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How to ask for age?
« on: May 27th, 2008, 4:06pm » |
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A is interested in B and would like to know how old B is. A couldn't do the following:
1. Ask B directly.
2. Ask directly B's friends.
3. Search for relevant record that might have information on B's age.
How can A know B's age?
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #1 on: May 27th, 2008, 4:55pm » |
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Ask for a birthday party invite. You'll find out there
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #2 on: May 27th, 2008, 10:03pm » |
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have someone else search.
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Do something like a binary search.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #4 on: May 28th, 2008, 5:06am » |
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Well, the classic grade-school maneuver is for A to ask his friend to ask B's friend whether B likes him how old B is. 
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #5 on: May 28th, 2008, 5:14am » |
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A could ask B (or one of B's friends) for the square of B's age; that way A can avoid directly asking the age, yet still find out.
Or
A can ask for the difference between A and B's age.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #6 on: May 28th, 2008, 8:56am » |
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A kills B and then he finds out how old he was in obituary.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #7 on: May 28th, 2008, 9:04am » |
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on May 28th, 2008, 8:56am, Iceman wrote:| A kills B and then he finds out how old he was in obituary. |
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Wouldn't the obituary become a relevant record, as disallowed under 3)?
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #8 on: May 28th, 2008, 9:41am » |
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Ask B's parents or siblings.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #9 on: May 28th, 2008, 10:55am » |
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Keep lurking behind B .... someday he/she will celebrate the birthday party 
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #10 on: May 28th, 2008, 6:33pm » |
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ask someone who hates B. Doesn't count as a friend
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #11 on: May 28th, 2008, 6:41pm » |
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on May 27th, 2008, 4:06pm, wonderful wrote:
Cut him in half and count his rings.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #12 on: May 28th, 2008, 7:02pm » |
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lol 
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #13 on: May 28th, 2008, 7:28pm » |
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on May 27th, 2008, 4:06pm, wonderful wrote: A couldn't do the following:
1. Ask B directly.
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Then obviously A asked her beau B: "If Mary was three years older than I will be when you are three times as old as Mary was six years before the time when you were half as old as I will be when Mary will be ten years older than Mary was when you were one-third as old as I will be when Mary will be three times as old as she was when you were born..........then how long have I been 29??"
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #14 on: May 30th, 2008, 2:07am » |
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A: Hey B, I'm interested in you.
B: That's..cool.
A: I'm <A's age> years old, by the way.
B: Oh, I'm <B's age> years old. So, wanna go see a movie or something ?
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #15 on: May 31st, 2008, 1:38am » |
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If you can't ask for his age, ask for his birthdate.
Or can't you ask anything?
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #16 on: May 31st, 2008, 6:11am » |
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My understanding of this riddle is that "ask directly" means you cannot "talk, say, or communicate anything directly" to B (i) or any of B's friends (ii); and within the spirit of the riddle I guess that would include family and anyone else who knows B personally enough to know their age.
So because Whiskey Tango Foxtrot's suggestion of killing them to "count the rings" is perhaps a little extreme...
Sedate B and perform a posteroanterior (chest) x-ray and an orthopantomogram (panoramic digital x-ray of the mouth). Using these images you carefully analyse certain anatomical characteristics. For example, the maturation and fusion of the proximal epiphysis of the clavicle and the greater cornua of the hyoid bone, and the general quality of the costal cartilage of the first rib.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #17 on: May 31st, 2008, 12:55pm » |
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The riddle just says you can't "search" for a relevant document... doesn't mean you can't ask to see their driver's license or other form of official identification.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #18 on: May 31st, 2008, 11:51pm » |
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"Search for relevant record that might have information on B's age. "
Wouldn't everything that reveals B's age fall under that category? One's age depends on the birth date and that is a record. If someone was adopted and never knew his birth date, there is no way to find out.
OK, maybe for young children you can have a good guess given his/her size.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #19 on: Jun 1st, 2008, 9:58am » |
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If this were a Iceman riddle, I would suppose that B has a twin brother or sister C
A then asks C how old C is thus getting B's age.
But this not being an Iceman riddle...probably not the intended.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #20 on: Jun 1st, 2008, 11:04am » |
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I wonder when he'll come back to verify these answers...
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #21 on: Jun 1st, 2008, 3:38pm » |
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well i wouldn't cut B in half, but i would cut B at the legs to count the rings.
But the easiest thing to do is if you can't ask B directly then e-mail/msn/text/write to him asking.
Or you can simply if you are reading this then you have failed in arriving at an answer that is confirmed by the creator of this riddle or assumed correct by your own authority and are attempting to get a clue as to the answer or the answer itself, however if this was a clue i would have put clue before the hidden marks. Reading this simply because there is a lot of orange hidden text can only mean one of two things, that you have fallen down on the road of the true riddler, or it simply proves that you are human, succumbing to curiosity. Either way, you must work harder. The other reason why you would be reading this is that you have already given your answer and are looking to see what my answer is, however i have given my answer outside of the hidden tags, therefore there is no reason for having to look inside. I hope this has been a nice look into yourself and why you are so weak (no offense intended to anyone, it's just a joke, mostly), your time is up, we will see you next week, keep in mind that this session may have been recorded for security purposes, but it most likely wasn't. Continuing from the first sentence, Or you can simply [look at the first answer] to figure out B's age.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #22 on: Jun 1st, 2008, 4:53pm » |
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A could ask:
B's parents.
B's sibling(s).
a third person, unknown to both of A and B.
when B did graduate, as most people are about 17-18 when they graduate.
A could get a peak at B's ID.
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #23 on: Jun 1st, 2008, 6:02pm » |
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on Jun 1st, 2008, 3:38pm, Roy wrote:well i wouldn't cut B in half, but i would cut B at the legs to count the rings.
But the easiest thing to do is if you can't ask B directly then e-mail/msn/text/write to him asking.
Or you can simply if you are reading this then you have failed in arriving at an answer that is confirmed by the creator of this riddle or assumed correct by your own authority and are attempting to get a clue as to the answer or the answer itself, however if this was a clue i would have put clue before the hidden marks. Reading this simply because there is a lot of orange hidden text can only mean one of two things, that you have fallen down on the road of the true riddler, or it simply proves that you are human, succumbing to curiosity. Either way, you must work harder. The other reason why you would be reading this is that you have already given your answer and are looking to see what my answer is, however i have given my answer outside of the hidden tags, therefore there is no reason for having to look inside. I hope this has been a nice look into yourself and why you are so weak (no offense intended to anyone, it's just a joke, mostly), your time is up, we will see you next week, keep in mind that this session may have been recorded for security purposes, but it most likely wasn't. Continuing from the first sentence, Or you can simply [look at the first answer] to figure out B's age. |
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Re: How to ask for age?
« Reply #24 on: Jun 1st, 2008, 10:59pm » |
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on May 31st, 2008, 11:51pm, Grimbal wrote:| OK, maybe for young children you can have a good guess given his/her size. |
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I wouldn't count on that. Most people looking at my son guessed his age to be around 5 to 6 years old, yet he's not even 2 and a half.
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