Guess My Riddles

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  1. .difuzeD

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    If you hadn't read my edited post before I edited it, I said they slipped on an ice cube causing one to fall and another to get knocked over and fall in such a way that both of them died?
     
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    Window open or closed?

    btw, after this, I have some damn hard ones for you Rena, if you want a good challenge...
     
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    The window was open and the room only contained and only ever did contain those objects I mentioned on the last page.
     
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    Any type of noxious gas coming in through the window? lol.
     
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    Romeo knocked Juliet in the head with the ice cube, and Romeo killed himself by jumping up and falling head first.

    ^^ Don't take that seroiusly.
     
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    I have to go now so the answer is:

    Romeo and Juliet were fish, they were in the bowl on the table, a gust of wind from the window caused the bowl to fall off, which is why they died and had the water beneath them :)
     
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    ok, Rena, you ready for some thinkers? I got the next couple of puzzles...

    btw... good riddle with the fish and all...
     
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    nvm, was reading the wrong page. :P
     
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    Here we go...

    Rachel and David are twins; Rachel is the OLDER twin. Assume they were born immediately after each other, an infinitesimally small - but nonzero - amount of time apart. During a year in the course of their lives, Rachel celebrates her birthday two days AFTER David does. How is this possible?

    Bonus: What is the maximum amount of time by which Rachel and David can be apart in their birthday celebrations during the same year?

    Note: For both Rachel and David, these birthday celebrations happen on the actual birthday date -- it cannot be a celebration that occurs at a date earlier or later than the actual birthday date for whatever reasons of convenience. Also, the solution has nothing to do with the theory of relativity or any other over complicated nonsense like that.
     
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    damn, that is a hard one. :P
     
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    Rena said to get some harder ones here. I'm just trying to oblige...lol
     
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    Rachel and David are twins; Rachel is the OLDER twin. Assume they were born immediately after each other, an infinitesimally small - but nonzero - amount of time apart. During a year in the course of their lives, Rachel celebrates her birthday two days AFTER David does. How is this possible?

    Bonus: What is the maximum amount of time by which Rachel and David can be apart in their birthday celebrations during the same year?

    Note: For both Rachel and David, these birthday celebrations happen on the actual birthday date -- it cannot be a celebration that occurs at a date earlier or later than the actual birthday date for whatever reasons of convenience. Also, the solution has nothing to do with the theory of relativity or any other over complicated nonsense like that.





    1. Leap Year + International Date Line
    2. 3 Days

    I Believe
     
  13. ShneakySquirrel

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    Hrmmm.... this is good. It has something to do with a leap year, but I can't get it....

    I'm thinking that Rachel was born on February 29th at the last possible second the day occurred, and David was born on March 1st. The maximum time she could have celebrated that birthday was 3 years and 364 minutes and 23:59 hours later.
     
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    Eh, good on ya. I figured it would've taken a bit more time to solve that one. Everyone ready for the next???

    btw, Rena and Shneaky got it...
     
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    Let's see it.
     

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