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Puzzle
Feb 19, 2018 3:54:41 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 3:54:41 GMT
If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats onboard, how old is the ship's captain?
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Puzzle
Feb 19, 2018 13:48:16 GMT
Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Feb 19, 2018 13:48:16 GMT
600 years old.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 19, 2018 14:32:23 GMT
247 years old. He's a Buddhist demon, and is a 5-cigar-a-day smoker. His favourite music group is the Indestructible Military Band, and he loves Australian-style meat pies.
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Puzzle
Feb 19, 2018 14:34:08 GMT
Post by Salzmank on Feb 19, 2018 14:34:08 GMT
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Puzzle
Feb 19, 2018 14:45:47 GMT
Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 19, 2018 14:45:47 GMT
There was also a question like this in an episode of the 1990s TV series "Saved by the Bell: The New Class". |
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Puzzle
Feb 19, 2018 14:49:56 GMT
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Post by marianne48 on Feb 19, 2018 14:49:56 GMT
Old enough to be piloting a ship instead of being in school and having to take this test, so at least over 18 or 21.
The question is to test a child's ability to use effort, logic and an ability to think "outside the box,"
all of which are important in measuring a person's intelligence and potential. Remember what finally brought down Ken Jennings on Jeopardy!--it was a clue that didn't rely merely on a memorization of a fact.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 19, 2018 15:54:01 GMT
SalzmankWe should have looked up the answer in our SWEOPUI Sheila Worthington Encyclopedia of Pretty Useless Information.
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Puzzle
Feb 19, 2018 18:29:21 GMT
Post by Salzmank on Feb 19, 2018 18:29:21 GMT
Salzmank We should have looked up the answer in our SWEOPUI Sheila Worthington Encyclopedia of Pretty Useless Information. Ah! Thou knowest well what they say—the SWEOPUI never fails! (…to be filed also with all those possible interpretations of colons that you, alfromni, and I came up with for that puzzle Pete had on the riddles thread…) |
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Puzzle
Feb 19, 2018 18:31:07 GMT
Post by Salzmank on Feb 19, 2018 18:31:07 GMT
There was also a question like this in an episode of the 1990s TV series "Saved by the Bell: The New Class". Reading that article, I’m wondering if there is even supposed to be an answer. Apparently, the problem is originally French—from Flaubert, in fact—and he intended it as insoluble. On the other hand, the Chinese teachers who asked it intended it as soluble, so… Who knows? |
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Puzzle
Feb 19, 2018 19:04:22 GMT
Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 19, 2018 19:04:22 GMT
SalzmankMy interpretation of the article's "solution" was that the student's answer was supposed to be "Hey ! TEACHER we need more ^%$# information before we can solve this &&^%$# puzzle" Of course that would be the reply here and today and not there or in more civil CIVIL times!
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 20, 2018 16:43:24 GMT
...is the ship's captain a sheep or a goat???
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