rayneeday
Mar 08, 2002
| I will apologize for the rather crude nature of the solution. But I love this puzzle, hopefully some of you will too. I am also open to any suggestions of an alternate solution. Although the alternate would have to present the same ingenuity as the first answer. |
rayneeday
Mar 08, 2002
| Come on, tell me what you think. I am of the opinion that the Comment box is way under used. If you like it great, If you hate it, tell me. So I can fix the problem in future puzzles. Personally I think more feedback both good and bad can only help the website produce more fun for all. Even a little trash talkin' can be fun.
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jeanray
Mar 11, 2002
| Loved it! Crude, maybe, but ingenious.
Yes, I thought too that I did not need anything offered.
JR
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Captbob61
Mar 20, 2002
| My favorite teaser yet at this site! I was so busy thinking of how to move some fire down the hole to heat the air and generate motion... Ha! |
gakuka
Mar 25, 2002
| I really only have one comment. Why Science? Sure, bouyancy and all that jazz, I got it, but is science relly the right place for a riddle whose solution is "pee in the hole"? |
rayneeday
Mar 26, 2002
| As for the question, Well, I didn't choose science, the powers that be at braingle put it in that catagory. They often change little things at first it annoyed me, but as with most things ya just come to accept it. I think the first catagory I put it in was logic and then I think they put it in TRICK and it eventually ended up in the SCIENCE catagory. I started flooding the LANGUAGE catagorie with my favorite type of puzzles so the created the REBUS catagory to handle the onslaught. --RAYN
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peterbradfor
Mar 27, 2002
| Fooled me! Great puzzle. |
rohddawg
Mar 27, 2002
| Raynee.. u r easily my fav. person here  thanks for those rebus's and ya this teaser is great LMAO |
Mogmatt16  
Apr 11, 2002
| Wait, if there were no source of water how could you pee so much? |
Mogmatt16
Apr 15, 2002
| how could you aim with no light? |
Mogmatt16
Apr 23, 2002
| Break the Mgnifying glass to expose the broken glass. Use that to cut the tube. Take the paperclip, Strech it out straight and poke a cole in the top of the ping-pong ball. Put the clip through this and press it agianst the side of the tube and pull it up. |
rayneeday
Apr 23, 2002
| Ok, Mogmatt, I like your theory, it shows creativity. And it utilizes one of my basic tennants...Adapt, Improvise, and overcome. But there are a few problems. First of all an unfolded paperclip is less than 4 inches in length (I just measured one) so it is still a little short to reach the pingpong ball even if you cut the tube off even witht he floor. Second of all, being that tha point on the end of the paperclip is not needle sharp you would most likely crush the ping pong ball before you penetrated it. I don't think it would work. But you did solve the tube length problem so I think I have another solution..... |
rayneeday
Apr 23, 2002
| What if you broke the magnifying glass...cut the tube down to six inches, Lit the match.... set the string on fire.... lowered the burning string down to the ping pong ball and let it rest on int. When the plastic begins to melt, blow the fire out leaving the string to get stuck in the rehardening plastic. Once it cools completely you should be able to pull the ping pong ball out. What do ya think? |
rayneeday
Apr 23, 2002
| Ok, here's another monkey wrench, What if the pipe is lead and not PVC. You can't cut it with glass. |
Mogmatt16
Apr 23, 2002
| with the paperclip you never mentioned the size of it or the size of the ping pong ball. the ping pong ball was probaly still at least one inch across. and hollow, so i would like my odds of being able to put a hole in it. |
Mogmatt16
Apr 23, 2002
| Also I could stick my fingers about an inch down. |
jimmh22
May 20, 2002
| how about getting this box to flip over.
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rayneeday
May 20, 2002
| Well JIM, not all of us can use the force with Yoda like powers to flip the room upside down. But let's just say argument's sake that the force was with us. Even the most basic Paduwan Learner could just levitate the ball out of the hole don't you think. So your solution would still be wrong. In this galaxy or one far, far away. --RAYN |
O_wise_one
May 21, 2002
| I loved this riddle, it was challenging, but it made me laugh.
