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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on December 11, 2006, 05:41:40 PM
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What does the following mean? (No other information is needed.)
Roy Great Britain the Fourth
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It means you've gone bonkers. Wait! Wait! It could be Roy ROGERS! And the fourth letter of Great Britain is "a"!
Roger's a....what are you trying to tell me?
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Once you get the answer, you know you are right.
It has nothing to do with you.
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Roy Great Britain the Fourth
Roger's *u*k*** just missed out on the medals (Only came 4th in the golf tournament)
Let me explain: Roy = "Rogers". Great Britain = "UK". Fourth = "Just missed out on the medals".
Next puzzle please!
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Do you all give in?
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Does it have anything to do with remembering the colours of the rainbow...??? ???
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Yes, well done.
ROY = red, orange, yellow
GB = green, blue
IV = indigo, violet
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Hmm - but where does the word "the" come into it?
I prefer questions like what is the only team in the football league that you can't colour in.
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"The rainbow"
I've surprised myself there... whenever I see roy I always immediately think of richard of york; that reminds me of rainbow..."Rainbow" starred Geoffrey, Bungle, Zippy, George and the singers - never to be forgotten...
And, if you can't colour in a football team, that means they're in black and white... hmmm
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What team can't you colour in?
Ayr
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What team can't you colour in?
Ayr
Are they in black and white?
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All white, I seem to remember. That's the only resemblance between them and Real Madrid.
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No, it's not "Ayr" because you can colour in the hole in the "A". The team's name is in upper and lower case by the way (so it isn't CELTIC"!)
It's in the English league.
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Is it Hull City?
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Correct. OK here's another.
Add one of these symbols: + - / x
to the following so that it makes sense: l0 l0 l0 = 950
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Is it l0 l0 l0 = 950 x?
(as in incorrect...)
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Is it l0 l0 l0 = 950 x?
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No
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No, you put the - across the top of the second vertical line to make it say 10 TO 10... ten to ten being 9:50
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No, you put the - across the top of the second vertical line to make it say 10 TO 10... ten to ten being 9:50
In other words: l0 T0 10 = 950
Spot on, Jack. Your turn for setting a teaser!
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Can I just set a quick teaser?
If you have a stick which is one metre long, how many times can you cut ten centimetres off it?
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Nine times. Is it my go now?
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Nine times. Is it my go now?
No, thats incorrect. Have another go.
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Okay, it's either one (because then it's not a 1m stick - pedantic sod) or it's infinity (because you can repeat the task over and over again with different sticks).
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If you'd said what team NAME can't you colour in, it would have been a lot easier to understand.
Who was the only barefooted player to score a hat trick past Pat Jennings?
Clue: It was televised.
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Hey, get off! I'm next. And stop asking football questions! How am I supposed to know the answer to them? Who's Pat Jennings?
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Clue: It was televised.
I don't have a television. You did this deliberately, didn't you?
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Yes, I have a complete inventory of all your household electrical items.
You forfeited your right to fair play by misrepresenting your question, which I would've got easily, no bother.
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Why do I get the impression that you're making these rules up as you go along?
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Who was the only barefooted player to score a hat trick past Pat Jennings?
Clue: It was televised.
Bare-footed makes me think of the singer, Sandy Shore. "Always Something There To Remind Me".
Was it her?
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Okay, it's either one (because then it's not a 1m stick - pedantic sod) or it's infinity (because you can repeat the task over and over again with different sticks).
The answer is one.
I got the puzzle off a premium-rated TV phone-in channel though, and they tend to change the processes quite a lot to come to their answers - so really, any of those you said could have been correct. :-\
Who was the only barefooted player to score a hat trick past Pat Jennings?
Clue: It was televised.
The only bare-footed player I can think of is Zola Budd, but she didn't play football.
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I've just popped in to say that the question about colouring in the names of football teams is the stupidest I've ever heard.
Carry on.
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The barefoot player was of course Tony the Tiger in the Frosties ad.
That bit of trivia is gr-r-r-r-reat!
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A wee bit late, but: 10 10 10 ? 950
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Fyodor, that is absolutely brilliant. Ten, ten, ten, Christmas tree, nine hundred and fifty. I knew it was something like that.
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Fyodor, that is absolutely brilliant. Ten, ten, ten, Christmas tree, nine hundred and fifty. I knew it was something like that.
I thought my answer of it being incorrect was stretching it a bit... by the way, what does an equals sign with a slash through it actually mean?
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It means "gonna git me sum".
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No, you put the - across the top of the second vertical line to make it say 10 TO 10... ten to ten being 9:50
Fyodor, this correct answer given earlier could have been a good clue! ::)
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One prefers one's own answer.
One's solution (in words for your benefit Mr. Kettle [sometimes life must be earnest]) is simply this:
ten ten ten is not equal to nine hundred and fifty,
A fact one challenges you to disprove.
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Yes, but that wasn't one of the symbols you were limited to using in the puzzle!
