Tori
Apr 25, 2002
| nice one |
Tori
Apr 25, 2002
| nice one |
Pizzahead
Apr 26, 2002
| I think you mean fall. Clocks move forward in spring, so he would be born at 3:15, not 1:15. |
PeaceJo  
Apr 26, 2002
| OH NO! Is it fall? Has anyone seen my brain??? I always get it confused (FALL/SPRING - FOWARD/BACK). Let's just pretend the phrase "in the Spring" isn't there so that my confusion doesn't ruin any enjoyment you might have gotten from the teaser otherwise. Thanks for pointing it out! |
brettcw
Apr 30, 2002
| Fall back. Spring ahead.
And I think the clocks get set back\forward at midnight. Still a good teaser.
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setzerknight
May 02, 2002
| Since they are twins, they were born one just before the other. So, the "older" is the one who comes out of the womb first. but in the registry time, they can easily be confused, so this is kinda obvious, and has many answers |
Mogmatt16  
May 06, 2002
| why does everyone have babies on leap day or daylight savings of while on a boat going over the international date line!?!? |
SandPman
May 12, 2002
| Despite the errors, I still think this is a nice puzzle. |
O_wise_one
May 19, 2002
| Other than the "Spring-foreward" thing, this was a very clever teaser, I'll have to remember that one |
HannahStar
May 22, 2002
| cool |
librashorty
May 22, 2002
| good job!! |
odcsurferchick
Jun 16, 2002
| i thought that they were born on a time border and the mom had 2 move 2 a new room! good 1 though |
alisonhgg
Jul 02, 2002
| very good teaser. i never noticed the mistakes until i read about them. easy but very good. |
doggyxp 
Jul 06, 2002
| pretty good, but a little confusing |
sk8babe
Jul 17, 2002
| even though it went a little wrong superb idea!!
=¬) |
zangel3000
Jul 30, 2002
| I thought that Ryan died right after he was born, there4 Craig would b older. |
jasin
Aug 09, 2002
| Aw man! That would have been really good if you had your daylight saving times correct......... Oh well.. Very Good idea nonetheless
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_rab
Aug 13, 2002
| How about this answer: The mother was in an ambulance when the first child was born, and they crossed over a time zone, going East, so the second child was born an hour later. |
SourGir1986
Jan 23, 2003
| Or since you said, "Ryan was born before Craig... Craig is older than Ryan", you could pull a "I was born before my father" and say that Ryan was born "in front of" Craig, as before also means in front of. |
(user deleted)
May 22, 2003
| great ! took me a min but i got it love when that happens lol keep the teasers coming! |
jucy-lu
May 22, 2003
| i liked it. i think i was the only one who found it hard.... |
(user deleted)
May 22, 2003
| no u weren't jucy-lu, i too was a lil slow for this teaser, i guess i didn't read it right, but i guess all y'alls did. I like all of the comments though. |
nuttiekiwis263
May 22, 2003
| Spring forward. Fall back. That's how I remember it! Well, the first answer I thought about was since they were twins, they could have gotten mixed up right??? |
jeehtoven
May 22, 2003
| Can't they be two different sets of twins? |
ThreeTwoOne
May 22, 2004
| The problem is not that the two are twins, rather:
1. Ryan was born first.
2. Craig is still older.
Logically, this is a contradiction, and despite the spring/fall mix-up, the solution remains insightful. |
Alandreia
May 22, 2004
|  Very good....YAY! I ACTUALLY FIGURED IT OUT!!!  |
Alandreia
May 22, 2004
| Ummmmmm.....how come everyone's comments are "inappropriate"???
 |
sparkplug
May 22, 2004
| Well thought ! |
sam9874
May 22, 2004
| I couldn't figure it out at first!! That was a good one.. Very hard! |
sam9874
May 22, 2004
| They aren't inappropriate.. If you see one that is inappropriate then you click on that thing that says that and it will send it...lol!!  |
vbfreak55
May 22, 2004
| I think this one was kinda boring!! It was hard, and a little confusing. good idea, though. |
2wheelspeedster
Feb 10, 2005
| Nice teaser. It makes sence. |
zoezyz
Feb 14, 2005
| That is so cool. How can u figure that out?  |
Kinergy
Mar 02, 2005
| That was priceless. I thought there might be two Seattle's in the world in different time zones, and Craig and ryan were identical twins, but not siblings. I like your answer better! |
brain_dead  
May 07, 2005
| that is confusing. |
kcelf27
May 22, 2005
| OK, am I the only one NOT on CRACK??? WHERE in the teaser or the ANSWER does it say ANYTHING about SPRING?