You could have also tied the paper clip to the string, used the match to melt the ball, then stick the paper clip in the melted plastic, when it hardens, you can pull it out. :S |
angie
Jun 03, 2002
| Ewww... |
andmar22
Jun 13, 2002
| That is Funny! |
scorpio666
Jun 16, 2002
| Very clever and i laugh my butt off
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peppermintwist
Jul 01, 2002
| Launch the box into space, and the ball will float out of the tube |
boldgold
Jul 17, 2002
| I thought this was a room that was a cube that wasn't stuck to the floor so I thought u could roll the cube around until it was inverted and the ping pong fell out of the pipe. |
bmotts
Aug 12, 2002
| If there's one bad pee brain teaser, I haven't heard it! |
dripps00
Aug 16, 2002
| The easiest way to try and get the ping pong ball would be to blow across the top of the tube forcefully, thereby lowering the pressure at the top of the tube. The higher pressure in the tube should lift the ping pong ball to the top of the tube where you could grab it if you were quick enough. |
rufio
Aug 21, 2002
| i thought this one was pretty funny if nothing else, but if i'm not mistaken, it was in the game "mind trap". dude, don't steal questions from a game. |
julip
Apr 30, 2003
| wondered where the liquid would come from |
(user deleted)
Apr 30, 2003
| Great teaser! To continue with possible alternatives: if you can cut with a piece of the glass, assuming it will cut the flooring material, couldn't you cut around the base of the pipe, pull the pipe out, and turn it upside-down? Not as creative as the original answer, but I thought possible. |
kimballchilcott
Apr 30, 2003
| It would be imposssible to light a peice of string on fire and stick it down because there would be hardly any air down the tube and the fire would go out cos it needs oxygeon |
Millionaire
Apr 30, 2003
| gross, but funny. I agree with kingsquag's second senario. You could have sucked the ball out or you could have just blew iin the pipe using the air to force the ball up as if you were drinking from a straw and blew in it. In some cases that would work but I do know not all. I bieleve it would in this case though |
rckergrl87 
Apr 30, 2003
| hmm...i think there might be a different way but yours is um...creative. good job |
dinice
Apr 30, 2003
| Great teaser! To pee in the tube would work great for a man, but a woman would have a difficult time! |
misiu
Apr 30, 2003
| I liked it. However, if your body was really dehydrated so that you could not pee, you could break the magnifying glass, cut yourself and bleed into the tube. Of course if the tube was bigger you could bleed to death. Now that you got the ball out of the tube you can use the string to stitch your cut and use the paper clip as a needle.
Voila! |
Pheonix_down
Apr 30, 2003
| Peeing into the hole would be kinda hard for girls.. |
LoopylouUk
Apr 30, 2003
| Pheonix isn't a toilet just a big hole? well I think a man would have more of a problem peeing in the hole than a women as they often miss the toilet!
lol, that was just a joke no offence! |
nuttiekiwis263
Apr 30, 2003
| Awesome teaser!!! My common sense wasn't working so I had to think about it for a bit!!! Anyway, AWESOME TEASER!!!!! I enjoyed it!!! :-) Steff |
(user deleted)
May 01, 2003
| I'm not so sure sucking on the tube would work, if the bottom end of the tube is solid. The reason sucking on a straw works is that liquid enters the bottom as air/liquid leaves the top. If the bottom is plugged, the straw collapses, or if the sides are solid, you just create a low pressure space of the same size, but nothing forcing the ball up the tube. Blowing in the tube fails in the same way. By the way, does the ping-pong ball hold the key to getting one out of this box with no doors or windows? |
wolvesheart
May 05, 2003
| A sentimental favorite. I was the only one in my eighth grade science class to get it right, and that was 1978! By the way all you folks that suggested burning a string and melting the PP ball, ever light a PP ball? It has a very flamable gas inside and makes quite a swoosh of blue flame. Try it its fun. Thanks for the great daily mind exercises. |
strathconn
May 28, 2003
| so funny. great puzzle. thanks for the laugh. |
sunnyfunny
Jun 07, 2003
| cool, i like the solution
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adoontourious
Jun 26, 2003
| LMAO I LOVED IT!!!!!!!
pS. Raynee
COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!! |
fishmed
Aug 08, 2003
| Okay, so I never saw the answer coming and was trying to figure out how to use what was in the room. The only other thing I thought of was to break the ruler in half, two halves make a (w)hole & use the hole to leave the room and the silly ping pong ball there. Good one, though. |
Bonecrusher
Feb 09, 2004
| You'd better hope you drank a case of beer before you ended up in an 8x8x8 box. hey wait a second last time i drank a case of beer I ended up in a 8x8x8 box.
