Lateral Thinking Questions

[007VitaminD]

for the last question: w/e is dropped first lol

[mustbethafinga]

1) Penguins live in antarctica

2)tetrahedron

3)rope not tied to anything else

4)59 minutes.. easy

5) A of course. 10 degrees F is ice

[NotHenryMarkum]

I like how many people are saying "It's so easy! Just make a square with 2 lines crossing through it!"

Not realizing that if we are using match sticks that shape requires 8 sticks.

tsk tsk....It's 3 dementional

[NotHenryMarkum]

-Considering modern eskimos can utilize technology and have penguin flown over...this question is variable depending on how hungry this eskimo is.

-YES! Because you can do anything with the power of Christ!

-This donkey clearly is a Rare breed of jedi donkey. He trains by binding the rope to the earth using the force, and then pulling his hay towards him with his mind.

- The jedi donkey crushed all of the bacteria at 23 minutes, then at the last minute he refilled it all at once.

[corjonbett]

1: None. Penguins live at the south pole, Eskimos at the north.

2 yes.

3. Rope not tied to anything.

4. 59 minutes. It doubled in the last minute too.

5. Centigrade. The water would be frozen in the fahrenheit.

6.

[NiBelangrijk]

1; they wouldn't eat penguins, why go all around the world if you can just go hunt a polar bear ?

2; easily, i got it at my second attempt :p you make a square and the diagonals 3. the rope wasn't tied to anything else?

4;not in half an hour :p eum..., after 59 minutes?

5; the 50 cent coin :p, no.. seriously, bucket a, cause bucket b is frozen?? I don't know much about Fahrenheit but isn't 0 farenheit equal to -72 celsius or something?

[bblue123223]

55??!! seriously...there are no penguins at the arctic circle bro.....the answer is 0

[malcolmbryant]

It didn/t say there was anything in the fahrenheit bucket to freese. So the coin will land first at the bottom od the empty fahrenheit bucket.

[singasongful1]

However many he wanted, though if we are being mathematical, 55.

Yes. X in a square.

Rope not attached to anything.

AT 59 minutes.

The centigrade one, the farenheit one would be frozen.

[Ocsttiac]

@singasongful1

1. If we are being geographical, then we'd say that eskimos and penguins don't live on the same side of the world.

2. It's strange no one's said 'tetrahedron', but yep.

3. Right.

4. Right.

5. Right.

[singasongful1]

@Ocsttiac

Thanks!

And how stupid am I?

LOL

Of course penguins and eskimos don't live on the same side of the world...

[TheOwnage3000]

Answer to 0:24 is the rope wasnt tied to anything.... it was loose so the donkey could walk off.

[Thisnameistaken11]

None - Wrong pole

Square with X

Rope wasn't tied to anything else

59mins

Centigrade - farrenheit is frozen

Too easy

[kb92530]

there was a man who lived on his own and every night before bed he would leave his lights on but 1 night the man went to sleep his electricity ran out and 50 people died. why? btw if ur a smart arse who googled it fuck off and dont comment : P

[NiBelangrijk]

@kb92530 did he live in a lighthouse (is that what it's called?)

didn't google it i swear

[kb92530]

@NiBelangrijk yh thats it hahaha : )

[NiBelangrijk]

@kb92530 yeey :)

[corjonbett]

@kb92530 He lived in a lighthouse.

[luckydoug]

5. heehee. the coin drops a lot faster to the bottom of the empty bucket. even if it's frozen.

[NiBelangrijk]

@luckydoug lol :p

[luckydoug]

#4 My answer for this one would be "one minute before the moment at which the jar became full." (it could have become full at 30 minutes and stayed full until 60 in which case it was half full at 29 minutes)

[luckydoug]

So are the penguins delivered mail order from some company in argentina? Would they cost the same per pound as walrus ? would the eskimo like to have pancakes instead of penguin somedays? so many variables. man how can you answer these questions. What if mcdonald's opens up next year near his home? the eskimo might just go on welfare and switch to a mcdonald's diet. And isn't eskimo a racist word now ? the riddler should be in jail for hate crimes.

[frankkalani]

he may not eat any penguins. just because the 5 1/2 penguins is equal to walruses that doesnt mean the eskimo would eat the penguins. one way to see it.

x within square.

the rope wasnt attached to anything on the other side.

59 easy.

the water would be frozen. easy kids.

[Ocsttiac]

Umm... Question 1 can be answered simply like this: Eskimos and penguins don't live in the same place, they're on opposite sides of the world.

