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Boody
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the 6th person
« on: Mar 31st, 2003, 8:26am » |
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Kitty :do you know this one ?
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There is are 5 persons together.
They know that a 6th will arrive soon.
And because of that coming they will all die.
The question is what happened (or what will happen) ?
Ask questions, I will answer as soon as I could.
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Kitty
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #1 on: Mar 31st, 2003, 8:32am » |
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on Mar 31st, 2003, 8:26am, Boody wrote:There is 5 persons together.
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There are 5 people together. No?
Nope i don't no that one. Hmmm... I need time to think...
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #2 on: Mar 31st, 2003, 9:32am » |
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The second coming?
Will the sixth guy die too?
Are they in a lifeboat built for 5?
Is the sixth a child about to be born?
Do they know who this person is or just that a person is coming?
Oncoming car?
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #3 on: Mar 31st, 2003, 11:06am » |
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they're in an elevator that can carry only 5, and they're too stupid to get off ?
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Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
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Is it an executioner?
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Kitty
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #5 on: Mar 31st, 2003, 2:06pm » |
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Do these people Know each other?
Have they met in the past?
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #6 on: Apr 1st, 2003, 4:14am » |
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on Mar 31st, 2003, 9:32am, aero_guy wrote:The second coming?
Will the sixth guy die too?
Are they in a lifeboat built for 5?
Is the sixth a child about to be born?
Do they know who this person is or just that a person is coming?
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aero_guy is right. Congratulations.
yes :the sixth guy die too.
yes :the sixth is a child about to be born?
No they are not exactly in a lifeboat built for 5, but the response is very near that.
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Do these people Know each other? Yes very well.
Have they met in the past? Yes they live together.
The only question which is remaining:
where are they exactly ?
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Kitty
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #7 on: Apr 1st, 2003, 7:28am » |
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On a deserted Island?
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Boody
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #8 on: Apr 1st, 2003, 8:07am » |
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on Apr 1st, 2003, 7:28am, Kitty wrote:
No.
Hint:highlight this ...
Remember that the What happened history is not obligatory a real one.
This one could arrive in a not very happy future.
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other idea ?
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #9 on: Apr 1st, 2003, 8:11am » |
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On a different planet?
In the middle of the earth?
In da middle of nowhere
I don't no. 
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #10 on: Apr 1st, 2003, 8:21am » |
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There is definitely some limited resource that the sixth person will use too much of so they all die. They could have limited food. They could be in a spaceship with limited air (but then they could just kill one of them). They could be in an overpopulated country where having too many children results in execution.
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #11 on: Apr 1st, 2003, 7:31pm » |
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I know it's not the intended answer, but I really like maryl's idea. It fits the original description perfectly (at least if you interpret it to mean only the 5 die).
5 guys with the nooses already around their necks, waiting for the hangman to get back from his bathroom break and open the trapdoors.
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #12 on: Apr 2nd, 2003, 1:34am » |
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Yes lots of answers are possible.
The "WhatHappened"s are good for long car rides (as say aero_guy) not for a forum with obligatory lag.
The answer that I remenber is what aero_guy said
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There is definitely some limited resource that the sixth person will use too much of so they all die.
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The story
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They are on the earth after a nuclear war, in an anti-atomic shelter (abri anti-atomique).
They are of course isolated from the exterior.
There is some ressources for 5 persons and not more ( food, living animals, culture, machine to recycle air ...).
There were a boy and his girlfriend.
and a professor who invented a machine to recycle waste in food.
The professor give contraceptive to the girl, but she simulate the action to take it.
And few month after, they see that a child will be born.
They decide to make the girl avorted (?? I want to say: to lose child). The couple refuse, kill the professor and put his body into the food-machine.
The machine goes wrong and the food balance of the shelter is broken.
They will all die.
sniff ... 
The story is taken from a movie, which I did not see.
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #13 on: Apr 3rd, 2003, 9:47am » |
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It cool but i was really no where near the answer.
I was thinkin of another one but i cant remember it now. I ll post it if i remember.
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #14 on: Apr 3rd, 2003, 11:40am » |
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I'm sorry, but if the food machine is broken, they will die anyway. How is the "coming" of the baby connected?
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Re: the 6th person
« Reply #15 on: Apr 3rd, 2003, 11:47am » |
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If the baby had not been made then the professor would not have been killed and the machine would have been working.
But BNC has a point. How could the "coming" of the 6th person kill them all?
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know this is way past last post. oh well don't care. stupid obvious answer: the person coming is a serial killer. or someone wih a deadly virus that will kill them all. or it is not a human but an alien from a murderous species. or...its the grim reaper? obviously, if you can see the grim reaper, you're dead. or seeing things or very intune with ghosts. ,aybe these people are tied to a train track and know that when thier former best friend comes with the train, they will ge run over? the person is charging at them with a lance? they are in a certain part of the hospital and know when the nurse comes, she will pull the plug cuz she's a psycho? or are these "people" not people but animals about to be put down that know they will die when the vet comes?
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