unreality

haha i took away all the "awe" and still had "some" left. heehee!

thats an old one

haha thats awesome!

this a riddle I made up, so i apologize if its too easy or too hard... There are 6 boxes on the table. According the host: Three are empty ($0). One has $1000, not a bad prize. The fifth has $100,000 and the last has 1 million dollars. The boxes are A,B,C,D,E and F. You dont know which check (or no check in the case of the empty boxes) is in which box. You do know, however, that E has less than $100,000. You have the option of selecting 3 boxes and are told how many empty boxes are present in those three boxes. Then you have the option again, for any 3 boxes. Since it doesn't matter, you choose A, B and C for the first choosing. You are told there are two empty boxes there. For the next pick you choose B, C and D. At the same time, the host takes pity and takes away box F, showing the $1000 check inside, and throws it away. Only ABCD and E remain. You repeat your desire to learn how many empty boxes are among B, C and D. The host says the number, and after a quick thought, you pick a box. The host opens it, showing you a check for $1,000,000.00! What number did the host say, and what went through your mind?

yes! exactly! It is B's fault! A doesnt matter! As a direct result of B's actions, C died! But some ppl dont get that. i dont see why.

im pretty sure its like a beaver or groundhog or something anyway can anything "chuck" wood? that verb is suspicous...

they have the ABILITY to be wrong... but this fortune is so vague it is right, but then its wrong, then right, etc. i dunno.

boxing. the "box" is a punch.

can u tell us what unit #4 is in?

thats exactly what i was thinking. (except i was thinking lemonade lol but whatever). maybe thats the catch of the puzzle. but if there are no catches, nothing that says "they all die", and we assume that A and B had something else to drink and live to reach the court, then it doestn matter what A put in the water cuz C died from B's actions alone. no matter what twists we put onto it, no matter if they even make it to court, C died because of B, it doesnt matter what A did. A couldve been doing handstands for all anyone should care. but in court, anything could happen. but rightfully, what SHOULD happen, assuming A and B both survive, B should be charged with first degree murder, A with attempted homicide.

great puzzle! before you said it wasnt the value, it was the number, i had all these ideas ready on different coins and stuff lol. bummer.

ah so we are looking at the thing as a whole... good job riddari!

i will give the answer for both, but it only makes sense if you know what you're doing. These answers are more like hints... 1)5x8 = 18 2)x=22 The question is... why?

that was (1)... 2) When 1+3+3 = 13, what is x? 2(x-2) = 1.5x+1

or you could have someone hold down the first, say, 3 meters on the ground to suport the 6.5 meters hanging out over the moat. Then there would only be 3.5 meters (about 10 feet) to longjump, easily. And if someone couldnt, they could just bounce on the board because it would be springy, and then their jump would be much more powerful anyway. Easy. Of course I like the corner idea too

imtcb, you have fallen into something known as "gambler's fallacy"... once a first girl is born, THAT DOES NOT CHANGE THE PROBABILITY OF ANOTHER GIRL BEING BORN. Yes if you look at the whole thing total, it's 25% for two children to be girls But we're looking at the next child only... and the fact that a girl was born already does not change the 50/50 probability. One single coin flip is ALWAYS 50/50 (assuming the coin is standard and all that). It doesnt matter what has come before it- will be 50/50 always. But if you're looking at things as a whole, for example if I flip a coin three times the chances of three heads is 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/8. But that doesnt change the fact that the next coin I flip will either be heads or tails, 50/50. so if we're just looking at whether the next child is a boy or girl, its 1/2 each.

;p i like those

When 5x7 = 13... what's 5x8? (I thought of a bunch of problems along this line, this is the simplest)

yep

damn! *whistles* thats an awesome question, man!

lol not all boys. maybe i would have done that, but that cant be said of everyone... and girls are proven smarter than boys all around, so that sucks for us guys no my proof: boys wouldn't be gardening at all! lol

no math needed. the same amount of liquid is in each glass. so whatever tonic that isnt in the tonic glass is in the other glass, and vice versa assuming nothing spilled

its 1/2, so its a lousy puzzle... lol but the title says "One Girl - One Boy" so maybe there's a 0% chance the second kid is a girl because its a boy?

that doesnt make sense... wouldnt it be getting hotter as it got hotter?

yep. sorry my answer post was just to show what was going on in the mind of the philosopher because he (and the other two) automatically assumed they each had a clean face, which is why the thought process goes by the way my answer showed. But urs clears it up for anyone that didnt understand my answer, thanks!