Clever mental quiz (for a wet evening)

Shows that "people believe what they want" is only half true.

what if you are colour blind?

You are off the huek.

I must be odd then, 'cause I managed to perceive the colour without taking into account the misleading nature of the word. It's as simple as relaxing your eyes and letting the colours flow.

Are you left-handed?

I scored 18/18.

Are you left-footed?

Got them all right (I think) but I got slower towards the end

Gary 111 wrote:I scored 18/18.

Yes, but how long did you take?

Just defocus. Simply matter of mental discipline.

I just took my glasses off.

I got 17/18.

Missed out on a red coloured "Green". I guessed yellow.

Do I have to wait for it to rain to do the quiz?

Yes.

I'll have to wait a week (at least) to do it then ...unless the wozzie weathermen are lying again

You have two water jugs. One is a 5 litre jug and the other is a 3 litre jug. You have access to as much water as you want. How do you get exactly 4 litres?

No guessing of amounts allowed. Your life depends on getting exactly 4 litres.

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:Just defocus. Simply matter of mental discipline.

Anyone can complete the task, FG. The objective of this experiment is to show that it takes longer to read correctly when the colours don't match the words.

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:You have two water jugs. One is a 5 litre jug and the other is a 3 litre jug. You have access to as much water as you want. How do you get exactly 4 litres?

No guessing of amounts allowed. Your life depends on getting exactly 4 litres.

Fill the 3 litre jug, then pour it into the 5 litre jug. Fill the 3 litre jug again and pour as much as you can into the 5 litre jug, leaving you with 1 litre in the 3 litre jug. Empty the 5 litre jug again and then pour the 1 litre from the 3 litre jug into the empty 5 litre jug. Fill the empty 3 litre jug again and then pour it into the 5 litre jug, leaving you with 4 litres.

Thank you, Knights of the Old Republic.

Lateral thinking sucks!

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:You have two water jugs. One is a 5 litre jug and the other is a 3 litre jug. You have access to as much water as you want. How do you get exactly 4 litres?

No guessing of amounts allowed. Your life depends on getting exactly 4 litres.

Fill the 5er.

Use it to fill the 3er.

Empty the 3er.

Pour the remaining 2 in the 5er into the 3er.

Refill the 5er.

Top up the 3er from the 5er (losing 1 from the 5er)

You have your 4 left in the 5er.


Just make sure you don't spill any of your load at any point.

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:You have two water jugs. One is a 5 litre jug and the other is a 3 litre jug. You have access to as much water as you want. How do you get exactly 4 litres?

No guessing of amounts allowed. Your life depends on getting exactly 4 litres.

Somebody's watched Die Hard 3...

Specially for filo, a baffling quiz.

1. What's the best way to get down from an elephant?

2. How can you stop moles digging in your garden?

3. What looks like a horse, moves like a horse, and is as big as a horse, but isn't a horse?

4. Would you rather a lion attack you, or a tiger?

5. What kind of dog has legs but never runs?

6. Where are all men equally handsome?

7. How can you make a person go fourteen whole days without sleep?

8. If you take two apples away from five apples, how many apples do you have?

9. If you had two apples and five oranges in one hand, and three oranges and four apples in the other, what would you have?

10. A farmer had four haystacks in one field, twice as many in his second field and twice and twice as many again in his third field. He decided to put all his haystacks together in the first field. How many haystacks were there in that field?

11. A Muslim living in England cannot normally be buried on Church ground even if he or she has converted to Christianity. Why is this so?

12. If an alternative word for "mail" is spelt P-O-S-T and a simpler word for "the majority" is spelt M-O-S-T, then how do you spell the stuff you put in your toaster?

Vilkrang and Peter are right of course. Two different ways to get there. And no, I've never seen any of the Die Hard films. My mate asked me it in the pub. I can't imagine how they managed to work that puzzle into the plot of a film like Die Hard. Do tell the scenario.

Here's another:

You have 9 identical looking Gold bars. One is a fake. The fake one weighs sightly less than the rest but it is impossible to tell by hand. You have a set of scales. You are only allowed to use the scales twice - i.e. two weighs. How do you find the fake one?

Dello wrote:

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:You have two water jugs. One is a 5 litre jug and the other is a 3 litre jug. You have access to as much water as you want. How do you get exactly 4 litres?

No guessing of amounts allowed. Your life depends on getting exactly 4 litres.

Somebody's watched Die Hard 3...

Exactly what I thought!

I would need three weighs for 9.

So I give up.