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(Message started by: Iceman on Nov 7^th, 2007, 8:28am)

Title: Bronco
Post by Iceman on Nov 7^th, 2007, 8:28am

It is Wild West, and Bronco is strolling downtown, when a bounty hunter Blondie asks him whether he knows where he could find Billy Bronson, who is wanted dead or alive. Bronco looks around, and since there is nobody else nearby, he says where he is. Blondie tosses him a coin, and Bronco turns the other way, and starts walking away. But then he stops, and proposes a bet to Blondie, worth five more coins. He says that he would toss the coin in the air, and then shoot at it, making hole in the middle. Blondie agrees, and soon he loses five coins, even though Bronco is not very precise with pistols. How then?

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by Grimbal on Nov 7^th, 2007, 9:13am

[hide]He tosses the coin, let it fall on the ground, aims carefully with both hands (pulling out the tongue sideways) and shoots.[/hide] ;D

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by denis on Nov 7^th, 2007, 9:16am

[hide]Bronco ties the coin to the end of the pistol barrel very tightly. He then releases the pistol safety hatch. Finaly he throws the gun/coin high up in the air so that when it lands, it discharges[/hide]

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by Iceman on Nov 7^th, 2007, 9:51am

No to both. So no tying and he fired his pistol once when the coin was in the air, that is, a few meters above his head. ;)

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by SMQ on Nov 7^th, 2007, 10:05am

Does the wink mean that the coin [hide]landed in or on or stuck to something[/hide] above Bronco's head?

--SMQ

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by Ghost Sniper on Nov 7^th, 2007, 10:11am

There is always that moment of 0 kinetic energy, in which, if Bronco is fast enough, can shoot it without having to aim at a moving object.

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by Iceman on Nov 7^th, 2007, 10:59am

No to both.

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by denis on Nov 7^th, 2007, 11:58am

This is the Wild West so Bronco, instead of shooting the coin, shoots Blondie and steals the five coins from him.

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by Iceman on Nov 7^th, 2007, 3:43pm

Nope.

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by Grimbal on Nov 8^th, 2007, 1:47am

It wouldn't count if [hide]there is already a hole in the coin before he tosses it[/hide]. Would it?

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by gotit on Nov 8^th, 2007, 1:47am

[hide]It was Bronco who lost the bet but he did not have change. So he gave Blondie an amount of 10 and Blondie returned him five coins. Thus Blondie lost five coins but gained an amount of 10.[/hide]

Title: Re: Bronco
Post by Iceman on Nov 8^th, 2007, 6:03am

on 11/08/07 at 01:47:36, Grimbal wrote:

It wouldn't count if there is already a hole in the coin before he tosses it. Would it?

It would. Yep, you got it Grimbal: he switched the coins, quickly. Heh, I guess he is quick with his hands after all. ::)