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From this statement only one was on the way to St. Ives

Dale, I agree, you are correct.
Myrna

     Hadn't heard that one since grade school.

How about this one? 

My mother had six sisters and each sister had seven brothers.  How many children were there in the family?

Hope this doesn't stop the thread, but I'll guess 14:  7 girls and 7 boys.

You are right.  My mother used to get people confused with this one.  They couldn't comprehend that the brothers of each sister were the same.  There actually were fourteen children in my mother's family, seven girls and seven boys.  So I kind of think that she made up this one.

I believe it is a quarter to two.

10:56 yesterday. HA! ;D

'Quarter to two' is correct...

Hint on the last riddle: Flip, Front, Fight, Fork   --------


New Riddle
A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly.  Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
Can you explain why?

I do know but I won't give it way just yet...very logical but funny.

Quote from: Diane Amberg on April 07, 2014, 09:26:44 AM
I do know but I won't give it way just yet...very logical but funny.

Which riddle, Diane?  If you mean the second one, you're right.... funny.  I figured you, DeeGee or Six Dogs would have nailed them by now. 

Sorry. Yes, I meant the second one. Let me know when it's OK to tell. The rainy day business is a great clue.

       He has a girlfriend on the seventh floor.  :-*

      Does the letter have to go at the end in the first one?

Quote from: Bullwinkle on April 09, 2014, 10:08:19 AM
     1)  He has a girlfriend on the seventh floor.  :-*

    2)  Does the letter have to go at the end in the first one?

1) He may, but not the right answer, Bull.

2)The letter you are looking for does go at the end & it's not an E:

S E Q U E N C _

Quote from: Diane Amberg on April 07, 2014, 09:26:44 AM
I do know but I won't give it way just yet...very logical but funny.

Go for it, Diane... what is the answer?

He was too short to reach the elevator button for his floor. If there were other people on, they could do it for him, or he could use his umbrella to push the button on rainy days. HA!

What about the s-e-q-u-e-n-c?  What is the last letter, not an e.  I am guessing that the last letter is a y, but I have to look it up to be sure, so I can't honestly enter this one.

I  looked it up and I was wrong.  But since I cheated, I am not going to tell.

Quote from: Diane Amberg on April 12, 2014, 03:14:53 PM
He was too short to reach the elevator button for his floor. If there were other people on, they could do it for him, or he could use his umbrella to push the button on rainy days. HA!

Correctomundo, Diane.  Go to your local Dunkin Donuts and pickup a dozen free donuts for getting the right answer.  Tell 'em, "Larryj sent you."  :laugh:

My 1st brother studies aerodynamics, my 2nd brother builds different engines. My 3rd brother is an illustrator, and my fourth, as wise as an owl. About me? I am unanimous to whatever you say!  Who are we ??????????

I already knew that one...being an old teacher ya know. ;)

Okay, Diane... tell me what you've got.

AEIOU

Yep.

My 1st brother studies aerodynamics, my 2nd brother builds different engines. My 3rd brother is an illustrator, and my fourth, as wise as an owl. About me? I am unanimous to whatever you say!  Who are we?

A man is found murdered in his bathroom naked with blood scattered all around him. The bathroom was locked from inside and there is no trace of any struggle. There is nothing in the bathroom except his pant with the belt still around and his shirt. Also, the medic team can't find any incision in his body that may have been the reason behind so much of blood loss.

The Police department is clueless regarding this murder mystery. But Sherlock Holmes solved the case.

Can you ?

Spoiler Alert : Inspired by Sherlock Holmes Season 3 Episode 2 (The Sign of Three)


And try this old classic puzzle that's been around for many years:

"If we roll two dices (six sided normal dice) together.  What is the probability that the first one comes up with a 2 and the second one comes up with a 5?"

No.

But this sounds a lot like how Albert Dekker died, chuckle.

Quote from: W. Gray on April 18, 2014, 09:40:49 PM
No.

But this sounds a lot like how Albert Dekker died, chuckle.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then photos of the dead body of Albert Dekker could fill volumes. And they have.

Perhaps there is no more puzzling sexually-tinged death in the annals of Hollywood history. On May 5, 1968, the actor (best-known for his role as Dr. Cyclops) and politician (he won a seat in the California State Assembly in 1944) was found dead in his Hollywood home by his fiancée Geraldine Saunders.

But he was not just dead-he was naked, kneeling in the bathtub, a noose tightly wrapped around his neck and looped around the shower's curtain rod, handcuffs on his wrists and a blindfold covering his eyes, a ball gag in his mouth. Two hypodermic needles were inserted in his arm. His body was covered in explicit words written in red lipstick. A woman's vagina was drawn on his stomach, and his nipples had been turned into miniature sun rays. His body was starting to turn purple.

