Author Topic: Puzzle  (Read 21490 times)

Tom

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2006, 12:31:59 PM »
Is it l0 l0 l0 = 950 x?

(as in incorrect...)
« Last Edit: December 13, 2006, 01:55:37 PM by Tom »

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2006, 12:44:40 PM »
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Jack

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2006, 08:50:48 PM »
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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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2006, 12:22:31 AM »
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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Tom

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2006, 12:42:12 AM »
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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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2006, 12:54:59 AM »
Nine times. Is it my go now?

Tom

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2006, 01:04:26 AM »
Nine times. Is it my go now?

No, thats incorrect. Have another go.

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2006, 01:14:12 AM »
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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Malky

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2006, 02:21:09 AM »
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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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2006, 02:26:42 AM »
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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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #25 on: December 14, 2006, 02:27:54 AM »
Clue: It was televised.

I don't have a television. You did this deliberately, didn't you?

Malky

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #26 on: December 14, 2006, 03:56:49 AM »
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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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #27 on: December 14, 2006, 05:24:16 AM »
Why do I get the impression that you're making these rules up as you go along?

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2006, 09:53:50 AM »

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?
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Tom

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Re: Puzzle
« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2006, 12:31:18 PM »
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.