The Riddle Game 2

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The Hulk? You don't want to push him too far.

I still think scab should be right. It starts off as liquid (blood) but when you push it too far, it breaks off and you're left with a scar.

 

It is glass. Your turn Carcaroth.

 

I thought HB must have been right with Scab, but hey.

Reasonably easy mathematical one, but forgive me as I've changed the last three lines in a fit of artistic pique.

'Here lies Diophantus,' the wonder behold.
Through art algebraic, the stone tells how old:
'God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of his life,
One twelfth more as youth while whiskers grew rife;
And then yet one-seventh ere marriage begun;
In five years there came a bouncing new son.
Alas, the dear child of master and sage
Died after attaining half of his Dad's final age
After four further years of consoling his fate
Diophantus passed on, through Heavens great gate.

How old were Diophantus and his son when they died?

 

70 and 35?

 

84 and 42?

 

Please go ahead good sir.

 

Obviously not. Try this one instead:

You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley and on your right side is a fire engine travelling at the same speed as you.

In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level. Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also travelling at the same speed as you.

What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?

 

Keep driving at a constant speed and try not to scare the oversized porcine? By the sounds of it, everyone's going the same way at the same speed so as long as you maintain the status quo, you're in no danger.

Or, the Fire Truck is travelling on the opposite direction, so you wait for it to pass, and move into the other lane and overtake the pig as you would have been able to do normally.

 

Ring the fire brigade (handsfree of course) and tell them about a fire near by so the fire engine's course gets diverted allowing you to turn right (dodgy I know but hey, its what i would do. either that or hold up a frying pan and a knife in the direction of the pig. mmm, bacon )

 

Wake up, you're dreaming.

 

Follow the road or whatever and wait 'till the canyon goes away (or when a bridge appears), and then turn left.

Seemingly not very "riddly"...

 

Maurolava posted this a while ago:

I loved this answer to that old riddle:

Order of the Stick Riddle

Back to the riddle already in progress....

 

Well Mags mirrors my orriginal thoughts but no-one has the correct answer.

Hint: Where are you actually likely to find the aforementioned scenario.

 

Wait for the ride to come to a complete stop and follow the instructions of the attendant to the exit.

 

Wait for the roundabout (merry-go-round) to stop and get off.

 

DS claims it by a gnats whisker. Here, let me pass you a balloon on a stick for a change.

 

Woot I got a shiny

Find a simple method of solving:
6751X + 3249Y = 26751
3249X + 6751Y = 23249

 

Two equations, two unknowns -- how can it be any easier?

combining the two equations gives:

X - Y = 1

Substituting into the first equation gives:

10000Y=20000

Y=2, X=3.

No calculator was used or harmed in the solving of this problem.

 

Do simultaneous equations not count as simple?

Oops, beaten to it by T2

 

Right answer not the simplest way if you add you get
X + Y = 5
subtracting gives
X - Y = 1
and thus

But have a shiny ballon (it's french) on a stick