the local jail. LOL kiddin. but for real who pee's that much?
that is a whole lotta pee. think about that little cup the last time you took a drug test for a job. |
MasterMind90
Feb 21, 2004
| You wasted a whole lotta time writing that for no reason. Don't you have a life?  |
SliceOPi
Apr 30, 2004
| What if you don't have to pee? |
lucylizzy
Apr 30, 2004
| I agree with angie - ewwwwwwuggggghhhhhmankyyyyyyyyukkkkkkkkk!!!!  Attracted a lotta comments though....  |
toast9897
Apr 30, 2004
| why the heck do u want to get the pingpong ball out of there anyways?!?!? |
jacintan
Apr 30, 2004
| WHAT THE? What was that all about?  |
billybob_thorton
Apr 30, 2004
| Well, if I was realy stuck in a room like that, I would much use that water to keep from dehydrating rather than using it to get a ping pong ball out of a hole when I won't live long enough to have any fun with it. What's so important about that ball, anyway? |
BrenBeadSP
May 01, 2004
| If I did pee in the tube to get the ping pong ball out, then I wouldn't want to touch it. I'd rather just leave it be. |
skoolkid
Jun 20, 2004
| Well, couldn't you also spit in the tube? Gross, but still. |
jetdjc15
Aug 28, 2004
| assuming u can pee that long |
newbee
Oct 14, 2004
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I_am_the_Omega
Dec 27, 2004
| lmao.. i too was thinking about sucking it out. |
I_am_the_0mega
Dec 27, 2004
| lmao.. i too was thinking about sucking it out. |
kri_kri
Jan 20, 2005
| This was funny I thought it was gunna be something really crazy for answer  but i must admit it was really really funny |
chuckelect
Feb 11, 2005
| the first teaser on the sight to make me laugh out loud once i gave up and looked at the answer! awesome teaser!! |
Sane
Feb 20, 2005
| ~2.54 x 15.24 cm (1 x 6 inch)
v = pi(r)^2h
= pi(1.27)^2 * 15.24
= 77.2 cubic centimeters
That's a lot of pee.  |
froggygg
Apr 21, 2005
| This one made me laugh!! I hope whoever intends to "fill" the tube has PLENTY to drink - that's a large order to fill!!! |
Pikachu4evr
May 01, 2005
| Psssssssssssssssssssss |
TopOMornin
May 01, 2005
| OMG, the answer is even moreoff the wall than the puzzle!! But I LIKED IT! Way to go, Ray! |
cuteness
May 01, 2005
| gross |
vikingboy
May 01, 2005
| Kind of gross, and medically speaking I'm not sure it would work.
From a Google search I learned that an average man pees only 40 to 60 ounces a day. I pee 4 or 5 times, so that would only be 10 to 12 ounces a time, and I think 12" tube that is large enough to hold the ping pong ball would hold more than that. I'd need more to drink.
And, who wants a pissed on ping pong ball? |
morganik
May 01, 2005
| I must say this one was easy, but that could just mean that I'm a sick & twisted individual. good creativity, & freakin hilarious. |
Beano
May 01, 2005
| With detailed and potentially useful materials, this was a classic misdirection - great teaser! |
pi202
May 01, 2005
| vikingboy - I don't think it would be too much of a problem. (I'm British so I have to work in metric - sorry). A ping pong ball is 4cm diameter, so we'll call the pipe the same diameter to make the numbers easy. That gives area of approx 12 square cm, and volume of the whole pipe (30cm long) of 360 cubic cm. That converts to just over 12 oz (US). May have to wait until you really need to go, but you should have enough! |
MAroxmysoxonice
May 01, 2005
| The first thing I thought was
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!
