Braingle: 'The Diamond' Brain Teaser

The Diamond

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.

Puzzle ID:	#5207
Fun:	(3.1)
Difficulty:	(2.37)
Category:	Situation
Submitted By:	dustomatic
Corrected By:	4demo

A rich old lady died and left all her money to her grandchildren and her children. At the end of the will she stated that she had one last thing to give away: her precious diamond. She gave a clue to where it might be. She said "it's in a cylinder surrounded by a thousand squares." One grandchild said, "I know where it is," and found it. Where was it?

Answer

In a roll of toilet paper.
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Comments

Piffle Jul 14, 2002	haha! good one. i never thought of that.
Piffle Jul 14, 2002	"that" meaning the answer.
jasin Jul 17, 2002	not bad..........I would never guessed the answer
Dina_2002 Jul 17, 2002	pretty easy and "know" is spelled that way.
pix_e_suhst Jul 24, 2002	I thought it was a kaleidescope... oh well
SkEwL_gUrl Jul 26, 2002	I guess tiolet paper has a new use now
bmotts Jul 30, 2002	lucky she didn't flush it down the potty
Flynn Aug 18, 2002	I got hung up on 'perious'. It wasn't until I read the previous comment that I guess that he meant to write 'precious'. Otherwise its a great puzzle.
dumbell Aug 20, 2002	so itcontains a spelling error. big deal it is still a good teaser. I quess the reason sillywilly has no teasers acredited is that they are still pending or rejected. put up or shut up.
Gouranga Sep 02, 2002	How big was this roll of tolet paper? I mean it was a good teaser, but 1000 squares? Thats near to 100m of loo roll! The bog roll in qustion had to have been one of those big ones you find in public toilets. A normal roll has less than 300 leaves of paper.
sarcastic_brat53 Jan 24, 2003	boy Gouranga, you really know your toilet paper!
na-iem Mar 12, 2003	Toilet paper is not square, it's rectangular
sarcastic_brat53 Mar 19, 2003	to na-iem: toilet paper can be square. The brand I have folds perfectly in half triangularly.
amorn01380 May 03, 2003	Who cares how many squres of paper it has. It was a good teaser. Plus were arguin over bog roll.
horse_luver May 18, 2003	Who i their right mind would put a "perious" diamond in a roll of toilet paper?? And also, what roll?? There are tons of rolls of toilet paper. How would they know which one?
sarcastic_brat53 May 23, 2003	to horse_lover, they probaly don't have that many rolls of toilet paper, it would take a whole of 30 seconds to look in ten roles if they even had that many.
Jessicag Mar 07, 2004	I thought the answer was pantihose as they are a cylinder and the woven parts may make squares, but the toilet roll is much better. PS to the others, sure there are some inconsistencies in this teaser but you lose the love of life if you let silly things like that bother you so much. perhaps you should go outside and look at something else besides your computer eh?
BrenBeadSP Mar 07, 2004	Cute teaser - I enjoyed it, thanks. Spelling mistakes add to the silliness of the whole idea of a teaser. Enjoy the fun of them all.
O_Wise_One Mar 07, 2004	I thought it was a baseball diamond, surrounded by a stadium. The squares coulda been the parking spots, although they're more rectangular. Just a thought.
CLIFF Aug 04, 2004	HEY Gouranga IT COULD HAVE BEEN TWO PLY
Arlene Mar 07, 2005	What the heck,it was a cute joke
phusers Mar 07, 2005	What kind of big Roll has a thousand Squares?!
putzz7993 Mar 07, 2005	I thought it was the chimny There are many posibilities for this riddle. you chose one of the hrder ones to think of either way it was still good keep them coming
lostatsea Mar 07, 2005	Never would have thought of a roll of toilet paper, yet it's something we use every day. Humorous answer , opens eyes
lostatsea Mar 07, 2005	speeeling messtikes hhhow bout pucuation tooo. To bad we can't all be perfect. The heck with spelling and grammer, it's the humor and enjoyment that coounts. Life is best when we keep it simple, and not nit-pick on everything. Perhaps one should look at one of the requests to submit a comment, ' "PLEAS DO NOT SUGGEST SPELLING OR GRAMMER CORRECTIONS ...", following instructions is obviously not a strong suit for some!!
annie9698 Mar 07, 2005	wow, what a great answer! P.S. my toilet paper is square, and many brands have 1,000 sheets or more! per roll
Araldite Mar 07, 2005	Good teaser. BTW, Scott tissue says right on the label it contains 1000 sheets.
Casey_P Mar 07, 2005	i thought it was a good teaser. P.S. How do you know the squares weren't desighns on each sheet.
morganik Mar 07, 2005	I like it, goodjob!
