Mental puzzles - can you solve them?!

[ScubaK@]

I hate people with logical brains the only one I got (and I only twigged half of that) was the hat one.

*throws toys out of pram*

*sulks*

corner

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by Adrian Kelland

1) A rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat at sea. The bottom rung is 1m clear of the water. As the tide rises at 20cm/hour, how long does it take to reach the bottom rung?


2) You are 60 miles miles from your destination and have 1 hour to get there. You do half the distance at 30mph. What speed must you do to get there in time?

When the above are read out, rather than written, it is amazing how many people will answer 5 and 120 (amongst others) respectively.

[Conor]

Damn and blast it!, you're on to us...it was nothing to do with puzzles...just me and Juz having a secret game of corners.....at first we thought you lot had figured it out when Greekbird turned up (and we all know how much she likes a game of corners).

KIDDING (just puzzles for people with too much time or too boring jobs like me)

[greekbird]

Originally Posted by Conor

Tell me about it, although we've just about finished all the puzzles from the site (intellectual loafing). Here the last one

You have died (sorry!). In front of you are two paths, one goes left and the other goes right. There is also a sign which reads:

" One path before you leads to Hell, the other to Heaven. You must choose between them. The paths are guarded by two angels [at this point they miraculously appear]. The angels are identical except that one angel will always tell the truth and the other will always lie. You are allowed to ask one question, to which both will answer."

What question do you ask to work out which is the right path?

you go to one of the two and ask 'what would the other angel say if i asked which one tells the truth?'

[ScubaK@]

To The Admins,

I would like to state that I am not starting a game of corners, I was posting anyway, and it just happened. No one else can play corners or we'll all get in trouble.

More foxing puzzles please

K@

[greekbird]

Originally Posted by Conor

Damn and blast it!, you're on to us...it was nothing to do with puzzles...just me and Juz having a secret game of corners.....at first we thought you lot had figured it out when Greekbird turned up (and we all know how much she likes a game of corners).

KIDDING (just puzzles for people with too much time or too boring jobs like me)

u cheeeky so and so!

[Conor]

So if you ask the hell's angel he would say that the other (heavens) angel would say that it was him (the hell angel)
If you ask the heaven angel then he would say that the hells angel would say that he tells the truth.
So in both cases the answer would be the Hells angel....sounds right to me



I didn't get this one myself

[Conor]

soz

[greekbird]

i should confess i knew the angel one...

[greekbird]

oops