do you like riddles?

[Muddypause]

Andy can you explain why...
Also the energy that they must have expended...
it doesn't make alot of sense to me...
Were there no fish in the sea...
they could have found something edible on the land...
they really should have paid more attention to Ray Mears...

You'll never get anywhere if you start introducing facts into a situation.

[ina]

Clearly the collective wisdom of SS-ish (with a bit of help from google) cannot be beaten.

But just imagine that you have two wine glasses, each with an identical amount of wine in them. One has red wine in it, the other has white wine.

You take a teaspoonful out of the red wine glass and put it in the white wine glass, and stir it up so that there is now a mixture in this glass. Now you take a teaspoonful of this mixture and put it back into the red wine glass.

Does the white wine contain more red wine, or the red wine contain more white wine?

I think the red wine contains more white than the white contains red - but I can't seem to work it out properly!

Back to school, methinks.

[Mare Owner]

For the wine in the glasses, they have the same amount?

I couldn't even get thru reading the train question. Flashbacks to math class, BAD memories!

[glenniedragon]

I think......you have more red in the white than white in the red as in the teaspoon of white/red mixture you would have some rouge red wine so returning that to the glass of red and it would have taken up space on the teaspoon that would have been white.........I think

kind thoughts
Deb

[Andy Hamilton]

the red wine contains more white wine I think.

[Milims]

If the trains are on the same route does this mean that they are on the same line - in which case they won't pass they'll crash which will mean that they will be very delayed and so will all the trains for the next 3 weeks travelling to anywhere on any line!!!

[the.fee.fairy]

Argh! my brain hurts now!

[Jarmara]

Ok a gardening riddle

I stand on one leg and my heart is in my head.
What am I?

[Jarmara]

Any body had any luck with this one yet ?

There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good

[Muddypause]

Any body had any luck with this one yet ?

There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good

I don't know the answer, and I don't want to spoil it oogling, but I'm thinking of something like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, or the four elements, or the four seasons. A 'song that is never good' could be some sort of herald of death, or something. Something that runs may be a river, perhaps?

Anybody else see some links?

[Jarmara]

Any body had any luck with this one yet ?

There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good

I don't know the answer, and I don't want to spoil it oogling, but I'm thinking of something like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, or the four elements, or the four seasons. A 'song that is never good' could be some sort of herald of death, or something. Something that runs may be a river, perhaps?

Anybody else see some links?

i would go with your secong guess if i was you

[Andy Hamilton]

The four elements I am thinking as water - runs. Buggered if I can think of the other ones.

I stand on one leg and my heart is in my head. - dunno

also the wine glass one. anyone got that right yet???

Please no more until we get the other ones right.

[Muddypause]

the red wine contains more white wine I think.

.you have more red in the white than white in the red

For the wine in the glasses, they have the same amount?

I think the red wine contains more white than the white contains red

One of you is right

I first saw this puzzle in a book about lateral thinking, years ago, and it has to be said that it has caused no end of argument amongst people I've put it to since. They immediately get out calculators, start doing sums, and put up reasons why the answer is wrong.

The answer is that there is the same amount of red in the white wine as there is white in the red wine.

You don't need to do any mathematical working out for this one:

Consider that you start off with two glasses, each with the same amount of wine in them. You take a teaspoonful from one glass to the other, and then you take a teaspoonful back again, so each glass has the same volume in it at the end as at the beginning.

Therefore, any red wine in the white wine must have displaced exactly the same amount of white wine, and that must now be in the other glass.

Most people object that the second spoonful is a mixture of the two wines, whereas the first was a single wine, and this must affect the proportions. But you also have to consider that during the transfer, one glass has less wine in it than the other. If you do the sums, it all balances out.

But maybe if you actually drank the glass of red wine and the glass of white, it wouldn't seem so important.

As for the trains - well, crashes, breakdowns and delays aside, when the first train passes the second they are in the same place - which is just as well, because it is exactly the same place as where the second train passes the first. If it wasn't, they would have to pass each other in a different place.

I think.

[The Chili Monster]

Jarmara wrote:

Ok a gardening riddle

I stand on one leg and my heart is in my head.
What am I?

A lettuce?

[hamster]

Ok a gardening riddle

I stand on one leg and my heart is in my head.
What am I?

An artichoke?

Any body had any luck with this one yet ?

There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good.

If they are the four elements, I'm guessing the first is water and the third is fire. Can't work out why either of the others should be air or earth though.