but that was really funny |
deadeye823
May 01, 2005
| hahahahhaa....pssssssssssssssssssssssss
thats a lot of pee |
unicorn
May 01, 2005
| Sorry but I have to agree with vikingboy, You are definately gonna need a lot of pee as most men can't even pee into a standard sized toilet with out leaving the floor soeking wet, how the hell are they gonna pee into a hole 4cm wide and 6 inches of the ground. |
BrenBeadSP
May 01, 2005
| Congratulations - the peed on ping pong ball has become the first puzzle in my favorite category. How can anything top it? Many thanks for lots of fun and laughs. |
reznor2001
May 01, 2005
| I would be more concerned about not being able to breathe, since I am in an 8 x 8 x 8 cube with no doors and windows, than getting the ping pong ball out. |
reznor2001
May 01, 2005
| Plus would you really want to touch that ping pong ball after you just peed on it. |
boakley2
May 01, 2005
| very good best ive seen on here yet thnx |
kodhrawara
May 01, 2005
| And now you've got a pee pong ball!  |
suzygirl
May 01, 2005
| That's really disgusting, but hilarious!!! |
spookboy0
May 01, 2005
| i nearly pee'd my pants when i saw the answer
very good teaser, ray |
irishflower
May 01, 2005
| thats disgusting !thats the kind of thing my dad would have come up with!  |
Leviathan
May 01, 2005
| funny |
mi2mo2tx
May 01, 2005
| NICE one! I'm always in favor of bathroom humor.... some of the comments made are less than flattering... no need to be nasty.
I thought this was clever and creative. Braingle: It may have fallen better under the TRICK catergory. |
Cixbit23
May 01, 2005
| That was really suprising. I did not see that coming. That is kinda weird. Who would of thought? |
aznboi1324
May 01, 2005
| ME
it was too easy DUH!!!!!
u could of cried in the hole or sweat in the hole or spit in the hole lol!!! |
tdg_chick
May 01, 2005
| That was funny!!!!!1 But it was kinda hard to figure out. |
libra0890
May 01, 2005
| ok just lost my apitite. lol jk that was great |
libra0890
May 01, 2005
| ok anybody tell me if im doing this right. k ur so dumb. ur an idiot. dont be dissing me
libra0890
how was thst? |
zombiefreak
May 01, 2005
| that was funniieeee |
kterney18
May 01, 2005
| Trust me, it's true. I've tried it! |
dogboy
May 01, 2005
| wow thats great i got after i read the hint....however i must confess it was an accedient...i...uh was so frustrated with it that i was like well what the heck i will pee in the hole and see if that works....and sho nough...lol lmao |
bri78
May 01, 2005
| funny but me and my perverted friend got it straight up.  |
sissy245
May 01, 2005
| ummmmm, first of all, why are you in the cube.second, how did you get in. third, why is a pipe sticking up from the floor. fourth, how did the ping pong ball get in there. and fifth, why are you worried about a stupid ping pong ball if you are stuck in this escapeless room???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? |
girlygirl
May 02, 2005
| Oh my god, that was hilarious I would of never thought of it because the teaser was too confusing |
zonahobo
May 02, 2005
| Ok, that works (funny I didn't picture myself naked in the room .. there's still hope for me .. I broke the glass, used it to split the ruler (I assumed it was wood .. dating myself?).. tied it together end to end using half of my string, straightened paperclip with fish hook bend at one end (now you know my hobby), used rest of string to tie straight portion of clip to end of now 11 inch ruler thin enough to go down pipe, heated fish hook with match, jammed contraption down tube to melt through pp ball (pun intended) gave a twist to hook unmelted side of ball and withdrew the ball. I assume someone would let me out at this point and I would be embarrased as heck .. but I got to say your method is more straight forward .. or straight downward .. hope to post again sometime when I really solved it .. let's see 0 for 1 .. best two out of three?Peace everyone .. back to the rails |
canu
May 02, 2005
| This is comment #94. I scanned through the previous 93 and did not notice any answer to the questions: -------------------------------------1. How did you get into the room? -----------------------------------2. Why do you want that ping pong ball?
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I have plausible answers, but you may prefer to find them, or better ones, by yourself. |
saucyangel
May 02, 2005
| here is comment #95:
hmm. uh...no comment.
the end. |
saucyangel
May 02, 2005
| here comes #97...
this time it really IS the end!
thank you.
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nycoyote10
May 02, 2005
| Good answer, but I suggest another solution. First of all, it never mentioned if the room is on the first floor. So if it's on say, the 2nd floor, then you could easily use your ruler to poke it downward and it'll fall. Technically, you "got it out." |
blm12
May 03, 2005
| I like your answer. What about this: Light the match. Either drop it on the ping pong ball or heat up the paper clip and drop that. Let that melt the ball enough to stick the string on the ball and fuse to the string as the plastic hardens. |
libra0890
May 03, 2005
| comment #100!!! i rock. lol. i hate all of you
libra0890 |
smurfy
May 03, 2005
| Comment 101:
Mabye it's like one of those maze games where you try to move tha ball through the maze and somehow you and the ball got stuck. OK I know it's kinda strange, but at least I sort of have a reason for why you are stuck in a cube.
