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Jeffo
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River crossing variant and word puzzle
« on: Dec 21st, 2008, 12:25pm » |
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I'm in need of help for 2 riddles? I've racked my brains for 2 hours now and can only get half an answer.
1.Mum, Dad, and 2 children have come to a river, and they find a boat. It is small and can only carry
one adult or 2 children at a time. Both children are good rowers, but how can the whole family reach
the other side of the river?
2.What 2 English words can have 4 of their 5 letters removed and still retain their original
pronunciation.
I know one answer to this riddle and that is Queue but I'm unable to get the other one.
Help me please!!!!
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Re: Help with 2 riddles
« Reply #1 on: Dec 21st, 2008, 12:59pm » |
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| AAcc | | | | >> cc >> | | | AA | | cc | | << c << | | | AAc | | c | | >> A >> | | | Ac | | Ac | | << c << | | | Acc | | A | | >> cc >> | | | A | | Acc | | << c << | | | Ac | | Ac | | >> A >> | | | c | | AAc | | << c << | | | cc | | AA | | >> cc >> | | | | AAcc |
Now the problem is how to return the boat to the owner.
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Re: Help with 2 riddles
« Reply #2 on: Dec 21st, 2008, 1:03pm » |
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http://www.spds.co.uk/Quiz%202008.pdf ?
on Dec 21st, 2008, 12:25pm, Jeffo wrote:I'm in need of help for 2 riddles? I've racked my brains for 2 hours now and can only get half an answer.
1.Mum, Dad, and 2 children have come to a river, and they find a boat. It is small and can only carry
one adult or 2 children at a time. Both children are good rowers, but how can the whole family reach
the other side of the river? |
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Two children go over; one comes back, one parent goes over, the other child gets back; both children go over, one comes back; the last parent goes over, one child goes back; both children go over; done.
[edit]I'm much too slow, once again, it seems..[/edit]
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Jeffo
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Re: Help with 2 riddles
« Reply #3 on: Dec 21st, 2008, 1:15pm » |
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Thank you Guy's your life savers!
I would just let the owner swim across if he wanted his boat back Lol
Once again guy's thanks for at least the hardest one of the 2 I had.
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Re: Help with 2 riddles
« Reply #4 on: Dec 22nd, 2008, 1:11am » |
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on Dec 21st, 2008, 12:25pm, Jeffo wrote:2.What 2 English words can have 4 of their 5 letters removed and still retain their original
pronunciation.
I know one answer to this riddle and that is Queue but I'm unable to get the other one.
Help me please!!!! |
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THR33 and SE7EN
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Re: Help with 2 riddles
« Reply #5 on: Dec 22nd, 2008, 8:08am » |
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Maybe mailbox?
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JohanC
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Re: Help with 2 riddles
« Reply #6 on: Dec 22nd, 2008, 9:37am » |
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Or maybe aitch, as mentioned on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitch or www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aitch .
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Re: Help with 2 riddles
« Reply #7 on: Dec 22nd, 2008, 9:28pm » |
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aitch, that's clever. Though I'm still not that big on new threads created in the general section just for help with a riddle that's almost definitely in the forum.
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Re: Help with 2 riddles
« Reply #8 on: Dec 23rd, 2008, 1:26am » |
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on Dec 22nd, 2008, 9:28pm, Roy wrote:| aitch, that's clever. Though I'm still not that big on new threads created in the general section just for help with a riddle that's almost definitely in the forum. |
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It has come up before, as question 8 here, but I haven't been able to find it using the forum search function. Besides, it doesn't help very much to search for "queue" on the forum. So I had to wait for "aitch"; and then google helped out (which it doesn't always do for this site either).
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