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How many fingers am I holding up?

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Boom.

its the middle one innit

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Wake Kipper - Nuke City Deputy Police Commissioner

Which one is the "Middle one"? Every finger between two fingers is a "Middle one". So my index finger can be a middle one between my thumb, and my 3rd finger. Same with my ring finger between my pinky, and my 3rd finger. So tell me, which is the "Middle one"?

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Boom.

The third.

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Wake Kipper - Nuke City Deputy Police Commissioner

Which coin, when cut in half, is worth twice it's value?

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"If we don't get rid of this spy, pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today."

Half dollar.

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Taught by Tracer

Wrong, i think, unless you can explain how

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"If we don't get rid of this spy, pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today."

My mode of thinking was that you were referring to the name of the coin, splitting that in half to get the name of something with double the value. A half dollar is two words, so if you split it in half, one of the words would be "dollar". And a dollar is double the value of a half dollar.

I'll keep working on it, though.

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Taught by Tracer

ooooo, i like it

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"If we don't get rid of this spy, pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today."

Well, what's the real answer? Haha.

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Taught by Tracer

hell if i know, i was hoping one of you would have the answer

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"If we don't get rid of this spy, pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today."

There was this one guy who had a full glass of water. He put it on a table out in the sun. He drank a quarter of the glass, then left for 30 minutes. When he got back, half the water was gone. The cause wasn't evaporation. How did the water go away?

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Wake Kipper - Nuke City Deputy Police Commissioner

It froze.

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Taught by Tracer

Nope.

Hint: It was a windy day.

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Wake Kipper - Nuke City Deputy Police Commissioner

My explanation is better.

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Taught by Tracer

Yeah, but the answer is that the glass tipped.

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Wake Kipper - Nuke City Deputy Police Commissioner

If the glass tipped, more than half the water would be gone. Thus, my answer suffices. Thank you for the riddle.

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Taught by Tracer

doesn't freezing cause an expansion though and then the glass might break?

If the glass was 100% full, then perhaps. But the math explains that he drank 1/4 of the total amount of water, and then 1/2 of the total amount of water was gone 30 minutes later. All in-depth considerations of physical processes aside, if we assume that 1/4 of the 3/4 of water remaining in the glass has frozen in those 30 minutes, it definitely had room to expand. However, if the glass tipped over enough to spill 1/4 of the water, it is very unlikely that no more water was spilled. Either the glass would have needed to be caught by something, halting its descent at an angle, or that it managed to tip back in the opposite direction and correct itself. Neither have a real chance of happening.

And the way the riddle, itself, is worded practically begs the answer I provided. The quantitative statements (1/4, 1/2, 30 minutes) only serve to convey the peculiarity of the situation, and, coincidentally, disprove the most basic solutions like the supposed answer to this riddle proposed by Wake. The more important statements are that the glass was placed in the sun, and that the water did not evaporate. When taken literally, they are meant to discourage the person solving the riddle, but, when examined more closely, they provide the most useful information.

What do I mean? The glass was placed in the sun. That cues the mind to believe it must be a nice, hot, bright sunny day, which then leads to the obvious answer that the water could have evaporated, which was immediately rebuked by the last sentence (so obviously both of these sentences were intended to be of great importance by the person who designed the riddle...I hope, anyway). In reality, saying the water didn't evaporate narrows down the list of plausible solutions by quite a bit. And, as a matter of fact Delgado, I also considered the idea you just brought, which is what set me on track to finding my answer. It comes from sheer irony. He wasn't drinking the water on a hot day. He was drinking it outside in a cold climate, and it partially froze in the 30 minutes while he was away.

Sound good?

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Taught by Tracer

ya

Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?

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Wake Kipper - Nuke City Deputy Police Commissioner

You can't open windows in office towers ?

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It was a toy office building. Therefore it was only maybe a foot or 2 tall?

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[21:29] <@Brain> I paw off to the pic of Nuker I have.
[21:29] <@Supernuker> =x

The window is "soot smeared" so perhaps a natural disaster took place (causing the depression) and somehow caused the building to collapse to a height closer to the ground, or it actually raised the ground up near the 22nd floor, or a combination of both. (Think earthquake, volcanic eruption, etc...though that sounds kinda ridiculous.)

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Taught by Tracer