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[XeroKitsune]

QUOTE (sk8ermike6789 @ Jan 22 2004, 09:41 PM)

a laser would cut the bottle also

That would depend entirely on the intensity of the laser, it's wavelength and the color of the glass. In this case it would be prity much identical since your focusing sunlight with a magnifing glass. With a laser, you just using a artifical source of light being focused normaly with lenes much like a magnifing glass.
Rember a low power laser is an integral part of the XBox and any cd/dvd disk reading device.

[katsumoto]

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i got one..... Picture an empty wine bottle with a cork secured at the top in the usual way. Inside the bottle a metal ring hangs suspended by a string. How is it possible to make the metal ring drop to the bottom of the bottle without touching the ring, the thread, the cork, or the bottle while leaving the cork in place and intact?

It took me awhile to solve this.  Dang...

Anyway, try solving this:

EPISODE IV

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.

Good Luck!

[Mr Deez]

[katsumoto]

Mr Deez...

Actually that's not the correct answer.  However, you are on the right track.

[Zero]

DuDeR MaN's answer also works for #3

[katsumoto]

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DuDeR MaN's answer also works for #3

I didn't realize it until you mentioned it.  I guess #4 is hard to solve.  No one has responded yet.  I'll give it more time.

[DuDeR MaN]

QUOTE (katsumoto @ Jan 23 2004, 04:51 PM)

Zero...you are right.   QUOTE DuDeR MaN's answer also works for #3 I didn't realize it until you mentioned it.  I guess #4 is hard to solve.  No one has responded yet.  I'll give it more time.

I'm so smart  

[shavedrat]

you guys are a buncha smart pickles

[styxx_78]

That was a really good riddle.
Do you have anymore?

[katsumoto]

Dang...Let's all congratulate vesebr for solving the last episode.  

Okay, here's a hard one.  This is a thinker.  Let's see who can solve this.

EPISODE V

If you have six men and they each had six baskets. Each basket has six cats inside and each cat has six kittens. Assuming all are whole and healthy, how many legs are there?

Good Luck!

[XxmutinyxX]

6060

[moistness]

[katsumoto]

XxmutinyxX wins!!!

Here's why:

There are six men who each have six baskets. This equals 36 baskets. Each basket has six cats which equals 216 cats. Each cat has six kittens which equals 1,296 kittens. Therefore the kittens represent 5,184 legs. The cats represent 864 legs. The men represent 12 legs. The sum total is 6,060 legs.

Alright, even harder.  Good Luck!

EPISODE VI

During WWII, there was a bridge connecting Germany and Switzerland, and on the German side, there was a sentry tower with a guard in it. He would come out every three minutes to check on the bridge, and he had orders to turn back anyone who tried to get into Germany, and shoot anyone trying to escape without a pass. There was a woman who desperately needed to get into Switzerland, and she knew she didn't have time to get a pass. It would take her at least six minutes to cross the bridge, but she managed to do it. How?

[moistness]

 Wait til I tell my father, who was fascinated by your riddles and was absolutely convinced that the answer he begged me to post in an excited schoolboy sort of way was correct! He said "If that answer is not correct then i shall want to know why!" He is a retired research chemist and has BsC, MsC and PhD After his name, Maths was VERY important in his work!

[XxmutinyxX]