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(Message started by: Iceman on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:55am)
Title: Women’s intuition
Post by Iceman on Apr 1st, 2008, 9:55am

Nicole and Dean are the married couple, living in their secluded house. For a reason unimportant for the riddle, before going to shop downtown, she forbids him to enter the living room. When she returns, she goes straight to the above room. All the furniture, which represents all of the objects there, was just like when she left. Also, there were no additional objects, but she knew that he visited the living room. How? Mind you, scent or smoke have no role in this riddle.
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Azgard on Apr 1st, 2008, 10:44am
[hide]Nicole had vacuumed the floor before she left and she could see Dean's footprints in the carpet. [/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Iceman on Apr 1st, 2008, 11:50am
Good try, but I think it’s real hard to perceive footprints like that. And the way I worded the riddle, it excludes it as a plausible answer.

Regardless, perhaps there is a particular cleaning technique she used, and so your answer is valid for a similar riddle. Until then, no such luck. Later Azgard.
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Iceman on Apr 1st, 2008, 11:55am
Btw, nothing unusual happened, like Nicole hiding the camera or something.
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by ima1trkpny on Apr 1st, 2008, 12:21pm
Actually Icey, it's pretty easy to see footprints in freshly vacuumed carpet... :P
But maybe she [hide]did like 007 and when she shut the door to the room she took a hair from her head, licked it, and placed it across the door and door jamb to be able to see if the door was opened.[/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by SMQ on Apr 1st, 2008, 12:41pm
[pedantic]  Just FYI, it's "door jamb", like bomb or plumb (meaning vertical, not the fruit, obviously)  [/pedantic]

--SMQ
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Azgard on Apr 1st, 2008, 12:53pm
[hide]Nicole had left the lights on, and when she came back, the lights were off (or versa visa)[/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by ima1trkpny on Apr 1st, 2008, 1:09pm

on 04/01/08 at 12:41:13, SMQ wrote:
Just FYI, it's "door jamb"

Thanks SMQ, I'm aware. Me once again not rereading what I type and missing a typo. :-[
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Iceman on Apr 1st, 2008, 3:18pm

on 04/01/08 at 12:21:10, ima1trkpny wrote:
Actually Icey, it's pretty easy to see footprints in freshly vacuumed carpet...

Not on my carpet, but I’ll take your word for it.


on 04/01/08 at 12:21:10, ima1trkpny wrote:
But maybe she [hide]did like 007 and when she shut the door to the room she took a hair from her head, licked it, and placed it across the door and door jamb to be able to see if the door was opened.[/hide]

This is a real good idea, but I sort of excluded hair too in the riddle.



on 04/01/08 at 12:53:13, Azgard wrote:
[hide]Nicole had left the lights on, and when she came back, the lights were off (or versa visa)[/hide]

Another good idea, but the room was exactly like when she left, to the detail, so no.
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by ima1trkpny on Apr 1st, 2008, 5:36pm
Ok... how 'bout [hide]she had cleaned everything (including the door knob) and so when she got back she noticed there were fingerprints on the handle[/hide]?
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Azgard on Apr 1st, 2008, 5:48pm
Try this on for size: [hide]she had laid something down on the floor outside the entrance to the living room and noticed that it had been disturbed[/hide].
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by JiNbOtAk on Apr 1st, 2008, 6:07pm
Dean admitted to Nicole without being asked that he went to the living room.


The house has only one room, and since it's raining, but Dean is not wet, it's obvious that he's been into the house/room.
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by iono on Apr 1st, 2008, 6:37pm
Their house is secluded, but is there anyone living with them?

Do they have pets?
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Azgard on Apr 1st, 2008, 6:43pm
[hide]Maybe she just knows her husband well enough to know that if she told him not to do something, it guaranteed his doing it.[/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by gotit on Apr 2nd, 2008, 2:24am
Was there a TV in the living room? [hide]She entered the room, switched on the TV and found that the channel had been changed since she last switched it off.[/hide]

OR

[hide]When she left the room, she had switched off the bulb. When she came back and touched the bulb, it was hot, thus revealing that someone had switched it on.[/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Grimbal on Apr 2nd, 2008, 3:48am
Or the obvious.
[hide]Dean still was in the living room.[/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by gotit on Apr 2nd, 2008, 4:01am
Or
[hide]It was merely Nicole's intuition, as the title of the riddle says.[/hide] ;)
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Iceman on Apr 2nd, 2008, 5:16am

on 04/01/08 at 17:36:08, ima1trkpny wrote:
Ok... how 'bout [hide]she had cleaned everything (including the door knob) and so when she got back she noticed there were fingerprints on the handle[/hide]?

No fingerprints either.



on 04/01/08 at 17:48:53, Azgard wrote:
Try this on for size: [hide]she had laid something down on the floor outside the entrance to the living room and noticed that it had been disturbed[/hide].

This is a fine answer. I’m inclined to accept it as an alternative.  8)



on 04/01/08 at 18:07:13, JiNbOtAk wrote:
Dean admitted to Nicole without being asked that he went to the living room.

