Logic puzzles are fun!

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  • Tonya0605
    Tonya0605 Posts: 111 Member
    What goes up but never comes down?

    My weight?

    Tee hee...good one...but not what I was looking for ;)

    Ok, how about age?

    You got it girl....although your first answer was much more entertaining.
  • mnishi
    mnishi Posts: 419 Member
    A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I cannot operate oh the boy, his is my son"... How can this be?

    The surgeon is the mother.
  • Tonya0605
    Tonya0605 Posts: 111 Member
    A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I cannot operate oh the boy, his is my son"... How can this be?

    The surgeon is the boy's mother.
  • ChrisRS87
    ChrisRS87 Posts: 781 Member
    A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I cannot operate oh the boy, his is my son"... How can this be?

    The first father was adoptive


    Edit, after seeing the above answers I realize I'm not only incorrect, but subconciously a little sexist apparently, lol. Touche...
  • amyhoss
    amyhoss Posts: 414 Member
    A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I cannot operate oh the boy, his is my son"... How can this be?

    The surgeon is the mother.

    I think this was harder 15 years ago when I first heard it
  • amyhoss
    amyhoss Posts: 414 Member
    A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I cannot operate oh the boy, his is my son"... How can this be?

    The first father was adoptive


    Edit, after seeing the above answers I realize I'm not only incorrect, but subconciously a little sexist apparently, lol. Touche...

    Yeah that's kinda the point. :wink:
  • briteshadow
    briteshadow Posts: 87
    You are trapped in a room that has no doors or windows, it has 1 mirror, and a table. How do you get out?

    I looked in the mirror and saw the table.
    You put the two halves of the table back together and make it whole
    you climb through the hole.
  • briteshadow
    briteshadow Posts: 87
    A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
    Can you explain why?
  • ChrisRS87
    ChrisRS87 Posts: 781 Member
    The man who invented it doesn't want it,
    The man who rented it doesn't need it,
    and the man who needs it doesn't know it.

    What is it?
  • merrillfoster
    merrillfoster Posts: 855 Member
    A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
    Can you explain why?

    Fire escape?
  • briteshadow
    briteshadow Posts: 87
    The man who invented it doesn't want it,
    The man who rented it doesn't need it,
    and the man who needs it doesn't know it.

    What is it?

    A coffin? though I don't know why someone would rent one.
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    A room is completely empty except for a dead guy hanging from the (high) ceiling and a puddle. What happened?

    He stood on a block of ice
  • briteshadow
    briteshadow Posts: 87
    A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
    Can you explain why?

    Fire escape?

    Nope
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.
  • briteshadow
    briteshadow Posts: 87
    Throw it straight up
  • scopester
    scopester Posts: 129 Member
    A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
    Can you explain why?

    He is not tall enough to reach the "11" button.
  • mnishi
    mnishi Posts: 419 Member
    How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.

    Throw it up?
  • briteshadow
    briteshadow Posts: 87
    A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
    Can you explain why?

    He is not tall enough to reach the "11" button.

    yup. He uses his umbrella when it rains out.
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    Throw it straight up

    Got it
  • scopester
    scopester Posts: 129 Member
    A train leaves Kansas City at 7AM headed east at 77 MPH.
    At 8AM, a second train leaves St. Louis headed west at 88 MPH.
    Which train is closest to Kansas City when the two trains meet?
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.

    Throw it up?

    Yes
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    A train leaves Kansas City at 7AM headed east at 77 MPH.
    At 8AM, a second train leaves St. Louis headed west at 88 MPH.
    Which train is closest to Kansas City when the two trains meet?

    The one from Kansas City
  • scopester
    scopester Posts: 129 Member
    A train leaves Kansas City at 7AM headed east at 77 MPH.
    At 8AM, a second train leaves St. Louis headed west at 88 MPH.
    Which train is closest to Kansas City when the two trains meet?

    The one from Kansas City

    Nope, sorry.
  • ChrisRS87
    ChrisRS87 Posts: 781 Member
    A train leaves Kansas City at 7AM headed east at 77 MPH.
    At 8AM, a second train leaves St. Louis headed west at 88 MPH.
    Which train is closest to Kansas City when the two trains meet?

    The one from Kansas City

    Nope, sorry.

    She is correct, while "neither, they are the same distance" would be a the trick answer, if the trains met the engines would be face to face, so the train from kansas city is closer to kansas city by the length of the train itself.
  • mnishi
    mnishi Posts: 419 Member
    A train leaves Kansas City at 7AM headed east at 77 MPH.
    At 8AM, a second train leaves St. Louis headed west at 88 MPH.
    Which train is closest to Kansas City when the two trains meet?

    They're the same distance away when they meet.
  • briteshadow
    briteshadow Posts: 87
    Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives the bellboy $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to split among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has another $2, adding up to $29.
    Where is the remaining dollar?
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    The trains that are stIll In Kansas City?
  • scopester
    scopester Posts: 129 Member
    A train leaves Kansas City at 7AM headed east at 77 MPH.
    At 8AM, a second train leaves St. Louis headed west at 88 MPH.
    Which train is closest to Kansas City when the two trains meet?

    The one from Kansas City

    Nope, sorry.

    She is correct, while "neither, they are the same distance" would be a the trick answer, if the trains met the engines would be face to face, so the train from kansas city is closer to kansas city by the length of the train itself.

    Semantics. I concede.
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    A train leaves Kansas City at 7AM headed east at 77 MPH.
    At 8AM, a second train leaves St. Louis headed west at 88 MPH.
    Which train is closest to Kansas City when the two trains meet?

    The one from Kansas City

    Nope, sorry.

    She is correct, while "neither, they are the same distance" would be a the trick answer, if the trains met the engines would be face to face, so the train from kansas city is closer to kansas city by the length of the train itself.

    Exactly, thank you. The back of the train from Kansas City is going to be closer to Kansas City than the front of the train from St. Louis.
  • scopester
    scopester Posts: 129 Member
    Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives the bellboy $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to split among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has another $2, adding up to $29.
    Where is the remaining dollar?
    They didn't pay $9 each. The remaining dollar was also split among the three of them despite not being refunded to them.

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