Enbwife | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 05:31 pm  I'm way overdue to post a new puzzle.... As always, you can ask questions that I will answer with a "yes" or "no" response. I'll be around most of the weekend, so I promise to be speedy on the responses. Making the Grade - Alphonso was taking an important exam. Although the examiner was standing twenty feet away, and had his back turned, he interrupted Alphonso by saying "You can stop right now, I know you are cheating". What led to Alphonso's undoing? |
Gail | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 05:37 pm  was the examiner blind? NO was the examiner using a mirror? NO did either alphonso or the examiner have a handicap? NO was the examiner psychic? NO |
Wink | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:02 pm  Morse code? NO |
Noslonna | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:04 pm  Was it an eye exam? YES |
Azriel | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:05 pm  Did the examiner hear something that clued him in on the cheating? YES |
Sbw | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:18 pm  He heard the normal f-e-l-o-p-z-d but yet he had used a lesser known chart? YES - too easy I guess.... I'll come up with another one in a minute |
Enbwife | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:33 pm  The Secret Meeting - A man and woman meet at their regular time and place. They have an intimate conversation together yet neither one can describe the other to their friends. Why? |
Wink | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:35 pm  Priest and sinner in confessional? Darn!!! Give me a minute to come up with another one |
Lancecrossfire | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:39 pm  Are they blind? Have they met in person? (Gail said to ask these) see above |
Enbwife | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:47 pm  Diamonds are Forever - An eccentric billionarie bought a $2 million diamond. He took it to the world's foremost safe maker, and had him seal the diamond inside a seamless steel box. He then announced "whoever can remove the diamond from the box without taking the box from this room or using any tools whatsoever can keep the gem". After years of attempts, how did one man succeed in this quest? |
Mishamisha | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:54 pm  did he melt the box? (Is a kiln a tool?) NO |
Wink | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 06:55 pm  Put the box in acid or salt water and wait for it to corrode? NO |
Spamgirl | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 07:00 pm  did the box have a safe lockie thing on it? did he figure out the combination? NO |
Enbwife | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 08:03 pm  gotta go to bed now (11:10 here). Will check in very early tomorrow morning. |
Spamgirl | Friday, January 05, 2001 - 08:07 pm  was the box rusty? NO |
Misslibra | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 01:39 am  Geez, I can never get these. Ok, here goes did the man die, and it was left to a relative in a will ? NO Or did the Man die, and the safecraker who made the box, retrieve the Diamond, at the urging of the Man's Widow ? NO |
Soeur | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 05:09 am  He used a mirror or glass to concentrate a beam of sunlight and cut the steel? NO |
Spamgirl | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 07:09 am  did someone else (not the "one man") actually do the removing? NO |
Spamgirl | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 07:59 am  is the diamond removed from the box by a hand? NO is the box touched by the man who removes the diamond? YES does the removal involve talking in any way? NO |
Sbw | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 09:08 am  Is the box solid on all 6 sides, no doors and no hinges anywhere, no openings on the bottom? that's right |
Gail | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 10:50 am  is the man who succeeded in getting diamond the safemaker? or, a safemaker? NO |
Gail | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 10:51 am  or, is man who succeeded a magician? NO |
Mishamisha | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 10:52 am  Does he remove the diamond without damaging it? YES |
Noslonna | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 10:52 am  Since diamonds can cut through steel, is the diamond itself involved in opening the box? YES |
Noslonna | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 10:57 am  Was it the same man that tried "years of attempts"? NO |
Soeur | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 11:07 am  Nossie, I think you are on to something... Could there have been a guy living in the box with years and years worth of food/water (and a port-o-let). He worked away tirelessly cutting the steel until he was freed? NO |
Noslonna | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 11:18 am  How about he shook the box over and over through the years until the diamond finally wore through the steel? congratulations...you got it right! Good job |
Moondance | Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 01:24 pm  Did temperature have something to do with it? Could it be because cold/heat can expand and break the seal? |
Enbwife | Saturday, January 13, 2001 - 08:09 am  Time for a new puzzle: The Love Note - Every morning, Victoria would wake up to find a love note left behind by her husband, Mark. One morning, after looking and failing to see the expected note, Victoria despondently began to prepare for work. A few minutes later, Victoria was pleased to find Mark's amourous message in plain view and in a very conspicous location. Why hadn't Victoria noticed it earlier? |
Spamgirl | Saturday, January 13, 2001 - 08:12 am  Was it written on her and she didn't see it until she looked in the mirror? NO |
Mishamisha | Saturday, January 13, 2001 - 08:20 am  written on the mirror and didn't show until she turned on the shower and the mirror fogged up? very clever!!! oh well, I tried to pick a good one... I guess we'll follow Game II for puzzles for the next little while |
Mishamisha | Saturday, January 13, 2001 - 01:23 pm  LOL I liked Spam's answer better. He should have written it backward on her forehead so she'd see it when she looked at herself in the mirror  |