[quote name='DSTM' post='423008' date='Jan 2 2007, 12:38 AM']
Heres one.

A large truck is crossing a bridge 1 mile long. The bridge can only hold 14000 lbs, which is the exact weight of the truck. The truck makes it half way across the bridge and stops. A bird lands on the truck. Does the bridge collapse? Give a reason.
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I would say it collapses because the bridge as a whole can hold 14000lbs, and stopping would concentrate the weight all in one area. Add on the bird and I think it would collapse.
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Good try tink536 but No.

Alright, that's enough logic for me!

Hmm. Without knowing the length of the truck or the length of the bridge here is an idea:

The length of the bridge is less than twice the length of the truck; therefore, when the front end of the truck is halfway across, the back end of the truck has not yet gotten on the bridge, so when the bird lands on the truck the bridge doesn't collapse because a good portion of the weight is still on the ground before the bridge begins.

Orange Blossom

Hi Orange Blossom,
The truck is in the middle of the bridge which is 1 mile long.The truck is average length,so no part of the truck is on land.

Gah! Somehow I didn't see that one mile long part. and I haven't yet seen a truck half-a-mile long or more.

How's this? The truck has a load of canaries. Just before the bird - a hawk - lands on the truck, the canaries try to fly away. Because they are flying in the truck, their weight is reduced from the total decreasing the total weight of the truck; thus, the bridge doesn't collapse.

Orange Blossom

That is a clever answer.I would have never thought of that.

The answer I got was being a large truck,the truck used more fuel travelling the half mile than the weight of the bird,so the bridge did not collapse.

You have three boxes of fruit. One contains just apples, one contains just oranges, and one contains a mixture of both. Each box is labeled -- one says "apples," one says "oranges," and one says "apples and oranges." However, it is known that none of the boxes are labeled correctly. How can you label the boxes correctly if you are only allowed to take and look at just one piece of fruit from just one of the boxes?

Clever answer indeed Orange Blossom!
The actual answer is just as clever though! I wasn't thinking anything about the fuel!

My guess is no it won't collapse. Reason the weight limit stated is short of the actual collapse weight as required by 'code'

You are dead right boopme if in fact this was reality.The adviseable limits whether its weight,pressure vessels,anything always is far short of the actual tested limits.

I'm not sure I would have thought of the fuel level answer I can't take full credit for the canary answer though, I simply remembered a story my dad told and applied it to the brain-teaser. The story was about a truck-driver who kept getting out of the truck to bang on the side of the truck.
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I'm working on a solution to fozzie's brain-teaser.

How's this? Pick a piece of fruit from the box that says "Apples and oranges". Because we know it's labeled wrong, we'll then know that whatever fruit comes out of the box, that box will be entirely that item.

So - let's say the box labeled as the mix produces an orange. Remove the label from the box that says oranges and place it on the box you just pulled the orange from.

Okay, now the box that says apples can only be the mixed fruit box because we've already identified the oranges box. The box that did say oranges is then the apple box.

Orange Blossom

It says you can take and look at just one piece of fruit, but can you not just look into the box itself?

Nope..

I've already decided not to touch this one. Too much thinking before bedtime is not a good thing!

DSTM solved it Next

Not too difficult.

With pointed fangs it sits in wait,
With piercing force its doles out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?

Stapler

Right this time tink536

That was a cute one!

A mysterious death is being investigated by two police officers.

They arrive at the crime scene, which was a room with no windows. The dead man seemed to have hung himself by a rope from the ceiling.

No chair or table that the man may have jumped off is present.

A puddle of water on the floor is the only clue.

How did the man manage to hang himself?

From the clues,I would guess he stood on a block of ICE,then the ice melted,hense the water on the floor.

Took the words right out my mouth DSTM

New puzzler while we await the verdict .

What begins with a T, ends with a T, and is full of T?

Orange Blossom

Teapot is my guess.

Heres one also while we wait for the verdict.

I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
What am I?

Guess it was kinda easy!


Snake

Right tink536

Whas that one too easy?

Try this one

97 baseball teams participate in an annual state tournament. The champion is chosen for this tournament by the usual elimination scheme. That is, the 97 teams are divided into pairs, and the two teams of each pair play against each other. The loser of each pair is eliminated, and the remaining teams are paired up again, etc. How many games must be played to determine a champion?

8 times?

7 matches

NO.---Total number of games.

Duh?? 60 games played

Nope----but closer

48+12+6+3+2 (Wild card game)+1 = 72

NO--- But you are heading in the right direction,Boopme.
I have the answer,but it took me time also to arrive at the same answer as given.

What a dumba** I am


ONE game determines the champ

Nope----How many games played?

You got it DSTM .

Orange Blossom

97/2 = 48 games plus an unpaired team.

48/2 = 24 games plus an unpaired team.

24/2 = 12 games plus an unpaired team.

12/2 = 6 games plus an unpaired team.

6/2 = 3 games plus an unpaired team. Now since there are 3 + 1 teams we go to:

4/2 = 2 games

2/2 = 1 game

48 + 24 + 12 + 6 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 96 games total

Orange Blossom

The right answer, Orange Blossom. :thumbsup:Well done.
Boopme made a mistake in his second calculation and I was hopeing he would pick it up.
You are all too bright so we will have to make the next ones more difficult,don't you think?

Heres one.

At a family reunion were the following people: one grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daughter-in-law. But not as many people attended as it sounds. How many were there, and who were they?

7 people:
2 girls, 1 boy, their parents(2), paternal grandparents(2)

Your right tink536,the only mistake you made is to give your answer in exactly the same sequence as the solution posted on the net.

Hi my name is tink & I'm a cheater!
I got frustrated and just Googled!!

It sounded easy enough when I started, and by the time I realized my brain function was not up to par, I just had to know the answer!!

It's great we can have a joke tink536,you have got a great sense of humour.

And for the next 2hrs i am available to hear anybody else's confessions also.

Well, there was that one time...
Kidding!

It has a head, but it cannot think.
It has four feet, but it cannot walk.

What is it?

Orange Blossom

Could it be a BED?

Yup.

Orange Blossom

Question at my sig =P

I don't think I'm going there.

Orange Blossom

Look at the groups of letters below. The letters are grouped according to U.S. geography.

Group 0: B E J Q X Y Z

Group 1: D F G H L P R U

Group 2: K S T V

Group 3: C O

Group 4: A I W

Group 5: M N

What do the letters in each group have in common in relation to U.S. geography?


Please try and work out the puzzle without looking for the solution on the net.