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(Message started by: elheber on Jul 30^th, 2004, 10:33pm)

Title: Rainy day, Sunny day.
Post by elheber on Jul 30^th, 2004, 10:33pm

A humble man lives in the 100th floor of a skyscraper. Every rainy day, he goes down 100 stories in the elevator to go to work, and returns 100 stories when coming back home from work. Strangely, on normal sunny days, he goes down 100 stories to go to work, and when coming back home, he only goes up to floor 85. Why is this?

Title: Re: Rainy day, Sunny day.
Post by BNC on Jul 31^st, 2004, 1:43am

dup (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_whathappened;action=display;num=1063459431;start=10)

I think it's on the board in other places, but I couldn't find them...

Title: Re: Rainy day, Sunny day.
Post by elheber on Jul 31^st, 2004, 1:23pm

Bah! I hadn't found it when i searched this forum.

Title: Re: Rainy day, Sunny day.
Post by Grimbal on Jul 31^st, 2004, 1:39pm

I wonder what is the best thing to do with duplicates.

Of course, it is annoying for long time members to see the same questions again and again. But there might be new members that don't know it. Sending them to the previous thread is the same as saying "I know the answer, it is ...". It kind of spoils the fun and discourages people to contribute. Why not let those who don't know start a new discussion about it?

Title: Re: Rainy day, Sunny day.
Post by towr on Aug 1^st, 2004, 2:13am

on 07/31/04 at 13:39:48, Grimbal wrote:

Why not let those who don't know start a new discussion about it?

For some puzzle that does happen. But the most often repeated riddles don't generally spark much discussion in the first place.
Also it might take rather long for newcomer to appear and respond, in which time the thread will have dropped down a lot. And the search function isn't exactly good, so they'd be more likely to start another new thread about the same thing..