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[montgjules]

Stupid answer: "Two. Nobody said it had to be a matching pair."

p.s. Arelius, I found the website you're using... Keep it up! I took a bunch of IQ tests a couple months ago because I enjoyed the mental puzzles so much.

[bordelais7]

official answer to #14: "He's born in room number 1964 of a hospital and dies in room number 1984."

lame.

[Aero]

Originally Posted by JasonMa

12: 3 - You'll have 2 of one and 1 of the other

Unless you pull three of the same color out. Using your logic, you'd have to pull out eleven to guarantee a pair of socks the same color.

But this didn't ask for a matching pair of socks, did it? So color doesn't really matter. Two is the correct answer.

[montgjules]

If you pulled out 10 of the same color, you'd have five matching pairs.... So if you're looking for a matching pair of two that are the same color (and you're not looking, and you're not blind)... then the answer is 3. Two that are unmatching: two. Etc. There's always another way to look at things...

[Aero]

Originally Posted by montgjules

If you pulled out 10 of the same color, you'd have five matching pairs.... So if you're looking for a matching pair of two that are the same color (and you're not looking, and you're not blind)... then the answer is 3. Two that are unmatching: two. Etc. There's always another way to look at things...

You're right. I got so caught up in the idea that they don't have to match I figured it to guarantee a non-matching pair. You'd need to pull 11 to guarantee a non-matching pair, not a matching pair. My bad.

[JasonMa]

Originally Posted by Aero

You're right. I got so caught up in the idea that they don't have to match I figured it to guarantee a non-matching pair. You'd need to pull 11 to guarantee a non-matching pair, not a matching pair. My bad.

When I started typing my response I had done the same thing, it was only as I typed it out that I realized it.

But of course, the answer is 2, they didn't say matching pair.

And yes, the 1964/1984 answer is very lame

[montgjules]

I was prejudiced on the sock question because I was assuming it was the same as a question I discussed before with somebody. I didn't read it carefully enough to realize there was the loophole. 🙂

[AreliusIV]

AreliusIV
#19
An encyclopedia consists of ten volumes (sitting next to each other, in order, on a shelf). Each volume contains one thousand pages. Excluding the covers of each volume, how many pages are between the first page of the encyclopedia and the last?

Eight thousand. When books sit on shelves, the first page of the book is the rightmost page, and the last page is the leftmost page. So you can't count the pages in the first and last volumes.

[AreliusIV]

#21
How long is the answer to this question?


#22
What do you call a man who was born in Columbus, raised in Cincinnati, and died in Chicago?


#23
How many outs in an inning?


#24
How many birthdays does the average man have?


#25
If you had one match and entered a room in which there were a kerosene lamp, an oil burner, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?


#26
If a doctor gave you three pills and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last you?


#27
An archeologist claims he found some gold coins dated 46 B.C. Do you believe him?


#28
Is it legal for a man living west of the Mississippi River to be buried east of the Mississippi River?


#29
Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?


#30
How many animals of each gender did Moses take aboard the ark?

[JasonMa]

#22 - Unfortunate? 😉

#23 - 6, except the last one if the home team wins, then from 3-5

#24 - One a year

#26 - 1 hour

#27 - No, if it was really from 46 B.C. B.C. wouldn't be stamped on them, unless they could tell the future

#29 - 70

#30 - Hopefully 1 😉