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Post by brassmonki on Oct 9, 2006 0:54:31 GMT
A little known tradition of our flat is the late night call in quiz show. Basically, they show a riddle on TV, and get people to call in with what they think is the answer. Of course, it's a scam, and the answer is only revealed after all possible answers have been offered. Either way, we have spent many nights in our flat arguing over the right answer. Anyway, the point of this thread. This is one such riddle: FRED'S FAVOURITE COLOUR IS RED, HE LIVES IN REDDITCH, HAS 12 RED SHOES, 4 RED LADDERS AND ALWAYS CATCHES THE NUMBER 62 RED BUS.
"Count the reds"Person who comes up with the right answer wins 1K gold  |
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Post by Edem on Oct 9, 2006 4:25:53 GMT
A little known tradition of our flat is the late night call in quiz show. Basically, they show a riddle on TV, and get people to call in with what they think is the answer. Of course, it's a scam, and the answer is only revealed after all possible answers have been offered. Either way, we have spent many nights in our flat arguing over the right answer. Anyway, the point of this thread. This is one such riddle: FRED'S FAVOURITE COLOUR IS RED, HE LIVES IN REDDITCH, HAS 12 RED SHOES, 4 RED LADDERS AND ALWAYS CATCHES THE NUMBER 62 RED BUS.
"Count the reds"Person who comes up with the right answer wins 1K gold Red, as the three letters = 6. red, the three letters as case sensitive = 0 Red, as the colour = 5. (Even if Redditch is named after a Red ditch, it's a name now. But the text is red either.) |
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Post by brassmonki on Oct 9, 2006 15:04:02 GMT
No, nope, and pretty close |
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Post by Edem on Oct 9, 2006 20:10:24 GMT
Well, brainstorming. - 'red' Redditch is not 'red' actually, like 'London' is not a letter on the capo. (hint: L on Don)
- there's a 'der' in 'ladders', but counting that as a red would mean you can even count 'BER' in number, since it's almost the same but there's an extra horizontal line in it.
- Fred's favourite colour is red, and 'Fred's favourite color' is in the message, so that might be counted as one hit, but that's so indirect it mustn't count.
- If you count the '12 red shoes' as 12 times red, then you have to count my two red t-shirts, my red bag, the red nose of the bunny in our logo and Redguy, who's a good friend of mine. Oh and don't forget Rudolf's red nose.
So, if you take this as a normal, logical riddle, the correct answer is 5. If you take this as something you wanna make people's mind miserable, then the correct answer is somewhere between 5 and 78495623495623495563456327856349193659782356496259 on the power of 6523479154156723946547392564792365347926574. Narf! |
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Post by kevx3 on Oct 10, 2006 8:09:01 GMT
who ever said logic dictates this riddle . it the amount of possible answers that make it a "hard" riddle. and the correct answer is 9 . www.deathball.net/notpron/ now theses riddles ... these need a good thinking too. |
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Post by Edem on Oct 10, 2006 10:06:10 GMT
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Post by brassmonki on Oct 11, 2006 13:51:01 GMT
who ever said logic dictates this riddle . it the amount of possible answers that make it a "hard" riddle. and the correct answer is 9 . Nope, but try again! Hmm... should probably go check that show see if it's still the same riddle. |
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Post by eleanor on Oct 12, 2006 18:21:29 GMT
Hmm... how about 6 reds? (or seven, if you count in the 'red' in the question)
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Post by Hatter on Oct 13, 2006 17:46:51 GMT
Hum. I have a couple of guesses.
First: reds from left to right: 6
Second: reds from all over the text: 7
Third: reds of all kinds added together: either:20 or 81. Depends on adding the bus to the lot, or not.
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Post by kevx3 on Oct 21, 2006 0:33:11 GMT
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60.... gah its too much to type in im getting bored  . |
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Post by dazultra on Oct 21, 2006 5:34:03 GMT
is it 1?
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