Riddles And Puzzles
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Four jolly men sat down to play,
And played all night till break of day.
They played for cash and not for fun,
With a separate score for every one.
When it came time to square accounts,
they all had made quite fair amounts.
Now, not one has lost and all have gained –
Tell me now, this can you explain?😥 :duh:
Well, okay, sure I know that! Ha! Okay, England, you got me stumped on this one, it’s gonna take a LOT of family and friends to figure this one out! 😯
Well, friends and family say, it’s a fifty fifty chance here, so we are going to go with on. Did we get it? ❓
OK, it was a hard one. Naughty of me.
here`s the answer:
First think who will operate each bulb, obviously person #2 will do all the even numbers, and say person #10 will operate all the bulbs that end in a zero. So who would operate for example bulb 48: Persons numbered: 1 & 48, 2 & 24, 3 & 16, 4 & 12, 6 & 8 …….. That is all the factors (numbers by which 48 is divisible) will be in pairs. This means that for every person who switches a bulb on there will be someone to switch it off. This willl result in the bulb being back at it’s original state. So why aren’t all the bulbs off? Think of bulb 36:- The factors are: 1 & 36, 2 & 13, 6 & 6 Well in this case whilst all the factors are in pairs the number 6 is paired with it’s self. Clearly the sixth person will only flick the bulb once and so the pairs don’t cancel. This is true of all the square numbers. There are 10 square numbers between 1 and 100 (1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81 & 100) hence 10 bulbs remain on.
😕Try this one……………… 😀
You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?
Well, at least we got it right! :rofl: Yes, that was naughty of you!! But, it was fun!
The answer to this one is:
The match! 😆Try this one:
At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen.Mmmm…well, no where! Roosters don’t lay eggs! :rofl:
An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn’t know which one he should give it to. He gave each of them a few coins and told them to buy something that would be able to fill their living room. The first man bought straw, but there was not enough to fill the room. The second bought some sticks, but they still did not fill the room. The third man bought two things that filled the room, so he obtained his father’s fortune. What were the two things that the man bought?
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