What would happen if you catch the tube on fire and then when it hardens, you can pull out a molten mess. You would get the ping pong ball out, but your game of ping pong would be ruined. But, How would you play ping pong by yourself with just a ball and no rackets?
Or, if you are in a magical room, then maybe you can use levitation to get the ball out. If you are in a strange cube, anything can happen.
This is the end on my novella. At least for now. I'm 101 Yay! and I like to spend time thinking about getting a ping pong ball out of a tube because i have nothing better to do! After all, I am in a small cube! |
drea_r_70
May 04, 2005
| You really had me thinking on that one very good |
(user deleted)
May 11, 2005
| i liked it that was really funny |
Icecold
May 15, 2005
| i loved it it made me wanna pee my self! |
maggie9
Jun 15, 2005
| crude and stupid.But also funny. |
zigthepig
Jul 03, 2005
| i thought as were all so strong you just break the pipe and it will go rollin rollin rollin, down a pipe go rollin ,rollin rollin rollin ,yo hi . neway it turned out 2 b much much much more hysterical!!!! in my faves!!! thanx 4 the laugh. soz 4 the mad moment of song there!!!!!!! |
widestar
Jul 17, 2005
| I thought you could just suck it out (or the opposite!) |
tsd3
Jul 23, 2005
| gross teaser,but a good 1 neway |
Caim
Sep 01, 2005
| *Added to my favorites* |
haldir
Sep 02, 2005
| What if the the tube led to the sea... |
deepsea
Sep 08, 2005
| intresting but who wants a ping-pong ball with pee on it? |
Caim
Oct 04, 2005
| I have the #100 comment!
*Teaser added to my favorites* |
bluvsscoobydoo
Oct 10, 2005
| haha, amusing! |
usaswim
Nov 30, 2005
| I thought of blowing in the hole at an angle But peeing?! |
TheEarthling
Nov 30, 2005
| When I saw the answer, I was like... . That has to be the weirdest teaser ever. |
GoHarryPotterCS
Dec 13, 2005
| i don't get it |
Question_Mark
Dec 23, 2005
| OMG! |
SPUTNIK2
Feb 22, 2006
| I'd have to drink 2 pints of ale to get me to pee that much!
That was a good one Raynee!!! |
teen_wiz
Mar 04, 2006
| THAT IS BY FAR THE BEST TEASER EVER! *puts it in faves* |
tonjawithaj
Jun 15, 2006
| good one! |
soccercow10
Aug 03, 2006
| cool teaser i wish i had the creativity to write a teaser like that, but that was soo clever and good, one of my favs!!!!!!!! |
tintiniscool
Aug 27, 2006
|
LL |
bluejubba
Oct 02, 2006
| man, i don't know why i was surprised to see that as an answer. well done |
bluejubba
Oct 02, 2006
| man, i don't know why i was surprised to see that as an answer. well done |
bluejubba
Oct 02, 2006
| man, i don't know why i was surprised to see that as an answer. well done |
Blondie116
Jan 26, 2007
| eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww |
Blondie116
Jan 26, 2007
| eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww |
The_Leprechaun
Jan 29, 2007
| Haha very clever |
kauphi1976
Mar 09, 2007
| eewwwww grose !
a) make a circular hook with the clip little smaller than the diameter of the ball
b) tie it to the end of the string.
c) Light the matches by striking it on the floor. use the heat of the fire to expand the circular hook so its now larger than the diameter of the ball but will still fit through the pipe
d) slide the hook into the pipe so the hook is now placed below the ball ( remember that the hook is larger than the ball and will slide around it )
e) When the hook cools, pull the hook & ball with the string
Jeanie-Ass |
cloughme
Mar 09, 2007
| Excellent! But I think you'd really have to have one huge bladder!! |
AbsurdHero
Mar 09, 2007
| Bizarre. |
menz
Mar 09, 2007
| Now that's a teaser!!! |
soonitwillend
Mar 09, 2007
| If you magically get in the cube I say you save it for the toilet and just magically get out the cube, nice, dry, pee-less ping pong in hand. |
puttumup
Mar 09, 2007
| that was kinda easy after i saw the hint. if you had a lot of spit that would of worked also... |
puttumup
Mar 09, 2007
| that was kinda easy after i saw the hint. if you had a lot of spit that would of worked also... |
puttumup
Mar 09, 2007
| that was kinda easy after i saw the hint. if you had a lot of spit that would of worked also... |
wirfdirf
Mar 09, 2007
| to whom it may concern:ping pong balls are made with cellulose,and that causes them to burn in a vey quick manner. not a gas that they are filled with |
wirfdirf
Mar 09, 2007
| what if you crack one into the tube and light the foogas with the match to blast the ball out,as a cannon? |
(user deleted)
Mar 09, 2007
| It was, in my opinion, a perfect letdown. As Erwin Brecher rightly puts it in his 'Journey Through Puzzleland':
"One of the basic criteria of any good puzzle is that the question or answer not be deceptive. When they are, the result is not quite a trick question but certainly a letdown".