What to think?

Some thought the six-foot-three, 240-pound Dekker was gay and was accidentally killed by a male hustler. The coroner's take? Dekker had engaged in autoerotic asphyxiation-the act of self-hanging while masturbating-and accidentally killed himself. The cause of death was officially listed as "accidental."

Al's sex-charged ashes reside in the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, New Jersey.





The following is a list of people who are alleged to have died in the bathroom.  In the case of earlier people, the legends may be inaccurate.

Eglon, King of Moab BCE, Old Testament, murdered by Ehud (stabbed in the bowels) while relieving himself in his private chamber. Judges 3:1-31

Elagabalus, Emperor of Rome (203 - 222), murdered by the Praetorian Guard, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, in the Emperor's latrine, where the pair had gone to hide
Arius of Alexandria, founder of Arianism (256 - 336), died of a flux of his bowels, possibly as the result of poisoning

Edmund Ironside, King of England (989 - 1016), allegedly stabbed in the bowels while using the toilet

James I, King of Scotland (1394 - 1437), murdered while trying to flee through his bathroom into the sewers. A lady-in-waiting, Lady Catherine Douglas, attempted to keep the door closed to protect the King, but the killers smashed down the door and broke her arm.

Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese warlord (1530 - 1568), allegedly died while sitting on the toilet

Henry III, King of France (1551 - 1589), murdered by a monk in his toilet

Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631 - 1683), committed suicide in the Tower of London while sitting on the toilet

George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1683 - 1760), died of an aortic dissection while using his toilet.

Jean-Paul Marat, French Revolutionary (1743 - 1793), stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday in his bathtub

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729 - 1796), died of a stroke while sitting on the toilet

Reginald Heber, English bishop and hymn writer (1783 - 1826), died of an apoplectic fit while in his bath

Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada (1845 - 1894), died of a heart attack in the bathtub while visiting with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of Ahmadiyya religious movement (1835 - 1908), died of cholera in Lahore in a public toilet

The victims of George Joseph Smith, the "Brides in the Bath Murderer":
Beatrice Constance Annie, died 1912 in the toilet
Alice Burnham, died 1912 in the bathroom
Margaret Elizabeth Lofty, died 1914 in the bathroom

Lupe V�lez, Mexican actress (1908 - 1944), committed suicide with Seconal, found dead on the floor of her bathroom

Maria Montez, Dominican actress (1912 - 1951), drowned in her bathtub after presumably suffering a heart attack

Tod Browning, American film director (1880 - 1962), died on the floor of friends' bathroom after having had surgery for throat cancer

Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (1922 - 1965), of an overdose of Imipramine, in the bathroom of her apartment in New York City

Lenny Bruce, American comedian (1925 - 1966), died of a morphine overdose in the bathroom of his home in Beverly Hills, California

Evelyn Waugh, English writer (1903 - 1966), died while sitting on the toilet

Vivien Leigh, British actress, (1913 - 1967), of tuberculosis, found dead on the floor of her bathroom

Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (1925 - 1968), died of a brain embolism on the floor of his grandmother's bathroom

Albert Dekker, American character actor, (1905 - 1968), of auto-asphyxiation in his bathtub

Thomas Merton, American Trappist monk and author (1915 � 1968), died by being accidentally electrocuted in his bathtub in a hotel in Bangkok.

Judy Garland, American actress and singer (1922 - 1969), died of a drug overdose in the bathroom of her London house

Jim Morrison, American singer (1943 - 1971), died in the bathtub of his hotel in Paris, of a heart attack

Louis Kahn, Estonian-American architect (1901 - 1974), died of a heart attack in the bathroom of Pennsylvania Station in New York City

Elvis Presley, American singer (1935 - 1977), died of a heart attack (Caused by a huge case of CONSTIPATION, STRAINNING TOO HARD) in the bathroom of his home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee

Claude Fran�ois, French singer (1939 - 1978), died in of electrocution from blow-drying his hair while taking a bath.

Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (1958 - 1978), died of stab wounds to the stomach

Jack Nance, American actor, (1943 - 1996), died of blunt force trauma to the head, two days after being involved in a brawl, found dead on the floor of his bathroom

Don Simpson, American film producer (1943 - 1996), died of a heart attack on the toilet

Edmond Safra, international banker (1932- 1999), died in the bathroom of his penthouse apartment in Monte Carlo, Monaco, during a fire

Robert Pastorelli, American actor (1954 - 2004), alleged to have been found on the floor of his bathroom, of a heroin overdose

Domino Harvey, bounty hunter, daughter of actor Lawrence Harvey (1969 - 2005), found dead in her bathtub from an overdose of fentanyl

Eddie Guerrero, professional wrestler, (1967 - 2005), found dead in his hotel bathroom due to heart failure caused by previous years of steroid abuse.

