Guest Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Fill water in the pipe and the ball will come out floating Undamaged tennis balls always float. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 How about doing one of the following: 1) Use a vacuum cleaner to suck ball out; 2) Affix some sort of adhesive (e.g., chewing gum, double-stick tape, etc.) to the end of a stick or rod and use it to "'grab" ball; or 3) Since a ping pong ball floats, why not fill the pipe with water and let buoyancy lift the ball out (remember, the pipe is sealed at the bottom). madoyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 1. exposed scotch tape or chewing gum on the end of a wire will stick to the ball. 2. a vacuum applied to a long thin tube and applied to the top of the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 It would be easier to just pour water in the pipe then the ball would float to the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Pee in the pipe and the ball will come out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 i think that if the pipe is filled with water the ball will float and automatically come out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 pour water in. The ball would float Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 come on guys or gals there is two things to do you can use a stick with tape on the end too pick it up or you can fill the pipe up with water until the ball comes out it is a ping pong ball the didnt say it was weighted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 i was right hell yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 21, 2007 Report Share Posted September 21, 2007 you cant really suck it out because it is a closed pipe and theres no airflow from behind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 fill the hole up with water. ......tada! heres lookin at you kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 Pour water into the pipe and the ball will rise to the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2007 Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 Ball in a Hole - Back to the Logic Puzzles A table tennis ball (= ping pong ball) fell into a tight deep pipe (amendment: eg. 30 cm long, buried in concrete pavement - having firm metal bottom, only 1 cm of the pipe is above the ground - so it can not be moved). The pipe was only a bit wider then the ball, so you can not use your hand. How would you take it out, with no damage? Edit: There is another more straight forward wording (as posted by oysterboy22) You are stuck in a room with no windows and no doors. There is a hole in the floor about a foot deep (ok, half a meter for you non-americans) and just wider than the diameter of a table tennis ball. There is a table tennis ball at the bottom of the hole. You have a fork, a wrench, and a long, thin plastic wire. How do you get the ball out of the hole? Ball in a Hole - solution All you have to do is pour some water into the pipe so that the ball swims up on the surface. Edit: oysterboy22's wording solution: none of those random things are going to help you, but the whole point is the person thinks they have to use the tools, while what they really have to do is urinate in the hole. Tennis ball won't be of much use if you urinate on it ...or will it be?.... ping-pong ball should do fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 fill the hole with water, the ball is less dense than water, thus, rising to the top, then use a spoon or something to fish it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 Pour water into the pipe until the ball rises to the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 Easy.... just pee in the pipe and the ball will rise to the top! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 are you all stupid all u have to do is put water in the pipe and the ball with float duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 If the bottom of the pipe is sealed, why not just fill it up with water?? Ping-pong balls are quite bouyant? Then again, if you are stuck in a room with no way out and no access to water, I guess this wouldn't be possible. And if that was the case, the ping-pong ball would be the last thing I would worry about. Frst would be, "How the heck do I get out of this room?!??!" =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2007 Report Share Posted September 26, 2007 you pour water into the pipe you morons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2007 Report Share Posted September 26, 2007 If the bottom of the pipe is sealed, why not just fill it up with water?? Ping-pong balls are quite bouyant? Then again, if you are stuck in a room with no way out and no access to water, I guess this wouldn't be possible. And if that was the case, the ping-pong ball would be the last thing I would worry about. Frst would be, "How the heck do I get out of this room?!??!" =) Why wouldn't it be possible without access to water? Couldn't you simply pee in the pipe? BoilingOil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2007 Report Share Posted September 26, 2007 yeah, but at that point, would you really want the ball back? plus, you'd have to have a pretty big bladder to fill up that tube with pee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2007 Report Share Posted September 26, 2007 If the bottom of the pipe is sealed, why not just fill it up with water?? Ping-pong balls are quite bouyant? Then again, if you are stuck in a room with no way out and no access to water, I guess this wouldn't be possible. And if that was the case, the ping-pong ball would be the last thing I would worry about. Frst would be, "How the heck do I get out of this room?!??!" =) Why wouldn't it be possible without access to water? Couldn't you simply pee in the pipe? BoilingOil Yeah, you are right! I didn't think about that. But, then I wouldn't really care about getting the ball back after that. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2007 Report Share Posted September 26, 2007 Yeah, you are right! I didn't think about that. But, then I wouldn't really care about getting the ball back after that. LOL Neither would I, actually, but maybe someone who felt a really urgent need to play ping-pong, if this was their last or only ball FlowingPee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2007 Report Share Posted September 26, 2007 yeah, but at that point, would you really want the ball back? plus, you'd have to have a pretty big bladder to fill up that tube with pee. Granted! I wouldn't want that ball anymore. But did I say you had to fill the pipe in one go? SmellingWater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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