i checked the answer and it is total balls.... so the guy has to start a fire in front of the other fire and the hope he can have the fire he set burn out so he can walk on breathe in the area before the other fire comes. the whole island having cliffs raises another question... barring crashing a plane or parachuting in its not possible to be on it cos if he could climb up he could climb down... finally if theres no river on the island how could there be jungle or forest.
An answer wasn't given with that one (I get a weekly e-newsletter with these on) and I can't find the answer via google either
It takes two gardeners 8 days to mow a lawn. One is lazy and one is energetic. The energetic one would only take 12 days to mow it on his own. How many days would the lazy gardener take to mow the lawn on his own? Solution: [NSFW]The energetic gardener would be able to mow the lawn in twelve days. In eight days he would be able to mow 8/12 of the lawn. This leaves 4/12 of the lawn left for the lazy gardener to mow. He takes the full eight days to do this so he mows only half as quickly as the energetic one. He would therefore need 24 days to mow the lawn on his own. Twice as long as the energetic one.[/NSFW]
Last month I sent off for one of those kits which you can use to make your own Christmas Crackers. The kit contained: - Three colours of hat: Red, Yellow and Blue - Four types of novelty: toy car, spinning top, magnifying glass and miniature hair brush - Four different types of joke slip All the other parts were the same type. The kit contained enough bits for 50 crackers. Can I make each cracker different from all the others? Solution: [nsfw]3 x 4 x 4 = 48. Sadly at least two crackers must be exact duplicates of ones already made. BUT if you could handle the sad look on people's faces, you could consider a missing item as a possible combination. This gives 4 x 5 x 5 = 100 different crackers. 40 crackers would be missing one item, 11 will be missing two, and one cracker with nothing in at all! (This solution by Eric Chen, modified by Spacklick and Nehustan.)[/nsfw]
Er, no. There are only 48 possible combinations (4 x 4 x 3) so once those have been exhausted, the remaining 2 will have a duplicate somewhere
NB: this isn't a brain teaser, its one of those circulation emails. Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down (click show) to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has got it right. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did Not know. She thought this guy was amazing. She believed him to be her dream guy so much, that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister. Question: What is her motive for killing her sister? [Give this some thought before you answer] [NSFW]Answer: She was hoping the guy would appear at the funeral again. If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous American Psychologist used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly. If you didn't answer the question correctly, good for you. [/NSFW] PS...I didn't even think about this, I got it right immediately
Write out the numbers from 1 to 20 in words: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. Now put them in ALPHABETICAL order. Which number stays where it is? Answer: [nsfw]Five[/nsfw]
Given only one of each letter in the alphabet, what are the smallest and largest numbers that you could write down? Solution: [nsfw]Using only one of each letter in the alphabet, you can spell: ZERO or NOUGHT MINUS FORTY (allowing negative numbers) FIVE THOUSAND These are the smallest and largest possible numbers.[/nsfw]
It's party time! Several people of different ages brought things for the party: Charlie, who's 12, brought the potato crisps. Wayne brought fizzy lemonade (he's 13). Helen (11) brought paper plates, and her brother Peter (9) brought paper cups. Sheila is the same age as Charlie: she brought party poppers. Young Horace brought peanuts: how old is he? [nsfw]7 (Count the letters!) Several people of different ages brought things for the party: Charlie, who's 12, brought the POTATO CRISPS. Wayne brought the FIZZY LEMONADE (he's 13). Helen (11) brought the PAPER PLATES, and her brother Peter (9) brought the PAPER CUPS. Sheila is the same age as Charlie: she brought the PARTY POPPERS. Young Horace brought the PEANUTS: how old is he? Have a great party![/nsfw]
Hungry Horace was looking through the family photograph album, which has a photo of each of his parent, each of his grandparents, all the way up to each of his great-great-great-grandparents. How many photos is that? [nsfw]2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents 16 great-great-grandparents 32 great-great-great-grandparents 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 62 photos in all.[/nsfw]
