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Riddle me this
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Submitted by bare_elf on Thu, 2014-09-25 03:18
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1. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one
Michael j fox has a small one
Madonna doesn't have one
the pope has one but he never uses it
Bill Clinton Has one and he uses it all the time!
What is it?...
3. The paragraph below is very unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it?
"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930s.
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Those will require some thought, I'll need some time to think them through, but I'm about to do a multiplayer run with Lukawh and MiuMelody at the moment :P I like challenging riddles like these
For the first one I guess I'd pour one gallon of oil into either container lol :P
EDIT: For some reason this originally was a duplicate post, I hit post comment twice :/ Sorry for the double post
My grandmother gave the answer to me XD It's a last name, that's a really tricky one bare_elf
Again, this is one of the toughest I've ever seen... I can't find anything wrong with it, but it definitely feels like something is missing. I've gotta conceit on this one bare_elf, you got me lol
There is nothing wrong with the paragraph from the Great Gatsby. It is unusual for another reason. Has to do with things that are very common in English.
In this post it exists many times in the paragraph from the Great Gatsby it exists not at all.
That last hint did it. Pick any paragraph from that book, it is unusual in that way - so I'm told.
("Gadsby", by whom? I wonder what its author did about that, so not to fail straight away.)
About the oil - if you can empty your containers back into the barrel, I make it you can walk away with any whole number of gallons you choose from one to eight.
(Drake, the rule is that there are no marks on your containers and you have no means of making any, so "fill the 3-gallon container one third full", for example, is not precise enough.)
Conundrum: "This statement is false." True or false?
E is the most common letter in the English and there are none in the paragraph from Gatsby read it and see.
"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The oil problem is solved like this
Fill the 3-gallon container with oil and pour it into the 5-gallon container. Then fill the 3-gallon container again and use it to fill the 5-gallon container the rest of the way. Out of the 3-gallon oil, 2-gallon will be required to fill the 5-gallon container completely. Hence one gallon will be left in the 3-gallon container.
I still feel bad for getting them wrong lol, the second one was difficult because it's hard to know how many gallons were in the barrel.
The Oil problem is painfully easy.
You have an unknown quantity of oil in a barrel and have only a 3 and 5 gallon containers?
Fill the 3 gallon container. Empty it into the 5 gallon container. Refill the 3 gallon container and use it to fill the 5 gallon container to the full, five gallon mark.
You have just added 2 gallons to the 5 gallon bucket leaving only one gallon in the 3 gallon container.
Love the RL problems heh