The teaser was done just fine and the times ARE set back/forward at 2am, NOT midnight.
My PROBLEM is that in TWIN childbirth if it is NOT a C-section, the labor would NOT (typically) last half hour inbetween babies. You COULD have just as easily made it 1:58am and the next one born 4 minutes later at "1 2"
OVER ALL, GOOD JOB |
zonahobo
May 22, 2005
| I got this quickly only because it was much like an arguement used against adoption of Daylight Savings Time in England in the 1800's. It was worried that a first born twin would loose his land rights due to the time change .. It pays to read! Good job getting into a teaser format! We don't have this worry in Arizona! |
Chakoteya
May 22, 2005
| Neat, although unlikely for the midwife to alter twins birth times in real life, I hope. |
babybabe1
May 22, 2005
| I agree with Kcelf27. It doesn't say nothing about Spring or about the time moving backwards. Maybe if you gave a hint it would have been easier.   |
greebmaster-1
May 22, 2005
| fantastic i never would have thought of that. |
maka10
May 22, 2005
| Great one, but yeah, it should be fall! ;-)
But still fun!  |
Creamy_Suga
May 22, 2005
| I have only one word: HUH????? I guess this teaser offers more thinking then I usually do. This is too much for my poor brain.  |
darthforman
May 22, 2005
| Nice one,
I didn't think of that.
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roachls
May 22, 2005
| Of course it didn't say anything about it being spring. It also didn't say, "Ryan and Craig were born 30 minutes apart just before and after daylight savings time." The fact that it was spring (ok, really fall) was part of the answer. Perhaps the question should have been rephrased to "How can this be?" to make it more clear. |
(user deleted)
May 22, 2005
| I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD, CUTE TOO, BUT I LIKE LEAP DAY FOR THE FIRST ONE AND MARCH 1 FOR THE 2ND. THAT WAY 1/4 YEARS ATA TIME.............. |
skimela
May 22, 2005
| so simple yet so hard!!! |
WildKat
May 22, 2005
| "Posted by Curtis*
May 22, 2005
...I assumed that they were twins alright, but from different families, and, hence different sets of twins."
I thought the same exact thing. |
FeaerFactorY666
May 22, 2005
| That's a very smart teaser! Too smart for me! I prefer fun, riddle-y type teasers. |
kevinal
May 22, 2005
| just more support for the stupidity of daylight savings time. |
Muffintins
May 22, 2005
| I was thinking that it they where born on December 31st and the other was born a few minutes later on January 1st. That was a good one! |
quantumpbrane
May 22, 2005
| brilliant. loved it.
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(user deleted)
May 22, 2005
| NICE!!!
 |
lil_valentine13
May 22, 2005
| I got the teaser when I read it. Then, all the weird comments made my brain want to explode.  Um, teacher, can I be excused? My brain is full. |
vikingboy
May 22, 2005
| kclef and babebabe,
You didn't see spring in the teaser because it was 'corrected" before you read it.
Good teaser. But wouldn't the one born first always be older regardless of what the time on the certificate said? Age is a reference to how long someone has been alive. |
kcelf27
May 23, 2005
| OHHH, I didn't realize a Teaser could be changed once posted. I thought the 'correcting' thing was BEFORE they got posted. I was thinking there was some serious issues there.