I certainly hope better questions that actually involve real scientific reasoning are posted here. |
feste
Mar 09, 2007
| dumber and dumber it seems to be getting here |
bradon182001
Mar 09, 2007
| I [ersonally don't feel this "teaser" is worthy of comment. |
doehead
Mar 09, 2007
| High Fives to Bradon for the best comment |
OldChinaHand
Mar 09, 2007
| I'm not sure about someone's 'Journey Through Puzzleland', but obviously several tourists got off at the wrong stop, or sleep through the whole trip. This teaser does require a little physical science, reasoning and basic logic to solve the problem. No letdown for most. But if you don't get it, you don't get it.
...and I want to get this 'wet' ping pong ball out of the hole, why?
Good teaser, well written and fun to work out. |
vlerma
Mar 09, 2007
| Oh what a discussion of bodily functions with a questionable result. Sure hope this was a guy doing the loading of the pipe as I'm not sure a female could place the needed substance into such a depository. |
phyllisa
Mar 09, 2007
| This is not good morning entertainment, sorry |
morgoth1028
Mar 09, 2007
| uhh im guessing the pipe is fastened to the floor??? cuz why not just take the pipe out......an flip it.. still funny answer1 |
phyllisa
Mar 09, 2007
| actually I meant to add:  !! I thought this was a family site |
jantonakos
Mar 09, 2007
| Okay, so I've peed in the hole and retrieved the ping-pong ball. Now, more importantly, can someone tell me how to get out of this room with no doors or windows?? It's starting to smell like pee! |
katjojo
Mar 09, 2007
| I thought of sucking on the pipe like a straw.
But, peeing would work. |
Mon05
Mar 09, 2007
| funny lmao and I think some people should lighten up a bit
it's meant to be fun |
enjaytee
Mar 09, 2007
| I would have used the ruler to press down on the ball quickly in rapid succession until it bounced out. After all ping pong balls are very light. |
scallio
Mar 09, 2007
| That was hilarious! I loved it and will put it in my favorites.
I was certain there would be some means to suck/blow to retrieve it. I thought of poking a hole in the side of the tube to suck, but with the tube being stuck 6 inches in the floor, no chance of a hole. Don't think you could suck it out without someway to displace the air you're removing. Anyway, great teaser!
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speedqueenkmw
Mar 09, 2007
| dumb |
RIGOR
Mar 09, 2007
| A 12" pipe would have approximately 19,600 MM of internal volume. The average human bladder is 15 ML or 15000ML In order to get the ball you would need a larger bladder (19.6ml+) to fill the pipe enough to get the top. |
RIGOR
Mar 09, 2007
| 15000MM not ML, sorry |
dogboy
Mar 09, 2007
| [quote]you could break the magnifying glass, cut yourself and bleed into the tube[/quote]
emo much?...lol
Great teaser ...got me stumped by it |
Pizzazz2u
Mar 09, 2007
| It sounds like a few people are mixing results with manners and cleanliness!!! Remember kids, this is a brain TEASER, and NOT a miss/mrs/mr. cleanliness results time. Totally Awesome teaser! With the inside diameter of the pipe being only a millimeter larger than the ping pong ball, the tube would fill up quick! |
jcann
Mar 09, 2007
| I agree with Bandon, doehead, and Phyllisa. |
RIGOR
Mar 09, 2007
| It is a question of volume.
