Today I won a little reward for being the first one to answer a sort of quiz @work. In exchange, I came up with one of my own:
In a typical Wild West saloon, somewhere in the 1800s, in one late night three cowboys were playing poker at one of the tables. The setting was specific to those times, an oil lamp lit in the corner, other cowboys at the bar making jokes and drinking whisky, old wild-west typical three-legged wooden tables and chairs, the sheriff and his deputy at another table nearby.
Suddenly, a breeze of wind extinguishes the lamp that was lit in the corner and the whole saloon goes dark. A gunshot is heard and when the barman lights up the lamp again one of the three cowboys that were playing poker was lying on the ground, shot. The sheriff who was seated nearby comes to investigate. He asks one of the dead cowboy’s friends:
- What were you doing when your friend was shot?
- (without hesitation) …the table was moving so I put a match box under one of the legs to prevent it from shaking.
Sheriff seems happy with this answer so he goes to ask the second cowboy:
- And what about you, what were you doing when your friend was shot?
- (very much hesitant, avoiding to look the sheriff in the eye) …I was… I was trying to pull an ace out of my sleeve, to win this hand.
After he thinks everything over, the sheriff rises up in front of them and says: “One of the two of you is a liar”. After several seconds, he points his finger to one of the two cowboys and says: “You’ve killed him”.
Question for you is: How did the sheriff find out who’s the killer and trying to hide his crime with a lie?
Whoever gives the first answer correctly gets a reward. The same that I got, actually :D. You can pick it up from my desk
From:
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:38 AM
To: ###, Adeline; ###, Damien; ###, Antonin; ###, Giuliano; ###, Fulvia;
Subject: RE: So tell me?
Let me announce the winner!!
Cris answered correctly. Congratulations
Best regards,
Veronika
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Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:34 AM
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Subject: RE: So tell me?
J)))))))))))
Answer is 9 :D
It’s a fish! What do fish do? Live in water and do not drown, lol :D
Am I too late to respond? :D
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Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:30 AM
To:
Subject: FW: So tell me?
Who has the answer will get a reward!!!
Veronika
From:
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:41 PM
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Subject: So tell me?
If 9 fish were in a fish bowl 4 fish drown how many r left?
