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(Message started by: flamingdragon on Nov 27th, 2006, 6:34pm)
Title: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 27th, 2006, 6:34pm
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?
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Nov 27th, 2006, 8:14pm
Simple, [hide]they walked.[/hide]  Iceman and Icecalibur might demonstrate for you.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Icarus on Nov 27th, 2006, 8:24pm
Or maybe they rode that tractor. ;)
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 27th, 2006, 9:11pm
lol, it took them like 2 weeks at the last forum I posted it on.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Nov 27th, 2006, 9:16pm
Two weeks?  Really?   :o
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 27th, 2006, 9:16pm
Yep
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 27th, 2006, 10:39pm
After a while I gave them the hint [hide]they were wearing sweaters [/hide] and  I got the answer:

[hideb]
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.
[/hideb]

LMAO
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by towr on Nov 27th, 2006, 11:50pm
Another option might have been a tunnel.
Or possibly even hanggliding or paragliding, although perhaps not for kids.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Sameer on Nov 28th, 2006, 10:01am

on 11/27/06 at 21:11:38, flamingdragon wrote:
lol, it took them like 2 weeks at the last forum I posted it on.


Here you will also find other answers that even you didn't think of!!
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 28th, 2006, 12:23pm
Stand aside because this riddle is about [hide]ice[/hide]: [hide]Maverick got it. [/hide]Another possibility is, that they [hide]keep looking for another place to cross[/hide].  8)
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by towr on Nov 28th, 2006, 1:01pm
And of course, someone else might have a boat, or there might even be a ferry.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by cchris on Nov 28th, 2006, 1:50pm
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...
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 28th, 2006, 4:39pm
They l[hide]ook 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[/hide].  8)
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 28th, 2006, 4:40pm
lol
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 28th, 2006, 5:05pm
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.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Grimbal on Nov 29th, 2006, 9:57am

on 11/27/06 at 18:34:23, 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.
How did they cross the river?

They took a year to learn how to swim.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by cchris on Nov 29th, 2006, 12:11pm
Wait til the river's dry.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 29th, 2006, 12:23pm
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.  
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 29th, 2006, 12:26pm
Maybe they cannot swim, but they dared to float because they are fat.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 29th, 2006, 12:29pm
Or maybe they are ants, so they cross it on a leaf.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 29th, 2006, 12:34pm
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.  
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 29th, 2006, 12:45pm
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.  8)
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 29th, 2006, 12:52pm

on 11/29/06 at 12:11:35, cchris wrote:
Wait til the river's dry.

Or a dam was just built, so soon they cross over, no problem.     8)  
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 29th, 2006, 1:09pm
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.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Noke Lieu on Nov 29th, 2006, 3:59pm
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.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 29th, 2006, 4:22pm
Someone else could come along with the material.  ::)
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Nov 29th, 2006, 8:36pm
Another idea: they can't swim, but they can dive.

Or there was a small submarine in the river. The riddle states that there are no boats, but it doesn't say anything about submarines.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 29th, 2006, 9:11pm
It didn't say anything about flying burning sharks either.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Nov 29th, 2006, 9:19pm
Oh yeah!  How could I have missed that one?  Obviously the flying burning sharks responded to the call from their Captain Planet rings (I would guess Heart had something to do with it) and melted the river for them.  Then, since they had cooled off, the sharks carried them to the other side.

Captain Planet he's our hero.  Gonna take pollution down to zero.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 29th, 2006, 9:21pm
DUH  ::)

In case ur wondering where I got that from:

http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam.htm
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Noke Lieu on Nov 29th, 2006, 9:44pm
actually, as far as I remember, Submarines are a subset of boats.
Title: Re: River Crossing
Post by Iceman on Dec 1st, 2006, 10:47am

on 11/29/06 at 21:44:23, Noke Lieu wrote:
actually, as far as I remember, Submarines are a subset of boats.

You have serious attitude problems, Noke. I could recommend a good psychiatrist, who wont rip you off. She is Miss Universe.


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