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Bingo – we have a winner. Thx Hans – [veryverybigbowlorbagofwhateveryouwantheadingyourway]

look at the ‘wopr’ part on the address line. The left one is (to me) sharper. It appears to get a shadow, or just stands out better.

Here is my solution (in cents)

apples	23
oranges	17
plums	26
figs	21
tomatoes	26
cherry	4

Hans – I like it – an answer that I didn’t expect, have a [bigbowlofsoup] as a reward!
Jezza #1 – no idea what you are talking about with your first post, I can just hear you now … “nothing new there”
Jezza #2 – yes, the answer that I was expecting, just one question, how can 18 be right – it is even not odd?

As well as a puzzle, this thread is becoming a competition to reference the same post as many times as possible …

look here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here

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.

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

I have instructed Mr Rosebleed at my bank to provide full service, access, etc to a Mr Jezza providing he can show the required physical key, preferably constructed of lollypops but anything from tooth picks to railway sleepers would be sufficient. I have further instructed Mr Rosebleed that under no circumstances is he to let any person that looks like a little girl carrying bread into the building (naturally, for his own safety).

babushka?

3. autumn or fall depending upon where you live

9668 is my bank machine pin number and the others are not?

ok, ok, ok – I was looking for “send one pill from each bottle to the lab for testing.”

However, I don’t know what this is … a Newton’s Cradle … I understood the part about Jezza and paddle-pop sticks, but Issac’s Cradle???

I found this but would that work with heavy (or not so heavy) pills?

Steve – correct for

Re C) – I don’t think that sticking the bottles in water will work if the bottles all sink. The bottles are all the same size and will displace the same amount of water. It is a good answer if the bottles don’t fully sink – however, isn’t is close to weighing? Can you think of another solution?

I have my rudi hat on and I am thinking of a specific answer that you have to try and work out – lol

(Edited by Ruff_Hi on 06-Nov-05 07:50. Added the weight of the contaminated pills in )

I was visiting my half sister (the one who owns the rattle snake, not the one with the short leg) the other day. She had three sets of nine bottles, each bottle with 20 pills in it. One bottle from each set contained pills that are contaminated (ie they are too heavy). She also has some measuring scales (the balance type like the blind lady justice).

A) Find the heavy bottle from the first set using no more than two measures on the scales

Find the heavy bottle from the second set (these pills are heavy by 5% – weighing 105 milligrams) using no more than one measure on the scales

C) Find the heavy bottle from the third set without using the scales.

Stuart – spot on.
Leif – interesting but I don’t think that is an single weighing either (thinking about it, I don’t think I have given you enough info in the original post – see above)