A Riddle

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  1. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    WRONG

    i give
     
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  3. esp Registered Senior Member

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    OK. Let me get this straight.

    Two cities, let's call them North and South.
    Presumably, connected by a direct rail line (for the purposes of tis puzzle).
    A train leaves South travelling to North.
    Presumably on the same track;
    A train leaves North bound for South.
    Right?

    Regardless of the the speeds of the incident trains, and relative distance from North compared to South, the one from South cannot fail to be closest to south when the meet (presumably collide).

    Which assumptions amI wrong on?
     
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  5. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    y?

    neither is closer
    because at the point they meet, they r at equal distance to orlando.
     
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  7. esp Registered Senior Member

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    But...

    You must concede that the one from Orlando will have be on average nearer to Orland, since at the instant they meet, (the N end of the N bound train striking the S end of the S bound train, the majority of the N bound train is nearer the S station than the most part of the south bound; the N bound train has stopped it from passing it.
     
  8. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    ok.
    as long as u measure before the time they explode into billions of pieces everywhere.

    hehehe
     
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  9. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    the old man is fixing up his property
    the old man goes 2 the store and make a purchase
    the cashier says "it is $1 for one, $2 for twenty, and $3 for two-hundred."
    what is the item?
     
  10. bbcboy Recovering christian Registered Senior Member

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    Tell me, on what street did he live at number 200?

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  11. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    very good bbcboy

    yay!
     
  12. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    Splinter's father Yoshi had 4 children (EDIT).
    Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael are 3 of them.
    What is the name of Yoshi's 4th son?
     
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  13. odin Registered Senior Member

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    Fred!
     
  14. Visitor Registered Member

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    If Splinter is male then it's him. If Splinter is female then there is inadequate information to determine an answer.
     
  15. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    woops
     
  16. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    y are the 1998 quarters worth more than the 1997 quarters?

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  17. DeSeRt RaT UK Registered Senior Member

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    At the risk of sounding stupid I'm going to say:

    Because there is one more?
     
  18. NightFall Lazy Hedonist Valued Senior Member

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    quarters weren't printed in 1997.
     
  19. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    CORRECT

    1998 x $0.25 = $499.50
    1997 x $0.25 = $499.25
     
  20. esp Registered Senior Member

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    Another really old one (and quite simple really):

    Me and a friend were digging this hole.
    We each had a spade of the same design, size and material.
    Between us we managed to dig thirteen holes in two and a quater hours.
    Assuming that we have similar physical attributes, that the holes were all of the same size and that the digging of the thirteen holes was distributed equally between us, if I were digging on my own, how long would it take me to dig one half hole?
     
  21. Halo Full Time Nerd-Bomber Registered Senior Member

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    The same amount of time it takes you to dig one hole? Since you really can't have a half of a hole because it too would be a hole.
     
  22. esp Registered Senior Member

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    Damn, the benimbused one is quick

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  23. bbcboy Recovering christian Registered Senior Member

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    This one may have been done before but this whole thread is just too fucking long to check.
    Well done esp!!
    Three word story's catching up but that's just drivel!!

    Anyhoo... An easy one.

    A farmer is digging in his field when he spots a coin. He looks it over and sees that it's dated 44bc.
    Yoiks thinks the man I'm rich beyond the dreams of avalanche
    Turns out the coin is completely worthless...
    Why?
     

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