CHUCKLZ Mar 07, 2005	I thought it was GREAT!!! My answer was I would say a little different...( thought she took it to the grave) lol...it made me laught this morning & for that I thank you!!
gokcgo Mar 07, 2005	made me laugh especially the grave comment
dogboy Mar 07, 2005	i dunno why the heck all people are gripping about the spelling this os great teaser. PS by the time i saw this all the spelling had been fixed
LadieLuvBug Mar 07, 2005	I agree Lostatsea....I found this in an old e-mail of mine...funny how true it is: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt
sakirski Mar 07, 2005	Good Teaser. I don't care about the spelling. But this isn't a logic teaser. It is more appropriate for the riddles section.
freakydoughnut1 Mar 07, 2005	I loved it
(user deleted) Mar 07, 2005	this was a cute one, definitely one to put a smile on your face.
rac76 Mar 07, 2005	clever answer!!
theketchupwins Mar 07, 2005	nice one!...though i was a bit bummed after googling it and finding out it was somewhere else, also. oh, well! me likey muchly
(user deleted) Mar 07, 2005	that was totally awsome but i dont think that someone would hide a dimond in a toilet paper roll!! it was still verry clever!!!
smartie_pants Mar 07, 2005	omg! that is stupid
Sarah5225766 Mar 07, 2005	Great teaser! And guys, i myself didnt see any spelling mistakes, so chill. Who cares if it's spelled right? You understand the meaning! But who puts a precious diamond ring in toilet paper? Who keeps toilet paper around that they dont put in their bathroom to use?
porky Mar 07, 2005	i really didn't think it was all that
saucyangel Mar 07, 2005	LadieLuvBug, that was hilarious! whoever wrote this teaser: good one! i have one more comment....that must've been a heck of a BIG diamond if it fit inside a toilet paper tube without falling out! woooooOOOOOOOWWW!
ilovpurple Mar 07, 2005	kool 1 i liked it a lot!!!!
CowGirl90 Mar 07, 2005	*Blank Look* That was the last thing I would have thought of! I was thinking something like a lamp- not a toilet paper roll! That was pretty clever, tho!
swanee Mar 07, 2005	Good one. I thought it was in the lighy socket of the chandelier.
100riddles Mar 07, 2005	pretty good!!
ultimatehorse Mar 07, 2005	hrm... interesting (kind of a weird place to put a diamond). I was thinking maybe a tiled floor was the thousand squares....
Emrys Mar 07, 2005	Good as a brain teaser, but why would she hide a diamond in a roll of toilet paper, and where?
tap_dancer Mar 07, 2005	Never would have thought of that I thought that she had it in her coffin oh well
tessa Mar 08, 2005	like most of them said.the answer was a shock.
Chelsie Mar 08, 2005	OH YEAH??!! What if it was TWO-PLY!
spongewrestler Mar 08, 2005	,gbjipowvm njhm rkfjvdfk ijgh sdkjf dsfjvnj rdfjvdhif sd whjmg nredgv eus ghdsf dfhnv dfj sd j fgsh WHO CARES ABOUT SSSSPPPPEEELLLIIINNNGGG
froggygg Mar 08, 2005	Cute one. My elderly mom recently moved from her large home of 40+ years into a small granny flat and used empty toilet paper rolls to pack small items which fit snuggly inside. I thought that was an ingenious idea. By the way, LadieLuvBug I REALLY enjoyed your comment and had absolutely no problem reading it . It's amazing what the mind can do even after many, many years of training to do everything a certain way. Spelling - what's that?!
sweetpeao4o3 Mar 08, 2005	what was misspelled? good teaser.
mattschicklet Mar 08, 2005	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by LadieLuvBug Mar 07, 2005 ''I agree Lostatsea....I found this in an old e-mail of mine...funny how true it is: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt'' That is so funny the way you spellt everything
pat56 Mar 07, 2006	I didn't see any spelling mistakes in the teaser,but I seen a lot of spelling errors in a lot of the post that were complaining about it.I thought this was a fun sight for people to enjoy and have fun so why do so many have to complain about spelling errors.Although I didn't get the answer right I still think it was a good teaser and I don't care about the spelling errors because we all are guilty of that but what's the big deal.I can think of a lot more things to complain about so why can't we just have fun and not fuss over petty things.Good teaser,keep up the good work.
brainster Mar 07, 2006	Wow so many comments hung up on one issue! As for me, I thoroughly enjoyed the teaser!
yesenia8rivera Mar 07, 2006	Wonderful teaser! Two thumbs up
yesenia8rivera Mar 07, 2006	P.S. This is a great site! After a while you tend to ignore the party poopers
