And the tyre question? The spare was flat too. ( I had reached the ame conclusion about the lefthand threads...but thought my second explanation is good too ! Nick
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HINT: it is a problem concerning this particular type of car.
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Posts: 11159 From: Benton County, OR Registered: Dec 2002
another one . . . . Many moons ago, when Tommy's son Alex was learning how to drive, Tommy thought he'd take him out in his '63 Dart and show him the rules of the road.
Alex was driving along, doing rather well, when they hear an unfamiliar noise. Tommy realized after a minute or so that the right rear tire had gone flat.
Realizing this was yet another fine opportunity to teach, Tommy asked Alex to pull off onto the shoulder. With the semis whizzing by at 70 miles per hour, Tommy hid in the bushes and told Alex from 100 yards away, "Take the jack out of the truck."
Alex jacked up the car, loosened the wheel nuts, and very carefully put them in the hub cap. But when he went to retrieve the spare tire, he inadvertently stepped on the hub cap and sent all but one of the wheel nuts cascading down the nearby grassy hillside, never to be seen again. Out of the five wheel nuts, he managed to save one.
After administering an appropriate number of dope slaps, Tommy said, "We're done for!"
Suddenly, Alex said, "Wait a minute! Can you have four wheel nuts on every wheel instead of five?" Tommy said, "Yes, of course we can -- at least until we get back to town." To which Alex replied, "Well then, let's take one nut off of each of the other wheels, leaving four on each wheel, and we'll have four for the tire we're changing."
Three hours later, they're still waiting for help. Why couldn't they do what Alex suggested?
*note* You need to know something about old cars to get this one, and lets make a rule that you cannot drive with only 3 lugnuts on any wheel. (since I have done that and it is possible, but not for this puzzle.
Must have been an old Chrysler product with left-hand threads on driver's side.
edit: OOPs, already solved. Remember when Chrysler was the only car builder that used a positive ground system? If you do, you are really old!
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Posts: 12207 From: Jordan, MN Registered: Feb 2002
The answer about the horse is wrong!! if the horse is tied to a central pole, and he is at full stretch from the pole, he is standing on a circumference of a circle with a diameter of 30 feet. Therefore the haybale could be 12 feet on the same 'diameter' on the opposite side of the central pole , and thus 12 feet plus 15 feet makes 27 feet away from the horse, and he could still reach it. Nick OOOPS!! 10 feet not 12 mis-remembered the figures whilst doing the diagram And the tyre question? The spare was flat too. ( I had reached the ame conclusion about the lefthand threads...but thought my second explanation is good too ! Nick
You missed the answer. The answer is correct... The horse is tied to a 15 foot rope, but the rope isn't tied to anything else.
You missed the answer. The answer is correct... The horse is tied to a 15 foot rope, but the rope isn't tied to anything else.
No I didn't miss the answer Synthesis But it is not neccessary to conjecture about whether the horse is tied to the rope, but the rope isn't tied to anything else (that isn't stated anywhere, therefore it is irrelevant ,because my answer is really the only valid one, given the facts Nick
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Posts: 2076 From: Livonia, MI USA Registered: Jun 2007
Here's one for you: A police detective walked into a room, where in the middle of the floor lay the bodies of John and Mary, next to a puddle of water, and shards of broken glass. Also in the room was a cat, sitting on top of a sofa, its back arched. The detective immediately concluded that the pair died of asphyxiation.
How did he come to that conslusion?
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2.5 Member
Posts: 43235 From: Southern MN Registered: May 2007
One side of the car has left-hand threaded wheel nuts, the other doesn't.
Exactly, this man knows his Chyrsler products!
the hint was it was Tommy's '63 Dart. And for a bunch of years, Chrysler, on the driver's side of the car, made the wheel nuts left-hand thread, the idea being as you went down the road the wheel nuts would tighten themselves up as opposed to loosening themselves up. So, as your wheel turned, the nut would be turning in the same direction that it would turn to tighten it, and there'd be no risk of having the wheel nuts fly off. So, two of the wheels had left-hand threads and two of the wheels had right-hand threads. So, the ones on the left-hand side of the car could never be used in this little plan that Alex devised. And thus, they were stuck there because the best they could do was put two wheel nuts on one wheel.