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Neither was a full stop given as an allowed symbol, it was necessary to turn 950 into 9.50
My Tony the Tiger question was the best.
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My Tony the Tiger question was the best.
No, my stick one was trickier. And the rainbow one had everyone puzzled. Your Tony one was good though.
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Here's a good one. You don't need to be a mathematician to solve this one.
A man (and mathematician) wishes to know for each house in a street the number of children and their ages. At one house, he is greeted by a woman who tells him that she has three children whose ages multiply to give her age, 36. She also tells him that their ages add to the house number. The man makes a mental note of the house number, thanks the woman, and leaves. But on his way to the next house he realises that he still cannot work out the ages of the children. And so he returns to the house. The woman tells him, "The youngest one is at Grandma's house." The man smiles and notes down the ages of the children.
How old are the children? Explain your reasoning.
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What kind of society do we live in where people voluntarily give out information to any eejit who happens to knock on their door?
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This is hypothetical puzzle world, in which there is no crime, no unsavoury people, and no annoying tossers who raise random objections when confronted with a puzzle they can't solve.
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Here's a good one. You don't need to be a mathematician to solve this one.
A man (and mathematician) wishes to know for each house in a street the number of children and their ages. At one house, he is greeted by a woman who tells him that she has three children whose ages multiply to give her age, 36. She also tells him that their ages add to the house number. The man makes a mental note of the house number, thanks the woman, and leaves. But on his way to the next house he realises that he still cannot work out the ages of the children. And so he returns to the house. The woman tells him, "The youngest one is at Grandma's house." The man smiles and notes down the ages of the children.
How old are the children? Explain your reasoning.
They are 2, 3 and 6. That's because I can't think of 3 other fairly close ages that multiply to give 36, unless the youngest was only 1. e.g: 1, 4 and 9 or 1, 2 and 18. However, I don't think one child could be 1, because then the age isn't actually being "multiplied " when combined with another age.
If the youngest was a twin like me (I'm 9 hours younger than my brother), then there would be two kids of 2 and one of 9, or two kids of 1 and one of 36, but I have a feeling they are to be three different ages. Also a 36 year old kid would be too old to have a grandmother in all probablility.
Unless it's the Grandmother of Horace, that is. Maybe Horace has two siblings....? No, the Grandmother there would be constantly out on the raz in her insatiable quest for lumberjacks and bourbon.
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Also a 36 year old kid would be too old to have a grandmother in all probablility.
Also, it's unlikely that a woman who is 36 years old would have a child of the same age.
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Also a 36 year old kid would be too old to have a grandmother in all probablility.
Also, it's unlikely that a woman who is 36 years old would have a child of the same age.
I agree, she would have had to have married fairly young. Didn't spot that. It'll be the 2, 3 & 6 answer then...
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No.
It helps if you write out all the sets of three values that multiply to give 36. There are seven different sets.
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Oh Peepmaster, I thought you were inflammable, but you have proved me wrong.
Here's your original puzzle:
Add one of these symbols: + - / x
to the following so that it makes sense: l0 l0 l0 = 950
I think you must agree that one of the allowed symbols is "/" and when it is added to the"=" it produces the symbol for not equal to.
One rests one's case.
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I think you're quite right Fyodor. You have indeed put the divide symbol over the equals sign in the same way as one can put the minus sign on top of the second number 1.
I hadn't realised an "isn't equal to" symbol existed. I also think that Tom's answer "l0 l0 l0 = 950 x" technically works.
My goodness, there are 3 answers it would seem.
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Bit tricky, the answers to these puzzles.
Are there any puzzles which have only one answer? ??? :-\
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Okay, here is the answer.
These are the sets of three numbers that multiply to give 36, along with the house number (the sum of the three numbers).
1 2 18 add to 21
1 3 12 add to 16
1 4 9 add to 14
1 6 6 add to 13
2 2 9 add to 13
2 3 6 add to 11
3 3 4 add to 10
We don't know the door number, but the mathematician does. Let's say the door number was 21. The mathematician would have known that the ages were 1, 2 and 18. So if the door number was 21, the mathematician would have continued to the next house. But he didn't. He could not work out the ages. He had to go back for more information. The only reason he would do this is that the door number would not be enough. But if the door number is 21 or 16 or 14 or 11 or 10, this is enough. So it cannot be any of those numbers. The door number must be 13 (as there are two sets of numbers that add to 13). If the door number was 13, he would not know whether the ages were 1 6 6 or 2 2 9. And this is why he had to go back for more information. The knowledge that the youngest one is at Grandma's rules out 2 2 9, as there is no youngest one. So the answer is 1 6 6.
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No. As I explained earlier, I am the youngest of twins. I was born 9 hours after my brother. I could have been the youngest at my Grandmothers, and still have been 2, the same age as my twin brother. You think it doesn't matter? In law it does. He is "the eldest".
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The law does not apply to Puzzle Land.