(Just for fun) Lateral thinking puzzle

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 18:10

Ok Just for a bit of fun and without looking it up on the Net try and work out this puzzle.



Three switches outside a windowless room are connected to three light bulbs inside the room. How can you determine which switch is connected to which bulb if you are only allowed to enter the room once?



(No cheating)

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 18:13

Look through the doorway at which light operates with which switch and then when you are happy walk into the room.



Don't tell me there is a door or my whole idea is screwed up !!!

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 18:16

Proger1, You cant see into the room at all.

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 18:48

hit all the buttons...one has to work!



DD

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 19:08

Turn two on wait a while then turn one off and enter the room one will be on one will be off and one bulb will still be hot.



Paul

proger1



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Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 19:11

OK smarty pants, well done !!

Tootie


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Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 19:16

Nice one Paul.

Sorry no prize... Just a gold star. lol



I know you didnt cheat by your honest looking face

Tootie

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 19:18

Tootie, I am not sure if I'm clever or most probably I have heard it before and just trawled it from my memory banks. Good one though.

Paul

Tootie


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Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 19:23

Ok try this one. No cheating its just for fun

There is a barrel with no lid and some beer in it. "This barrel is more than half full," said Chuck. "No it's not," say Joe. "It's less than half full." Without any measuring implements and without removing any beer from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 19:40

A man lives on the 13th floor of a block of flats. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the ground and goes to work. However. when he returns he gets off at the 6th floor....why?



DD

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 19:57

Daisy. Is he a midget?

Jovial_John


Joined: 31/01/2009
Posts: 1024

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 20:02

Message 9

Tilt the barrel until the beer is about to overflow. If the back edge of the beer is below the opposite corner then it is less than half full and vice versa

Jovial_John


Joined: 31/01/2009
Posts: 1024

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 20:04

Message 10



He has a girlfriend on the 6th floor

kaiserphil


Joined: 14/12/2008
Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 20:06

He is not tall enough to reach the correct btton!

kaiserphil


Joined: 14/12/2008
Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 20:07

Or even button

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 20:08

If it takes 2 men a week to walk a fortnight - how many apples in a bunch of grapes?

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 20:13

Ah ha, 22 apples No1Doyen

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 20:17

yes he's a midget, and can't reach the button....



DD

decanddyl


Joined: 17/01/2009
Posts: 792

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 22:59

If you weigh a whale at a whale way station where do you way a pie?

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 23:15

Is it a meat pie?

decanddyl


Joined: 17/01/2009
Posts: 792

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 23:31

Any pie you want it to be!

dizzycows


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Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 23:37

Its a fish pie, ......

decanddyl


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Posts: 792

Message Posted:
14/11/2009 23:40

Answer: Somewhere over a rainbow!!!!!

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 02:24

Brilliant...

jock1



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Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 08:16

If a bricklayer lays bricks, does a plumber lay plums..

colly


Joined: 31/07/2008
Posts: 297

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 11:35

Message 5,



should it not be turn 3 on! then switch one off wait a while then switch other off. One will be on, one will be off but hot and one will be off and cold.



Col

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 16:17

If you find yourself standing on the very pinacle of the Eiffel Tower, where do you get down from ???

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 16:41

A duck

proger1



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Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 16:55

Well that was obviously easier than I thought, thanks Jeannie

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 17:49

I really did not get that.....!!





DD

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 18:07

Have you got it now DD ?



Down comes from a duck as in eider down or down filled pillow.



Eiffel tower has nothing to do with it, hence latteral thinking.



We used to do it with all the new guys on the bar, we made them stand on a bar stool and ask them where they will get down from, if they got it wrong they had to down a pint and buy a round until they got it right or they fell off the stool, most fell including me.

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 19:34

hahhaha!! You, fall down...never!! Anyway nice one!!



DD

loslobos


Joined: 02/04/2009
Posts: 167

Message Posted:
15/11/2009 23:20

Try this one... whats th square root of minus 1 ?



Should keep you awake for hours, unless you are PDG maths wise.

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
16/11/2009 06:06

I remember that one fromm engineering maths, j is the answer but I always said it was cheating.

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
16/11/2009 09:36

A blind beggar had a brother who died. What relation was the blind beggar to the brother who died? (Brother is not the answer).