GAME: MindTrap

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Originally Posted by jaeger

They aren't actually uncle's to each other. Uncle Ben and Uncle Dutch are pop culture references. Thus the statement "If you are uncles to each other, you must also be nephews to each other" is logical but irrelevant as they arent actually related.

How's that for a work of imagination?

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Highly original.

No cigar though. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif



Extra hint: They are definitely related to each other.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

Highly original.

No cigar though. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif

Extra hint: They are definitely related to each other.

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Heh, I have to go with imagination, these familial relation puzzles always confuse me.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

Highly original.

No cigar though. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif



Extra hint: They are definitely related to each other.

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They are brothers. One marries his dad's sister's husband's sister. The other marries his mother's brother's wife's sister. Making them each other's uncle.

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Originally Posted by edball

They are brothers. One marries his dad's sister's husband's sister. The other marries his mother's brother's wife's sister. Making them each other's uncle.

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They have different last names though.

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Originally Posted by edball

They are brothers. One marries his dad's sister's husband's sister. The other marries his mother's brother's wife's sister. Making them each other's uncle.

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Hum. No. Too complex.

There should be a Surgeon General's warning next to that, because of he headache it gives the reader. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif

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Originally Posted by jaeger

They have different last names though.

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That's it ! Brain hurting. I refuse to think about it anymore.

Ben is Dutch's uncle by marriage Dutch's to aunt. Dutch married Ben's aunt.

Edited: Bah, I repeated Edball's answer with different terms

Dutch's friend is his Uncle Ben who he was introducing to Benny Heinz.
Benny's friend is his Uncle Dutch who he was introducing to Dutch Schwartz.
A third unnamed friend asked the nephew question.

How about they are brothers that married aunts-by-marriage?

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Originally Posted by Deity

Dutch's friend is his Uncle Ben who he was introducing to Benny Heinz.
Benny's friend is his Uncle Dutch who he was introducing to Dutch Schwartz.
A third unnamed friend asked the nephew question.

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Nope.

They both would have been introducing themselves to... themselves, but that does not change the facts that they are both uncle and nephews to each other.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

Nope.

They both would have been introducing themselves to... themselves, but that does not change the facts that they are both uncle and nephews to each other.

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I was more getting at the idea that the Uncles were the friends who happened to be of the same name.

Back to the drawing board!

2 men have shot 100 arrows each and hit the target 50 times each also.

With the score tied they break for lunch and resume the competition afterwards. Both, having perhaps imbibed too much of the excellent chianti, see their shots decrease in accuracy.

The first man pulls off 89 arrows but hits the target only 13 times, while the second barely manages to release 50 arrows, never once hitting the target.

The first man claims that his percentage was remarquably better than his opponent's after the lunch break, and declares himself the winner. The second man naturally disagrees.

Who had the better average for the day?

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Originally Posted by Deity

I was more getting at the idea that the Uncles were the friends who happened to be of the same name.

Back to the drawing board!

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I'll be honest with you guys - I don't think I could have figured that one out either. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif


BTW, Question 22 remains unanswered and unattempted.

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Originally Posted by jaeger

How about they are brothers that married aunts-by-marriage?

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Almost missed that one.

They are not brothers.

Sorry. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

2 men have shot 100 arrows each and hit the target 50 times each also.

With the score tied they break for lunch and resume the competition afterwards. Both, having perhaps imbibed too much of the excellent chianti, see their shots decrease in accuracy.

The first man pulls off 89 arrows but hits the target only 13 times, while the second barely manages to release 50 arrows, never once hitting the target.

The first man claims that his percentage was remarquably better than his opponent's after the lunch break, and declares himself the winner. The second man naturally disagrees.

Who had the better average for the day?

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Scores are still essentially tied. The first man was accurate with 63 of 189 arrows (1 in 3 accuracy) while the second was 50 of 150 (1 in 3 accuracy).