MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Ok.. *you are daft*

but I love you

1 1 was a racehorse
2 2 was 1 2
1 1 1 1 race
2 2 1 1 2

Where is Emm? She's very good at solving riddles.

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

this one is hell hard

ZombieKitten said:

"One One" was a racehorse
"Two Two" was one too
"One One" won one race
"Two Two" won one too

...or did I get the horses' names wrong?

retina said:

it wasn't really a riddle just a rhyme we used to say in primary school

ZombieKitten said:

And here I thought I had solved it.

retina said:

you did!

ZombieKitten said:

Now solve mine!

retina said:

I think the answer is your phone number!

ZombieKitten said:

Dial it when you figure it out.

...or you might want to re-read the second clue. I basically gave it away there!
[Edited 3/10/07 17:46pm]

retina said:

1113213211

(1--one
11--^1 one
21--^2 ones
1211--^1 two, 1 one
111221--^1 one, 1 two, 2 ones
312211--^3 ones, 2 twos, 1 one
13112221--^1 three, 1 one, 2 twos, 2 ones)


(the 5 gallon/3 gallon bucket one still doesn't make sense to me. If you fill the 3 gallon bucket twice that's 6 gallons so 1 gallon will overflow when you pour it in the 5 gallon bucket. And if you're gonna do that, why not just fill the 5 gallon bucket once? )

jone70 said:

What?

jone70 said:

Finally! Good work!




I'm not sure what you mean by "why not just fill the 5 gallon bucket once"? What would that accomplish?

And the 1 gallon won't overflow, you'll save it in the 3 bucket, then empty the 5 bucket and then pour the 1 gallon into the 5 bucket, plus another full 3 bucket.

Stymie said:

That's the password! What what? The number riddle or the bucket?

The number thing is just using numerals instead of words to write the number of numbers in the line.
For example:
111221
312211

think about it like this: 111221--there are 3 ones, 2 twos, and one 1 in this line. So the next line is 3 1's, 2 2s, 1 1-->312211

jone70 said:

Oh!!! Thanks.

So do you understand the gallon thing now, jone70?

retina said:

Oh I get it now. I misunderstood what she was saying...I thought she meant pour all the water into the 5 gallon bucket and dump out the leftover in the 3 gallon bucket and dump out the 5 gallon, too.

damn, my brain hurts now...and I have to translate some stuff into French tonight for a tour I'm giving tomorrow...

jone70 said:

Well I'm impressed that you solved the number thing. No other orger could do it.

So what can I offer you as first prize?

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retina said:

l'aide avec mon traduire francais? (je sais que tu le parles, non?)



j/k It won't be that bad, they will have one native French speaker who speaks English, and one native English speaker who speaks French, and me, who speaks franglais badly so I'll manage. It's just that the group is super VIP I wanted to greet them in French to impress them.
[Edited 3/10/07 18:22pm]