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5 people in the rain  
« on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 12:44pm »
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5 people are in the street in pouring rain but any four of get wet.
 
Why did not the fifth person get wet?
 
(This is riddle has two classic answers try and find both)
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #1 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 5:24pm »
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I'll try:
 
Maybe the fifth person didn't get wet because he/she was already wet.
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #2 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 6:54pm »
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How about:  One of the people in the street was inside a car at the time.
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #3 on: Jan 23rd, 2004, 9:31pm »
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1. The fifth person had an umbrella.
2. The fifth person was standing under an awning.
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #4 on: Jan 24th, 2004, 5:09am »
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::the other four people where lying on top of the fifth and so sheltered him/her from it::
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #5 on: Jan 24th, 2004, 9:36pm »
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Kitty, what is the answer?
 
My money is on towr's answer, that has the potential to be kinky  Grin
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #6 on: Jan 26th, 2004, 9:35am »
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Well none then are the one i was looking for. None of then has an umbrella or in a car
 
i not going though, bad luck John_Gaughan  Grin
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #7 on: Jan 26th, 2004, 12:30pm »
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Perhaps one of the four people who got wet is a pregnant woman and the fifth person is her unborn child?
 
Or they're queuing up for a shop to open and the (fifth) person at the front is able to shelter in the doorway from the pouring rain?
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #8 on: Jan 26th, 2004, 2:49pm »
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:: The four who got wet are pallbearers carrying the fifth in his closed coffin ::
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #9 on: Jan 26th, 2004, 4:04pm »
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Unlucky guys then! I've been a pallbearer a couple times, and 4 people are not enough (maybe for a child they would be). Coffins are heavy!
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #10 on: Jan 27th, 2004, 6:16am »
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One person is standing in the sewer, underneath the manhole. It's a big sewer and the water level is low even with the rain.
 
Or, it could be like that fairy tale where some guy is able to dodge raindrops and tricks a witch into the rain where she melts.
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Re: 5 people in the rain  
« Reply #11 on: Jan 27th, 2004, 11:48am »
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Well the answers were unborn childand coiffin but Icarus does have a point, would 7 people work better?
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