreck but couldn't get their car fixed at a garage because Nuns travel in "pears."

[Chan790]

13. There is no good answer for this:

Inch-me and Pinch-me had a race.
Inch-me fell down and shattered his face.
Who won the race?

Pinch-me. (So you do.)
If they say anything else...pinch them for lying.

(This was grandpa's favorite prank.)

[KitchenWitch]

16. A plane carrying 80 passengers crashes on the border of Illinois and Wisconsin

where do they bury the survivors?

[motely36]

18. We used to get questions like that on tests for extra credit

in jr. high

If a rooster lays an egg on a roof,... which way does it fall?

What year was the war of 1812 fought?

What color was George Washington's white horse?

[PBS Poll-435]

19. lol

I remember that one...


:rofl:

[HamdenRice]

20. Trick question for legal eagles: A dog bites a man, who lashes back with knife killing the dog ...

The man clearly acted in the heat of passion. Is the killing first degree murder, second degree murder or manslaughter?














































None of the above. Killing a dog is not homicide.

[LanternWaste]

21. Continue the pattern for a few more places...

Continue the pattern for a few more places...

O T T F F S S E ...

Was asked that on day one of a Poli Sci class many years ago. It stumped me, while other got it right off the bat...

(Scroll down if you don't know the answer and wish to feel as stupid as I did...)




























O T T F F S S E = One Two Three Four Five Six Seven, etc...

[siligut]

23. You walk into a room filled with monkeys.

One is using a ladder to try to reach a banana hanging from the ceiling. One is piling wooden blocks into a wall; one is in a corner observing the other two. Who do you think is the smartest primate in the room?
































You are.


You come across a cabin in the woods. There are 340 people in it all dead. The cabin is in ruins, the people are mangled. The area around the cabin has broken trees and disturbed landscape for a few hundred yards behind it. The cabin itself is wrecked. What happened?











































747 plane crash.



Why are manhole covers round?























































The only shape that won't fall through the hole.

[motely36]

24. I just used the monkey one and stumped them

:bounce:

Thanks

:toast:

(Of course, I didn't get it either :blush: )

[siligut]

27. Welcome.

:bounce:
:toast:

[Boojatta]

54. "The only shape that won't fall through the hole"

How about the Reuleaux triangle?

Link:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ReuleauxTriangle.html

[peruban]

25. I have to go with Homer Simpson on this one.

"This statement is a lie". Also, Descartes wrote: "Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes.

[cemaphonic]

35. Ooh, you're just asking for a Monty Hall flamewar aren't you?

[motely36]

38. good times

;)

[pokerfan]

43. too late

[pokerfan]

42. Suppose you're on a game show

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

[darkstar]

45. This one's a mind bender for lots of folks, including me

I've had math and engineering folks swearing that the answer you'll find on the internet is wrong, and that it's not the "Monty Hall" problem but the "Monte Carlo" problem when I tell 'em to look it up. hahahaha

I can get it for a minute or two, but never explain it to others. I have to re-read the explanation every time.

[pokerfan]

49. It's my favorite

and it got a boost in popularity from the movie, 21 and an episode of Numb3rs a couple of seasons ago.

[cemaphonic]

53. The answer on the internet (always switch) is right, it's the question that is often suspect.

The puzzle is dependent on quite a few conditions that are often left out when the problem is described. A lot of times, the description leaves out that:

1) The host knows what is behind each door.
2) The host is required to open a goat door.

Without these conditions, the answer is much more ambiguous.

[pokerfan]

56. True

[cemaphonic]

57. I swear that half of the posts in a typical Monty Hall thread

degenerate into trying to analyze the psychology of the actual "Let's Make a Deal" host, because this gets left out, or is ignored.

It's amusing, but frustrating for anyone actually trying to explain the correct solution.

[cemaphonic]

55. A small, but crucial modification

is that the host is required to open a goat door. It's still a bit ambiguous in your description, and the puzzle doesn't work without it.

[DeepBlueC]

44. a dime and a quarter

one coin is not a quarter, but the other one is.

[darkstar]

46. True or False (caution: I don't have an answer ready)

If you'd have gone up like you came down
You could have come down like you went up

[Dr. Strange]

47. Here's another one:

John realized that 115 is greater than 65 but less than 95. Why?

[pokerfan]

50. 0:95 > 1:15 > 0:65 ?

:shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

61. Bingo.

He was cooking with his microwave.

[pokerfan]

68. Yeah, but if it's me I hit 99 instead of 95

77 instead of 1:15 and 66 instead of 0:65. Anything to save time...

[motely36]

58. I give up...why

:shrug:

[BlueJazz]

48. Here's one that Nobody ever gets.

Of Course you'll know this spelling question as soon as I write it. (but they won't)

How do you spell Bdellium ?
It's pronounced Dellium

People don't believe there is a word that actually starts with Bd



bdellium n. An aromatic gum resin similar to myrrh, produced by certain Asian and ... like the color of the bedolach stone, in which all colors are seen". ...

[pokerfan]

51. The capital of Djibouti is Djibouti

I've got a mind like a steel trap...

[pokerfan]

52. Microwave oven

The max time I can set on my microwave is 1 hr, 40 min, 39 sec. Do you know why?

[motely36]

59. It has something to do with

99:99, but my brain is slow and I can't seem to do the math!

[motely36]

60. that's funny I tried to write 99:99

and it switched it to a smiley!

[pokerfan]

67. 99:99 is correct