One liners

[Zakatak]

Does anyone know any one liner puzzles? i.e. ones that are easy to tell other people?

like this one: A lobster weighs 10 pounds plus half its own weight. How much does it weigh?

[JDTAY]

What can you add to a container of water to make it weigh less?

[JDTAY]

A doctor give you five pills and tells you to take one every half hour until they are all gone. How long is it before they are all gone?

I know, that's two lines, still relatively short though.

[Zakatak]

i'm guessing, but how about for the first one it is heat.
and for the second one it would take 2 hours, since when he gave you them you took one.

and I'm totally new here so I don't know if you already had a topic like this one.

[ronl]

As for the container one ... while I don't wholey agree with the "heat" answer, I believe you are only a few letters off.



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[sodasipper]

w = .5w + 10
.5w = 10
w = 20

And I don't even like lobster...

[Milt]

I have some:

A half is a third of it. What is it?

What time is it if 8 kids share a cake?

How far can a dog run into the woods?

[impossibleroot]

>How far can a dog run into the woods?

Halfway, then he starts eating chestnuts...<grin>

[mathgrant]

e (13)

That's the shortest one ever, if you exclude

(8)

[mole]

[Sessie]

I'm thinking a hole.

[Bicho the Inhaler]

A helium balloon would do the trick, but ronl's is somewhat more elegant.

[Ghost Post]

what came first, chicken or the egg?

[Chuck]

If you're on the moon then putting a helium filled balloon on the container of water would make it heavier. If it's in an atmosphere dense enough to compress water then putting a hole in it would make it heavier. Neither of these answers can be right.

[Logain]

[ctrlaltdel]

concerning johnny4444's problem...

this has been recently discussed at the annual pata-science conference, as usually held on the math/physics school of comenius university in bratislava, slovakia.

i dont have the acces right now to the full text, reasonings and proofs, but here are some general answers:

according to our findings, it is far more common to have eggs for breakfast than chicken. also, it is far more common to have chicken for lunch or supper than to have eggs. based on this factual argument it was decided that an egg came first. however, as it was pointed out, we run into some unexpected problems if we conclude that God created the world after breakfast.

it is also important to note that 'chicken' is capable of producing 'egg' or however 'egg' is capable of producing 'nothing', 'chicken', or 'rooster' - even tho, only once. that is why it had to be before chicken, as with a chicken for starters we would never have any new chickens without a rooster. however, a proper egg, doesnt need anything but time and heat to produce 'chicken' or 'rooster'. since we now have both, we had to start with an egg. some difficulties were met when the question was restated as follows: what was first, egg or a chicken with a rooster?

[ctrlaltdel]

since one-liners tend to be chestnuts, dont shoot me for these. anyhow, heres my collection

a. when im trying to fail, but i succeed, did i fail or did i succeed?
b. you have 6 matches to form 4 identical triangles (no breaking).
c. align 10 elements into 5 lines per 4 elements.
d. prove that every year there will be friday the 13th at least once.
e. prove that 0.99999... = 1
d. disect a cube to form six tetrahedrons of same volume.
f. prove that there are two people with the exact same number of hairs in london.
g. how do you cut a pie into 7 equal parts?
h. how do you cut a pie into 8 parts using 3 cuts?
i. arrange eight matches to create 2 squares and 4 triangles.
j. divide a match into 2 equal parts along its long edge without the use of any cutting tool.
k. what is the biggest square you can inscribe in a cube of edge a = 1?

[Ghost Post]

e. NOOOOOOOONNOOOOOOOOOOOONOOO, hhhhh, NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[JDTAY]

c. That is actually Grey Labyrinth puzzle #42.

http://www.greylabyrinth.com/Puzzles/puzzle042.htm

[ctrlaltdel]

ooops sorry folks, i didnt check all of the past puzzles on GL... thnx for the pointer jdtay

oh, and johnny4444, that really can hardly be considered a proof...

[stoatboy]

h. I know how to do a cake in 8 parts with 3 cuts, but a pie seems more problematic. Most pies are served in pans, making any cross-cutting impossible, and besides the third cut would make the filling spill out...

[Chuck]

It doesn't say they have to be straight cuts.

[Jen Aside]

What TIME is it when 8 kids share a cake? \:'

Pie:

1. Cut pie in half.
2. Cut halves into fourths.
3. Stack fourths and cut straight through to make eighths.

[Jen Aside]

And I always thought the dinosaur came before the chicken, thus the dinosaur EGG came before the chicken.

Two people in London have the same number of hairs on their head:
Assuming no one in the world (much less, London) has more than 500,000 hairs on one's head, there are well more than 500,000 people in London--thus at least two of them have to have the same number of hairs.

[VinnyQ]

The more you have it, The less you see it. What is it?
(Unsolved, posted by Kevin October 03, 2001 at 18:47:54)

[Suspence]

There must be at least 2 bald guys in London...

[Jen Aside]

Faults?

[ctrlaltdel]

i dont know about two bald londoners, but theres a simple enough proof of the original statement...

jen got the proof i was thinking of... and by the same reasoning if max hair number is 500,000 then it follows that there must be a few more people with the same number of hairs... idk how many citizens londons got?

hmm, yeah, the filling would spill out... how about freezing it first?
again, jens stacking works best - it creates same pieces...



[This message has been edited by ctrlaltdel (edited 01-26-2002 05:56 AM).]

[Marvin]

What time is it? A quarter to two?

[Milt]

Marvin, that's what I thought.

Does anyone remember an addition to ctrlaltdel's c? Something about a king and a fortress.

[Jen Aside]

[Jen Aside]

Chestnut warning


"England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
Rats, pigs, and wiggle-tails."

Spell that using four letters.

[quercitron]

I can answer that...

[impossibleroot]

But that's the solution.

[The Cheshire Man]

You mean T-H-A-T?

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[Jen Aside]

Twice four and twenty blackbirds
A-sitting in the rain;
I shot and killed a seventh part--
How many did remain?

[Jen Aside]

Oh, one more:
(you'd think as an art major I could do better, but noooooo)

[JEK595]

One bird fell dead and the others flew away after hearing the gun shot. Heard that one in 4th grade. Here's mine:

1. Arrange nine matchsticks into seven equilateral triangles.
2. If my brother was twice as old as me three years ago and will be 5/3 my age in a time equal to 1/6.5 of my life, how old am I? (Hey, it's just a long one line.)

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[JEK595]

To answer your question, yes, we do know one or two one-liners.

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[Jen Aside]

One bird? No...