My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter’s true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I???
I understand where you have been coming from now, but…
We don’t know if this is at random or not, you should have said that the person can only choose a door that has a goat. And that he couldn’t pick the door that you are on. Say if you picked a goat and then the host showed you behind your door. You be better off changing because you know there is a goat behind your door.
I understand the problem better now and this quote from the first site you gave might help others
2/3 because 2/3 are wrong doors and 1/3 are right.
Sorry alex. The trick with this one is phrasing it just right: a little bit of mis-phrasing can cause a cascade of mis-interpretation that just destroys any possibilty of understanding the problem.
A man and his son were on a tour of an atomic power plant. In the control room, the boy asked if he could see the controls for the reactor core. The head physicist said yes, and explained how the controls worked. After the boy left, the head physicist turned to an assistant and said, “That was my son.”
How could that be?
You are stuck in an air tight room. You only have 15 minutes worth of oxygen left. There are no windows, there are only two doors. And in this room there are 2 computers, one is programed to tell nothing but the truth. The other is programed to tell nothin but lies. You can ask ONE question to ONE of the computers. If you touch the wrong door both of them disappear and your stuck.
A snail fell down a hole.It is 30cm deep, and the snail trys to escape as fast as possible.It goes up 13cm every day, but the following night it always has to sleep (and dream g) and slides down 7cm.
How many days does it take the snail to get out?
A 12x30 foot room has a 12 foot ceiling. In the middle of the end wall, a foot above the floor, is a spider. The spider wants to capture a fly in the middle of the opposite wall, one foot below the ceiling. Considering that the spider must always be crawling along the wall, what is the shortest path the spider can take?
Also:
There are three boxes labeled “Apples”, “Oranges” and “Apples and Oranges”. Each label is incorrect. You can select one fruit from one box, and you can’t feel around or peek. How can you label each box correctly?
Both of these aren’t very hard. The first one is a little bit strange. The answer is not 42 for the first one.
I agree the answer to Jestas riddle is certainly that the head physician is the boys mother. However, it never states that the man walking around with his son is not the head physician.
Perhaps if it said that the man on tour with his son did not work there or something…
Anyway, here’s mine.
Add punctuation to the following phrase to make something gramatically and logically coherent:
“i had had had tom had had had had had had had had the praise of the teacher”
Don’t ask me for the solution, I have absolutely no idea
kmcdonald 33.10589, is this how far the thing has to walk. (i remembered that the quickest way is a straight line!)
And for the other one, you put your hand in the one marked ‘apples and oranges’ if it is apples then you put the ‘apples’ sticker on it, or ‘oranges’ sticker if there are oranges. If it was apples then you put the ‘oranges’ sticker on the original apples box and the ‘apples and oranges’ on the original ‘oranges’ box.
eg,
‘apples’ ‘oranges’ ‘apples and oranges’
if there are apples, label it like this:
‘oranges’ ‘apples and oranges’ ‘apples’