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A blacksmith has many apprentices working for him, and as a reoccurring game, every so week one of them succeeds at forging a key to let loose his pet monkey. The monkey goes wild, throwing stuff and breaking things until the blacksmith finally recages him and puts on a different lock. The ordeal has become costly. The blacksmith scolds the apprintices and makes them do the monkey catching, and puts them to extra work. The apprentices do find the extra work bothersome, yet they continue to pick the locks, releasing the monkey. The blacksmith is at his wit's end. He makes more and more complex locks, but everytime, one of his apprentices succeeds in solving it. The blacksmith asks for your advice. What should he do? He doesn't want to sell his pet monkey, nor does he have another place for it to stay.
View AnswerLeave the key hanging on a string in front of the cage. The apprentices will no longer pick the lock. (It would no longer take any skill to release the monkey. If someone releases the monkey, it would be without bragging rights, and everyone would just be mad at him because of the extra work now required of them, ending the game and competition to see who could solve the next lock.) ALTERNATIVE: If the apprentices need more then a day to forge a key he could approach the problem like modern cryptography and change the lock more frequently. He shouldn't be in shortage of locks beeing a blacksmith.
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I sell invisible things. After I sell what I have, I still have it. I sell what everyone needs but often don't want. Who am I?
View AnswerA teacher
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Hard to the touch, I am fragile and all can see me. But when I feel soft, I'm stronger and it's as if I was never there.
View AnswerScar tissue. (When a scar is fresh it can crack easily and is easy to see, but when it heals it goes soft and looks like skin again)
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I am worn by those who seek purity and those who seek to sin. What am I?
View AnswerSilk
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One day a man is captured and put unjustly to trial for committing depraved crimes, none of which he had actually done. The corrupt system allows this man to be executed, but in a show of a facade of mercy, the evil Queen of the land tells the denizens of the land that she will allow this man to live he can pass the Marble Trial. The rules of the trial are as follows: One: The prisoner is to blindly pick from the jar one of two types of marbles, of which there is only one of each. Two: The black one, if chosen, represents death and thus he will be executed. Three: The white one, if chosen, will let him go free. Normally in the Marble Trial, there are different quantities of marbles depending on the severity of the crimes, but for this event, the Queen announces that there will be only 2. one Black and one White. Or at least, the Queen merely announced that to the public. In a private chat leading up to the Marbel Trial, the Queen actually revealed to the man that she never actually intends for the man to survive, and that the Marbel Trial's Jar is rigged to contain 2 black marbles instead of the proper arrangement. The next day, the man finds himself in a huge arena filled with cheering crowds curious as to how he will fare in the trial- unaware that the trial is rigged in the first place. Without a way to speak to the audience as he will be killed on the spot if he doesn't immediately pick from the jar, how does the man survive?
View AnswerHe takes the first black marble out so that his fist covers the marble, then he swallows it whole to the audience's dismay and intrigue. Then he takes out the second black marble and shows it to the crowd, confirming that his first pick was the white one.
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I can be man made or can be found naturally. I cannot sit still and I wander the world. If one were to claim me as theres they would not be believed, until seen by a doctor then they may see.
View AnswerDepression (You can be born with depression or gain it from something in your life. No one person has it at one point, depression is everywhere. And lots of people claim that they have depression but most of the time they wont be believed until seen by a doctor.)
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What bleeds that cannot die? What may deceive, but cannot lie? Lacking volume, weight, and height, It may be deep, or flat, or light. Outside the mind, it can’t exist, Yet everywhere you look, it is. What is it?
View AnswerColor (http://blog.monsterdisplays.com/seeing-is-believing-deception-of-colors/)
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There are are three things wrong wrong with this sentence. What are those three things?
View Answer1. The word 'are' is repeated. 2. The word 'wrong' is repeated. 3. The sentence creates a paradox. There are only two wrong things, the claim that there are three is false. But that is also the third thing, which makes it true.
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I can go from royalty to peasantry, Built in numbers, Luck, love, death, and riches are my specialty. Mix me and I’ll be either your best friend or your worst enemy. What am I?
View AnswerA deck of cards
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