Conundrums XII

331. Four friends -Ard Huizer, Ben Klein, Cor Nelissen and Dik Stravers - have each rented a car during their holiday. The cars are parked side by side on the car park next to the hotel. Their registration plates are: DIK-6164, ARD-2084, COR-8844 BEN-4534. Cor notices that no one has his own name on the plates of his rental car and suggests swapping cars. Ard takes a good look and then remarks, "From the numbers you can make out whose car it is". Nobody understood him. Do you? If so, which car was Ard driving? How can you tell?	Answer 19
332. There are two men sitting in the park. Abe brought 5 sausage rolls en Bernard brought 3 sausage rolls. Cedric comes along and asks if they would share the rolls between the three of them. And they did, each got 2 2/3 sausage roll. When Cedric is finished he leaves eight gold pieces to pay for the rolls. Now Abe says, "I should get seven gold pieces and you, Bernard, should get one, since I gave 7/3 of my sausages away and you 1/3." "No," Bernard replies, "you gave +/- 47% of your food and I gave +/- 11% of my food, so you get +/- 4.2 times as much gold, but not seven times as much. Let's melt the gold!" Who is right and why?	Answer 19
333. Two people are playing a game. "I am thinking of a number under 100". "Me too" said the other one. They both told each other their numbers. "Thats remarkable" said the first one, "If if we add our numbers and square the result we get a four digit number whose first two digits are your number and whose last two digits are my number." "Wow, thats fantastic, and I have just thought of another example. "Yep, and I think those are the only two cases when it occurs". What were the two cases?	Answer 19
334. Which word from group B belongs with the words from group A? A. blast, paper, box, bank B. juice, bag, cradle, carpet	Answer 19
335. Place the words, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve, into a 6x6 grid, like a wordsearch puzzle.	Answer 19
336. George Bernard Shaw once coined the frase "ghoti". Can you pronouce it the way he intended it?	Answer 19
337. Maverick placed a standard six-sided die on the table top. He noted the number of spots on the top face of the die and wrote this number down on a blank sheet of paper. He then tipped the die onto one of its sides, so that one of the four adjacent faces was on top, and wrote down the number of spots on this face. He repeated this operation until the same number of spots appeared on the top face of the die as when he started. Including this final face, he wrote down a total of nine numbers. The product of the nine numbers was exactly ten times the sum of the nine numbers. Give all nine numbers in the order in which they appeared.	Answer 19
338. Horace says, "2 x 10 = 2 x 11 is a true statement". How does he explain it?	Answer 19
339. 1. Which English word does not change pronunciation when you remove 4 out of 6 letters? 2. Which English word does not change pronunciation when the ice smelts away? 3. Which English word does not change pronunciation when you remove 5 out of 7 letters? 4. Which English word does not change pronunciation when you remove 3 out of 5 letters?	Answer 19
340. A man gets an unsigned letter telling him to go to the local graveyard at midnight. He does not generally pay attention to such things, but complies out of curiosity. Is just a five minute walk from his house. It is a deathly still night lighted by a thin crescent moon. The man stations himself in front of his family's ancestral crypt. The man is about to leave when he hears scraping footsteps. He yells out, but no one answers. The next morning, the caretaker finds the man dead in front of the crypt, a hideous grin on his face. The question: Did the man vote for Teddy Roosevelt in the 1904 U.S. presidential election?	Answer 19
341. Two candles, one of which was two cm longer than the other, were lit for Halloween. The longer and thinner one was lit at 4 p.m. and the shorter but fatter one was lit 15 minutes later. Each candle burned at a steady rate, and by 8 pm both were the same length. The thinner one finally burned out at midnight, and the fatter one an hour later. How long was each candle originally?	Answer 19
342. There is this escalator that is coming down and two guys start together at some point of time. But they also walk down on the steps. One guy is three times faster than the other guy. That means by the time slower guy goes one step down, the faster guy would have covered 3 steps. By the time the faster guy reaches the floor, he would have covered 90 steps and our slower pal covers 60 steps before he hits the floor. How many steps are visual when the escalator is not running?	Answer 19
