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(Message started by: wonderful on May 27th, 2008, 4:06pm)
Title: How to ask for age?
Post by wonderful on May 27th, 2008, 4:06pm
A is interested in B and would like to know how old B is.   A couldn't do the following:
1. Ask B directly.
2. Ask directly B's friends.
3. Search for relevant record that might have information on B's age.

How can A know B's age?

Have A Great Day!
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by cheesepuff on May 27th, 2008, 4:55pm
Ask for a [hide]birthday party invite[/hide]. You'll find out there
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by iono on May 27th, 2008, 10:03pm
have someone else search.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Jigsaw on May 27th, 2008, 10:22pm
Do something like a [hide]binary search[/hide].
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by SMQ on May 28th, 2008, 5:06am
Well, the classic grade-school maneuver is for [hide]A to ask his friend to ask B's friend whether B likes him how old B is[/hide]. ;)

--SMQ
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by towr on May 28th, 2008, 5:14am
[hide]A could ask B (or one of B's friends) for the square of B's age; that way A can avoid directly asking the age, yet still find out.[/hide]
Or
[hide]A can ask for the difference between A and B's age.[/hide]
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Iceman on May 28th, 2008, 8:56am
A kills B and then he finds out how old he was in obituary.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by towr on May 28th, 2008, 9:04am

on 05/28/08 at 08:56:57, Iceman wrote:
A kills B and then he finds out how old he was in obituary.
Wouldn't the obituary become a relevant record, as disallowed under 3)?
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by denis on May 28th, 2008, 9:41am
Ask B's parents or siblings.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by black_death on May 28th, 2008, 10:55am
Keep lurking behind B .... someday he/she will celebrate the birthday party  :P
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by cheesepuff on May 28th, 2008, 6:33pm
ask someone who hates B. Doesn't count as a friend
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on May 28th, 2008, 6:41pm

on 05/27/08 at 16:06:37, wonderful wrote:
How can A know B's age?

[hide]Cut him in half and count his rings.[/hide]
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by iono on May 28th, 2008, 7:02pm
lol ;D
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by ThudanBlunder on May 28th, 2008, 7:28pm

on 05/27/08 at 16:06:37, wonderful wrote:
A couldn't do the following:
1. Ask B directly.

Then obviously A asked her beau B: "If Mary was three years older than I will be when you are three times as old as Mary was six years before the time when you were half as old as I will be when Mary will be ten years older than Mary was when you were one-third as old as I will be when Mary will be three times as old as she was when you were born..........then how long have I been 29??"

LOL
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by JiNbOtAk on May 30th, 2008, 2:07am
A: Hey B, I'm interested in you.
B: That's..cool.
A: I'm <A's age> years old, by the way.
B: Oh, I'm <B's age> years old. So, wanna go see a movie or something ?
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Grimbal on May 31st, 2008, 1:38am
If you can't ask for his age, ask for his birthdate.

Or can't you ask anything?
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Sir Col on May 31st, 2008, 6:11am
My understanding of this riddle is that "ask directly" means you cannot "talk, say, or communicate anything directly" to B (i) or any of B's friends (ii); and within the spirit of the riddle I guess that would include family and anyone else who knows B personally enough to know their age.

So because Whiskey Tango Foxtrot's suggestion of killing them to "count the rings" is perhaps a little extreme...

Sedate B and perform a posteroanterior (chest) x-ray and an orthopantomogram (panoramic digital x-ray of the mouth). Using these images you carefully analyse certain anatomical characteristics. For example, the maturation and fusion of the proximal epiphysis of the clavicle and the greater cornua of the hyoid bone, and the general quality of the costal cartilage of the first rib.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by ima1trkpny on May 31st, 2008, 12:55pm
The riddle just says you can't "search" for a relevant document... doesn't mean you can't ask to see their driver's license or other form of official identification.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Grimbal on May 31st, 2008, 11:51pm
"Search for relevant record that might have information on B's age. "
Wouldn't everything that reveals B's age fall under that category?  One's age depends on the birth date and that is a record.  If someone was adopted and never knew his birth date, there is no way to find out.

