Well, since I brought it up, here's one of mine. I thought it up the other day while doodling, so as far as I know, there may be loopholes or more than one answer. Anyhow, using nothing but straight lines, create a perfect circle.

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My guess would be either draw the straight lines right next to each other from left to right until you have a perfect filled in circle.

Or draw them the same length but have the middle of each line all intersect at the same point until you have a complete solid circle....

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jim
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or draw a bunch of straight lines on a peice of paper and sell it on ebay for one penny wich is a perfect circle hmm.. what about the ebay fee?? ok sell it for one penny and 3 mils

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I was just hoping other people had some good brain teasers to share...

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What's shinnier than the shinniest gem, duller than the dullest smudge, and eaten by dead men?

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Originally posted by Tsupa:
hmm... it didn't look like that before i posted it... wonder what went wrong... *sigh*

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You gotta use the code tag. [ code] code here [/ code].

code:

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Originally posted by iso9k:
Well you could always use straight lines to write this out...and you could take it as far as you want...(be as close to a perfect circle that you could get...)

I would like to note that creating a perfect circle is not really possible. You could get close, but.... 3.14 [...etc]

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Wait..I'm confused..how does writing out pi give you a perfect circle? Pi is just a ratio.

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There... i drew A Perfect Cirlce using only straight lines.. now what ?

I would like to note that creating a perfect circle is not really possible. You could get close, but....

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"Is this real, or am I dreaming?"

I have an annoying brain teaser, and if I
remember the other one I know...then I will
post it.

<teaser>
Three men are heading from one island to
another island on a raft. They each have one
cigarette. They are bare naked and have
nothing other than the raft. Along the way,
they never receive anything or anyone, and
the never encounter anything or anyone.
When they get to the island, two of their
cigarettes are lit. How did they do this?
</teaser>

P.S. Would it hurt to have some sort of word
wrap on these forums?

This message has been edited by SnotFu on September 23, 2000 at 03:58 AM

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jim
Beauty is in the eye of the Beer Holder
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Tip: Don't use common sense to answer this.
Common sense is no longer mandatory in our
society.

This teaser is only funny the longer someone thinks of how to solve it.

1. Draw a square, lets say 8" X 8"
   
2. Draw a perpendicular line at the 4" (midway) mark of each side. Now you should have for L shaped pieces identified.
   
3. Label an equal number of perpendicular lines as if you were designing a Cartesian coordinate grid. Each L will have it's own X and Y axis. Lets say each one is 1/2" from the 0 point. In other words, it will be like having 4 seperate X and Y axes.
   
4. Let's assume you made the each of the 4 X and Y grids go up to 8. Connect the following lines in each L shaped quadrant: (1,8), (2,7), (3,6), (4,5) etc. This should create an arc in each L.
   
5. After you do this 4 times, you will have made a rather perfect circle.
   

The one who made it didn't want it.
The one who bought it didn't need it.
The one who used it didn't know it.

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'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa

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Originally posted by Michael:
Here's a good one:

The one who made it didn't want it.
The one who bought it didn't need it.
The one who used it didn't know it.

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COFFIN???

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jim
Beauty is in the eye of the Beer Holder
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code:

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Weee :)

-Tony

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p.s. i know i'm an idiot.

This message has been edited by peregrin on September 27, 2000 at 05:46 AM

Where in the world are you?

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Originally posted by Wolfguard:
Your at your camp. You get up grab your compass and walk 3 miles due south, 3 miles due west and then 3 miles due north and end up right back in your camp.

Where in the world are you?

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North Pole

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jim
Beauty is in the eye of the Beer Holder
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Originally posted by jim:
North Pole

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Big red X and a buzz for you.

But your on the right track. The questions states "grab your compass"

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Then wait for a mutation…

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A good programmer is someone who looks both ways on a one-way street

BTW, what was the answer to the cigarette one?

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'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa

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Originally posted by kuru:
the only way that would work is if you turned in 60°angles... because otherwise, you've got 3 legs of a square and don't end up at the same point you started at.

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That would be true if the earth was flat.

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'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa

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jim
Beauty is in the eye of the Beer Holder
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If you walk 3 miles straight south from the magnetic north pole, then 3 miles west, your compass is going to put north right back at the magnetic north pole; where you came from. However the distance doesn’t quite work, Pythagorean theorem and all that shit

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It's an equilateral triangle with sides of 3 miles.

Although I like the 3 mile wide camp idea a lot! hehehe

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aventari
"A witty saying proves nothing." --Voltaire

They threw ONE cigarette over the side, and now the RAFT IS A CIGARETTE LIGHTER.

(I didn't make this one up. Sorry.)

regards, reman

it was an Airplane cabin, and they all died in the plane crash.

heres one:

A man is found dead in a forest clearing, wearing nothing but shorts. There is a small rubber tube next to him. How did he die, and what happened?

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When my flying days are over, and my death has come to pass
I hope they bury me upside down, so the whole damn world can kiss my ass

he stuck one end of the tube in his nose and the other in his mouth and asphyxiated himself with his own CO2.