343. After taking the Metro to Trafalgar square in London, Betty reached street level by walking up the escalator at a leisurely rate, taking only 24 steps during the trip to the top. Suddenly curious about the length of the escalator, Betty returned to the bottom and walked up the same escalator briskly, taking steps twice as often as on the first trip - 42 steps in all. How many steps are visual when the escalator is not running?	Answer 19
344. An escalator goes up one step per second. A boy can run up at 2 steps per second. If there were 24 steps between floors, how long would it take him to run up the moving escalator?	Answer 19
345. On one of the escalators on the Paris Metro, Harriet finds that if she walks down 26 steps she needs 30 seconds to get to the bottom, but if on another trip she makes 34 steps, then she needs only 18 seconds to reach the bottom. If the time is measured from the instant that the top step begins to descend until the time Harriet steps off the last step at the bottom onto the level platform, what is the height of the stairway in steps? How many seconds does it take the escalator to travel one step?	Answer 19
346. A woman is walking down a downward-moving escalator and steps down 10 steps to reach the bottom. Just as she reaches the bottom of the escalator, a sale commences on the floor above. She runs back up the downward moving escalator at a speed five times that which she walked down. She covers 25 steps in reaching the top. How many steps are visible on the escalator when it is switched off?	Answer 19
347. You have one bag labeled 'red marbles', one bag labeled 'blue marbles'', and one bag labeled 'red en blue marbles'. You can't see in or through the bags. You must take one marble from one of the three bags and then deduct how to label the bags correctly. How do you do it?	Answer 19
348. In sector Xmzy2003 a wormhole has become unstable. "Someone here has caused an anomaly in the quantum flux," the Space physicist said annoyed. The assistants Mik and Mak both shrug their shoulders, and hastily add, "I didn't do it." "Hmm," the physicist says, "someone is not telling the truth. Each of you must place your middle fingers in the True-or-not-True-Analyser." The device whirs and tinkles for a minute - it's almost an antique - and then the data appears on the display. 'KLISNO' it reads. "darn, out of space and time" the physicist grumbles, "now I'll have to fix that too!" Who of the two assistants flooped the flux, and how do you know?	Answer 19
349. 100 Inmates, each in one cell. They may get together one time to discuss the best strategy. After that no communication is allowed. They can't hear, or see each other. When the warden comes, he takes one inmate at random from his cell and leads him to a room with a lamp and switch. The inmate can turn the lamp on or off, or leave it the way it was. After that the inmate is brought back to his cell. When all inmates at least have visited the room with the lamp and one inmate says "we all have visited the lamp" they all are going to be set free. But if an inmate got it wrong they all die. a. What should de the inmates do to get free as soon as possible? b. What is the best strategy if the inmates know who is the first inmate to enter the room?	Answer Answer 19
350.Two ferry boats started simultaneously from opposite sides of a river and one being faster than the other, they met 720 yards from the shore. Each boat remained 30 minutes in its slip to change passengers and started on its return trip. It was found that they met again on the return trip 400 yards from the other shore. What is the width of the river?	Answer 19
351. How many digits appear before the first comma in a Googol Plex? (Assuming every 3 digits from the right are separated by a comma, and assuming that a googol plex is a 1 followed by a googol zeros, and a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros.)	Answer 19
352. Mary loves knights but hate wizards, she loves writing but hates typing, she loves listening but hate singing, she loves unknown authors but hates famous authors.	Answer 19
353. On a cold winter's morning postman Pat is doing his rounds. The snow is frozen and it is hard to walk. Halfway through his round he accidentally drops a letter in the snow, and while he tries to catch it, the brisk movement makes him pirouette before landing hard on the frosty ground. Ouch! SN-OW It was not just 'a letter' that fell. Which letter fell in the snow and caused him to cry out in pain?	Answer 19
354. Spick spank down on the bank 10 against 4	Answer 19
355. In the darkness I lie, ready to snare that which goes by. In the light I am dark, Once with me you shall never disembark. With a heart of steel, Life of things I steal. All around me is power, one which you cannot see. I was once over-reactive, But now I am much more attractive. I once possessed a whiter feature, but now I am a fallen creature	Answer 19
356. How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?	Answer 19

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