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Riddles:A drop in a Bucket & Codes

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Jake.

RIDDLE: crack the code

Can you translate the following?

yyuryyubicuryy4me

 

ANSWER :

 Too wise (YY= too wise) you are,
Too wise you be;
I see you are,
Too wise for me.

RIDDLE: bowling balls in buckets

If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass,and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?

ANSWER:

 The ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down…

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