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(Message started by: alien2 on Sep 11^th, 2016, 2:36pm)

Title: Living in America
Post by alien2 on Sep 11^th, 2016, 2:36pm

Tom lives in the U.S. It is midnight in D.C. He is looking at the Sun. What happened? No unmentioned objects have a role in the riddle.

Title: Re: Living in America
Post by pex on Sep 11^th, 2016, 6:14pm

- [hide]Alternative meanings of "U.S." and/or "D.C."[/hide]
- [hide]Alternative meanings of "the Sun", such as the tabloid[/hide]
- Even without any of the above trickery, [hide]the US includes several territories that are sufficiently many time zones away from DC; see [/hide][hide]this link[/hide] (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/US_insular_areas_SVG.svg)

Title: Re: Living in America
Post by towr on Sep 11^th, 2016, 10:18pm

[hide]He could be in Hawaii (6 hours behind), or Alaska (4 hours behind, and in summer the sun never sets in part of it.)[/hide]

Title: Re: Living in America
Post by pex on Sep 11^th, 2016, 10:39pm

Or Tom usually lives in the US, but is currently enjoying a vacation in Thailand.

Title: Re: Living in America
Post by alien2 on Sep 12^th, 2016, 2:21am

Towr and pex are right. But since there are no points for 2nd place in this cruel world credit goes to towr.

Title: Re: Living in America
Post by Grimbal on Sep 22^nd, 2016, 10:03am

Watching TV?
Looking at a photo?

Title: Re: Living in America
Post by alien2 on Sep 22^nd, 2016, 10:54am

A simple answer. Perhaps too simple.