Phant0m Burn Vs Riddler

[lynx]

How about jumping across?

It's only 12 feet.

[lynx]

Originally posted by phAnt0m buRn+3 December 2003 - 16:17--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (phAnt0m buRn @ 3 December 2003 - 16:17)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-SnnY@3 December 2003 - 17:13
this one then, in a "T" shape with the top diagonally over the corner and the bottom tip touching the island.

Yep. Correct.



Am I gewd or am I gewd? [/b][/quote]
Doesn&#39;t work.

Distance to the corner is about 17 feet.

The longest distance with this method is 10.5 feet.

[Snee]

Originally posted by Arcadia@3 December 2003 - 18:13
Nail the planks together?

Edit: what&#39;s a sompleton?

The "gewd" guy maybe?

And @lynx, jumping is entirely plausible, if yer a professional athlete that is.

[Mr. Mulder]

Does anyone else find it suspicious that a man carrying two planks of wood would use said wood to travel over shark infested water for treasure?

[Cheese]

Originally posted by SnnY+3 December 2003 - 18:21--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (SnnY @ 3 December 2003 - 18:21)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Arcadia@3 December 2003 - 18:13
Nail the planks together?

Edit: what&#39;s a sompleton?

The "gewd" guy maybe?

And @lynx, jumping is entirely plausible, if yer a professional athlete that is. [/b][/quote]
You could jump it 12 ft is only about 3.6 metres, if you took a decent run up that&#39;s pretty easy...

@lynx you sure about your math there?

[Snee]

Originally posted by lynx+3 December 2003 - 18:20--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (lynx &#064; 3 December 2003 - 18:20)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by phAnt0m buRn@3 December 2003 - 16:17
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@3 December 2003 - 17:13
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Doesn&#39;t work.
Distance to the corner is about 17 feet.

The longest distance with this method is 10.5 feet. [/b][/quote]
Indeed? but we tried everything else, might as well defy the laws of physics while we&#39;re at it.

or swim over, if it&#39;s the non-man-eating type of shark.

Or just go and get a boat, or a chopper.

@withcheese, my math was off, thought 1 foot equaled one third of a metre exactly.

now I really gotta eat, before the dog steals me food

[lynx]

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&#39;t be jumped.

Edit: it might have been 9.25 and 9 metres, longer than the world record&#33;

[phAnt0m buRn]

What has a neck, but no head?
Who succeeded the first President?
When is the best time to have lunch?
What makes a man bald-headed?
How do you get an elephant in the fridge?
How do you get a giraffe in the fridge?


I must be sooooooooooooo better than the Riddler now.

[Illuminati]

I must be sooooooooooooo better than the Riddler now. [/QUOTE]
You ain&#39;t even close

Try doing this stuff for months.

[phAnt0m buRn]

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.