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chunxueping · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 706 Location: Beijing, PRC

Oh I know the answer to this one but it is private.

I am happy to let someone else start with a new puzzle.

小春

chunxueping · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 706 Location: Beijing, PRC

Im tired of waiting:

My first is half a square;
My second is a whole undivided;
Five just makes my third;
My fourth is the end of space and time.

Now put me all together;
Fit my parts together;
I die if I get cold;
Yet never fear cold weather.

sandmanching · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:22 am Post subject:

right, so it is a proper riddle is it?...and you know do you xueping?...but its private?...odg another friend of yours? like keiko?

in that case, sorry odg for doubting you...and l am thick!

mm..now there're two puzzles to solve...difficult ones at that...mm...any clues haha...

right, l'll work on them...

sandmanching · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:40 am Post subject:

phew, xueping...l figured out your riddle..as John Lennon said, LOVE is the answer.[from the song Mind Games which is quite appropriate]

but have no ideas on odg's though...can you keep a secret?...see/know a secret...yes?!..if you know the answer little spring, how about a clue?

chunxueping · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 706 Location: Beijing, PRC

One of my favorite sayings is from Edgar Allan Poe. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." Mind games are fun!

LOVE is indeed the answer. The last time I used this it had the victim going for days. Your turn.

No I must keep secret. I have made a promise.

小春

sandmanching · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:39 am Post subject:

mm...you, keiko,your old daddy and now odg...its like a secret society here!

well, l can't post a puzzle until l can figure out the secret. what? not even a clue? l mean is it animal,vegatable or mineral?...is it a word?...its too general as a puzzle don't you think?

by the way, isn't it a nice quiet corner here with all the silly arguments going on upstairs...and l think l haven't grown up...tut tut!

a dream within a dream...l know that saying...haha l am the sandman after all...kinda like that old chinese fable of a man dreaming he's a butterfly dreaming being a man...ahh, We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

mmm see if l can dream up the answer tonight then...l doubt it though...yeah, victim is the right word! ooh...l hate you colluding conspirators!
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we are the music makers
and we are dreamer of dreams
world losers and world forsakers
on whom the pale moon gleams
yet we are the movers and shakers
of the world forever, it seems.

chunxueping · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 706 Location: Beijing, PRC

Ahh not a secret society. I met Keiko and I talk to some other people but others never meet. We not collude. It is just I made a promise.

I am sure Old Dark Ghost is happy for you to make new puzzle. After all, you answer LOVE to me!

Puzzles and a poetry corner is nice. Shows we not all spammers. Politics always gets on my nerves. I get enough of that "back home."

Edwina Lee · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 1148 Location: High Wycombe, UK

sandmanching · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:54 am Post subject:

err, you did read the last two posts didn't you edwina?

maybe we should also give the solution as well as just the answer.

the answer to xueping's riddle was the word LOVE, edwina.

L is the first because its half of the shape of a square

O is the whole...maybe hole haha

V is roman numeral for 5, the third letter

E is the fourth, this is a bit sneaky because it refers to the last letter of the words space AND time...end of space and time!

a turtle?...don't know how you came up with that...

now to business...gosh, being away for 24 hours and argument became a brawl...it saddens me when human beings does that especially when its over something archaic like race...darwin's being dead for over hundred years and yet we still go on about race?

anyway, so does that mean odg is gone? now l'll never know what the secret is...hint hint! still, a promise is a promise.

ok, here's the riddle

There are three houses built exactly the same except One is filled with cotton, the other with wood and the third with iron.
One day an arsonist sets them all on fire. The sound of sirens was growing louder at the scene. People were screaming and shouting. Which house did the ambulance try to put the fire out first?

Eden · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:16 am Post subject:

My guess at the answer. I'm hoping it's correct, since I only registered to try this.

The answer is none of them. It's a trick question.

The ambulance (and paramedics) would be helping and transporting the injured. The fire fighters would be putting out the fire.

Is that correct?

sandmanching · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:51 am Post subject:

you joined just to answer this puzzle?...l am honoured and well done eden, it was a trick question.
will you do the honour of posting the next puzzle?

Eden · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject:

I'd been looking at the articles, but I didn't plan to join until my curiosity got the better of me.

A fairly easy puzzle:

After a burglary at the local Post Office , four suspects were interviewed by the police. They made the following statements. The police know that each of them told the truth in one of the statements and lied in the other statement. Who committed the crime?

Alan said:
It wasn't Derek
It wasn't Brian

Brian said:
It wasn't Charles
It was Derek

Charles said:
It was Alan
It wasn't Derek

Derek said:
It was Charles
It wasn't Alan

sandmanching · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:43 am Post subject:

hey eden...to be honest, l was giving up on this thread as no one is interested anymore until you came along.
l hate these logic problems! well, l think the guilty person is Brian...is that right?

Eden · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:54 am Post subject:

That's correct! It's Brian.

From the very first one Alan, we know that either 'It wasn't Derek' or 'It wasn't Brian' is a lie, so that removes Alan and Charles as suspects. We now now that it was either Brian or Derek.

Brian states that it was Charles (which we know is a lie) and it wasn't Alan (which we know is true).

One of Derek's being a lie means it was Charles (which we know is a lie) or it wasn't Alan (which we know is true). That removes Derek as a suspect.

I always hate the maths puzzles and graphical ones myself. Or rather I like them, but they frustrate me because I can rarely solve them.

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