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Sydney Jacobs
Registered User
Join date: 31 May 2004
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01-12-2005 02:03
a chicken? lol
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
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01-12-2005 02:13
Bueller? Bueller?
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Neehai Zapata
Unofficial Parent
Join date: 8 Apr 2004
Posts: 1,970
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01-12-2005 04:40
The answer to Isis' riddle is the letter "e".
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Neehai Zapata
Unofficial Parent
Join date: 8 Apr 2004
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01-12-2005 04:54
Hiro, I have no idea the answer to yours, unless you didn't take any eggs to the market.
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Isis Becquerel
Ferine Strumpet
Join date: 1 Sep 2004
Posts: 971
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01-12-2005 09:26
Yeah Neehai....I'll send ya the money when I get in world
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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
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01-12-2005 09:29
Hiro yours was the easiest so far
I already got one though so I can't answer._____________________
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Rose Karuna
Lizard Doctor
Join date: 5 Jun 2004
Posts: 3,772
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Stop! To sell Eggy in Box.
01-12-2005 10:08
unless the eggs are in boxes? then they don't count... and we all know what happens to eggs in boxes... *nods sagely* muhahahah ...... (Sorry Andi)  _____________________
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Koden Farber
21st Century Digital Boy
Join date: 9 Jan 2005
Posts: 20
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01-12-2005 10:28
I'm going to guess 7
Here's my logic If you started with 7 eggs, and a person baught half, that would leave you with 3.5 eggs. The same person buys a half of an egg to leave you with 3 your next person buys half of your remaning eggs leaving you with 1.5 eggs. the same person buys half of an egg extra leaving you with 1 egg the last person buys half of your remaining to leave you with .5 of an egg then buys the final half leaving you with nothing. |
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
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01-12-2005 10:29
Oh we can answer Hiro's riddle? cool
The answer is 7 eggs. 7/2=3.5 3.5+.5=4 7-4=3 3/2=1.5 1.5+.5=2 3-2=1 1/2=.5 .5+.5=1 1-1=0 [edit] AAAAGH I wait all night and come back and answer and someone else posts the correct answer at the EXACT time i'm posting mine! lol my hypothesis has been substantiated.... if I want someone to post something, all I have to do is start a post of my own _____________________
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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01-12-2005 10:43
That's a magical number, that... has great symbolic value. ^_^
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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
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01-12-2005 10:43
my hypothesis has been substantiated.... if I want someone to post something, all I have to do is start a post of my own hehehe, you DO seem to have an uncanny knack for it! _____________________
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
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01-12-2005 10:51
Alright well I have one as well... since i'm not a rich girl this will be for only 300 Lindens, sorry
~There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?~ _____________________
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
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01-12-2005 19:16
Phew I knew it was hard... but no one's gotten it yet?
If you guys want i'll post a different one _____________________
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
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01-12-2005 19:25
ok this one is a bit tougher but uses similar logic: George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda? Same prize all to be awarded tomorrow AM Using logic? She's drinking soda because coffee makes her bloat. _____________________
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
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01-12-2005 19:27
Alright well I have one as well... since i'm not a rich girl this will be for only 300 Lindens, sorry ~There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?~ Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I Siggy. _____________________
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
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01-12-2005 19:29
Good job Siggy.
Next one! ~You are standing by a river with a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug, but you need exactly 4 gallons of water. Using only the 2 jugs you have, how can you measure out 4 gallons?~ _____________________
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Moleculor Satyr
Fireflies!
Join date: 5 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,650
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01-12-2005 19:40
Fill 5 gallon.
Pour into 3 gallon. 5 gallon now has 2 gallons. Empty 3 gallon. Pour 2 gallons from 5 gallon into 3 gallon jug. 3 gallon now has space for 1 more gallon. Fill 5 gallon to the top. Pour one gallon from 5 gallon into space left in 3 gallon jug. 5 gallon jug now has 4 gallons in it. _____________________
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
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01-12-2005 19:43
Good job Mole.
There is another solution as well, anyone? _____________________
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
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01-12-2005 21:44
I'm going to guess 7 Here's my logic If you started with 7 eggs, and a person baught half, that would leave you with 3.5 eggs. The same person buys a half of an egg to leave you with 3 your next person buys half of your remaning eggs leaving you with 1.5 eggs. the same person buys half of an egg extra leaving you with 1 egg the last person buys half of your remaining to leave you with .5 of an egg then buys the final half leaving you with nothing. Correct! First person buys 4 eggs, second buys 2, last buys 1. Sorry, just logged on. _____________________
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,905
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01-12-2005 21:50
Good job Mole. There is another solution as well, anyone? Start with both empty. Fill 3-gallon. Pour 3-gallon into 5 gallon. 5 gallon now has room for 2 more. Fill 3-gallon. Fill 5 gallon with water from 3 gallon, effectively transferring 2 gallons. 3-gallon now has 1 gallon of water. Empty 5-gallon. Pour the 1 gallon of water from the 3-gallon to the 5-gallon. Fill 3-gallon. Pour 3 gallons in 3 gallon into 5 gallon. 3 + 1 = 4 gallons. _____________________
Hiro Pendragon
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
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01-12-2005 21:53
Good job Hiro
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
D- in English
Join date: 7 Oct 2004
Posts: 884
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01-13-2005 07:21
No legs have I to dance,
No lungs have I to breathe, No life have I to live or die And yet I do all three. What am I? _____________________
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Isis Becquerel
Ferine Strumpet
Join date: 1 Sep 2004
Posts: 971
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01-13-2005 11:55
Fire
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
Thomas Sowell As long as the bottle of wine costs more than 50 bucks, I'm not an alcoholic...even if I did drink 3 of them. |
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Isis Becquerel
Ferine Strumpet
Join date: 1 Sep 2004
Posts: 971
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01-13-2005 12:02
A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.
What should have he said? _____________________
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
Thomas Sowell As long as the bottle of wine costs more than 50 bucks, I'm not an alcoholic...even if I did drink 3 of them. |
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
D- in English
Join date: 7 Oct 2004
Posts: 884
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01-13-2005 12:46
A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in. What should have he said? Three...Twelve has 6 letters, six has three letters, ten has 3 letters. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? . _____________________
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