Ponder Over This...

by **Five7Jaan** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:00 am

Hey,

I am just tired of the gender issues on the board [they are getting redundant!], thought this might help. Also, post your quirky puzzles etc.

Question:

Jane never lies on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Jean always tells the truth on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On the rest of the days, they may tell the truth, or they may lie. Both say they lied yesterday. What day is today?

If you have done this before, please do not spoil it for everyone. Others, the answer must include an explanation.

-Five7Jaan

by ZC » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:21 am

..................after reading ur name as Jaa`an, i was reading Jane as Jha`ne .............. :roll:

by ZC » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:37 am

since all days are taken, both cannot lie on the same day

so, the statement that both lied yesterday is actually...................

..............one of them is saying the truth and the other said a lie..........

in other words, both are not saying the truth.......

now, if u logically deduct the days.....its Friday.

Assume, Jane lied today, that means she said truth yesterday..........

................means today is Fri, Sat or Sun

then Jean said truth today, means, Yesterday is Tue, Wed, THu....

.....or Today is Wed, THu or Fri.......

Friday fits !! anyother answers possible?! no time to check that.................coz me busy doing nothing :wink:

by ZC » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:50 am

it cannot be the other way..........

Assume Jane said truth today.....

.....then today is Sat, Sun or MOn.

then Jean lied today means.....

Today is.........Tue, Wed, THu.........

doesnt fit.

so, its only Friday................me not bad, i am giving myself a pat on the back :wink:

by **PSD** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:58 am

Answer: 42. :roll:

. Though, the local chai wallah is saying it's Friday!!!!

Explanation: Fate/Karma...

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'Limitation Fuels Creativity' - Jason Becker.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:25 am

Five7Jaan wrote:I am just tired of the gender issues on the board [they are getting redundant!], thought this might help. Also, post your quirky puzzles etc....

good try 'Jaan, but as u see its no use...better stick to familiar topics unless u like to hear smart-ass comments!

but seriously, v've to have a forum for puzzles n mind-benders too...

by **blah** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:26 am

Five7Jaan wrote:Question:
Jane never lies on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Jean always tells the truth on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On the rest of the days, they may tell the truth, or they may lie. Both say they lied yesterday. What day is today?
-Five7Jaan

Friday. Jane is lying and Jean is telling the truth.

by ZC » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:39 am

from one of those emails:

Hello all,

Well Are u male or a female? This is called the quick eye, quick eye

exam............................. ...........................

This will blow your mind...! Just do it - don't cheat plz!!!!!!!!!!!! Try this its actually quite good. But don't cheat!

Count the number of F's in the following text in 10
seconds:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE

RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC

STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

Managed it?

Scroll down only after you have counted them!

OK?

How many?

Three? (You r definitely male!!!)

Wrong, there are six - no joke!

Read again!

FINISHED FILES ARE THE

RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC

STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

The reasoning is further down...

The MALE brain cannot process the word "OF".

Incredible or what? Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go has a

brain of a Female . You can test this by asking a Guy/Girl near you to

work it out.

It really works.

by ZC » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:48 am

ask ur friends around...........

Peter's father has three sons

1.) Tall Guy

2.) Short Guy

whoz the third one........? y doesnt most of the brains work properly........mine didnt !! :roll:

by ZC » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:50 am

ask ur friends around..........

How do u pronounce SILK..............

What does a cow drink ?

dude. it definitely doesnt drink MILK :wink:

by **azazel** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:23 pm

going back to the original Q, i think its more on the lines of:

the next statement is false. the previous statement is true

try this one,

RED LORRY/YELLOW LORRY

keep repeating without slipping atleast 20 times..fast

by **Gormless Gus** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:38 pm

This one was asked in the Civil Services Exam:-

Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan ke baap ka kya hai?

It took me close to 45 minutes to answer this one. One of the simplest and one of the best ones that I've heard.

by **azazel** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:44 pm

Gormless Gus wrote:This one was asked in the Civil Services Exam:-

Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan ke baap ka kya hai?

It took me close to 45 minutes to answer this one. One of the simplest and one of the best ones that I've heard.

n what was ur answer??

thats...er...

by **Five7Jaan** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:41 pm

ZC bhai! Golly! What's with all those posts one after another? Seriously, you need to stop eating sugar/candy! Hehe, I appreciate it though. Yes, the answer is Friday and thank you for the numerous ways of the explanation.

Gormless Gus, what is the answer? I want to say beta but I sound ridiculous to myself!

Crtl, par kya kare? I was dangerously getting bored of that issue. :wink:

-Five7Jaan

by **asli_badmash** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:49 am

I guess the answer has been given...

But here is my two bit.

------Mon-Tue-Wed-Thus-Fri-Sat-Sun

Jane-T----T----T-----T-----------------

Jean-T----------------------T----T---T

That makes friday as the day. Jane could be lieing about the lieing yesterday and Jean is telling the turth about lieing yesterday.

