Anyone know the answer?

[valleydaz]

"You have a glass of wine and a glass of water, the same size and filled to the same level. Take a teaspoon of wine, put it into the water glass and mix it. Then take a teaspoon of the mixture and put it into the wine glass. Is there now more wine in the water glass or more water in the wine glass?"

[Duffbeer]

More wine in the water glass.

[valleydaz]

not quite

[lockwood1956]

Did the teaspoon of wine come from the glass of wine?

you didn't specify...it would make a difference

[valleydaz]

Did the teaspoon of wine come from the glass of wine?

you didn't specify...it would make a difference

you only have a glass of wine and one of water, so the teaspoon wine can only come from the glass of wine.

[valleydaz]

or can you get this one?

A dragon and knight live on an island. This island has seven poisoned wells, numbered 1 to 7. If you drink from a well, you can only save yourself by drinking from a higher numbered well. Well 7 is located at the top of a high mountain, so only the dragon can reach it.

One day they decide that the island isn't big enough for the two of them, and they have a duel. Each of them brings a glass of water to the duel, they exchange glasses, and drink. After the duel, the knight lives and the dragon dies.

Why did the knight live? Why did the dragon die?

[Richard S]

Errrrr, the knight drank from well 5, cured himself from well 6 then pi**ed in the glass?

[Richard S]

"You have a glass of wine and a glass of water, the same size and filled to the same level. Take a teaspoon of wine, put it into the water glass and mix it. Then take a teaspoon of the mixture and put it into the wine glass. Is there now more wine in the water glass or more water in the wine glass?"

There is the same amount of water in each glass.

[valleydaz]

well done richard, there is the same amount of wine in the water glass as there is water in the wine glass.

and i think the answer to the other one is that the knight had all ready drunk his drink so when he gets the drink from the dragon he cures himself. The dragon on the other hand probabally drunk pee from the knight, and thinking it was poison drunk from well 7 to cure himself but died instead.

[valleydaz]

an easy one;

I am greater than God, and more evil than the devil. Poor people have me. Rich people want me. And if you eat me, you'll die. What am I?

[Richard S]

I have nothing to say

[Richard S]

Here's one for you to chew over for the next 20 years or so.

Imagine a conveyor belt the size of a runway. At one end sits a jet aircraft waiting to take off, the pilot revs the engines up and lets the brakes off. As the aircraft moves forward the conveyor moves in the opposite direction matching the speed of the plane. As the plane picks up speed, so does the conveyor.

The question is, can the aicraft take off?

[Richard S]

And while you are pondering the one above, try this one, very simple.

There is a rope ladder hanging over the side of a ship. Each of the rungs of the ladder are a metre apart. The tide rises at the rate of 80 centimetres an hour. How many rungs are covered after four hours?

[Rich]

Here's one for you to chew over for the next 20 years or so.

Imagine a conveyor belt the size of a runway. At one end sits a jet aircraft waiting to take off, the pilot revs the engines up and lets the brakes off. As the aircraft moves forward the conveyor moves in the opposite direction matching the speed of the plane. As the plane picks up speed, so does the conveyor.

The question is, can the aicraft take off?

Aircraft can't take off. It's forward motion 'speed' is relative to the conveyor belt. The aircraft's velocity is still zero. As it has no forward airspeed, the wings will produce no lift and it won't get airborne.

[Rich]

And while you are pondering the one above, try this one, very simple.

There is a rope ladder hanging over the side of a ship. Each of the rungs of the ladder are a metre apart. The tide rises at the rate of 80 centimetres an hour. How many rungs are covered after four hours?

The same amount of rungs are covered after 4 hours, as the ship will rise with the tide.

That's a big ladder...