Riddles

[Julia]

Who can answer these?

Will post solutions tomorrow if no one has got them right.

 

[doctorj]

Got 1 & 3, but need help on 2...

 

[Julia]

OK, Doc, what are your answers to 1 & 3?

Anyone else able to guess?
(I didn't get any of them right!)

 

[Agentm]

i am guessin 1968 is one penny more?

push the cork in??

a deal??

 

[doctorj]

1. I'm guessing that one thousand, nine hundred and sixty pennies is worth more than one thousand, nine hundred and sixty seven.
2. ???
3. A deck of cards

 

[Stan 101]

I *think* I have all three...well I have 3 answers anyway.. PM sent Julia..


cheers,

 

[nomore4s]

Here are my guesses

1) Because there is one more penny

2) ?

3) A pack of cards

 

[Julia]

Well, you are all pretty clever to get any of them at all.

1. Yes, it is one penny more. (You won't believe this, but I was saying to myself, hmm, with inflation etc.! )

2. Push the cork in, then shake the bottle until the coin comes out.

3. Deck of cards.

So pat yourselves on the back for being so bright.

 

[Julia]

OK, this isn't a riddle, but see if you can get the answer here:

 

[Kauri]

OK, this isn't a riddle, but see if you can get the answer here:

I'd go for E but the three T's don't work??
Cheers
........Kauri

 

[Julia]

I'd go for E but the three T's don't work??
Cheers
........Kauri

So what were you thinking with the E, Kauri?
Anyone else?

 

[professor_frink]

E for eighty??

 

[Kauri]

So what were you thinking with the E, Kauri?
Anyone else?

Julia... you sound like my wife... "what were you thinking"
I was on eight.... but as the Prof says eighty works..
Cheers
.........Kauri

 

[Mouse]

I'll go with E for Eighty as well.

Then it would be Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty, Sixty, Seventy, Eighty.

cheers
Mouse

 

[Julia]

Kauri, it wasn't that kind of "what were you thinking"! I know the one you mean that your wife says. Mine was just a polite curiosity not a condemnation which is usually the wife's tone.

Well, you are again clever little folk, aren't you! Yes, it's E for eighty.

Next one coming up this evening.

Congratulations.

 

[2020hindsight]

How important is 0.5% in an Australian Election Scenario (preferential voting etc)?

suppose you have an electoral seat
candidates are A B C and D
A gives preferences to D who gives to C who exchanges with B

first scenario
First count A , B, C, D get 49.5%, 25%, 15%, 10.5%
Who wins the seat?

second scenario
First count A , B, C, D get 49.5%, 25.5%, 14.5%, 10.5%
Who wins the seat?

 

[alphman]

Great thread....I love riddles! Here's an oldie but a goldie..

A woman shoots her husband, then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.

How can this be?

 

[Whiskers]

Great thread....I love riddles! Here's an oldie but a goldie..

A woman shoots her husband, then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.

How can this be?

A woman 'shoots' a picture of her husband...

Didn't come to me for a few minutes.

 

[2020hindsight]

pretty easy so i'll post the answer

 

[Whiskers]

Poor subject right now, 2020.

I had a look at it, but my mind kept going foggy. :sleeping: