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Up for grabs. I actually just answered the last one because I figured it out on my own, and was very proud.

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

Third times a charm...

My 16 is equal to 10000.
Double me an I'm 100000.
Three would be 11.
And remember: one will always equal 1.

What am I?

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Well, I'm not much of a mathmatics person but maybe you're binary code? I'm lead to belive that due to all the ones and zeros (which could be bits) and the fact that sixteen would be a multiple of eight (eight bits equals a byte). I'm probably wrong again but if I'm right, the next riddle is up for grabs.

This post has been edited by Tonepoet on 2nd February 2005 08:05

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Role reversal at its finest.

Drat, yes I am binary code (have to learn the damn thing every year in programming it seems). Guess, I'm no good at this riddle business.

Up for grabs as Tonepoet said.



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Hmm... I'll hope no one knows the old "two guys in a cabin" one.

There is a cabin at the bottom of a valley with two men inside, burned to death. There is nothing else of importance inside the cabin. What happened?

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CRASH CRASH PLANOLUTION

edit: the cabin is the cabin of a small plane. the two men were the passengers/crew, however you want to put it. the plane crashed, and the fuel supply combusted. => CRASH etc.

This post has been edited by gozaru~ on 3rd February 2005 03:09

Armageddon

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I'm not sure sure what he's saying, but I think that gozaru's on to something...

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I'll try the obvious answer and say it burned down in a forest fire.

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Volcano?

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Don't you be tarot-fied,
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Fire 2 Spell?

Okay, how about this? One of the seven horsemen of the apocolypse, jumps out of an errupting volcano, just to cast fire 2 on an airplane that has two pilots in it, causing said plane to crash and burn into a log cabin, within a valley, with a surronding forest and everything around the plane burns up. Confused yet? Good.
Seriously though, I think Goz's probably right. However, I'd like a guess at this too, just because its a fun question. This is all I can come up with because the plane idea was already taken:

The two men were in a boat's cabin. Said boat catches on fire via a tourchlight or engine explosion and the boat sinks into the water. The water then put out the flames before the boat sank to the bottom but after it had caught the two men on fire. Did I mention that the boat would be floating on a lake inside of a valley? There's a 99.999% chance I'm wrong but who knows with these riddles?

This post has been edited by Tonepoet on 4th February 2005 03:32

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Role reversal at its finest.

OK, I might as well just say it. Goz was right. A plane's engine exploded in midair and its cabin (or cockpit) fell in to a valley, the explosion having killed the pilot and copilot. Gozaru can take it from here.

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ok, mechanics:

consider the tire of a car driving on a highway v=const. bad ascii representation:
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|-O-| v --->
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what point on the outer circumference has the lowest actual speed? it's a riddle cuz you have to think about it...

edit: ascii bleh

This post has been edited by gozaru~ on 4th February 2005 07:05

All things being nuetral, and discounting all non-system movment (ie, the rotation of the earth, etc.), and also assuming the wheel retains a perfect circular shape throughout it's rotation, I would have to say that the point at 90 degrees (with 0 degrees being 'right' in your diagram, and clockwise rotation being regarded as positive) is the point with the least velocity (defining positive velocity as being in the direction of the car's movment).

That's true in that that is the only point on the car's circumference that is going in the direction of the car's movement, but Gozaru asked for the point on the tire's circumference with lowest "actual speed," indicating that the direction of a velocity vector shouldn't factor in at all.

And for my answer, I'm fairly certain that the speed will be costant along the entire tire, but I think that what Gozaru's looking for is the point on the tire in contact with the ground (270 degrees on the unit circle), where the tire is doing work against the pavement to move the car. At that point, the car is moving, but the point of contact with the ground isn't.

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Mechanics, I'm going to be thwacked with a stick for my answers, I just know it. I think you're talking about which portion of the tire is going slowest in a forwards direction, right? If that's so I'd have to say the lower front end of the tire because its actualy going backwards a little bit. *Tonepoet's not good at riddles . . .*

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Role reversal at its finest.

damn, to clarify at this point i'll basically be giving it away.

both of your answers are more or less correct, but neither answers the question. iain's gives the answer in velocity terms (actual speed was specifically asked for), and lazlow's answer depends on the relative motion between the POC and the wheel -- while the relative velocity at the POC is zero, the wheel itself is indeed still moving and indeed still has an actual speed. also, iain, your answer is also in relative terms -- sure, if i were observing from the shoulder, the answer would be correct for me, but what if i were observing from inside the wheel? so i didn't ask for velocity, but speed. at any rate, you both got the same point, which is indeed the right answer, but neither of you explained it correctly. remember, this is a riddle, not a straight-up mechanics question.

now, we can #include <globalphysicsassumptions.h> to our problem -- the rotation of the earth or the gravitational pull on the car by pluto don't affect the wheel much; however, there is a property of a car tire which is instrumental in how it works. and this property is the property you have to "think about" to solve the riddle.

Well this riddle is too confusing =\


Heres one i just made

I have no mouth yet i speak the truth
I have no answer but i am honest
If you break me i will lie

What am i?


Think about it ^^

Venture a guess and say a promise?

Edit: Actually, I change my answer to a mirror.

This post has been edited by Racthoh on 5th February 2005 22:41

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Give him a medal your up ract.

Ah, I'm no good at this riddle business.

Up for grabs.

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in hopes of resurrecting the thread, and since my riddle was never answered but rather discarded contrary to the thread rules, i will solve it:

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and also assuming the wheel retains a perfect circular shape throughout it's rotation

while it is necessary to simplify the wheel into a rigid body for simple mechanics math, this is not a mechanics problem but rather a riddle. the deformation of the bottom of the wheel would lower its radius, thereby lowering the actual speed of that point (relative to the speed at full distance from the centre of motion). although practically it isn't always so, the lowest point on the wheel should have the highest deformation (given a flat surface of contact), and thus the highest decrease in actual speed.

I don't want to see this topic die out, so try this one on for size (which I again pray hasn't been done before).

Mike, Bill, Jeff, and Dave are playing at a high-stakes contract bridge tournament. They play together the entire night without ever leaving their seats but each one somehow leaves with more money then when they entered. How is this possible?

This post has been edited by laszlow on 16th February 2005 15:29

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Just a question- Does it have anything to do with the game being bridge? Or could it be (Insert Card Game Here)

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It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

They weren't playing against each other.

(edit: or they were involved in thievery or cheating.)

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 17th February 2005 03:58

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OK, some clarifications. They played TOGETHER the entire night, at a high stakes bridge (as in the card game) tournament. There was no cheating involved whatsoever. All four guys left with more money than they entered. Good luck.

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Taking a wild stab here, and I might not even get my terminology right. They're playing a "contract" bridge tournament, meaning they all get awarded money for merely playing (possibly for entertainment, I'm thinking of World Poker Tour right now), whether or not they lose or not.

Not quite. Contract bridge is the bridge using the modern scoring and bidding system.

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It was a tournament and they placed 1-4 each recieving a cash prize.