Lesson : Never believe girls... They lie and then lie about lieing.

by **asli_badmash** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:51 am

asli_badmash wrote:Lesson : Never believe girls... They lie and then lie about lieing.

Specially the ones who name rhymes with Jane and Jean..

by **asli_badmash** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:54 am

azazel wrote:
Gormless Gus wrote:This one was asked in the Civil Services Exam:-

Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan ke baap ka kya hai?

It took me close to 45 minutes to answer this one. One of the simplest and one of the best ones that I've heard.

n what was ur answer??
thats...er...

Naam hai...

Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan ke baap ka naam hai?

Good one...

~badmash~

by ZC » Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:55 am

Five7Jaan wrote:ZC bhai! Golly! What's with all those posts one after another? Seriously, you need to stop eating sugar/candy!

its just that i keep coming back to the boards between my job.......... :wink:

or my manager called me or my wife is complaining abt our kid on phone etc etc..........agar mera ek manager ho, ya mein shadhi shuda ho tho :wink:

if u didnt get it, its Johnny Lever from Humrazz

by **Mona Lisa Smile** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:31 am

Sorry 57J for dragging more gender kinda stuff but this is a poser i really wanted to know the answer to. Someone asked me and left before i could get the answer out... anyways is there one ?

Hypothetical situation. Assume 4 ppl in a room and no external influences etc. 3 men and a lady. Each man has a disability , one blind, one deaf and one dumb. The lady in the room is the blind man's wife. The deaf guy kisses her and assuming she and he wont open their month on the matter, how does the dumb guy tell the blind fella whatever happened ?

by ZC » Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:45 am

the dumb fellow shud kiss the wife, then we have to assume that the deaf fellow will tell what happened, then we have to assume that the blind man is intelligent enough to realize the truth..................ooph too many assumptions...........i dont know :wink:

by ZC » Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:49 am

Gormless Gus wrote:This one was asked in the Civil Services Exam:-

Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan ke baap ka kya hai?

It took me close to 45 minutes to answer this one. One of the simplest and one of the best ones that I've heard.

Amitabh bachchan, Abhishel Bachchan ke baap ka filmi naam hain........if AB is not his real name !! else i dont know......

by **CtrlAltDel** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:10 pm

Mona Lisa Smile wrote:Hypothetical situation. Assume 4 ppl in a room and no external influences etc. 3 men and a lady. Each man has a disability , one blind, one deaf and one dumb. The lady in the room is the blind man's wife. The deaf guy kisses her and assuming she and he wont open their month on the matter, how does the dumb guy tell the blind fella whatever happened ?

why does the dumb guy tell the blind fella whatever happened? seeing the blind guy happy in his own world, and that the lady doesn't mind the extra attention, he too will have go with her, after the deaf guy finishes kissing her! :lol:

by **Gormless Gus** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:13 pm

Well done, asli, good job!

Here's one more from the long list of life's miserable mysteries:

3 friends buy a gift for a 4th. The gift costs Rs. 30. So each one contributes Rs. 10. But the shopkeeper says that he'll give them a discount of Rs. 5, if they donate Rs. 2 to the oldage home, out of those 5 rupees. They do. They get back Rs. 3, each one taking Rs. 1.

So now, each has spent Rs. 9. Together: 9 x 3 = Rs. 27

Money with the oldage home = Rs . 2

But, 27 + 2 = 29.

Where did that 1 rupee go? :shock:

And ZC (was it?), I did not take the civil services exam. This Amitabh-Abhishek puzzle is one of the cult puzzles that is used to test the out-of-the-box thiniking of a person.

I was tested, and after a torturous 40 minutes, I cordially took a hammer out-of-the-box, and very out-of-the-boxedly showed the guy who asked me this, how to beat a person's head to get his brains out-of-the-brainbox!

by **CtrlAltDel** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:23 pm

Gormless Gus wrote:3 friends buy a gift for a 4th. The gift costs Rs. 30. So each one contributes Rs. 10. But the shopkeeper says that he'll give them a discount of Rs. 5, if they donate Rs. 2 to the oldage home, out of those 5 rupees. They do. They get back Rs. 3, each one taking Rs. 1.

So now, each has spent Rs. 9. Together: 9 x 3 = Rs. 27
Money with the oldage home = Rs . 2
But, 27 + 2 = 29.

Where did that 1 rupee go?

abbe oh....the 2 bucks to charity is a part of what they spent. ie the 9 rupees each spent. so 2gether they spent 27 only. (got back 3 bucks from 30)

by ZC » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:27 pm

Gormless Gus wrote:So now, each has spent Rs. 9. Together: 9 x 3 = Rs. 27
Money with the oldage home = Rs . 2
But, 27 + 2 = 29.

Where did that 1 rupee go?

why should this 29 shud be equal to that 30 :?:

its 27-2=25, they spent 25 on the gift and donated 2, the question is wrong............

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