Alf’s Law

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2. Not dead, but deaf!

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Spot on, Leif and Steve!

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2 The parrot is deaf

Steve

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3. LyraJ’s favourite – ‘nanas

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1] Could it be there is a law against opposites? – I’m not sure how that would work with the pizza though…

5] Did they all start off owing money to other members of the four, and during the night they won the same amount back? Either that or Rudi was playing…

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Wrong on both counts, I’m afraid, Leif.

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Aha!
1] Would I be right in suggesting I can offer coffee but not serve tea?

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Leif and Jezza – You would both be correct but not right.

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[ding!]
In that case, if the four jolly men lived in AlfLand, they would be allowed to play Beethoven but not Mozart!

(Very Edward de Bonio )

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(Edited by bandido on 07-Nov-05 14:56. Grammatical error)

That’s correct – their repertoire includes Classical, Jazz and Reggae but not Rock!

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4. 1 between each

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I’m trying hard to visualise a space between a spoke, but if I get your drift – Yes!

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Rob If I may, I would like to disagree with you but is this a play on words or am I being too literal.

I reckon the answer to 4) is 21

Badly drawn image below:

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which would be…. 1 between each pair

did anyone ever figure out the answer to 5? that one has me

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See here What are they doing?

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Your answer is correct and I assumed that John meant one space between each pair which makes his answer correct, too.

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John is a bit subtle sometimes

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5 squaring the numbers would of course make them higher than the original number they started with: 5, lose 1 dollar -> 4^2 = 16

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Not correct, John.

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I imagine Alf wouldn’t exist but Jezza would

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5. I note that it doesn’t specifically say that the four men are all playing EACH OTHER … could it be that they are all playing in different games against other opponents?

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Hi Cris

They are all playing with each other.

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5)

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I wish I’d thought of that!

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3. autumn or fall depending upon where you live

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Look here Tim

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Yeah – I saw that but took this to mean that it was wrong. I still think that trees dropping their leaves fits the question …

A time when they

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6) The station clock lost 3 minutes compared to Alf’s watch. When Alf got off the train in the morning, there was an +8 minute (station less alf) difference between the station clock and his watch. He changed this to a +5 minute difference at the beginning of the day. The trip to work took 65 minutes. Thus the trip home took 52 minutes so it left 8 minutes late (according to the station clock) but on time according to Alf’s watch. Thus there was a +8 minute difference at the end of the day. Naturally, all of this assumes that I didn’t stuff something up and, also, that some other clever dick hasn’t answered it already.

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Nice one, Tim. You’ve put this puzzle to rest and keep on smiling a lot.

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