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Posts: 43235 From: Southern MN Registered: May 2007
Another, more of a history question maybe... . . One of the ways that allied agents in World War II used to get microfilm past German guards was to hide it in hollow coat buttons-- not the kind that you have on your shirt, where the thread goes through, but the kind with the loop in the back like you'd have on a coat. The top of the buttons screwed on and off like a jar lid.
This worked for a while, but somehow the Germans became aware of this particular trick and they started giving a twist to the buttons on the coat of anyone they weren't sure of, to see if it unscrewed.
When the allies found out the trick had been discovered, the people in charge of preparing clothing for new undercover agents had to make a change.
They made one change, and none of those hollow buttons were ever discovered again.
What DID they do?
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Posts: 295 From: Colchester, VT Registered: Feb 2004
There were a lot of things they could have done. They could have applied some adhesive making them difficult to turn or they could have put some kind of a locking pin. But what they thought of was even better. They made the threads left hand thread. So when the Germans twisted the buttons, they in fact didn't come off, they got tighter. And after they failed in a few attempts, they gave up on it because they just figured out, they're not using that trick anymore.
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Posts: 295 From: Colchester, VT Registered: Feb 2004
Reminds me of the US govt and NASA spending millions of dollars to design a pen that would work in zero gravity. After years of testing they did it. The Russians version? A pencil.
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Posts: 43235 From: Southern MN Registered: May 2007
Reminds me of the US govt and NASA spending millions of dollars to design a pen that would work in zero gravity. After years of testing they did it. The Russians version? A pencil.
LOL
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Posts: 43235 From: Southern MN Registered: May 2007
Another one . . . An old guy is driving home. It's late at night. He's be-bopping along the highway and he's some considerable distance from home. Suddenly, he feels himself having a heart attack. He says, "Oh my God. It's the big one." Thinking quickly, he takes the first available exit.
As luck would have it, he winds up in a residential neighborhood. It's very late at night. He pulls over to the side of the road behind some parked cars. He's fading fast, but he has the presence of mind to pull out his cell phone and call 911.
He says to the dispatcher, "I need help. I'm having a heart attack."
And she says, "Where are you?"
And the conversation goes something like this: "I don't know where I am." "What exit did you take?" "I don't remember." " Were you going north or south or east?" "I don't remember." "Can you tell me what street you're on?" "I'm in the middle of the block. I'm parked. I didn't see any street signs."
She says, "Start blowing the horn. Someone will come out of the house." No one comes out.
She says, "Can you possibly drive your car to the intersection and give me the names of the streets?" He says, "I can't do it." When all hope seems lost, she asks him to do one more thing. Minutes later, an ambulance is on its way there and saves his life.
What did she ask him to do?
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OKflyboy Member
Posts: 6607 From: Not too far from Mexico Registered: Nov 2004
Reminds me of the US govt and NASA spending millions of dollars to design a pen that would work in zero gravity. After years of testing they did it. The Russians version? A pencil.
That's actually not true, though. The Americans did use pencils (The Russians also did in fact use pencils) until the "space pen" was invented but NASA did not spend any money developing it, it was invented by a private citizen who them gave the info to NASA for free.
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Posts: 12143 From: Metro Detroit Registered: Mar 2003
Give her the licence plate number on the car in front of him. Because it late at night, it should be a resident of the block he's at.
. . . As I was going to Saint Ives, I crossed the path of seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kittens, Kittens, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to Saint Ives?
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2.5 Member
Posts: 43235 From: Southern MN Registered: May 2007
Give her the licence plate number on the car in front of him. Because it late at night, it should be a resident of the block he's at.
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As I was going to Saint Ives, I crossed the path of seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kittens, Kittens, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to Saint Ives?
None, only himself. Nick
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