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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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A new thread for any Fabbers who enjoy riddles, puzzles and brain teasers to pass the time during lockdown.
Please add your own, easy, tricky or silly.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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This should be easy but try and answer in under thirty seconds to test how your brain works.
You’re in a running race and you overtake the runner in second place. What position in the race are you now ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This should be easy but try and answer in under thirty seconds to test how your brain works.
You’re in a running race and you overtake the runner in second place. What position in the race are you now ? "
Second. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This should be easy but try and answer in under thirty seconds to test how your brain works.
You’re in a running race and you overtake the runner in second place. What position in the race are you now ? "
Second place! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Another one to do quickly, try and take no more than thirty seconds.
In a lake the water lillies are doubling in number every day. If it takes 48 days to cover the whole lake, when will half the lake be covered ? |
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"Another one to do quickly, try and take no more than thirty seconds.
In a lake the water lillies are doubling in number every day. If it takes 48 days to cover the whole lake, when will half the lake be covered ?"
47 days |
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By (user no longer on site)
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There’s a guy doing some decorating for me currently and we got chatting.
Turns out he was a Ryanair pilot but he’s been furloughed and is just trying to keep busy so thought he’d advertise his decorating skills.
Where did he finish before he went home today? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Another one to do quickly, try and take no more than thirty seconds.
In a lake the water lillies are doubling in number every day. If it takes 48 days to cover the whole lake, when will half the lake be covered ?"
47 |
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You come to a fork in the road. One road leads to certain death the other to the land of Fab and eternal happiness and endless sex. Two brothers are at the fork, one always lies, the other always tells the truth but you don’t know which is which.
You can ask each brother one question. What do you ask ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You come to a fork in the road. One road leads to certain death the other to the land of Fab and eternal happiness and endless sex. Two brothers are at the fork, one always lies, the other always tells the truth but you don’t know which is which.
You can ask each brother one question. What do you ask ?"
If I asked the other brother which way to fab heaven, which way would he answer? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"You come to a fork in the road. One road leads to certain death the other to the land of Fab and eternal happiness and endless sex. Two brothers are at the fork, one always lies, the other always tells the truth but you don’t know which is which.
You can ask each brother one question. What do you ask ?
If I asked the other brother which way to fab heaven, which way would he answer?"
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A man tells a Census taker that he has three children. Their ages multipled together come to 72. Added together the number is the same as his house number.
The census taker checks the door number but still can’t guess their ages. The man tells her that his oldest child loves trifle. She immediately writes down the correct ages.
How old are the three children?
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A man tells a Census taker that he has three children. Their ages multipled together come to 72. Added together the number is the same as his house number.
The census taker checks the door number but still can’t guess their ages. The man tells her that his oldest child loves trifle. She immediately writes down the correct ages.
How old are the three children?
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This has stumped me 
Tf has trifle got to do with numbers |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A man tells a Census taker that he has three children. Their ages multipled together come to 72. Added together the number is the same as his house number.
The census taker checks the door number but still can’t guess their ages. The man tells her that his oldest child loves trifle. She immediately writes down the correct ages.
How old are the three children?
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Loving this thread.
He has two three year olds and one eight year old. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"A man tells a Census taker that he has three children. Their ages multipled together come to 72. Added together the number is the same as his house number.
The census taker checks the door number but still can’t guess their ages. The man tells her that his oldest child loves trifle. She immediately writes down the correct ages.
How old are the three children?
This has stumped me
Tf has trifle got to do with numbers"
Finally! Clue: The type of dessert is irrelevant but it tells you he has an oldest child. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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"A man tells a Census taker that he has three children. Their ages multipled together come to 72. Added together the number is the same as his house number.
The census taker checks the door number but still can’t guess their ages. The man tells her that his oldest child loves trifle. She immediately writes down the correct ages.
How old are the three children?
This has stumped me
Tf has trifle got to do with numbers
Finally! Clue: The type of dessert is irrelevant but it tells you he has an oldest child. "
1, 3 and 24 |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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"A man tells a Census taker that he has three children. Their ages multipled together come to 72. Added together the number is the same as his house number.
The census taker checks the door number but still can’t guess their ages. The man tells her that his oldest child loves trifle. She immediately writes down the correct ages.
How old are the three children?
This has stumped me
Tf has trifle got to do with numbers
Finally! Clue: The type of dessert is irrelevant but it tells you he has an oldest child.
1, 3 and 24"
Or 1, 2 and 36 |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"A man tells a Census taker that he has three children. Their ages multipled together come to 72. Added together the number is the same as his house number.
The census taker checks the door number but still can’t guess their ages. The man tells her that his oldest child loves trifle. She immediately writes down the correct ages.
How old are the three children?
This has stumped me
Tf has trifle got to do with numbers
Finally! Clue: The type of dessert is irrelevant but it tells you he has an oldest child.
1, 3 and 24
Or 1, 2 and 36"
Or 3,3 and 8. Or 2,6 and 6 |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"A man tells a Census taker that he has three children. Their ages multipled together come to 72. Added together the number is the same as his house number.
The census taker checks the door number but still can’t guess their ages. The man tells her that his oldest child loves trifle. She immediately writes down the correct ages.
How old are the three children?
This has stumped me
Tf has trifle got to do with numbers
Finally! Clue: The type of dessert is irrelevant but it tells you he has an oldest child.
1, 3 and 24
Or 1, 2 and 36
Or 3,3 and 8. Or 2,6 and 6"
Your logic is spot on but only one of your answers is correct!  |
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Your FabGodmother gives you five bags of gold coins and says you can keep one of them. Four contain real gold coins worth a fortune but one bags has fake gold coins worth nothing.
All the coins look identical but the fake coins weigh 1.1 grams each while the real gold coins weigh 1 gram each. You have an exact set of scales but can use it only once.
How do you weigh the coins to determine which bags contains the fakes ?
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Your FabGodmother gives you five bags of gold coins and says you can keep one of them. Four contain real gold coins worth a fortune but one bags has fake gold coins worth nothing.
All the coins look identical but the fake coins weigh 1.1 grams each while the real gold coins weigh 1 gram each. You have an exact set of scales but can use it only once.
How do you weigh the coins to determine which bags contains the fakes ?
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Take 1 coin from bag 1, 2 from bag 2 and so on. Based on how many dg are over will determine which bag has the real coins |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This should be easy but try and answer in under thirty seconds to test how your brain works.
You’re in a running race and you overtake the runner in second place. What position in the race are you now ? "
2nd |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"This should be easy but try and answer in under thirty seconds to test how your brain works.
You’re in a running race and you overtake the runner in second place. What position in the race are you now ?
2nd"
Yes ! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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If a man has a bee in his hand, what is in his eye ?
What do you call a room with no windows or doors ?
Every night I am told what to do, every morning I do what I am told, but still you scold me. What am I ?
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