Brain Teasers Thread

[Deaths Head]

Try to stump your fellow members with your favorite brain teaser.

1. Post a brain teaser for everyone to try to answer.
2. Post your answer in 24 hours if no one was able to answer it.

[Deaths Head]

Here we go!

~ What was the tallest mountain before the discovery of Mt. Everest? ~

[Malcontent]

Well, you didn't say the tallest 'known' mountain, so I will say that Mt. Everest is still the answer.




Here we go!

~ What was the tallest mountain before the discovery of Mt. Everest? ~

[Deaths Head]

Well, you didn't say the tallest 'known' mountain, so I will say that Mt. Everest is still the answer.



Wow, that was fast. Lemme find another one. O0

[0dBm]

Count every "F"in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI

FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH

THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

[Malcontent]

I get 6...

[G1K]

6 also

R

[greenLED]

there's 20

[patroels]

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SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI

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THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

Ehmmm... 6 ?... 20 ?

Where do you find the rest of them?

[ScarabDrowner]

looks like he's counting the Es, if you take the bottom bar off, it's an F

[jtice]

"OF" ;)

[Badgerboy]

6
Cliff

[luigi]

Bah, I will go with something silly:

If I see a lion and the lion is not black. Does that increase the probability that all ravens are black ?

Luigi

[destroythealter]

Count every "F"in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI

FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH

THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...



Done.

[greenLED]

Well, you didn't say the tallest 'known' mountain, so I will say that Mt. Everest is still the answer.
Since we're being picky: there're submarine mountains taller than Mt. Everest. :nana:

[luigi]

There are non submarine mountains too :)
Mount Mauna Kea has over 10.000 mtrs but part of it is under water so it is bigger than Everest.

Luigi



Since we're being picky: there're submarine mountains taller than Mt. Everest. :nana: