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(Message started by: Jeffo on Dec 21^st, 2008, 12:25pm)

Title: River crossing variant and word puzzle
Post by Jeffo on Dec 21^st, 2008, 12:25pm

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!!!!

Title: Re: Help with 2 riddles
Post by Grimbal on Dec 21^st, 2008, 12:59pm

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.

Title: Re: Help with 2 riddles
Post by towr on Dec 21^st, 2008, 1:03pm

http://www.spds.co.uk/Quiz%202008.pdf ?

on 12/21/08 at 12:25:27, Jeffo wrote:

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]

Title: Re: Help with 2 riddles
Post by Jeffo on Dec 21^st, 2008, 1:15pm

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.

Title: Re: Help with 2 riddles
Post by JohanC on Dec 22^nd, 2008, 1:11am

on 12/21/08 at 12:25:27, 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!!!!

[hide]THR33[/hide] and [hide]SE7EN[/hide]

Title: Re: Help with 2 riddles
Post by Grimbal on Dec 22^nd, 2008, 8:08am

Maybe [hide]mailbox[/hide]?

Title: Re: Help with 2 riddles
Post by JohanC on Dec 22^nd, 2008, 9:37am

Or maybe [hide]aitch, as mentioned on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitch or www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aitch [/hide].

Title: Re: Help with 2 riddles
Post by Roy on Dec 22^nd, 2008, 9:28pm

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.

Title: Re: Help with 2 riddles
Post by towr on Dec 23^rd, 2008, 1:26am

on 12/22/08 at 21:28:07, 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.

It has come up before, as question 8 here (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1166653169), 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).