Phant0m Burn Vs Riddler

[Illuminati]

A shirt
The second one
After breakfast
Lack of hair
Open the fridge door, put the elephant in, shut the door
Open the fridge door, take out the elephant, put in the giraffee, shut the door.

[dwightfry]

What has a neck, but no head?

A bottle

[Illuminati]

Originally posted by phAnt0m buRn@3 December 2003 - 18:41
Why is everyone stating such cynical and unopen minded answers?
Since when in a simple riddle do you calculate the distance between the land and island, use pythagoras and measure the lenght of a jump? I only put the measurements there to prove that the planks weren't long enough.

Stupid bunch of cynics.

You said it involves lateral thinking, and these puzzles involve logic. I did not read the part where it says 'make up some parts of logic'.

Come back when you learn not to screw up the puzzles in the first place

[phAnt0m buRn]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, but what's a Giraffee?
You need to learn to write.

I'll do one more coz I can't be arsed continuing.

How do you spell 'W'?

[Snee]

Originally posted by lynx@3 December 2003 - 18:36
Distance corner to corner is (12^2 + 12^2)^0.5 = (144+144)^0.5 = 288^0.5 = 16.97 (Pythagoras theorem).

The original puzzle had a distance of 7.25 metres from side to island, which would work with the "T" solution (assuming planks are 7 metres long) and can't be jumped.

Edit: it might have been 9.25 and 9 metres, longer than the world record!

WTf how long can people jump, I must be waay off, guess this shows how interested I am in sports
Must have solved the puzzle before though, it sounded familiar.

Mens - Long Jump Records 
World Record: Mike Powell USA 1991 
Olympic Record: 8m 90 Bob Beamon USA 1968
2000 Gold Medallist: Ivan Pedroso CUB
2000 Silver Medallist: Jai Taurima AUS
2000 Bronze Medallist: Roman Schurenko UKR
  Womens - Long Jump Records 
World Record: 7m 50 Galina Chistyakova Rus 1988
Olympic Record: 7.40 Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA 1988
2000 Gold Medallist: Heike Drechsler GER
2000 Silver Medallist: Fiona May ITA
2000 Bronze Medallist: Marion Jones USA

When I was a teen I hardly got over 3 metres

[Spider_dude]

[phAnt0m buRn]

Originally posted by Illuminati+3 December 2003 - 17:44--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Illuminati @ 3 December 2003 - 17:44)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-phAnt0m buRn@3 December 2003 - 18:41
Why is everyone stating such cynical and unopen minded answers?
Since when in a simple riddle do you calculate the distance between the land and island, use pythagoras and measure the lenght of a jump? I only put the measurements there to prove that the planks weren&#39;t long enough.

Stupid bunch of cynics.

You said it involves lateral thinking, and these puzzles involve logic. I did not read the part where it says &#39;make up some parts of logic&#39;.

Come back when you learn not to screw up the puzzles in the first place [/b][/quote]
It is lateral thinking though.
Lateral thinking means - looking at the situation from a different perspective. Thats what my bridge puzzle involves.
Most people said use the planks as stilts or fly across with a helicopter - that isn&#39;t thinking laterally, that&#39;s just coming up with some ridiculous solution and hoping for the best.
I may not have explained the riddle as much as I could have (I learnt it a few years ago), but I certainly did not screw it up.

[Cheese]

@spiderdude: won&#39;t the planks sink when you stand on them?

[Spider_dude]

withcheese you balance then on a sharks head.

[dwightfry]

You did screw it up. In that case, the length of the planks matter. That is the whole point of the riddle. If the planks are too short to do the diagonal thing then it&#39;s not the correct answer. You still can&#39;t reach them across.

In the elephant case the size of the elephant doesn&#39;t matter. If it did, the answer would have to be something like put it in the blender first.