Only For Geniuses

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:25 pm

I'll have a go......... my guesses are........ the lake is 50 m in diameter, and the river flows 0.1 km per minute or 5.99 km/per hour. But they are guesses, I've forgotten all my math and physics.

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:32 pm

well, robbie, i don't think you forgot your math or physics at all

(either that or we are both completely totally out to lunch.....

)

Post by **poultry_admin** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:33 pm

Robbie knows math!

Post by **poultry_admin** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:38 pm

Enough of those math questions for a while.....

How about another picture one?

Cut the attached picture along the dashed lines into 3 pcs (2 horses and 1 with two riders). Then arrange them such that they make 2 complete horses and riders. You are not allowed to cut any further, fold, twist, or otherwise mangle the pictures.

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 6:56 pm

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 6:58 pm

poultry_admin wrote:QR_BBPOST Enough of those math questions for a while.....

How about another picture one?

Cut the attached picture along the dashed lines into 3 pcs (2 horses and 1 with two riders). Then arrange them such that they make 2 complete horses and riders. You are not allowed to cut any further, fold, twist, or otherwise mangle the pictures.

I got it! LOL but not before I was going to ask if you could use tracing paper and flip the pictures over !!!

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:10 pm

Wait!...lol...if the lake is perfectly round and you start at the exact northwest corner and swim east for 30 meters then south for 40 you are tempting pythagoras but how does that make the 50 meter side go thru the center of the circle..does the hypotenus (sp) always go thru the center of a circumscribed circle on a right angled triangle?

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:52 pm

WLLady wrote:QR_BBPOST it was a HINT.....if i'd said all the spots you can colour in inside a number would you have had to think at all???? didn't anyone else ever sit in church as a kid and colour in all the openings in the letters in the service program?

No, actually I'd count the people in the church and the lights in the chandelier/lamps (125). The church is a half circle shape so aisles are uneven making it challenging. Or I was an alterboy. (Many jokes come to mind about priests and alterboys, but i don't want to get tossed out of here...)

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:00 pm

But starting at northwest is exactly half way between west and north and thenhe turns 90 degrees so pythagoreus applies....

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:02 pm

poultry_admin wrote:QR_BBPOST Another one to warm up....

Two runners are competing against each other. They are both equally fast walking and equally fast running. But they differ in their race strategy.
The first runner walks the first halve of the distance, then runs the second halve.
The second runner walks the first halve of the race time, then runs the second halve.

Who gets to be the first one at the finish line?

The first runner is first at the finish line. They both arrive at the line at the same time, but the "first" runner (lets name him First, is still named First at the end).