A friend of mine, Jean, gave me a game called Mind Trap for my twenty-fifth birthday.
It consists of brain teaser questions and puzzles. Corresponding with my friends via e-mail
some time ago, I posed selected questions and awarded points for giving the correct answer/s.
The game grew from a few friends to several particicants within a few months. Occasional "spats"
would ensue over the answers given by the game itself, with me as Solomon trying to sort out
various "injustices," particularly the awarding of points, but overall it was a fun interactive
game.
I did my best to post the better questions of this game to the "Mind Trap Gamers," since some of
the questions in this game seemed awfully difficult to logically work out -- or even guess.
I sent out the following question, along with its answer, to demonstrate this point.
I stated:
In response, Jeff wrote:
Subject: Re: For amusement only
Amusing little situation... and I did read the urinaTION solution.
Interesting... I have developed a few little solutions...
Solution #1:
Since I would be in a concrete room I would just wait for the air to run
out in the room and asphxiate.
I don't think I would be worried about some ping pong ball.
Solution #2:
Slap the dumb ass that dropped the ping pong ball in the pipe and make him
get it out.
Solution #3:
Dig out a booger from your nose that God Himself would be impressed with.
Stick it on the end of the ruler. Stick the ruler into the pipe. Pull ball
out. This could easily be done by securing the string to the paper clip and
placing the aforementioned booger on the paper clip.
Solution #4:
With the paper clip, scratch off a small amount of concrete. And as we
all know the "Stickyness Factor" of concrete (Ask Patty, she knows), place
the small amount of concrete at the tip of the ruler.
(see solution #3)
Solution #5:
I myself would use this solution... flatulate into the pipe and cover the
opening with the small mirror. Keep doing this for a good while. Now, rip
out all of your body hair. Take the magnet and stick it to the side of the
pipe. Now, take the string and wrap the hair around around the end of the
ruler. Now, for the smokers in the group who NEVER go anywhere without their
cig's and lighter... light the ball of string and hair. Remove mirror and
place the torch over the pipe. This will ignite the gas in the pipe and the
ball will shoot out.
Solution #6:
Drop the end of the string into the pipe. Take a massive crap in the
pipe. Wait for the feces to harden. Pull out string.
Solution #7:
Shit in pipe. Ask person that dropped ball into pipe, "Do you still want
the ball?" Respond, "I didn't think so." Leave.
Mark wrote -- in a wonderful tone of conceit... we love you Mark:
Read in AWE you feeble minded "Pied Piper" following mice. Just sounded good.
Tie a 30 cm piece of string to each end of the paper clip. Lower the paper-clip
by putting tension on only one end until the paper clip gets below the
ping-pong ball. At that point, one would pull both strings at the same rate,
causing the paper clip to raise in the horizontal position; thus raising
the ping-pong ball out of the pipe.
BOW!!!! LOWER!!!!!
Still another way would be to wad the string up. Rub the wad of string
against the ruler. The ruler is then ionized with a negative charge strong enough
to lower the ruler with a piece of the string and pick up the ball.
explain: the ball is held to the ruler by static electricity. 2 Points.