One would need an exceptionally large bladder to fill a tube of that volume, enough to get the ping pong ball to a point where it can be removed from the tube |
(user deleted)
Mar 09, 2007
| Peeing in the pipe will do one of two things. make the ball float (Assuming the other end of the pipe is sealed or the ball is currently floatin in still liquid) or it will flush the ball down into the piping system.(more likely)... Anyone seen the mythbusters float the sail boat using ping pong balls?
they poured water and pingpong balls into a pipe and the forces of the water carried the balls 30 ft below the surface of the bay. |
hersheyugget
Mar 09, 2007
| isnt it kinda more trick than scinece? well, i thought you could light the match throw it in with the string so that it would burn up the oxogyn and then sti ont the tube to not let any in, then when you get up and air rushes in stick the ruller in to catch the ball as the air rushing in propells it up. damn you over anilization! |
masquerademe235
Mar 09, 2007
| i'm not gonna lie here. I hated this one. It was pointless and does not fullfill the definition of a brain teaser-that of something that challenges the mind in an intellegent way. |
cooltigerr1
Mar 09, 2007
| w3ll that was kind of dumb but entertaining! but theres no light so how could u aim? lol and cant u just suck it out with your mouth? |
zips5000
Mar 09, 2007
| Thats a lot of pee |
Geralzibob
Mar 09, 2007
| Smash the Magnifying glass, use some broken glass to slit your wrist, and let the blood dribble into the hole. Your in the stupid room anyway, and your air is going to run out. This way you still die, but you get the ball.  |
McBobby1212
Mar 09, 2007
| nice comment Geralzibob. i was also thinking about making myself bleed. you'll die, but at least you got the ball |
GobyDude
Mar 09, 2007
| stupid..... |
nena18
Mar 09, 2007
| what ever happened to RAYNE????? |
saradove
Mar 09, 2007
| Very clever.
Thank you for the teaser although I found it to be rather disgusting. |
jcann
Mar 09, 2007
| This is more like a dumb joke that a buch of kids might giggle about at recess thinking they are being clever. Is there a shortage of really good teasers out there? (And don't suggest that I submit one--I'm not qualified as yet.) |
jcann
Mar 09, 2007
| Also, this is the first time I have felt compelled to enter a negative comment about a teaser. |
breathesunshine
Mar 09, 2007
| I sooo agree jcann. I also am not in the habit of being negative. While I do "get" it, I just think there are better teasers out there. This also reminded me of "potty" humor when my kids were younger. |
SOisme
Mar 09, 2007
| LMAO! That one was a hoot! BUT, couldn't you light the match and heat up the paper clip on the end of the string to melt the ping pong ball a bit, leaving the paper clip on the ball? |
aistervin
Mar 10, 2007
| hated it. hot garbage. dissapointing. give me my money back |
jamy400
Mar 10, 2007
| hilarious |
Madelulabelle
Mar 10, 2007
| First of all, EWWW GROSSS!!!! You are a stupid immature weirdo! And secondly, why are people asking why you want the ping pong ball? It's obvious that you are extremely bored and you want to use the ruler to bounce the ball against the wall. DUH! |
mmmcla01
Mar 12, 2007
| That's disgusting!!
The only advice I have is to put it in a different category--trick, maybe...sure, that would be somewhat a hint but, come on, who's going to figure it out if it's in the science category!?!
Also, I would think that if you were in a room with no doors or windows, you'd be much more concerned with finding a way out than with getting a ping pong ball out of a pipe...and especially by peeing on it!! Hopefully, you wouldn't have much interest in touching it then!
Just one more question: what if you hadn't drank enough lately or whatever the case may be, so that you couldn't pee enough...just a thought! |
Qrystal
Mar 13, 2007
| I'm guessing that the reason you want the ping pong ball out of the tube is because whoever built this room around you won't let you out until you solve the puzzle. You know, the usual torture-thinking deal.
Anyways, I didn't have a good guess, especially after I decided that there would be no way to light the match: most matches I encounter are NOT the self-lighting ones, and if the room is sealed, there's no way to focus sunlight with the magnifying glass to light the match.
