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flamingdragon
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River Crossing
« on: Nov 27th, 2006, 6:34pm » |
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Three kids from Bristol went for a walk. About a mile into the walk, they came to a deep, wide river. There was no bridge. They didn't have a boat or raft, or any materials to make one. None of them could swim.
How did they cross the river?
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #1 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 8:14pm » |
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Simple, they walked. Iceman and Icecalibur might demonstrate for you.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #2 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 8:24pm » |
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Or maybe they rode that tractor. 
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #3 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 9:11pm » |
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lol, it took them like 2 weeks at the last forum I posted it on.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #4 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 9:16pm » |
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Two weeks? Really? 
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #5 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 9:16pm » |
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Yep
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #6 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 10:39pm » |
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After a while I gave them the hint they were wearing sweaters and I got the answer:
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They took their sweaters off. Un-threaded them, wound the thread together to make a rope. Threw the rope around a handy tree stump/large rock on each side and shimmied across the rope to the other side.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #7 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 11:50pm » |
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Another option might have been a tunnel.
Or possibly even hanggliding or paragliding, although perhaps not for kids.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #8 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 10:01am » |
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on Nov 27th, 2006, 9:11pm, flamingdragon wrote:| lol, it took them like 2 weeks at the last forum I posted it on. |
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Here you will also find other answers that even you didn't think of!!
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #9 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 12:23pm » |
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Stand aside because this riddle is about ice: Maverick got it. Another possibility is, that they keep looking for another place to cross. 
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #10 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 1:01pm » |
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And of course, someone else might have a boat, or there might even be a ferry.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #11 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 1:50pm » |
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They look into the sky and see Jesus, whose image they were created in, so they see what they saw and they sawed down a tree and crossed the river on the tree. Until a deer in a Cadillac with two suitcases full of money came up...
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #12 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 4:39pm » |
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They look into the sky and see nothing, because they are blind. They remove 'no' from 'nothing', so now they have 'thing'. And this thing happens to be a boat.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #13 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 4:40pm » |
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lol
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #14 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 5:05pm » |
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Or they walked across the water with their floating shoes.
Or they merely parted it like the red sea.
What the heck, they drank all the water first, works to.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #15 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 9:57am » |
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on Nov 27th, 2006, 6:34pm, flamingdragon wrote:Three kids from Bristol went for a walk. About a mile into the walk, they came to a deep, wide river. There was no bridge. They didn't have a boat or raft, or any materials to make one. None of them could swim.
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They took a year to learn how to swim.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #16 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:11pm » |
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Wait til the river's dry.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #17 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:23pm » |
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The riddle says nothing about their lungs capacity, so they took a tree trunk, and walked on the bottom, holding their breath.
Or they were sucked into tornado, and, luckily, ended up on the other side of the river. They have broken legs, ribs, hands and spine, but at least they crossed the river.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #18 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:26pm » |
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Maybe they cannot swim, but they dared to float because they are fat.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #19 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:29pm » |
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Or maybe they are ants, so they cross it on a leaf.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #20 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:34pm » |
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Or it is a matter of time, so they crossed the river before, when there was a wooden bridge. The bridge flew to Mexico carried by hurricane.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #21 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:45pm » |
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1st kid bites his hand and jumps into the river. The blood attracts crocodiles. The crocodiles here are 20 meters long because of the leakage from a nuclear plant, which polluted the river. So two kids take the opportunity and run on crocodiles when the chance presents itself.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #22 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 12:52pm » |
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on Nov 29th, 2006, 12:11pm, cchris wrote:| Wait til the river's dry. |
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Or a dam was just built, so soon they cross over, no problem.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #23 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 1:09pm » |
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They made a rope out of their shoelaces, and wet it in the river. One kid puts a chewing gum on one end, and swings this rope all the way to the other side of the river, aiming for a tree there. Then other kid spits out his gum, and puts it on the other end, and glues it on a nearby tree. When the rope freezes, they cross the river balancing on it.
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Re: River Crossing
« Reply #24 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 3:59pm » |
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Hey, Iceman. Nice suggestions. Ever thought of using the "modify" button to append different ideas?
Attracting crocodiles in Bristol? That's some blood.
If it was cold enough to freeze the (unfeasibly) long shoe lace rope, it would have been cold enough to freeze the river.
and the original puzzle says they don't have the material to construct a bridge.
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