Comments on: A Riddle For Your Brain Box (With A Prize)

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:47:13 +0000

Thanks, Becky, I didn’t mean to sound like I was begging. Part of the problem is that the blog isn’t optimized for Google and I don’t know how to change the settings.

Doesn’t it make you crazy when you can’t remember stuff. You are very close, but I don’t see the guy cooperating with her that way. After all, he is a cad:)

Actually, the other email looks like a personal address:)

By: Becky Robinson

Becky Robinson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:20:07 +0000

Hi again Miki
I just realized that I typed the wrong, not even a real email address into the last comment.

Also wanted to tell you that I came over here to leave a comment because of your most recent post at Leadership Turn.

By: Becky Robinson

Becky Robinson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:18:35 +0000

I know I should be able to figure this out, because I have heard a similar story about scraps of paper. In that story, the girl swallows one of the scraps of paper, and tells the man that the one she swallowed is the one she chooses. Thus, the man must open the other paper, and he is forced to let her go free. So, in this case, the girl could take a bag with a stone should ask the man to take one stone and throw it into the water. When he does so, she can say “The stone you have thrown into the sea is the one I am choosing.” Once the man reveals that the remaining stone is black, he will be forced to let her go in order to maintain his honor.

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:22:46 +0000

Not to worry, Julie, lately I’ve been hitting ‘c’ for ‘n’ every time I type ‘think’.

Fred’s answer only works if she wants to marry the guy, which she doesn’t.

Denis is closest. Put on your thinking cap, ask your friends and colleagues at work. After all, you have all week:)

By: Julie Eads

Julie Eads — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:13:57 +0000

Spelling is not one of my skills today! That was supposed to be “think” not thick!

I was blaming my bad spelling on the small keyboard of my netbook but I’m on a full size keyboard now, lol!

By: Julie Eads

Julie Eads — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:00:59 +0000

I have to say I like Fred’s answer even if it isn’t correct!
It sounds like it comes straight out of a book of fairy tales.

I cannot seem to “thick outside of the box” enough to come up with a guess today. I am looking forward to the answer!

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:15:12 +0000

Hi Denis, both good ideas, but not correct. Her solution was more creative and didn’t require practice.

By: Denis

Denis — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:18:21 +0000

The girl could hide a white pebble in her hand and pretend to draw it from the bag. Would need a bit of practice though.

Alternatively she can pick the two pebbles and expose the trick.

Regardless she need to arrange for a “good” set of witnesses. There is otherwise no guarantee the lender will keep his side of the bargain.

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:48:29 +0000

Hi Fred, that would work only in the best of all possible worlds, which this isn’t.

By: Fred H Schlegel

Fred H Schlegel — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:34:40 +0000

“Ahhh, fair money lender. White should be for Marriage don’t you know. I would hate to start our life together under the fate of a black stone. Let blackness keep us apart, but whiteness start our life together. Agree and I am ready to draw!”