As for the "potty humour" side of the answer, I giggled like I was a schoolkid at recess, thinking I was clever. I LOVED IT!! It really brought me back.... ahhhh..... |
frozenrose_885
Mar 29, 2007
| I usually don't think like that, so I would never had gotten that unless I was actually in that situation. |
craniac
Mar 12, 2010
| I agree with lots of people. (1) This is a trick question, not a science teaser. (2) There are probably many ways to use the implements on hand to get the ball out of the hole, but the answer wouldn't be as much fun. (3) Speaking of the fun answer, it's crude and I'm shocked, simply shocked, I tell you! (4) The fun answer isn't likely to work either unless you have a large supply of some beverage like beer on hand to replinish your empty bladder. (5) The final solution has to be to call out for a supply of beer to be delivered for use to refill your bladder. (6) How does the beer get inside the room with you? Well, how did you and the ball get in there? In the end, it's magic, not a trick or science -- it's pure magic, and I loved it and was tremendously amused. Don't know how I never crossed paths with this teaser till now. Kudos to the creator who is obviously a brilliant trouble-maker. |
craniac
Mar 12, 2010
| Sorry for the typo -- "replinish" should be "replenish." In this age of texting, I still know how to spell. My fingers just make mistakes sometimes. |
doehead
Mar 12, 2010
| STUPID |
fatster
Mar 12, 2010
| Yes, you are!
If peeing is so disgusting...don't ever do it again. |
sunnybonghits
Mar 12, 2010
| HA! That is too funny. I was all prepared to comment that, no matter what the right answer was, I would just pee in the tube. Nice one!! |
jcann
Mar 12, 2010
| I see this is very old (2002!) and has been teaser of the day at least once before (since I commented at that time). I still agree with doehead--something I don't do very often. And I definitely think it should be in the trick category if used at all. |
math12
Mar 12, 2010
| I really don't get how this is a teaser. Who says "you" are a human? Bacteria should also be able to go on Braingle and solve teasers |
jaycr
Mar 12, 2010
| Didn't get the answer, but after I saw it, I decided I really didn't want that ping pong ball after all. |
jcann
Mar 12, 2010
| jaycr--your comment is much funnier than the teaser! |
beyonce123
Mar 12, 2010
| i thought you tied the match to the string, then used that to make the metal expand so u could reach your hand in there |
torgortega
Mar 12, 2010
| I was close. I would take a dump down the tube and hopefully it would be sticky enough that you could push the ruler into the excrement and then pull it back out with the ping pong ball attached to the dung. This would, of course, require about a six inch stool which would be no problem most days of the week. |
georget99
Mar 12, 2010
| My first reading told me the pipe was 12 inches in diameter and 6 inches long. This leaves the slightly smaller ping-pong ball with nearly 6 inches of it above the end of the pipe. You'd be able to get a good enough grip to roll it up and out, and if not, just give it a good smack to get it bouncing and grab it. (where do you get a 12 inch ping-pong ball? the same place you get a sealed room containing a living, peeing, puzzle solver) |
jcann
Mar 13, 2010
| Now the comments are getting disgusting. |
chunnie
Mar 22, 2010
| This is hilarious! And to those of you who find this offensive or "unworthy" you have absolutely no sense of humour! I love it! Great ingenuity too! |
Babe
Mar 12, 2013
| Never mind the ping pong ball...How am I supposed to get myself out of the room? No window, no door. Help! |
gaylewolf
Mar 12, 2013
| This was clever and funny - and, Babe, loved your comment!! |
cutebug
Mar 12, 2013
| Sorry,but this a sad version of a teaser. This should be buried or burnt now. |
HABS2933
Mar 12, 2013
| I heard this exact teaser years ago but there was a source of water. I too would like to know how without water one would pee enough to get the ball to float to the top. Also may not be such an easy task for a female.
I think at 13 years, this teaser is old enough to be set free and leave the Braingle nest forever! |
Bugger
Mar 12, 2013
| Foul. At least for me, being over 65, without enough pee to fill the pipe, especially since there's no access to water. |
iggy39
Mar 12, 2013
| Bugger I'm older than you are and I thought it was stupid, only because it didn't make any sense. This said "science" I don't think so. |
Thekid4
Mar 12, 2013
| I read a mentalrobics article a while back that had this exact teaser in it, so I know that you did not make this one up. Also, in any way is this a science teaser? What, because golf balls float that makes it "science"? If you ask me, due to all of the random objects that you don't need, it should be a trick teaser. |
Skybet
Mar 12, 2013
| A bit mislead because this is in the science section, but the solution works nevertheless. |
allythebuterfly
Mar 12, 2013
| I actually got the answer right hahaha, but I had heard a similar teaser a while back and remembered the floating thing |
thecatladycac
Mar 24, 2013
| Cute!! To those complaining about the category, Raynee explained toward the beginning of comments that the editors placed it in this category, it wasn't her choice. Anyway, this one was new to me and I've been around for a while! |
