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"It opens doors, but it cannot make a fist"
What is it?
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doorknob, crowbar, battering ram, axe, dynamite, key...
sledge hammer, security panel, motion (if automatic door)...
The will of mankind and the persistance of such good will! (if a door to the future)
But I like doorknob.
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"A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys...How is this possible?"
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"Them" includes the woman. She has four male children.
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"A farmer and his hired help gather grain one day. The farmer is carrying one sack of gain and the hired help is carrying 2 sacks. Who is carrying the heavier load?"
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I assume the hired help is carrying two sacks rather than two sacks of grain... and I also assume that a sack of grain weighs more than two empty sacks. So, the farmer carries a heavier load.
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" A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50."
The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.
In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?"
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The carny wrote a weight (i.e. 120 lbs) and the boy must have exlaimed "O! My weight is not that of 120 lbs. I weigh but only 115!" When the carny, as trickey as he may be, wrote "115" on his paper, having not explained that he could write the weight before or after the kid revealed the value, but that he had to write it on the paper at all.
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"A man was born in 1955. He's alive and well today at age 33. How is this possible?"
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Assuming today is not 1988? What if 1955 was a town, or a hospital? Suppose Age 33 was also a location.