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(Message started by: alien on Dec 20^th, 2005, 5:52am)

Title: Mona Lisa
Post by alien on Dec 20^th, 2005, 5:52am

John asks Mark again to lend him $1000. Mark, although sick to his stomach, decides to lend him the money again because he is his friend and all, but only if he answers correctly to the riddle bellow...

How would you put the poster of Mona Lisa on the wall using adhesive tape so that there is no wall without the above poster in the room?

Title: Re: Mona Lisa
Post by Grimbal on Dec 20^th, 2005, 6:07am

[hide] The walls are not in the room, they are around it! [/hide]

Title: Re: Mona Lisa
Post by towr on Dec 20^th, 2005, 6:07am

[hide]put it on the outside wall[/hide]

Title: Re: Mona Lisa
Post by alien on Dec 21^st, 2005, 1:16am

I must admit that I don't understand at all what both of you are trying to say, but let me just say that the riddle states that you should try to accomplish this inside of the room. :P

Title: Re: Mona Lisa
Post by JohanC on Dec 21^st, 2005, 2:48am

Just tear the poster apart and tape the parts everywhere?

Title: Re: Mona Lisa
Post by ChunkTug on Dec 21^st, 2005, 3:09am

Is it a [hide]circular room[/hide]?

Title: Re: Mona Lisa
Post by Grimbal on Dec 21^st, 2005, 5:00am

on 12/21/05 at 01:16:00, alien wrote:

I must admit that I don't understand at all what both of you are trying to say, but let me just say that the riddle states that you should try to accomplish this inside of the room. :P

I was saying that since the room is delimited by the walls, the walls are not really inside the room, but around. So there is no wall to consider.

Another possibility is to consider that there is a single wall going all around the room. So put it anywhere.

Title: Re: Mona Lisa
Post by alien on Dec 21^st, 2005, 11:08am

on 12/21/05 at 03:09:45, ChunkTug wrote:

Is it a [hide]circular room[/hide]?

on 12/21/05 at 05:00:21, Grimbal wrote:

Another possibility is to consider that there is a single wall going all around the room. So put it anywhere.

Yes, that is the intended answer.

on 12/21/05 at 05:00:21, Grimbal wrote:

I was saying that since the room is delimited by the walls, the walls are not really inside the room, but around. So there is no wall to consider.

Generally speaking, inner part of the walls is always within the room. ;)

ChunkTug: stop solving my riddles! I'm not kidding. :P