An Interesting Problem

[Sextus Roscius]

ok, here is a really lame one.

 

I went to town on Friday, stayed two days, and came back on Thursday. How is this possible?

[Lost_Warrior]

You stayed more than two days. You didn't say you ONLY stayed two days, but if you spend six days you also spent two days

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Good job K. I was about to say that (or maybe not)

[Tobias]

Ah, i had a teacher who used to give us Lateral thinking puzzles every day, because he said he wanted to stimulate our minds to think outside the square. Here's a puzzle i remember; i believe it may have been a true story;

 

In a small building block, there are three rooms. The rooms are all in a row. The two outermost rooms are occupied apartments, and the centre room is a refrigerated storage room with a wide freezer inside it.

When the owner of apartment #1 went to the refrigerated room, he smelt a terrible odour emnating from it, and the door was locked. After calling specialists to open the door, a man was discovered hanging from a hook in the ceiling by the neck. He was identified as being the man who owned apartment#2 in the block. His feet were quite a bit higher off the ground than the freezer is tall, and the freezer has not been moved anyway, so it is unlikely that he hung himself by standing on the freezer. There are no windows in the room, and no access points to the room apart from the main door. There is a large puddle of water beneath the hanged man. The room's cooling generator is not turned on, thus the room is not refrigerated anymore.

The owner of apartment #1 is a butcher, and he owns the refrigerated room. He was arrested for murder. The only problem is; according to the butcher and the specialists, the main door to the refrigerated room was locked from the inside and had to be cut open with heavy cutting tools.

Is the man who was arrested guilty of murder? Why or Why not?

Edited December 11, 2005 by Tobias

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Yes, it doesn't that the Butcher has a key to the door anyways. Well, I'm wrong again and someone again has fried my brain.

[Sextus Roscius]

No, he is not guilty of murder. The man was let into the room to look at the meats by the butcher but instead went to commit suicide by tieing this neck to the ceiling and standing on a block of ice. Once the heat from the outside of the room caused the ice to melt he was hung. The melted ice explains the pool of water.

 

You stayed more than two days. You didn't say you ONLY stayed two days, but if you spend six days you also spent two days

 

Also, this one is wrong. I went to town on my horse named Friday on the Day of the Week Tuesday, spent ONLY two days there, and came back on The day of the Week Thursay

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

My my, what nonsense people think up when they're extremely bored. For some reason, it reminds me of the board game, Guess Who?

Edited December 11, 2005 by FLavius Valerius Constantinus

[Lost_Warrior]

You stayed more than two days. You didn't say you ONLY stayed two days, but if you spend six days you also spent two days wink.gif

 

 

Also, this one is wrong. I went to town on my horse named Friday on the Day of the Week Tuesday, spent ONLY two days there, and came back on The day of the Week Thursay

 

Ah, yes, but my way also works, unless you word the question more specifically.

[Lost_Warrior]

"Brothers and sisters have I none, but your father's father is my father's son. Who am I?"

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Uh the grandson or perhaps the newphew.?

[Tobias]

No, he is not guilty of murder. The man was let into the room to look at the meats by the butcher but instead went to commit suicide by tieing this neck to the ceiling and standing on a block of ice. Once the heat from the outside of the room caused the ice to melt he was hung. The melted ice explains the pool of water.

 

Very well done Sextus Roscius, you're far too good for me

But then, if you really look at all the facts given, it is pretty simple in the end. It is only an apparently difficult riddle because of the large amount of information given, some of it irrelevant and intended to lead down the wrong track.

Edited December 12, 2005 by Tobias

[Sextus Roscius]

No, he is not guilty of murder. The man was let into the room to look at the meats by the butcher but instead went to commit suicide by tieing this neck to the ceiling and standing on a block of ice. Once the heat from the outside of the room caused the ice to melt he was hung. The melted ice explains the pool of water.

 

Very well done Sextus Roscius, you're far too good for me

But then, if you really look at all the facts given, it is pretty simple in the end. It is only an apparently difficult riddle because of the large amount of information given, some of it irrelevant and intended to lead down the wrong track.

 

 

Oh goody, I was right then. How bout this one.

 

If Johny has two apples and sally has three, why don't they shut up and eat? Seriously, I need an explantion.

 

hmmmm, I need to come up witha better one...

[Lost_Warrior]

Uh the grandson or perhaps the newphew.?

 

Nope, try again