I don't know.

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The man was snorkeling (the rubber tube) in a large lake when a waterbomber came and skimmed the lake, picking up water and the poor snorkeler. He then flew out over a forest fire and dropped the water and the now drowned man.

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This message has been edited by jim on September 27, 2000 at 12:35 PM

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Originally posted by Observer:
Then that would have to be the magnetic north pole, right?

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A man that knows his stuff. You can go to that location to collect your prize.

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Nuke em' till they glow and shoot em’ in the dark and let the computer sort em' out.
Then wait for a mutation…

A man walks into a bar.

He walks straight up to the barman and says "Can I have a glass of water please?"

The barman pulls out a desert eagle from under the bar and points it in his face.

The man says "Thankyou very much", turns round and walks out of the bar smiling.

Why?

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As I chase the leaves like the words I never find ...

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what can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?

two fathers and two sons go fishing, each catches a fish, none goes home empty handed, and only three fish are caught. how can this be?

as i was going to st. ives, i met a man with seven wives. each wife had seven sacks. each sack had seven cats. each cat had seven rats. how many were going to st. ives?

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kuru
'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa

Umbrella.

One.

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kuru
'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa

a grandfather, a father, and a son

the gandfather is a father (1)
the father is a father (2) and a son (1)
the son is a son (2)

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Originally posted by PersonGuy:
What's shinnier than the shinniest gem, duller than the dullest smudge, and eaten by dead men?

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LOL! I didn't even see that one.

Answer: Nothing

The riddle should read:
What is it that is bigger than the universe, is eaten by dead men, but if eaten by the living, will kill them?

There could possible be 'something' shinnier than a gem, or 'duller' than even the DULLEST smudge.

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jim
Beauty is in the eye of the Beer Holder
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You are locked in a dungeon. However, there are two doors by which you can escape. One leads to safety. The other leads to certain death. (and no, you can't take a peek down either one) Sitting in the dungeon with you are two parrots. One parrot, who always tells the truth, wants you to be safe. The other parrot is a bastard and a total liar, and really wants to see you die. You don't know which door leads to safety, or which parrot tells the truth. To top it all off, you can only ask one parrot one question. Assuming the parrots know which door leads to safety, what is the one question you should ask?

the truthful one will tell you the safe way because it wants you to go there. The lieing parrot will lie and say the safe one as well because all it can do is lie, even though it want's you to do the other way

actully I originally heard this one with a fork in the road leading to different tribes, and the answer was "Which way to your tribe?" but I digress..

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I hope they bury me upside down, so the whole damn world can kiss my ass

This message has been edited by j0eSmith on September 28, 2000 at 10:44 PM

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Originally posted by whiskey@throttle:
Assuming the parrots know which door leads to safety, what is the one question you should ask?

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A. Which door would the other parrot tell me to go through?

Here's an oldie.

A man leaves home. Makes 3 left turns and returns home. He is met by 2 men wearing masks.

Who are these men?

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Am I the only one who has an unsloved riddle?????!?!?!?! It's like the 10th post in the thread!!

What's shinnier than the shinniest gem, duller than the dullest smudge, and eaten by dead men?

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This message has been edited by PersonGuy on September 28, 2000 at 12:55 PM

1. What is special about 304250263527210?

2. What singular English word becomes plural when you add the letter 's', yet becomes singular again when you add another 's'?

3. Which is greater, the number of grooves on one side of a vinyl record, or the number of days in a year?

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kuru
'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa

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Originally posted by whiskey@throttle:
What singular English word becomes plural when you add the letter 's', yet becomes singular again when you add another 's'?

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'Ho'

Ho + s = Hos (as in: I gots to get money from my hos.)

Hos + s = Hoss (as in: That fat bitch is a three-fiddy hoss!)

Don't kill the messenger... he's only answering a riddle.

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Originally posted by Blain:
What is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters “mt”

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There's more than one. There's dreamt (probably the one you're thinking of), undreamt, daydreamt, redreamt, and adreamt.

This message has been edited by The_Hiro on September 29, 2000 at 11:23 PM

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Originally posted by whiskey@throttle:
Okay, apparently that one was too easy.
What is special about 304250263527210?

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It's 41# (Or the product of the first thirteen consecutive primes, if you prefer).

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Originally posted by whiskey@throttle:
What singular English word becomes plural when you add the letter 's', yet becomes singular again when you add another 's'?

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A. There are a bunch: prince, multimillionaire, adventure, bra, cosine, deadline, ogre, squire, etc.

The 3rd word ending in 'gry'. the first 2 being hungry and angry. what is the third?

i saw on a site some stupid scientific words like agry and ogry and such but i mean common english words. is there a third?!

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aventari
"Where's the TV?" "TV is the devil's Tool." "Yeah. Where is it?" -- Beavis and Butt-head

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Originally posted by fatbitch:
...The 3rd word ending in 'gry'

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Could have sworn I posted this one already! Anyway, the answer is simply 'gry'. It is a word. Here's the reference: < http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=gry >

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