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There is a man in a room with only a puddle of water and a rope how did he die?
Answer: He stood on a block of ice and hung him self tell the ice melted.
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I can magnify or decrease the way something is seen. What am I?
Answer: Glasses
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My dress is tranquil when I tread the earth, or dwell at home, or drift on the water. Sometimes my wings and this wide sky lift me over the dwellings of men, and then strong clouds carry me over the people. My ornaments echo loudly and melodiously, Illustriously sing when I am not near the earth and stream, a sailing spirit.
What am I?
Answer: A swan.
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There is someone who talks of him-/herself in third person point of view, and you do not know his/her gender because he slash she is in a hood. He slash she says "He slash she is the person talking to you right now. He slash she would like you to figure their the name." Who is he slash she?
Answer: The name is He Slash She It is a very rare name, but you must admit it is possible.
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A girl wakes up in the dark because she can hear her mom crying HELP I AM DYING from the bathroom. But when she goes to find out what is wrong she finds out that her mom is alive after all.... but how?
Answer: Her mom was washing her hair but she couldnt see in the dark and used up some hair die by accident.
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You have 52 playing cards, 26 red, and 26 black. You draw cards one by one. A red card pays you a dollar. A black one fines you a dollar. You can stop any time you want. Cards are not returned to the deck after being drawn. What is the optimal stopping rule in terms of maximizing your expected payoff? Also, what is the expected payoff following this optimal rule?
Answer: The solution to this problem is, in my opinion the most difficult to understand of all the puzzles. Indeed I was unable to solve it and didn't receive a complete solution until two years after originally posting it. The final solution, in the form of the spreadsheet was sent to me by Han Zheng. For this reason I have left on the page the thoughts i had before I had the final solution as they represent an easier to understand and more simplistic approach. Also the reasoning may help you arrive at the final solution by yourself or help you understand it. I would recommend reading that answer before you dive into the full answer. But an important thing to note are that as the player we can't lose this game as we can gamble till all the cards are drawn and our net position is zero. From our earlier analysis it is clear we need a dynamic quit rule. A singal value is not sufficent. We must, at each stage consider what cards are remaining, and therefor the probability of a positive or negative outcome from drawing again. For the explanation i will ask you first to consider a deck containing only 6 cards, 3 +ve & 3 -ve (note i'm no longer calling the cards black and red, it confuses me.)
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If a plan crashes on the border of Mexico and the U.S. where do you hurry the survivors?
Answer: You don't burry the survivors.
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You are at a bus stop with your friend, a lady who's about to die from a heart attack and your dream girl. You only have one car that can only hold two people, in the end every get to where they need to be, how could this have happened?
Answer: Your friend drive the lady to the hospital and then uses the car to get himself home, you and your dream girl wait and get on the next bus.
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A boy's parents went out to eat. They said to the boy "We will be home around 12:00 (AM)". The boy got into bed at 8:00 and tried to go to sleep. He woke up for some reason at 10:00 and he saw a clown standing right out of his window. Home got really scared so he just got back into bed. He woke up at 12:00 and the clown was standing there with a knife in his hand. The parents got home at 12:15 and they went into his room and his head was chopped off with a knife in his head. They parents were so mad!! So they asked the elevator operator (they lived in an apartment) if they had seen anyone go in or out of the elevator. And he said. " I did see someone go out but not in of the elevator he was wearing a clown costume too. They asked the doorman if he had seen anyone go in or out of the door and he said "I did see someone go out, but not in. He was wearing a clown costume too. The boy's window was 20 stories up. How is it possible that the clown got in his room to kill the boy?
Answer: It was just a reflection of the clown in the window. The clown was really behind the boy.
Riddle:
What did the koala say to the bear on the phone?
Answer: I’ll koala you later.
