Test your IQ with this situation:

There is a mute who wants to buy a toothbrush.

By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done.

Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself?

Think and then scroll down for the answer.

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He just has to open his mouth and ask, so simple.

On a side notice, sorry if I post too much... just got internet connection after 3 months of absence

Ahh riddle time.

On your travels you come upon a door. A plaque on the doors reads "one and only one speaks truth".
As you enter the room the door magically disappear behind you. In the room you see 4 creatures; an elf, a human, an orc and a dwarf. Behind them you can see two more doors. One of pure silver and one of gold. They start to speak
Human: "Yesterday Bulwar told me the silver door leads to safety."
Orc: "The Elf always speaks truth."
Elf: "I am not Bulwar."
Dwarf: "Of course not. I am Bulwar."
And as they finish they also vanish, leaving you alone to ponder upon which door to pick.
Which door do you pick and why?

[ 06-21-2005, 07:18 PM: Message edited by: mad=dog ]

heh almost had me... I thought about it for 2 seconds, and then hey, thats a trick question... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Anyway here is a related joke.

A blind man enters a hardware store, with his seeing eye dog, he picks up the dog and starts swinging hime around. The store clerk goes to him and asks, "can I help you?"
"No we are just looking around".

[img]smile.gif[/img]

You take the gold door. If the human is telling the truth, the person who told him to take the silver door was lying. The Orc can't be telling the truth because there is only one honest person; if the orc was telling the truth, the elf would also be telling the truth. The elf can't be telling the truth because that would make the orc's statement true; see above. If the dwarf is telling the truth, that still means that the human lied about their prior conversation and so you should do the opposite of whatever the human says Bulwar said. Ergo... the gold door.

Hey I didn't go through that entire process of thinking but I DID choose the gold door because it was the only logical choice :D

Oh yeah, the blind man. He may ask for sunglasses, however he does nor require them in the slightest.

[ 06-21-2005, 08:15 PM: Message edited by: Kynaeus ]

he might be buying them for someone else [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Precisely. Or to elaborate
If the Orc is telling the truth so is the Elf, which cannot be true. Ergo the Orc lies.
If the Orcs statement is a lie we know that the Elf is lying. Ergo is the Elf is named Bulwar.
If the Elf is Bulwar the Dwarf is lying.
Leaving no alternatives the Humans statement is true. However (and that is the trick) the answer is still the gold door. Bulwar is a lying Elf remember [img]smile.gif[/img] . Illuminas "short-cut" is perfectly valid - you don't need to know who Bulwar is.

A little twist on an age-old riddle.

What is the logic to the following series of numbers?

(4) (14) (11,14) (31,14) (13,21,14) (31,13,12,14) (23,41,12,14)

This one should be simple. All you have to do is think about it for second, or if you played a certain game you may also have figured it out.

[ 06-21-2005, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: Firestormalpha ]

22,13,24,31

For a moment I thought it was 12,13,14,21,12,11,14, but the the sixth term proved that wrong.