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A Little Brain Exercise | Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?

Started bySam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
First post2015-10-31 14:41 -0500
Last post2015-10-31 21:57 +0000
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  A Little Brain Exercise | Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 14:41 -0500
    Re: A Little Brain Exercise | Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-31 19:55 +0000
    Re: A Little Brain Exercise | Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-31 19:56 +0000
    Re: A Little Brain Exercise | Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-10-31 16:16 -0500
      Re: A Little Brain Exercise | Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-31 21:57 +0000

#529481 — A Little Brain Exercise | Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?

FromSam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date2015-10-31 14:41 -0500
SubjectA Little Brain Exercise | Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?
Message-ID<Ee6dnb9yeInBhKjLnZ2dnUU7-WWdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vJSNXPEwA


   Easy for some, hard for others, but good exercise no matter what.

   Physicists, in general, need agile minds.


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#529487

FromFabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain>
Date2015-10-31 19:55 +0000
Message-ID<pan.2015.10.31.19.55.11@localhost.localdomain>
In reply to#529481
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:41:16 -0500, Sam Wormley wrote:
 
> 
> Easy for some, hard for others, but good exercise no matter what.
> 

It reminds me of the Three Stooges riddle:

Question:  There are three men in a room with only two beds and
two blankets.  How did they keep warm?

Answer: They turned on the heat.

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#529492

Fromjimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Date2015-10-31 19:56 +0000
Message-ID<a1jfgc-32e.ln1@mail.specsol.com>
In reply to#529481
Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vJSNXPEwA
> 
> 
>   Easy for some, hard for others, but good exercise no matter what.
> 
>   Physicists, in general, need agile minds.
 
Puerile. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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#529525

Fromgilber34 <fafa@invalid.com>
Date2015-10-31 16:16 -0500
Message-ID<n13b42$jj3$1@speranza.aioe.org>
In reply to#529481
On 10/31/2015 2:41 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vJSNXPEwA
>
>
>    Easy for some, hard for others, but good exercise no matter what.
>
>    Physicists, in general, need agile minds.
>
>

....agile doesn't mean intelligent, it means hopping around all over the 
place.

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#529542

FromFabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain>
Date2015-10-31 21:57 +0000
Message-ID<pan.2015.10.31.21.56.17@localhost.localdomain>
In reply to#529525
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:16:34 -0500, gilber34 wrote:

> 
> ....agile doesn't mean intelligent, 
>

Then what means intelligence?

Ha, ha!  It's the biggest illusion invented by Western man.

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