329 replies to this topic

[Shane T]

Too easy... throw it straight up....

[Yellow Fever]

Throw it straight up and have it come back down. What's with being so technical you can't see the obvious answer?

[marto]

this is the easiest thing in the world .. you just throw it up in the air and catch it when it comes back down!

[sevenwolves]

throw it up!

Edited by sevenwolves, 07 April 2008 - 09:02 AM.

[marcinella]

Sounds to me like a lot of these cranky complainers are just jealous and watching us from inside the box. My first instinct before I came to the forum was to say that if it were possible for a human to throw it hard enough, it would come back after orbiting the earth. Granted, it's not physically possible, but it's a fun, outside-the-box answer. I feel sorry for all the creatively challenged people out there. The inside-the-box answers are fine when they don't come with replies that spew acid

Edited by marcinella, 08 April 2008 - 01:09 AM.

[deryn]

Jeez.. these are logic puzzles.. "throw it into a hurricane?" gimme a break. Just throw straight up.. it'll come back

[thermalguru65]

throw it straight up.

[sunshipballoons]

Ball - Back to the Logic Puzzles
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't hit anything, there is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it?

Spoiler for Solution

Ball - solution
Throw the ball straight up in the air.

Everybody's all excited (i.e., angry) about all the "stupid" answers, but the answer given by OP is technically wrong. When you throw the ball up in the air you are never throwing the ball as hard as you can. Due to human body mechanics and gravity, you throw the ball harder throwing it straight or down. Thus, the solution "throw it up in the air and let it fall" fails to satisfy the question because you aren't throwing "as hard as you can." Rather, you are throwing as hard as you can with a limitation, i.e., as hard as you can if you're throwing straight up.

Now, I realize I'm parsing the language of the OP a bit much, and this question could have written the problem out by not including "as hard as you can." But if everybody is going to be so critical of the clever answers (I think throwing the ball from one hand to the other is at least as good as the gravity answer), I think I have license to point out a flaw in the "right" answer.

[sdeeeeee]

ok there paul no 1 cares about another f*** planet this is only about a ball and it going into the air and coming back with nothing touching or atached to it so try to stay on earth next time you f*** nerd

Geez, calm down, the guy was only trying to give his OPINION. That's what these forums are for anyway. If you can't handle that then don't post on here. Way to ruin a fun thing for everyone by being a jerk.

[atulchaudhary]

too easy. throw it in the sky !!!!!