And YES, age is NOT what it says on a piece of paper, but didn't the teaser say.....ACCORDING TO THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE. |
kcelf27
May 23, 2005
| Maybe instead of saying one was OLDER than the other, you should have said one was BORN before the other (according to the certificates). Just a thought. |
lil_valentine13
May 23, 2005
| The whole which one is older thing is very confusing to me. But then again, I have never been known for my great mental abilities But I still think it made a great teaser. Even if it made my brain want to explode. |
Cheerleader_09
May 23, 2005
| I thought it was pretty cool. I don't really know alot about daylight savings or anything I just change my clocks every year, so I didn't notice any of the mistakes!!  |
lil_valentine13
May 23, 2005
| Once I changed my clocks back in the Spring when I was supposed to change them forward. I went around for three days wondering why I was late for everything. Shows how much of a clue I've got. |
(user deleted)
May 25, 2005
| November 01, 2003, Massachusettes, a situation ssimilar to this teaser's premise, actualy occured. |
lil_valentine13
May 26, 2005
| Cool!! That would be a weird thing to have to explain when you went to school, though. |
Swordoffury1392
May 28, 2005
| Cool teaser despite the mix-up.
I thought that it had to do with leap years though!  |
norcekri
Jul 26, 2005
| I missed this. Where I live, if you're born anywhere near a possibly confusing boundary (such as a time change), the attendant puts the time zone (such as CST) on the certificate. |
froggygg
Jul 27, 2005
| Great teaser! |
Sunrose
Sep 19, 2005
| Good Job. |
sweetime
Sep 20, 2005
| great teaser
i thought it was the "before meaning in front of" thing too - craig was older, therefore the other twin could be born in front of him... |
marching_xc
Nov 03, 2005
| How cool would it be if that actually happened... Those babies would have a cute icebreaker for the rest of their lives... anyways I enjoyed this one. |
scallio
May 30, 2006
| I've got identical twins, but girls. "Twin Trouble" is an appropriate title! Enjoyed this fun teaser! Easy, but fun!
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Moharraqi
May 30, 2006
| We twins in our family. One is older than the other by about five minutes. No twins can come out of a mother's womb at the same moment, so obviously always one is older than the other. So where is the riddle? |
OldChinaHand
May 30, 2006
| Despite a flaw or two, this was fun to try to solve since only a few conditions can effect time. This was one of those conditions. Good material for a teaser. Keep up the good work. |
coachpisco
May 30, 2006
| Oh boy! That is one that I'll keep for a while. That was a good one. |
bradon182001
May 30, 2006
| This was has been around quite a while.Goood teaser, tho. |
lmurray 
May 30, 2006
| FUN AND VERY EASY. |
paradisebabe
May 30, 2006
| wha?
i dont get it. |
kukuzyavochka
May 30, 2006
| A bit challenging, a bit fun, VERY unique. |
lorelle_b
May 30, 2006
| I didn't read the question right--I thought it said that they had different birth dates. One of my best friends had twin brother-sister and one was born at 11:58 and the other at 124 so they had two different birthdays. Too bad they died But I'm rambling--great teaser |
bts072007
May 30, 2006
| OH MY GOODNESS! A Teaser i actually understood in a while! NICE ONE! |
krnsspot
May 30, 2006
| good one...i thought it had something to do with the names being in alphabetical order...duhhh.. of course there wouldn't be two names on one birth certificate i feel dumb |
robinmckenzie
May 30, 2006
| kukuzyavochka, I would go further, and say that it is VERY, VERY, VERY unique. |
Neek
May 30, 2006
| Very good, although I didn't get it. |
xeses
May 30, 2006
| Good thing they weren't born in Arizona, we don't have daylight savings time! |
banzai
May 30, 2006
| I also thought of leap year solution. |
Stuff1
May 30, 2006
| Here I thought I had it and said they were not each others twins! |
Dubber
May 30, 2006
| for the most part it was good but hard and easy at the same time nice job with this one. |
doka13
May 30, 2006
| wow, that was cute. kind of easy but cute. |
Wingsfan
May 30, 2006
| I got this one right away...very cute though! I like it. |
lindquist_25
May 30, 2006
| Hah, cool. |
POPS
May 30, 2006
| I dont care what the clock indicated,The first one out of has to be the oldest even if its within minutes BUT I guess your right when it comes to official documents such as birth certificates,Oh well |
kcheer2493
May 30, 2006
| like many agree, it was a little confusing withthe whole time mix-up, but whatever! It was still a great thought and teaser!
