Ruzzle/Riddle Thread

Hmm, how much ferrous material is there in sand? Wrap each stick in the cloth and see how many particles come up stuck to it?
Either that, or you just happen to be wearing copper-woven underwear. :D
 
Okay - if there's nothing but the metal and the sand, then run each piece of metal through/over the sand.
Any magnetite in the sand will stick to the magnetic one, I guess.

Alternatively, dig a hole in the desert, put a cloth over it, collect some water (when the temp drops at night), then somehow float the metal on the water - the magnetic one will always try to point in the same direction - the unmagnetic one won't.
But this method requires additional items compared to the first method.
 
i was thinking like your last one too for a while. but you would have to pee in a piece of cloth for it to work and therefore i doubt that anyone would actually do it.
 
I don't think Procop meant you could use the sand.. You being located in the desert probably meant that you could use nothing else besides the two sticks.

All I can come up with, is that you put one stick on the ground and the other one on it, in the other direction. The magnetic one will probably try to turn in the north-south direction. I don't think the non-magnetic one on top of the magnetic stick will be magnetized in a way that will make it turn.
 
OK Fair enough: your sollutions are OK. I posted earlier that you would had to take off your slips (meaning of which was to use the elastic (the thing which keeps the slips from falling down)) and bind it on the stick so that it wil hang (balanced) and turn to the North (it it was magnetic).

Well done!
 
A person wanted to get into a members only disco but because she couldn't become a member, the person hid and watched as the guard at the door of the disco house said a number to each members as they approached, the member would respond with a number of their own, if the member responded with the correct number theirs were let in, if they responded incorrectly they were thrown out. One members come up to the guard, the man said twelve and the member responded with six and was let in. Another member came to the door, the man said six and the member responded with three and was let in. Believing she had heard enough, the reject went up to the man, the man said ten, and the reject said five, but was not let in, what should the rejected person have said?
 
There's not much information to go on, but I'll guess 2.
Doorman says: x
Reply: sum of digits of 2x
 
Touch the end of one rod to the middle of the other.

The end of the magnet will attract the middle of the non-magnetized rod, but the mddle of the magnet will not attract the end of the non-magnetized rod.
 
@geodesic no, but getting closer
@pete yes, that's one of the formal answers for the riddle (but it was commented upon that it does'nt always work)
 
how about 3?

Up to 10 = 3
Up to 20 = 6
for instance

But it could also be 6, 1 digit = 3, 2 digits = 6.

It is a little short on information otherwise.
 
I'm sure the answer is 3 - but for a different reason:

TWELVE has 6 letters
SIX has 3 letters

Following that, TEN also has 3 letters - so the answer is 3.
 
3 is the answer. I came to it counting the letters, but Dilberts argument holds the ground too
with
Up to 10 = 3
Up to 20 = 6
for instance

Dilbert would get in the disco with his answer (3) so it's a valid answer.
 
How many people have to be present in a room if all but 2 are named Stone, all but 2 are named Baines, and all but 2 are named Wilkinson?
 
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