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Puzzles/Riddles Time
« on: May 02, 2014, 13:33:06 »
Alexander is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest.
The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.
There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off. How can the Alexander survive the fire?
(There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)
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Offline Only Lilly

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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2014, 14:16:35 »
Stand where the lightening struck?
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2014, 18:02:19 »
Wait for some of the fire to die down  and move to that place? Dunno :p
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2014, 18:55:35 »
Hide in a cave?! :D

Edit: Hmm, might not be any caves in forest >.>
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2014, 19:00:18 »
I think the clue is in the west wind
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2014, 19:04:44 »
Plot twist: He dies.
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2014, 22:14:52 »
so, can he light a fire at the east, maybe burn a very small controlled line that will head west before the first fire reaches him? the fire will burn out when it gets to him because it has no fuel? Mind you, I imagine he's still going cook with the surrounding fire so I don't think it's going to work.


can the man fell a line of trees before the fire spreads to cut off the fire before it reaches him?
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Angels Fly

Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2014, 11:56:49 »
Answer
Alexander picks up a piece of wood and lights it from the fire on the west end of the island.
He then quickly carries it near the east end of he island and starts a new fire. The wind will cause that fire to burn out
 the eastern end and he can then shelter in the burnt area.
Alexander survives the fire, but dies of starvation, with all the food in the forest burnt....
Good Job Emma! :Cheer:
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2014, 11:59:52 »
A wife and her husband were driving in their car on the highway. All of a sudden, they ran out of gas. So the husband said to the wife, 'Now, you stay here. I will go down the highway to the nearest gas station, and I will be about 1 hour. Just listen to the radio and read some books, and remember to lock all the windows and doors. I will leave the keys with you.' So, off the husband went, and the wife first locked ALL the windows and doors. Next, she turned on the radio, and this is what she heard on the news report:

'THERE IS A MURDERER ON THE LOOSE. HE WAS LAST SEEN ON THE HIGHWAY, WEARING ALL BLACK, ABOUT 5 FOOT 11 INCHES. PLEASE, BE AWARE AND CONTACT THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY.' The wife got very scared. She turned off the radio and double checked the locked doors. Then she saw the murderer, only a couple feet away from the car. An hour later, the husband returned to his car. Inside the car, his wife was DEAD, she had been murdered. All the windows were still locked, and the doors. No windows were broken, and the car was in PERFECT condition. No scratches or anything, it was the same way as when he left it. How did the murderer kill the wife?
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2014, 12:02:24 »
Could he maybe put poison gas on the air system?
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2014, 13:24:36 »
Umm...maybe it's a convertible with no roof or something?

Lol idk, I'm just guessing cos it doesn't actually say the car has a roof or anything.
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2014, 02:56:44 »
good job Abbie!. Its a convertible :Cheer:
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2014, 02:59:28 »
AEROPLANE HIJACK PUZZLE

A man hijacks an aeroplane transporting both passengers(8 of them) and valuable cargo. After taking the cargo, the man demands nine parachutes, puts one of them on, and jumps, leaving the other eight behind. Why did he want eight?
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2014, 03:03:18 »
what are the eight?
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Re: Puzzles/Riddles Time
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2014, 03:11:45 »
Because if he asked for 1 they could make it faulty meaning he would die. By asking for 9 it seems like the other passengers would be jumping aswell which means they wouldn't risk it being a bad parachute or something!
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