Whats your favourite CONUNDRUM ?

[Easy 10]

In one to five you’ll see me round
But six I’m never seen.
And seven, when it’s tipping down.
I’m rarely ever clean.

When you look up, I’m in the skies,
Look down I’m not all there.
But if you close your little eyes,
You’ll see I’m everywhere.

WHAT AM I?

 

[Badger]

To be pedantic - he may not be a dwarf - you don't know how high the buttons are, and Dwarfism is a very particular condition.

It's because if you pick an empty door the first time (which you have a 2/3 chance of doing) then the host HAS to pick the one remaining empty door so the likelihood is that by switching you will pick the car.

 

[Simster]

Always change, mathematically it makes a difference, even though it seems like it shouldn't. Can't remember the exact explanation offhand.

Yep, it's down to what assumptions you are making:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_hall_problem


"Contestants who switch have a 2/3 chance of winning the car, while contestants who stick have only a 1/3 chance. One way to see this is to notice that there is a 2/3 chance that the initial choice of the player is a door hiding a goat. When that is the case, the host is forced to open the other goat door, and the remaining closed door hides the car. "Switching" only fails to give the car when the player had initially picked the door hiding the car, which only happens one third of the time."

 

[Tricky Dicky]

This whole situation is outrageous. Does this company, or indeed the building management company have no kind of accessibility policies in place. This is discriminatory, and your colleague should really be talking to your HR department about some kind of resolution.

I think that's a different conundrum ... how to get an proper answer out of HR and get something done.

 

[father_and_son]

one in three chance if you always stick (to win you must pick right first time from the 3 doors)

two in three chance if you always swap (to win you must choose an empty door first, doesn't matter which, then Monty must show you the other empty door and so the car is behind the third)

 

[Return of the Rev]

A football club has a stadium with 31,000 seats,They have a football match at which 26,000 attend but there are 7,000 empty seats?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

My son loves these... i'm going to pass the ones he's not seen on to him.

 

[Nathan]

In one to five you’ll see me round
But six I’m never seen.
And seven, when it’s tipping down.
I’m rarely ever clean.

When you look up, I’m in the skies,
Look down I’m not all there.
But if you close your little eyes,
You’ll see I’m everywhere.

WHAT AM I?[/QUOTE]

Drunk?

 

[Gwylan]

A football club has a stadium with 31,000 seats,They have a football match at which 26,000 attend but there are 7,000 empty seats?

The rest are queuing for beer and pies? ...

 

[MattBackHome]

My son loves these... i'm going to pass the ones he's not seen on to him.

Don't bother passing on my one to him - it's a complete load of gonads that I've just made up.

 

[banjo]

If it's not the day after Monday or the day before Thursday, and it isn't Sunday tomorrow, and it wasn't Sunday yesterday, and the day after tomorrow isn't Saturday, and the day before yesterday wasn' t Wednesday, what day is it?

 

[tomfitz12]

A football club has a stadium with 31,000 seats,They have a football match at which 26,000 attend but there are 7,000 empty seats?

the stewards wont like it. but are there 2000 standing?

 

[Shy Talk]

To be pedantic - he may not be a dwarf - you don't know how high the buttons are, and Dwarfism is a very particular condition.

Sorry titch. My response was a question, not a statement.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

If it's not the day after Monday or the day before Thursday, and it isn't Sunday tomorrow, and it wasn't Sunday yesterday, and the day after tomorrow isn't Saturday, and the day before yesterday wasn' t Wednesday, what day is it?

Sunday

 

[banjo]

Sunday

Correct.

 

[banjo]

How many cats are in a small room if in each of the four corners a cat is sitting, and opposite each cat there sit 3 cats, and at each cat's tail a cat is sitting?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

If it's not the day after Monday or the day before Thursday, and it isn't Sunday tomorrow, and it wasn't Sunday yesterday, and the day after tomorrow isn't Saturday, and the day before yesterday wasn' t Wednesday, what day is it?

Sunday?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Paul is 20 years old in 2013, but only 15 years old in 2018. How is this possible?

 

[Postman Pat]

There has been a power cut and all the street lights are off. In the middle of the road there is a black cat. A car is driving down the road with it's lights off, but still manages to see the cat and swerves to avoid it.

How did the driver see the cat?

 

[keaton]

This whole situation is outrageous. Does this company, or indeed the building management company have no kind of accessibility policies in place. This is discriminatory, and your colleague should really be talking to your HR department about some kind of resolution.

Also it must take the small chap ages to walk up 35th floors, with his smaller legs and dwarve's lack of stamina. It would be better for him in the meantime just to wait for someone else to come along who wants to use the lift