Am I number 90!? |
sweetblood
May 30, 2006
| nice one good job |
loony300
May 30, 2006
| i thought the seattle or the 1961 was going to have something to do with it! Good teaser |
Smurf1978
May 30, 2006
| Fun. This was my 1st and I got it right. Spring up\Fall back |
tdbrsun
May 30, 2006
| I was stumped again!!! Good Job! |
syracuse945
May 30, 2006
| nys...
i thot they wer born in different c-@-l places, lyk on different tym zones, but th@ ddn't rili make much sense... haha...
good job!
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spazzyjazzy93
May 30, 2006
| very clever! |
ejj1955
May 30, 2006
| I don't see anything in the clue that makes the "they weren't each other's twins" solution wrong. Seems perfectly logical to me . . . |
irar1792
May 30, 2006
| personally, i think that this belongs in the situation category and will try to correct it asap
it was a GREAT teaser! |
azbee123
May 30, 2006
| haha... i thought they were mixed up at birth or something... wow i feel stupid.
this was really good!!! |
azbee123
May 30, 2006
| oh yeah! did everybody see that? imurray said it was fun! making some improvements here.... |
vlerma
May 31, 2006
| Great teaser. Nice job, spring forward, fall back, most of us have to do it, does anyone remember why? And Imurray, I am so proud of you tonight. Welcome to the Braingle Crowd. Along with the teaser and the comments, you helped put a smile on my face tonight. |
learningchinese
Jun 01, 2006
| extremely obvious. |
GebbieRose
Jun 05, 2006
| These can be confusing. Nice job! |
tonjawithaj
Jun 05, 2006
| cool! |
mmmcla01
Jun 19, 2006
| Don't the clocks get set back at midnight?? Im not positive but I'm pretty sure they do...I could be wrong, though |
seanlandrews
Oct 13, 2006
| COOL!!!!! |
eyenowhour
Jan 16, 2007
| Clocks are turned back at 2 am. |
hoyty
May 30, 2007
| A- on the teaser (only because of the mix up) D+ on the negative comments. Get a life. This was a good one. |
lmurray
May 30, 2007
| CHANGE THE YEAR TO 2000 AND SEE THE ANSWERS YOU GET (??????) |
cloughme
May 30, 2007
| Fun!!! And the comments are fun too! |
anion
May 30, 2007
| Awesome!!! I didn't get it but I loved it when I saw the answer.
That one was great! |
gallopingboo
May 30, 2007
| loved it! |
hootman
May 30, 2007
| Daylight savings time didn't go into effect in the US until 1967 or 1968. |
Hungrygit
May 30, 2007
| I kinda went along the "leap year" line. I thought maybe Ryan was born at 2359 on 29th Feb and Craig was born on 0020 on 1st March therefore Craig would have had more Birthdays and been 'older' in a sense, but that theory was blown to bits when I learnt that 1961 was not a leap year |
doehead
May 30, 2007
| Quite easy,Quite old, and Quite hilarious. |
phyllisa
May 30, 2007
| Good one, spring ahead, fall back! |
coolguy5678
May 30, 2007
| I also though that Ryan had died, but that wouldn't show up on the birth certificate.
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Brock
May 30, 2007
| cool |
I_Write_Books
May 30, 2007
| Certainly easy, but still entertaining...regardless what those who are being too technical and picky have to say.
Good job. |
2ndhandrose
May 30, 2007
| Being a Canadian I always remember it by SPRING FORWARD
FALL BEHIND.
They couldn't come from separate families because they are "identical" twins.
GOOD ONE Missed the answer this time.
Your facts on time appear correct to me but what do I Know?
FUN |
2ndhandrose
May 30, 2007
| Thanks for a good laugh
HUNGRY GIT |
speedqueenkmw
May 30, 2007
| i didn't care for this one |
XDeenaLeeX
May 30, 2007
| Hmm...I just thought that Ryan died. |
cheeny13
May 30, 2007
| Not bad but seems a little too obscure to me.. |
(user deleted)
May 30, 2007
| I thought it was too obvious. The only adjustment for an age difference in identical twins from the same mother is either leep year or daylight savings. |
saradove
May 30, 2007
| Interesting
i never thought oabout that. |
auntiesis
May 30, 2007
| Wow ! What a lot of stuff has been written about this teaser. Verrrrrry clever ! |
oddrey
May 30, 2007
| i loved it! how did you come upwith that? |
Stupidenator
May 30, 2007
| Or someone could have messed up the birth certificates...