OK, maybe for young children you can have a good guess given his/her size.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by denis on Jun 1st, 2008, 9:58am
If this were a Iceman riddle, I would suppose that B has a twin brother or sister C
A then asks C how old C is thus getting B's age.

But this not being an Iceman riddle...probably not the intended.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by cheesepuff on Jun 1st, 2008, 11:04am
I wonder when he'll come back to  verify these answers...
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Roy on Jun 1st, 2008, 3:38pm
well i wouldn't cut B in half, but i would cut B at the legs to count the rings.

But the easiest thing to do is if you can't ask B directly then e-mail/msn/text/write to him asking.

Or you can simply [hide]if you are reading this then you have failed in arriving at an answer that is confirmed by the creator of this riddle or assumed correct by your own authority and are attempting to get a clue as to the answer or the answer itself, however if this was a clue i would have put clue before the hidden marks. Reading this simply because there is a lot of orange hidden text can only mean one of two things, that you have fallen down on the road of the true riddler, or it simply proves that you are human, succumbing to curiosity. Either way, you must work harder. The other reason why you would be reading this is that you have already given your answer and are looking to see what my answer is, however i have given my answer outside of the hidden tags, therefore there is no reason for having to look inside. I hope this has been a nice look into yourself and why you are so weak (no offense intended to anyone, it's just a joke, mostly), your time is up, we will see you next week, keep in mind that this session may have been recorded for security purposes, but it most likely wasn't. Continuing from the first sentence, Or you can simply [look at the first answer][/hide] to figure out B's age.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by BenVitale on Jun 1st, 2008, 4:53pm
A could ask:

B's parents.
B's sibling(s).
a third person, unknown to both of A and B.
when B did graduate, as most people are about 17-18 when they graduate.

A could get a peak at B's ID.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by cheesepuff on Jun 1st, 2008, 6:02pm

on 06/01/08 at 15:38:50, Roy wrote:
well i wouldn't cut B in half, but i would cut B at the legs to count the rings.

But the easiest thing to do is if you can't ask B directly then e-mail/msn/text/write to him asking.

Or you can simply [hide]if you are reading this then you have failed in arriving at an answer that is confirmed by the creator of this riddle or assumed correct by your own authority and are attempting to get a clue as to the answer or the answer itself, however if this was a clue i would have put clue before the hidden marks. Reading this simply because there is a lot of orange hidden text can only mean one of two things, that you have fallen down on the road of the true riddler, or it simply proves that you are human, succumbing to curiosity. Either way, you must work harder. The other reason why you would be reading this is that you have already given your answer and are looking to see what my answer is, however i have given my answer outside of the hidden tags, therefore there is no reason for having to look inside. I hope this has been a nice look into yourself and why you are so weak (no offense intended to anyone, it's just a joke, mostly), your time is up, we will see you next week, keep in mind that this session may have been recorded for security purposes, but it most likely wasn't. Continuing from the first sentence, Or you can simply [look at the first answer][/hide] to figure out B's age.


I like his hidden answer
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jun 1st, 2008, 10:59pm

on 05/31/08 at 23:51:23, Grimbal wrote:
OK, maybe for young children you can have a good guess given his/her size.


I wouldn't count on that. Most people looking at my son guessed his age to be around 5 to 6 years old, yet he's not even 2 and a half.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by ThudanBlunder on Jun 2nd, 2008, 1:52am

on 06/01/08 at 18:02:25, cheesepuff wrote:
I like his hidden answer

Why, what does it say?   :P
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by mikedagr8 on Jun 2nd, 2008, 2:17am

on 06/01/08 at 22:59:56, JiNbOtAk wrote:
I wouldn't count on that. Most people looking at my son guessed his age to be around 5 to 6 years old, yet he's not even 2 and a half.

