Small puzzle solving...

[geekynerd]

1)8&1 go 1st-8hrs
2)1 comes back - 1hr
3)4&1 go-4hrs
4)1 comes back - 1hr
5)2&1 go- 2hrs
so total=16hrs

so geeky no
bye

[Kulta Kulcha]

This `riddle\' has been circulating in email for years now, in various forms of words, and had appeared in print media before that. Dictionary and reference departments the world over have been plagued by questions about it. It seems to have originated as a trick question, but the wording has become so garbled in subsequent transmission that it is hard to tell what was originally intended. The most probable answer is that, in the original wording, the question was phrased something like this:

Think of words ending in -gry. `Angry\' and `hungry\' are two of them. What is the third word in the English language? You use it every day, and if you were listening carefully, I\'ve just told you what it is.
The answer, of course, is `language\' (the third word in `the English language\').

There are several other English words ending in -gry which are listed in the complete Oxford English Dictionary, but none of them could be described as common. They include the trivial oddities un-angry and a-hungry, and

aggry: aggry beads, according to various 19th-century writers, are coloured glass beads found buried in the ground in parts of Africa.
begry: a 15th-century spelling of beggary.
conyngry: a 17th-century spelling of the obsolete word conynger, meaning `rabbit warren\', which survives in old English field names such as `Conery\' and `Coneygar\'.
gry: the name for a hundredth of an inch in a long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably pronounced to rhyme with `cry\').
higry-pigry: an 18th-century rendition of the drug hiera picra.
iggry: an old army slang word meaning `hurry up\', borrowed from Arabic.
meagry: a rare obsolete word meaning `meagre-looking\'.
menagry: an 18th-century spelling of menagerie.
nangry: a rare 17th-century spelling of angry.
podagry: a 17th-century spelling of podagra, a medical term for gout.
puggry: a 19th-century spelling of the Hindi word pagri (in English usually puggaree or puggree), referring either to a turban or to a piece of cloth worn around a sun-helmet.
skugry: 16th-century spelling of the dialect word scuggery meaning `secrecy\' (the faint echo of `skulduggery\' is quite accidental!).

[ashish]

it must be \"Language\".. rite i suppose.....

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

Some words end with \'gry\' - Hungry and Angry are two of them. There are three words in The English Language. What is the third word?

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

They were born in the same year say about eleven months apart.

[ashish]

Using a balance scale and four weights you must be able to balance any integer load from 1 to 40. How much should each of the four weights weigh?

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

The operating doctor is the kid\'s mom.

[Kishore]

One more: A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says \"I can\'t operate on this boy, he is my son!\" How can this be?

[Kishore]

All right - here goes: A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

[ashish]

It can be this way too...
1. 1 & 2 go, 2 hrs ; 2. 2 returns, 2 hrs; 3. 4 & 8 go, 8 hrs; 4. 1 returns, 1 hr; 5. 1 & 2 go, 2 hrs
in total 2+2+8+1+2 = 15 hrs..

[lucifer_in_dsiguise]

Kudos, bravo Kishore...u got it rite, I knew the answer would be instantaneous from a real hyderabadi....cheers!!!
why dont you put up some interesting puzzles for my weekend and way back home now???thanks

[Kishore]

1. 1 & 2 go, 2 hrs <br>2. 1 returns, 1 hr <br>3. 4 & 8 go, 8 hrs<br>4. 2 returns, 2 hrs<br>5. 1 & 2 go, 2 hrs<br> Total: 2+1+8+2+2 = 15 hrs

[lucifer_in_dsiguise]

and whats up 10,000 hyderabadis that visit this site every minute!!!!, no one comming out with an answer?????

[lucifer_in_dsiguise]

no buddy ....all the 4 can go in still lesser time.....try once again!!!!

[lucifer_in_dsiguise]

I am no one to quiz you, or am not a certifying agency for ur IQ, just wanna share some puzzle solving...look below for the Q...n ya pls along with the answer give your own puzzles...thx
question 1
4 men have different rowing times of 1,2,4,8 hrs respectively to cross a river.
what is the min time reqd for all the 4 to cross one end to other?
Conditions:
1)they have one only one boat
2)only tow ppl can travel in the boat at a time
3)the person who has the maximum rowing time should row always...
solution steps are to be shown please...

[Ucchu Mian]

Kulta - tumhari jankari ki tareef zaroor karunga...

[Srinu]

for the first puzzle (and similar kinds of puzzles).. the trick is clubbing the higher time taking elements together.
observing the solution you can see that 8 & 4 were clubbed together.

[Kishore]

Nope - they\'re two of triplets!

[lucifer_in_dsiguise]

hi ashish, i probably dont get the question right,
so in ur Q u asked as to how we can measure say 1 gm to 40 gms, by using any of the or all of the 4 weights???
could you be more specific.....i did\'nt get it ///thx

[lucifer_in_dsiguise]

in the mean one more puzzle...Q)
2 dynamite wires which are of different lengths and different material, but have the same burning time(from one end to other) of 60 mins each............using these 2 wires how can you measure a time of 45 mins?

[V]

Hi,

Fold one wire in half and the other wire in 4 parts. Burn the first and when half of it is burnt means 30 ins has elapsed; then start burning the other. When the 1st quarter of the 2nd wire is burnt, that means 45 mins has elapsed since burning the 1st wire.
Sahi bola kya mayn?

[V]

Pls recollect basic differentiation that you may have learnt in intermediate. This puzzle had me stumped. But its a trick question.
Obvious that m+m+m+m... (m times) = m^2 (that is \'m squared)
Now differentiate both side with resp to m, and set m equal to 1, that gives 1=2 ! Whats wrong?

[lucifer_in_disguise]

OK....i forgot to say that the wires burn unequally , so you cannot really fold them, say for example 99% of one wire takes one minute to burn and the other 1% of the wire takes 59 mins to burn, like this any combination is possible, and hence you cannot really fold the wire or cut the wire, since length of the wire does not determine the time..........so please try once again...