Duffus & The Snack Game 2
Mystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
Duffus loved potato chips almost as much as he loved his tea. The problem was when he had large family gatherings, all the kids would devour his snacks before he could. His marble game worked for a while, but his trick was soon found out. So, Duffus came up with another way to keep the snacks for himself and yet make it seem as though he wasn't the greedy snack hog he was. Duffus took two large bowls, one wood and one plastic, and placed them up high so that the kids couldn't see the contents.
He then said, "One is full and the other is empty. You get whatever is in the bowl you pick. You can pick only once, but you must decipher my clues and explain to me which bowl you think has the chips and why. And no random guessing allowed."
He then gave them these clues:
1. The polyester shirt I'm wearing.
2. A cotton shirt in my closet.
3. A hollow cardboard toilet paper roll.
4. This plastic cup I'm drinking my tea from.
5. The acrylic socks I'm wearing.
6. An empty paper lunch bag.
What do the clues have in common with each other and the bowls?
HintWhich items are full & which are empty?
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Answer
All the kids were stumped except one young girl who gave the correct answer.
The items made from synthetic materials (polyester, plastic, acrylic) all have something in them. The items made from natural materials (cotton, cardboard, paper) are all empty. Therefore the plastic bowl (being synthetic) has the chips and the wood bowl (being natural) is empty. Duffus had to hand over the chips and again was left plotting another snack game. But that's another teaser.
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Comments
griphook  
Apr 07, 2004
| Love this one OD-1 |
toast9897   
Apr 07, 2004
| wow. i conflused! i started to get this, but couldn't follow thru. nice one! |
froghop833 
Apr 07, 2004
| Great teaser! But the hint kind of gave it away. |
dsquared   
Apr 09, 2004
| Hmmm, frog, isn't the hint supposed to kinda do that? Good teaser. |
(user deleted)
May 05, 2004
| Never woulda guessed. |
thegermangemini 
Jun 04, 2004
| I actually got this one fairly quickly. I am surprised at myself! |
reader13
Jun 22, 2004
| Good But the hint makes it too easy
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cool2rule
Jan 09, 2005
| this was a really good one. easy tho but i enjoyed it. |
i_am_sam007
Jan 23, 2005
| Very good teaser. It was really easy. Duffus\'s clues were very helpful and easy to figure out. Keep up the good teasers. |
hallabackbia76h
Jan 28, 2005
| That was a fun one  |
poljay
Mar 04, 2005
| Got me! I didn't read carefully enough.  |
pickles1086
May 19, 2005
| Wow...Duffus is greedy, isn't he? Why didn't he just portion the snacks so everyone got some? |
sniperkid990   
May 26, 2005
| the hint gave it away
good riddle tho  |
sniperkid990   
May 26, 2005
| the hint gave it away
good riddle tho  |
sweetime  
Jun 01, 2005
| i got that the clues were natural things/artificial things, and matched the bowls, but i couldn't work out which had the chips and which didn't (at least until i read the hint) - i kept trying to find a pattern.
good work |
sweetypie 
Jun 23, 2005
| was way off. had to use the hint to get it but it was fun anywayz  |
kayleeskitties   
Sep 25, 2005
| I got this one right away---really good teaser though!  |
FerretGirl  
Sep 28, 2005
| I want a 100,000,000,000,000,000 |
rkaaland   
Nov 14, 2005
| hmmm I had the full and empty but didn't put the fabrics together, silly me  |
OldChinaHand  
May 26, 2006
| Cleaver teaser. Fun to solve.  |
kcheer2493  
May 31, 2006
| clever, clever. clever. ooh! just got an urge for chips. thanks |
joefish 
Oct 25, 2006
| fun teaser, Duffus reminds me of my uncle. that greedy coot.  |
scallio   
Sep 12, 2007
| Easy but oh so fun!
Great teaser!
For those that feel the hints are too easy... DON'T READ THEM.
I don't. Too much like cheating! |
sourdough
Jun 26, 2008
| Do I look like I guessed this? SourDough says no!
$D  |
Calehay 
Nov 27, 2008
| Great! |
demylimbo   
Jun 05, 2009
| i got it...some little research...  |
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