The great mystery thread - post yours here!

Schweet! I'm surprised my brain is working at all tonite!

Now, the only mystery I can think of offhand is where exactly I put my other baseball hat, but i'm not sure anyone can help me with that one. Oh wait, mystery solved -- I blame the ferret ;)


OK, after wracking my brains, heres the best I can come up with at this time of nite ...


A triangle is made up of 3 sides, and 3 angles -- the angles total 180°. This means that if you have, lets say, a right angle triangle, one angle would equal 45° <edit - meant 90°, thanks LH>, but the other 2 would not be.


An Equilateral Triangle is a triangle where all three sides are the same length. This means that the angles will also be equal – all 60° - making the triangle equiangular as well.


What is one example of a situation where you could have an Equilateral triangle made up of 3-right (45°) angles?



edit: should not be allowed to try and think after midnight.

A right angle is 90 degrees, not 45.

As three 90 degree angles would be a 270 degree triangle, it is mathematically impossible.

:eek: math :eek:

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Originally Posted by Lady's Human

A right angle is 90 degrees, not 45.

As three 90 degree angles would be a 270 degree triangle, it is mathematically impossible.

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See what happens when I try to think at Midnight? :p I break both my own brain, and the brains of the people around me *lol*

--- Sorry. So, in what situation could you have a triangle made up of 3 x 90degree angles?

Assuming that you are referring to a closed polygon made up of three intersecting sides on a flat plane, you can't.

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Originally Posted by Lady's Human

Assuming that you are referring to a closed polygon made up of three intersecting sides on a flat plane, you can't.

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Ahh... but I never indicated flat plane did I? ;)

Since math likely isn't my strong point, and I shouldn't try to me SMRT with math-like problems (and I more than likely fudged up what i was trying to say before) heres a couple more to try -- a Mystery and a Puzzle

Mystery #1: A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy.

Mystery #2: A man rides into town on Friday. He stays three nights and leaves on Friday.

Puzzle #1: Connect all 9 dots, using only 4 straight lines.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...og_ca/dots.jpg

1. He is the vicar
2. Friday is the name of his horse and I gave up after that

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Originally Posted by Brody's Mum

1. He is the vicar
2. Friday is the name of his horse and I gave up after that

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+2 points for you! You get to find the next one ;)

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Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary

I know the solution for the dots as I use it in training to encourage people to ....think outside the box...

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*lol* great clue ;)

Heres a couple more that i ran across --
1. What gets wetter and wetter, the more it dries?

2. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

3. The beginning of eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place.

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Originally Posted by Blue_Frog

*lol* great clue ;)

Heres a couple more that i ran across --
1. What gets wetter and wetter, the more it dries?

2. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

3. The beginning of eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place.

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1. A towel :D
2. A fire :)
3. I like the third one and I'm not sure that I want to give it away. I saw the answer in a letter once. ;)

3: The letter E

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Originally Posted by cmayer311

. A towel :D
2. A fire :)
3. I like the third one and I'm not sure that I want to give it away. I saw the answer in a letter once. ;)

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Originally Posted by Whisk_Luva

3: The letter E

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Well, you guys got all 3 of the last puzzles -- too quick for me. The only ones I had left, are the right-angle-triangle puzzle, and the dots puzzle.

Otherwise, its someone else's turn to post another mystery/puzzle!

:)

Here are a couple quick ones:

1. I travel all over the world by land, sea, and air, but I always stay in the corner. What am I?


2. Poor people have it,
Rich people need it,
And if you eat or drink it, you will die.

What is it?

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Originally Posted by cmayer31

2. Poor people have it,
Rich people need it,
And if you eat or drink it, you will die.

What is it?

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Nothing?

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Originally Posted by JenBKR

Nothing?

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Yup :)

I know the answer to the 'travel around the world' one -- but someone else can give it a shot so I wont give it away :)

Ok, for anyone interested, the answers to the triangle and dots:

1. Triangle made up of 3 right angles: If you lay out the triangle on a sphere instead of on a flat plane. Heres an exmaple:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n..._ca/sphere.jpg

Also see here for a better explanation -
http://torus.math.uiuc.edu/jms/java/dragsphere/


2. Using 4 straight lines to cross through 9 dots:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n..._ca/dots-2.jpg

'Think outside the box' was the best way to describe this one.

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Originally Posted by cmayer31

1. I travel all over the world by land, sea, and air, but I always stay in the corner. What am I?

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A stamp

You guys are smart, I feel stupid :p.

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Originally Posted by JenBKR

A stamp

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Yep! I can't think of any right off the top of my head. Someone else needs to come up with one. :)