The first one I remember, so I won't say. The second I think is one in six?

Bring on the first one, Diane...



and your answer to the second one:

The answer is: 1/36

For the first dice, there can be six possibilities. Similarly, for the second dice as well, there can be six possibilities.
Thus the total possibilities is 6 * 6 = 36.
The outcome we need is that the first comes up with a 2 and the second comes up with a 5. That is possible only in one possibility.
Therefore the required probability is 1/36.

Ha! I'm Not good with numbers. The other had to do with the belt. It had a skinny blade already built into it that slowly worked it's way into him, but caused no obvious problem until he took his pants off to bathe. Then he bled out. The killer didn't have to actually be there to do the job. I hope that's close, as it is what I remember.

Solution:
The killer did not need to be present at the crime scene. He used sort of an artistic technique to kill the victim. The incision was made by the very fine and this incision blade which is barely visible to naked eyes. It was stuck in victim's belt at any random point of time and he did not feel much due to the extremely fine surface of the blade. When the man undressed, he had to remove his pants due to which the incision blade was removed from his body cutting finely in its way out.
In this manner, the victim dies with the extreme blood loss and there was no evidence left.

Right you are, Diane... you must be a Sherlock fan as I am... I think I've seen them all.  Jeremy Britt (Sherlock) and Edward Hardwicke (Dr. Watson) were my favorites.  Here they are in the "Sign Of Four" (Not Three):



OK people, Try these on for size, below:

1.A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Answer:



2.A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Answer:



3.A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, "that's nothing, I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no type of equipment or air pockets!" The magician told the kid if he could do that, he'd give him $10,000. The kid did it and won the money. Can you figure out how?
Answer:



4.There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?
Answer:



5.What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and grey when you throw it away?
Answer:



6.Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer:



7.This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!
Answer:



8.You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?
Answer:



9.If you overtake the last person, then you are...?
Answer:



10.(in your head!) Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?
Answer:



11.Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?
Answer:

Al and I both love British mysteries. We've read or seen most everything.Now as far as your list... I've got several figured out, a couple are very easy.The rest will take a little thinking...back later.

Ok...I think I might have 'em all. A couple are guesses, but do work. Several I'm very sure of and one is an old third grade riddle I used with my classes. I might have even gotten the number question. It depends on how you mean ''take." Ya really have to be a good reader to get a few of these. Fun!

1-if the lions haven't ate for three years they would be dead.
2-Takes a photo and develops it and then they have dinner.
3-Takes a glass of water and holds over his head.
4-Freeze them then put in the barrel.
5-Coal
6-yesterday, today & tomorrow
7-no e's
8-second
9-you could be in any position except last because you just lapped the last place in the race.
10-4100
11-Mary

Here is one from my eighth grade algebra class of almost 60 years ago.

A cork and bottle cost $1.10.

The bottle's price was $1.00 more than the cork.

How much did the cork cost?

We were supposed to use algebra to figure this one out but none of us used algebra and none of us got the right answer. We all thought we had the right answer by mentally coming up with the cork costing 10 cents.

Quote from: W. Gray on April 25, 2014, 08:07:09 PM
Here is one from my eighth grade algebra class of almost 60 years ago.

A cork and bottle cost $1.10.

The bottle's price was $1.00 more than the cork.

How much did the cork cost?

We were supposed to use algebra to figure this one out but none of us used algebra and none of us got the right answer. We all thought we had the right answer by mentally coming up with the cork costing 10 cents.

Okay... b = the cost of the bottle and c = the cost of the cork
b = c + 1
b + c = 1.10

substitute for b in the second equation
c + 1 + c = 1.1
combine the c's
2c + 1 = 1.1
subtract 1 from each side
2c = 0.1
divide each side by 2
c = 0.05
then
b = c + 1 = 1.05
and 1.05 + 0.05 = 1.10
______________________
Bottle costs>  $1.05
The cork costs> $.05 = $1.10

Huh??

This was a homework problem.

That answer is correct and I can still remember a number of 8th graders saying that can't be the answer when the teacher gave it the next day. It took a while but all of us eventually saw the light.

Even a lot of parents thought .10 was the answer, chuckle.