Brain Teaser

[DoughBoy]

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to
> choose between three rooms.
> The first is full of raging fires, the second is
> full of assassins with
> loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that
> haven't eaten in 3 years. Which
> room is safest for him?

I will tell the answer, if no one gets it in a couple of days.

 

[luv2read]

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to
> choose between three rooms.
> The first is full of raging fires, the second is
> full of assassins with
> loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that
> haven't eaten in 3 years. Which
> room is safest for him?

I will tell the answer, if no one gets it in a couple of days.

#3. Lions that haven't eaten in 3 years? Come on...they're dead.

 

[DoughBoy]

That seemed easier for you than it did for me. Good job!

 

[DoughBoy]

Can you name three consecutive days without
> using the words Wednesday,
> Friday, or Sunday?

 

[frokker]

Yesterday, today, tomorrow

 

[luv2read]

Sometimes it flies, sometimes it crawls, but it always passes inexorably. We mark it, save it, waste it, bide it, race against it. We measure it incessantly, with a passion for precision that borders on the obsessive.

What is it?

 

[Hardcorps]

time

 

[fabijo]

Can you name three consecutive days without
> using the words Wednesday,
> Friday, or Sunday?

January 1st, January 2nd, January 3rd.

:cheesy:

 

[fabijo]

#3. Lions that haven't eaten in 3 years? Come on...they're dead.

I didn't catch that one!

 

[DoughBoy]

What is black when you buy it, red when you use
> it, and gray when you
> throw it away ?

 

[luv2read]

What is black when you buy it, red when you use
> it, and gray when you
> throw it away ?

we just had bbq for dinner. Charcoal.

 

[DoughBoy]

we just had bbq for dinner. Charcoal.;) Today 09:56 PM

You are good!

 

[luv2read]

Awwww gee, thanks!

Here's another one:

In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality.
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Who owns the fish?

 

[sugarandspice]

Something has got to be missing here.

 

[luv2read]

Here's another one:

In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality.
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Who owns the fish?

Something has got to be missing here.

Very good, S&S! Here ya go:


Hints:

• The Brit lives in the red house.
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is on the left of the white house.
• The green homeowner drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the center house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
• The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
• The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
• The German smokes prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Now, who owns the FISH?

 

[Wrngway]

What is black when you buy it, red when you use
> it, and gray when you
> throw it away ?

I'm a little late on this one, but I was going to say a newspaper. Of course that's "read" and not red.

 

[luv2read]

I'm a little late on this one, but I was going to say a newspaper. Of course that's "read" and not red.

I thought that one went "what's black, white, and read all over?"

I learn something new every day here!

 

[Gumby]

Awwww gee, thanks!

Here's another one:

In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality.
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Who owns the fish?

Would that be the fisherman? or is it that the Finnishman or Fin?

 

[Buster]

Hints:

• The Brit lives in the red house.
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is on the left of the white house.
• The green homeowner drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the center house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
• The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
• The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
• The German smokes prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Now, who owns the FISH?

The one who keeps cats..


A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.


What is it?

 

[luv2read]

The one who keeps cats..


A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

no, they all have a different pet. Try again.

(I had to use a spreadsheet to figure it out)