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Apostle

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google, that is cheating!!! the whole purpose of a riddle is the reward that you get when you figure it out on your own. But these types of riddles have 2 rewards if you figure them out. Well, that is if the gmail invites are still avaliable, but you still have the satisfaction of using your brain even if you dont' get an invite.
 

stonedoor

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Originally posted by: StraightPipe
Originally posted by: Xiety

Question:

There are 3 light bulbs in a room. However there are no switches in the room. All 3 switches for these light bulbs are inside another room in another building. Your goal is to find out which switch turns on which light bulb. You start in the room with switches and can go to the room where light bulbs are in but you can't go back to the room with switches. What's your solution?

Hint: You got unlimited time.


Good luck!

so, you just have to wait until night, then look out the window, and watch which light turns on, when you flip the switches...

edit: too bad xiety is offline, it would be nice to know who got it first

Don't agree with you. First, I would try to turn on and off one switch long enough to break down one bulb. Then turn on one switch out of the remaining two. And, you go to the bulb room to find out which bulb is lighting and which is not but not broken. That's it, isn't it?
 

StraightPipe

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so, of the people who got gmail from this thread, has anyone been able to get any invites yet? i kept hearing 3-5 days, but many have had their new accounts longer than that, but still havent gotten any.
 

bigwill01

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If you have unlimited time, you might as well wait until 1 bulb burns out, then flip the 2nd switch. Then go to the light room and see which burnt out.
 

winzonly

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Originally posted by: StraightPipe
so, of the people who got gmail from this thread, has anyone been able to get any invites yet? i kept hearing 3-5 days, but many have had their new accounts longer than that, but still havent gotten any.

haven't got mine yet... almost a week
 

bigwill01

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Originally posted by: Apostle
google, that is cheating!!! the whole purpose of a riddle is the reward that you get when you figure it out on your own. But these types of riddles have 2 rewards if you figure them out. Well, that is if the gmail invites are still avaliable, but you still have the satisfaction of using your brain even if you dont' get an invite.


Would you rather have satisfaction or a Gmail account?
 

StraightPipe

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Originally posted by: Apostle
google, that is cheating!!! the whole purpose of a riddle is the reward that you get when you figure it out on your own. But these types of riddles have 2 rewards if you figure them out. Well, that is if the gmail invites are still avaliable, but you still have the satisfaction of using your brain even if you dont' get an invite.

how can google really be cheating? the idea here is to get a google email account. if google is off limits, then what is the world coming too?
 

stonedoor

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Sounds there is not just one standard answer.
mindblendeR's uses less time - it is creative to consider the temperature of the bulbs.

Originally posted by: bigwill01
If you have unlimited time, you might as well wait until 1 bulb burns out, then flip the 2nd switch. Then go to the light room and see which burnt out.
 

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sorry, I'm a teacher that is just the way i think. I want a gmail account, but using my brain is more important. I see way to many people who don't know how to think so I exercise mine all i can.
 

StraightPipe

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there is a cabin on the side of a mountain. there are 43 dead bodies inside. the doors are locked from the inside. all the windows are locked. how did they all die?
 

Jhill

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Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there is a cabin on the side of a mountain. there are 43 dead bodies inside. the doors are locked from the inside. all the windows are locked. how did they all die?

Carbon minoxide?
 

Jhill

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Originally posted by: Jhill
Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there is a cabin on the side of a mountain. there are 43 dead bodies inside. the doors are locked from the inside. all the windows are locked. how did they all die?

Carbon minoxide?