[Reu360]

@Ocsttiac While that is true Eskimo refers to a tribe of Native Americans which today are quite capable of hopping on a plane and flying anywhere in the world. If he can't get walrus then he probably isn't up north, he could be anywhere. Also if he was an especially rich Eskimo he could just order some penguins. This is the more likely case because if the eskimo lived up north and had no outside contact (which would be assumed) then there wouldn't be a comparison between walrus and penguins.

[akamola11]

Answers -

1) 60 , because half a penguin should be counted as one . When was the last time you saw half a penguin fluttering about in antarctica ?

2) Too obvious and too easy

3) The rope was probably attached to the top of a pole or a stronghold slanting over a distance of 30 feet.

4) At 59 minutes (i admit, I used partially used brute force to get this answer, but after I got it, I realised how obvious it was)

5) B

[Ocsttiac]

1) When was the last time you saw a penguin with an eskimo? Penguins live in Antarctica, while eskimos live in the Artic.

2) I'll admit, that question is quite easy.

3) There is a simpler solution: The other end wasn't tied to anything.

4) Correct.

5) No, 10 degrees fahrenheit is ice, whereas 10 degrees centigrade is not ice.

[akamola11]

5) Wait a minute, read your question properly. It says if you have a bucket of water at 10 degrees Celsius and another BUCKET at 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Not ANOTHER BUCKET OF WATER, but ANOTHER BUCKET. Since you haven't clearly mentioned it, I assumed the second bucket was empty.

1) Ok, i guess you got me there.

[liliasmith3]

the answer is none, cause do they not live on different sides of the world?

[xXkoolpersonXx]

nuber five is the centigrade jar, the other one is frozen

[jb1jord]

what are the ansewes?!!!!!!!

[halo3kid98]

my awnsers

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1. 55, i think

2. yes, 2 in a X and one on each side

3. the rope isnt tied to anything else, duh

4. how big was the jar?

5. I have no clue

[secretss]

the answer to question 4 is 59 minutes. the size of the jar does not matter. the bacteria doubles every minute.

the answer to question 5 is the coin dropped in B. it doesn't say bucket B's filled with anything. it's just an empty bucket at a certain temperate.

[siddharam]

Ans 5 : 10 degree Fahrenheit is ICE. The coin will never reach the bottom (unless the temperature increases to melting point, of course)

[e419ruth]

but it never said there was water in bucket B

[Blekwaters]

s. i see that the answers are already up. i hastily misread the post date of the last comments as 2 days ago not 2 weeks.

[Blekwaters]

oh damn, that's it? I was looking forward to more. Well, I will make a note to check back and see how I stack up. I'll wait until then to check out the book referenced earlier. It was just last night that I finally thought, f-it, people have been talking about my lateral thinking for so long that I really should get an authoritative definition and description instead of what I've surmised from referential inference. The wiki article helped, but said it was in need of clean-up.

[Blekwaters]

5 - If you drop the coins at approximately the same time, then 'A'. Freezing temperature of water is 32 degrees fahrenheit (+ or - depending on altitude). Water freezes at 0 degrees centigrade.

[Blekwaters]

4 - The direct and most ubiquitous answer - Before it was full. (even if the initial bacterium occupied 3/4 of the jar at the time it was sealed, the answer would still apply, in that though it may be 3/4 full that 3/4 is inclusive of 1/2, likewise with any volume measurement with an equivelent mass/volume ratio that is less than 1/1 or 100%).

[Blekwaters]

3. It didn't notice me watching it eat from a distance of 50 fifty feet, and thus was able to continue without being distracted.

[Blekwaters]

2 - yes (not taking into account that the variances in mass and length of each matchstick would make it impossible)

[Blekwaters]

1 - (continued)

offset by the unknown variables such as other viable dietary substitutes to walruses (fish, kobe beef, people . . . whatever), their availability (the eskimo may well live in N.Y.C. ever since his family moved there when he was two), may be hormonally intolerant to penguin meat and could only eat a half of one in his life before it killed him . . . ok, let's move on . . .

[Blekwaters]

ok - i'll go with first things off the top of my head -

1 - on average, between 1 & 55 X the number of penguins he would have eaten if there were walruses available, which if was none, then 1 X0 = 55 X 0 = 0,

[thepianonovice]

lol you got that book from lateral thinking puzzles---i have it

[Ocsttiac]

Correct! I did get these from that book.