Nope. She went straight to the living room.



on 04/01/08 at 18:37:35, iono wrote:
Their house is secluded, but is there anyone living with them?

Do they have pets?

No. It’s just the two of them.



on 04/01/08 at 18:43:31, Azgard wrote:
[hide]Maybe she just knows her husband well enough to know that if she told him not to do something, it guaranteed his doing it.[/hide]

Nope.




on 04/02/08 at 02:24:56, gotit wrote:
Was there a TV in the living room?

No.


on 04/02/08 at 02:24:56, gotit wrote:
[hide]When she left the room, she had switched off the bulb. When she came back and touched the bulb, it was hot, thus revealing that someone had switched it on.[/hide]

It’s not the intended answer, but it sure isn’t bad. 8)



on 04/02/08 at 03:48:07, Grimbal wrote:
Or the obvious.
[hide]Dean still was in the living room.[/hide]

Another real good idea, but the way riddle is worded, it sort of excludes it, doesn’t it?


on 04/02/08 at 04:01:52, gotit wrote:
Or
[hide]It was merely Nicole's intuition, as the title of the riddle says.[/hide] ;)

Nah.



Well, the intended solution is still out there, even though you might be somewhat disappointed with it.
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by gotit on Apr 2nd, 2008, 5:23am
[hide]When Nicole returned, Dean was not at home. And the only way of leaving the house was through the living room.[/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Iceman on Apr 2nd, 2008, 5:29am
Not bad, but she went straight to the living room.  
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by gotit on Apr 2nd, 2008, 5:56am
Some more thoughts.
[hide]May be one of the furnitures was warmer than the others, indicating that someone had sat on it.[/hide]

OR

[hide]You said that the living room was exactly the same. But may be the living room led to some other room which had changed since Nicole last saw it.[/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Grimbal on Apr 2nd, 2008, 6:44am
In town she was told the daylight saving time is over and the clocks needs to be adjusted back.  Going back to the living room, she goes straight to the big clock in the living room to adjust it.  But she sees it shows exactly the same time as it did one hour ago, when she left it.  Someone has adjusted the clock.

Or she called her husband.  He picked up the phone and she said: "I wanted to buy some ice cream, and wanted to ask you what flavor you want.  But since obviously you went in the living room, I won't buy you any.  You see, the phone is in the living room.

Or it is winter and the living room is the only heated room.  Since Dean didn't have the bluish color of someone who is freezing to death, he must have entered the living room.
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by gotit on Apr 2nd, 2008, 7:42am
As Nicole was nearing her home, she met her friend Angelina leaving it. When asked, Angelina said that she had just come to see her. But a woman's intuition did not allow Nicole to believe that. She went straight to the living room,where the phone was kept and checked the dialled numbers list. And Angelina's name was  the first in it.
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by denis on Apr 2nd, 2008, 8:11am
[coming back from break]

[hide]room temperature means two different thing for Dean and Nicole. Dean opened the window while in the living and closed it before he left, but room was still cold when Nicole went in[/hide]

[/going back to break]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by ima1trkpny on Apr 2nd, 2008, 8:15am
Or [hide]Nicole was a slack house keeper and there was a layer of dust on everything in the living room. So when Dean went in the room he couldn't help but leave traces.[/hide]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by lopsidation on Apr 2nd, 2008, 1:16pm
[hideb]She left just after getting up from the computer. When she came back, the screensaver hadn't turned on, which means Dean was on the computer while she was gone, and the computer is in the living room.[/hideb]
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Iceman on Apr 2nd, 2008, 4:51pm

on 04/02/08 at 05:56:07, gotit wrote:
Some more thoughts.
[hide]May be one of the furnitures was warmer than the others, indicating that someone had sat on it.[/hide]

Not bad at all. In fact, your idea is real close to the intended answer.  





on 04/02/08 at 08:11:50, denis wrote:
[coming back from break]

Welcome back.




on 04/02/08 at 08:11:50, denis wrote:
[hide]room temperature means two different thing for Dean and Nicole. Dean opened the window while in the living and closed it before he left, but room was still cold when Nicole went in[/hide]

You got it. It was [hide]winter[/hide].

Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by iono on Apr 2nd, 2008, 8:38pm
The burglar alarm had went off because someone opened a ddor in the house, and Dean was in the bedroom with the door closed when Nicole left?
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by Grimbal on Apr 3rd, 2008, 12:41am
Other possibilities:
Nicole went downtown to buy infrared goggles.

or

Dean is now on his computer, editing a video of his living room.

or

Santa Claus was suppose to come through the chimney and deliver presents.  But there is no present.  Either Dean stole the presents (btw he is now playing with a RC helicopter) or his presence in the living room scared Santa away (damn! she told him not to enter the living room.).
Title: Re: Women’s intuition
Post by ezlonny on Apr 6th, 2008, 4:17pm
[hideb]he left the door wide open[/hideb]


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