Or carbon Dioxide. I can't remember
 

cowsclaw

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Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there is a cabin on the side of a mountain. there are 43 dead bodies inside. the doors are locked from the inside. all the windows are locked. how did they all die?

the cabin is a plane cabin and the plane crashed into the mountain
 

StraightPipe

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Originally posted by: cowsclaw
Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there is a cabin on the side of a mountain. there are 43 dead bodies inside. the doors are locked from the inside. all the windows are locked. how did they all die?

the cabin is a plane cabin and the plane crashed into the mountain

if only i had an invite to give you :(
 

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LOL - let me play devil's advocate. Lets suppose you use the temperature thing. You turn both on. Then flick one off. You run to the other building. All three bulbs are off. 2 are hot and 1 of the 2 is burnt. Then how do you determine which switch goes to each bulb?

That'd be really bad luck. LOL.

As for the unlimited time and switching it on and off until the bulb is burnt out - how many times do you switch it off and on before it burns out? You can't be positive when it will burn out so you are taking a risk when you go and check.

Yes - you have unlimited time. Lets say you turn on a light and wait till it burns out. It would take freaking forever. And you'd have to stay in that room freaking forever too because you can't return to the switch room once you leave. How feasible is that? LOL.
 

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there are 53 bicycles in a room. a man dead from a gunshot sitting in his chair with a pool of blood underneath him. a broken lightbulb, and shattered glass on the table. and a broken window.

what happened, and why was the man shot?

(this is pretty easy)
 

StraightPipe

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Originally posted by: Batman534
LOL - let me play devil's advocate. Lets suppose you use the temperature thing. You turn both on. Then flick one off. You run to the other building. All three bulbs are off. 2 are hot and 1 of the 2 is burnt. Then how do you determine which switch goes to each bulb?

That'd be really bad luck. LOL.

As for the unlimited time and switching it on and off until the bulb is burnt out - how many times do you switch it off and on before it burns out? You can't be positive when it will burn out so you are taking a risk when you go and check.

Yes - you have unlimited time. Lets say you turn on a light and wait till it burns out. It would take freaking forever. And you'd have to stay in that room freaking forever too because you can't return to the switch room once you leave. How feasible is that? LOL.
hopefully the dead one is the one you left on...
 

Jhill

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Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there are 53 bicycles in a room. a man dead from a gunshot sitting in his chair with a pool of blood underneath him. a broken lightbulb, and shattered glass on the table. and a broken window.

what happened, and why was the man shot?

(this is pretty easy)

Someone shot him because he was stingy with his gmail invites?
 

StraightPipe

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Originally posted by: Jhill
Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there are 53 bicycles in a room. a man dead from a gunshot sitting in his chair with a pool of blood underneath him. a broken lightbulb, and shattered glass on the table. and a broken window.

what happened, and why was the man shot?

(this is pretty easy)

Someone shot him because he was stingy with his gmail invites?

nope he got shot because he was trying to sell his invites on eGay
j/k
 

nordlaw

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The men were playing poker or some other card game. One man had an extra Ace up his sleeve (i.e. he was cheating), and so another man shot him.

Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there are 53 bicycles in a room. a man dead from a gunshot sitting in his chair with a pool of blood underneath him. a broken lightbulb, and shattered glass on the table. and a broken window.

what happened, and why was the man shot?

(this is pretty easy)
 

ECartman

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Originally posted by: nordlaw
The men were playing poker or some other card game. One man had an extra Ace up his sleeve (i.e. he was cheating), and so another man shot him.

Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there are 53 bicycles in a room. a man dead from a gunshot sitting in his chair with a pool of blood underneath him. a broken lightbulb, and shattered glass on the table. and a broken window.

what happened, and why was the man shot?

(this is pretty easy)

Then the ATF killed them
 

StraightPipe

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Originally posted by: nordlaw
The men were playing poker or some other card game. One man had an extra Ace up his sleeve (i.e. he was cheating), and so another man shot him.

Originally posted by: StraightPipe
there are 53 bicycles in a room. a man dead from a gunshot sitting in his chair with a pool of blood underneath him. a broken lightbulb, and shattered glass on the table. and a broken window.

what happened, and why was the man shot?

(this is pretty easy)

yeah, sorry, it's not very much fun when there's no prize :beer:
 
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