Riddle of the Day

[TurcoLoco]

NEXT RIDDLE:

In a recent contest, Andy was neither first nor last. Dick was not first. Sam was not last. Sam beat Andy. Tom beat Dick. Andy beat Tom. Tom was not last. Who won???

I dunno but I can tell you who came first:

Tom beat Dick.

Sorry, couldn't help...

[mrweasel]

that silly Tom. Always beating Dick like that.

[Gizmokid2005]

In a recent contest, Andy was neither first nor last. Dick was not first. Sam was not last. Sam beat Andy. Tom beat Dick. Andy beat Tom. Tom was not last. Who won???

ANSWER (Congrats acoustikarl): Sam.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

A young man tried to elope with a princess, but the king found out and offered him a sporting chance. The king would put two slips of paper in a box, one marked 'DEATH', the other marked 'PRINCESS.' To decide his fate, the young man was to be blindfolded and choose one paper. The young man knew the king would mark both papers 'DEATH', but he managed to win the princess despite this. HOW did he do it?

[acoustikarl]

NEXT RIDDLE:

A young man tried to elope with a princess, but the king found out and offered him a sporting chance. The king would put two slips of paper in a box, one marked 'DEATH', the other marked 'PRINCESS.' To decide his fate, the young man was to be blindfolded and choose one paper. The young man knew the king would mark both papers 'DEATH', but he managed to win the princess despite this. HOW did he do it?

He takes one of the papers and eats it. Since the one that is left will say 'DEATH' then the one that he ate had to read 'PRINCESS'.

[TurcoLoco]

What Karl said!
(I have seen this before but the trivial details were a bit different).

If the King was as smart as he was mean, he would have poisoned both papers and let the guy know ahead then let him pick...

[Gizmokid2005]

A young man tried to elope with a princess, but the king found out and offered him a sporting chance. The king would put two slips of paper in a box, one marked 'DEATH', the other marked 'PRINCESS.' To decide his fate, the young man was to be blindfolded and choose one paper. The young man knew the king would mark both papers 'DEATH', but he managed to win the princess despite this. HOW did he do it?

ANSWER (Congrats acoustikarl and TL): He picked one paper, and ate it. The king wouldn't admit to cheating so it leads that he picked the paper that said Princess.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

If it takes 6 florist's assistants 3 hours to pack 12 boxes of flowers, how fast can 16 assistants pack 16 boxes?

[acoustikarl]

NEXT RIDDLE:

If it takes 6 florist's assistants 3 hours to pack 12 boxes of flowers, how fast can 16 assistants pack 16 boxes?

1.5 hours

[TurcoLoco]

6 employee can do 4 boxes per hour = 1.5 hours per employee per box = 16 box-16 employees so each has to do just one box and each box per employee would take 90 minutes.

PP would say his eyes were bothering him so asked Judy to help him, then forget about the whole thing, go to a baseball game and have Judy and her grandkids do the whole thing by themselves.

Mathster would use his engineering skills to design a system that would help him achieve the result in 10 minutes but designing the system would take days (plus the cost of beer).

Cauz, would claim there is some evil plot behind the seemingly innocent and simple projects and refuse to do it from the start.

Gizmo would take the $$ for the job then remember that he had some homework to finish so he would flake and call-in sick .

Blank would say he will be re-designing the boxes and a few days later, he would come up with a different box design but all the flowers would be missing by then.

I would end up passin' them around to pretty girls in my office or neigborhood in hopes of hooking up with one of them...

[cauzomb]

what's the formula to figure out how long it takes each employee to pack 1 box

[Mathster]

Mathster would use his engineering skills to design a system that would help him achieve the result in 10 minutes but designing the system would take days (plus the cost of beer).

I have no beer so Im not doing any free engineering work...

Lets just go with 1-3/4 hours since state law requires a 15 minute break for up to two hours of work.