Pumped with steroids I see. Clever. ;D
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by JiNbOtAk on Jun 2nd, 2008, 2:50am

on 06/02/08 at 02:17:34, mikedagr8 wrote:
Pumped with steroids I see. Clever. ;D


Nope, calcium work just fine. ( I considered steroids, but decided it's too early.  ::) )
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Wardub on Jun 2nd, 2008, 4:53am
Ask his twin.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Roy on Jun 2nd, 2008, 5:05am

on 06/02/08 at 01:52:58, ThudanBlunder wrote:
Why, what does it say?   :P


That's what will keep you up at night, isn't it.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Grimbal on Jun 2nd, 2008, 5:45am

on 06/02/08 at 01:52:58, ThudanBlunder wrote:
Why, what does it say?   :P

If you need to ask this then you have failed in arriving at an answer and need to have hidden clues or even the plain answer revealed to you.
You are a bit of a disappointment, ThudanBlunder.  :P
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by ssa on Jun 2nd, 2008, 7:56am

on 06/01/08 at 18:02:25, cheesepuff wrote:
I like his hidden answer


I don't. Humans have every right to be curios and most people will react by reading the hidden text. The reason often isn't you can't thinking of an another answer. And I don't like him almost directly telling us that we are dumb because we wanted to read a text, and then telling us that it was a joke.

If it is a joke than please don't make an offensive one, especially if it is about a nice group we are here.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Jigsaw on Jun 2nd, 2008, 9:44am

on 06/02/08 at 07:56:55, ssa wrote:
I don't. Humans have every right to be curios and most people will react by reading the hidden text. The reason often isn't you can't thinking of an another answer. And I don't like him almost directly telling us that we are dumb because we wanted to read a text, and then telling us that it was a joke.

If it is a joke than please don't make an offensive one, especially if it is about a nice group we are here.

Chillout dude.  8)  Everything (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Everything) was said in good humor (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Humor).
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by ssa on Jun 2nd, 2008, 1:04pm
whatever, we should continue guessing.

And where is wonderful anyway?
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by wonderful on Jun 2nd, 2008, 1:54pm
Thanks everyone for very interesting discussion. I saw this question in another riddle forum in which people are also discussing. The "seemingly" intended answer has been discussed by some of us here. It is either "Asking the twin" or " Asking a series of indirect questions e.g., solving unknown B's age given B's age ^2 + A's age^3 = 125 " or do some magic number trick e.t.c.

In summary, this question may be open-ended with many feasible solutions.

Have A Great Day!
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Roy on Jun 2nd, 2008, 6:06pm

on 06/02/08 at 05:45:06, Grimbal wrote:
If you need to ask this then you have failed in arriving at an answer and need to have hidden clues or even the plain answer revealed to you.
You are a bit of a disappointment, ThudanBlunder.  :P


on 06/02/08 at 09:44:15, Jigsaw wrote:
Chillout dude.  8)  Everything (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Everything) was said in good humor (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Humor).


Which i did say that it was mostly a joke, plus i didn't say there was anything wrong with being human, i just said it proves that you are human. I'm human and i'm not complaining, although i would like to be a time lord.
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by cheesepuff on Jun 2nd, 2008, 8:11pm
Well I mainly mean the agreeing with me part, seeing as he agreed with the first answer, which was mine. and I assumed he was joking

And so I guess we're all correct then
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by ThudanBlunder on Jun 3rd, 2008, 8:32am

on 06/02/08 at 18:06:28, Roy wrote:
i just said it proves that you are human. I'm human and i'm not complaining, although i would like to be a time lord.

I think that's the problem. He thought he was a Time Lord.  

LOL
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Roy on Jun 3rd, 2008, 3:09pm
Why did I completely see that one coming? ::)
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by Sir Col on Jun 23rd, 2008, 11:35am

on 05/31/08 at 06:11:02, Sir Col wrote:
Sedate B and perform a posteroanterior (chest) x-ray and an orthopantomogram (panoramic digital x-ray of the mouth). Using these images you carefully analyse certain anatomical characteristics. For example, the maturation and fusion of the proximal epiphysis of the clavicle and the greater cornua of the hyoid bone, and the general quality of the costal cartilage of the first rib.


*feels like Patrick Swayze's character in "Ghost"*
Title: Re: How to ask for age?
Post by towr on Jun 23rd, 2008, 11:42am

on 06/23/08 at 11:35:13, Sir Col wrote:
*feels like Patrick Swayze's character in "Ghost"*
*calls ghostbusters; just in case*


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