Maybe written something wrong. |
reptile5000
May 30, 2007
| Good teaser..
and for everyone after the 15th comment or so, saying stuff like u dont see where she wrte spring, the teaser was edited |
katiekinnss1
May 30, 2007
| I liked that one |
donrod
May 30, 2007
| GOOD TEASER. SOME PEOPLE ARE TOOOOO CRITICAL ! |
temisho
May 30, 2007
| i actually know a pair of twins like that!! the real older one hates it!! |
muffinbrittney
May 30, 2007
| no, i thought this one to be confusing and quite lame. So insult intended, but it was a waste of my time... |
Infinitoid
May 30, 2007
| not bad at all. that would take some massive thinking to get to. |
jabdr
May 30, 2007
| Sometimes the comments wear me out...I liked the teaser and it made me think (not that the thinking got me the answer ) |
hockeyfan94
May 30, 2007
| They could also be from different sets of identical twins or one could even be born in 1961 BC and the other in 1961 AD. |
hockeyfan94
May 30, 2007
| 2 things:
mmcla, they get set back at 20AM
hoyty, i don't see any negative comments. Plus, there's nothing wrong with negative comments. Think of them as "constructive criticism". Like this: STOP SAYING THAT ANYTHING THAT IS NOT A "OMG THIS IS AMAZING!!!" IS NEGATIVE AND IS THEREFORE EVIL!!! |
sagarat
May 30, 2007
| I have an alternative answer:
Craig was born first. Ryan took a while longer to be born. By that time, Craig was cleaned up, and was being held by the mother's partner.
Therefore, Ryan was born 'before', or in front of, Craig. |
animaru2413
May 30, 2007
| I also thought it was a leap year and one was born on feb. 29 and the other was born, a matter of seconds later, on march 1.
still, a good teaser. |
siskiu
May 30, 2007
| hey!! real nice...i got it wrong but still fun...
i still dont understand immuray's comment...hey at least its not a bad comment |
reggi5505
May 30, 2007
| That was a good one. I knew the answer but I didnt |
breathesunshine
May 30, 2007
| Easy, got it right away, probably because I hate the time change so much. Wish they'd just leave the clock alone! |
DaCaminator
May 30, 2007
| i was goin to say they were two different set of identical twins
cam |
piano_player
May 30, 2007
| couple of mistakes, but still a tricky teaser.
good one |
measle1025
Jun 23, 2007
| confusing but good! |
Qrystal
Jul 12, 2007
| loony300 said:
"i thought the seattle or the 1961 was going to have something to do with it!"
But those facts did have something to do with the puzzle! Daylight savings time doesn't happen everywhere, but it does in Seattle. DST also didn't always happen, but in 1961, it did! (To correct something that was said earlier, the U.S. started using DST in 1918.) |
princesspt
Sep 28, 2007
| wow i was just stumped, but after the answer it made perfect sense! good teaser, one of my favorites so far |
gaylewolf
May 30, 2010
| Clever Teaser
Thanks
And, as usual, the comments are half the fun! |
precious1026
May 30, 2010
| Why? The questions was why, not when...
Its a simple matter of who came first. The time can be argued all day. And, thats Kool... |
dalfamnest
May 30, 2010
| Great teaser. Thanks. Makes sense ... And a little unusual. |
mathisnice
May 30, 2010
| Nice teaser! |
crocodile
May 30, 2010
| Or maybe the person who wrote the birth certificates screwed up |
patiencewithaP
May 30, 2010
| Fun even though I didn't get it |
bear01
May 30, 2010
| hehe.. i was thinking that it was alphabetically recorded.. lol.. but your answer is much trickier |
lukasiwicz
May 31, 2010
| Two points: 1) There is no error in this puzzle; in the fall the clocks are set back 1 hour, as the puzzle states; in the spring, they are set forward 1 hour; the mnemonic is "fall back, spring forward; 2) The time change, for reasons unclear, traditionally occurs at 2 AM. |
