How about jumping across?
It's only 12 feet.
How about jumping across?
It's only 12 feet.
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Yep. Correct.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.
Am I gewd or am I gewd? [/b][/quote]
Doesn't work.
Distance to the corner is about 17 feet.
The longest distance with this method is 10.5 feet.
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
The "gewd" guy maybe?Originally posted by Arcadia@3 December 2003 - 18:13
Nail the planks together?
Edit: what's a sompleton?
And @lynx, jumping is entirely plausible, if yer a professional athlete that is.
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?
The "gewd" guy maybe?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's a sompleton?
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's pretty easy...
@lynx you sure about your math there?
Doesn't work.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 @ 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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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're at it.
or swim over, if it'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
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!
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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.
I must be sooooooooooooo better than the Riddler now. [/QUOTE]
You ain't even close
Try doing this stuff for months.
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.
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