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What is Risk?
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
There was once a college that offered a class on probability applied to the real world.
The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it.
When everyone received the test it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: "What is risk?"
Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!
What did he write?
The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it.
When everyone received the test it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: "What is risk?"
Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!
What did he write?
Hint
What the student wrote showed the professor that he had a good understanding of the material, thus the A.Answer
The brilliant student wrote down:"This."
And handed in the paper.
By doing this, the student demonstrated that he understood that having your grade based on one exam is risky.
Plus, putting just one word on such an important exam and hoping the professor understands what he means is risky in and of itself!
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Clever.
Yeah.
I liked it!
Very clever.
I really liked this teaser. Good job!
ditto
i had to peek at the hint b4 i got it
i had to peek at the hint b4 i got it
Good one! Really interesting and creative!
ha-ha! i liked that one! =]
That was clever indeed! I liked it!
very good teaser... reminds me of the story about the philosophy teacher who asked "what is courage?" in his finals and the student who passed a paper with "This" on it...
that was cool!
cool, i thought it was "life" my bad
ohhhhhhh
ohhhhhhh
Very Interesting!
great job! that really is risky. If I were the teacher I probably would have flunked him.
tricky tricky tricky!! Liked it very much thanx
easy, fun, thanks!
great teaser
I didn't get it, ut my friend did. I was actually thinking "exam," but it was close enough.
Bravo
Very tricky, I liked it!
Excellent!
i got it...
hehe..
really nice, loved it..
hehe..
really nice, loved it..
my uncle, a college proffessor, taught me that and many others. all the same, this is a good one!
that was hot
really gd ...really cleaver
It was way too easy. I dunno why, just after reading the question, the answer just blurted in my mind on itself. Anyway, nice try!
VERY clever
i loved it sooo much 4739/10
i loved it sooo much 4739/10
GREAT!!!
Haha, brilliant teaser. I'll be looking for more from you. >.
great one excellent
$ourDough liked this one very much, yes indeedy doo!
Risk is This... Very good teaser! Brilliant!
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Risk is This... Very good teaser! Brilliant!
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I didn't get it...
genius
I've heard this in many variations but it's definitely my all time favorite teaser!
oh this is good!
Hot!
good one even better everybody liked it! (except that loser that didnt get it but who cares about him right?)
This was so hard! But I enjoy stuff like that. whoever did this should be proud.
Reminds me of a class I took in college. Only one person got the right answer on the final exam...
My favorite teaser I've seen so far.
luved it!!!
Glad everyone has enjoyed this one
I got it! That's my first answer!
Haha. I've read this one somewhere online before. I like this one a lot.
nice...
Honestly, I didn't like this one so much. As I was trying to figure it out, I was expecting the answer to be something a lot more brilliant and clever. I feel like this is an attempt to make a teaser similar to the old story of the philosophy exam consisting only of the question "Why?", the only A+ going to the student who wrote "Why not?" But whatever the case, I was expecting to be more stricken and enlightened by the answer.
'This' is good one
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