OldChinaHand Mar 07, 2006	So many people with so many problems, or is it so many people with the same problem...does it really make one feel better about one's self to put down others in a public forum. The teaser was a teaser no more no less...I was guessing a cut crystal vase which would make the diamond nearly invisible with a little water in it...but a TP roll was cleaver.
bryan62 Mar 07, 2006	Not bad. I guessed a salt shaker.
shawneeo Mar 07, 2006	Hey! the person above me guessed the same thing I did, and I think we had the best answer! It was in a salt shaker or a container of salt. Salt comes in a cylindrical shaped box and each crystal of salt is a cube. This works better because its in a cylinder, surrounded by squares, and its supported by the salt; whereas in the middle of a roll of TP where does it go? It would have to be stuck to one side of the hollow cylinder or just... I dunno? Although I agree about people being too picky about spelling errors, it seems that those shouldn't be there anyway; it makes it seem like no one really cares enough to do a simple spell check. But true it does say not to comment on those, I would just wish spelling was corrected before posting a teaser, and, really it usually, almost always is. Thanks, it was a fun teaser!
nathalia Mar 07, 2006	cool teaser
churchlady Mar 07, 2006	Fun - guessed right away. Keep them coming!!!
churchlady Mar 07, 2006	regarding spelling errors - who cares. We are all human and these are supposed to be fun. Lets not pick on our fellow "teasers". Have a great day.
bradon182001 Mar 07, 2006	Easy.Didn't take much thought,but we need easy ones now and then.
kman613 Mar 07, 2006	that one was tough for me - couldn't get it. Fun trying though - good one
windexnodrip Mar 07, 2006	GrEaT jOb!!! never would have guessed.....
mkidd053 Mar 07, 2006	Eye lyked dis teezer. Becawse it seamed hard but wuz reely actuly eezy. Eye dint c anee speling errars.
iteachkids Mar 07, 2006	This was a TON of fun ... ... Oh ... and the teaser was great, too!
lmurray Mar 07, 2006	CUTE, BUT NOT A BRAIN TEASER. CERTAINLY NO LOGIC IN IT.
KatV Mar 07, 2006	It's one of those DUH! kind of moments when you read the answer!!! So obvious it was hard! I LOVED it!!!
paul726 Mar 07, 2006	It wasn't a bad teaser, though I think it should have been situation rather than logic. If those of you who are troubled by misspellings, as am I, would just submit a correction, you'd improve it for others, and not have to be considered offensive.
cherokeerose Mar 07, 2006	I thought this was a very funny teaser. Isn't that really the point to have fun?? Why do people have to criticize. I f you did not like it then just click it off your computer and let the rest of us enjoy it.
crazymandan Mar 07, 2006	I thought it was the salt shaker too, though a thousand grains of salt wouldn't cover much diamond! I'd never have guessed TP- pretty tricky.
annie_hp_fan Mar 07, 2006	I thought the answer was a coffee can. Come on folks! So what if there was a spelling error or you've never seen a roll of TP with so many sheets; it was still a fun teaser. And, isn't that why we all come here -- so our brains can have fun? Cute teaser! Thanks!
Takenoprisoner Mar 07, 2006	This was a cute teaser. For those who felt necessary to comment about the spelling, please note it was written in 2002...and the person obviously came back and corrected the spelling once it was pointed out. Lets move on
vlerma Mar 07, 2006	Who is to say that these were spelling errors. Some people just have slopy fingers if you get my drift. All in all I enjoyed the comments, hee hee. but I thought the teaser was another groaner - you know the kind that makes you go duhhh! Really cute, and like was said before "i like alot! Keep up the good work and for you great spellers out there, go find a BEE if you are so great!
iteachkids Mar 07, 2006	Take note of the dates when comments were made about misspellings. They were made BEFORE the misspelled word was corrected. There is, however, a process for submitting corrections ... and it is NOT in the comments section. Are we having fun yet ... ???
mkidd053 Mar 07, 2006	My misspelled comment was a poke of fun at the commenters, rather than the author of the teaser. Applause to the author.
southerngirl13 Mar 07, 2006	that was pretty dang funny. i wouldn't call it good- after all, it was really stupid, but it was definately funny!!
nightowl19 Mar 07, 2006	Oh...my...goodness.
lindquist_25 Mar 07, 2006	Hahahaha. Very funny. So cute
Sara2009 Mar 07, 2006	Good one. I like!!
hockeygirl Mar 07, 2006	sehr guate (very good german!!) it was sehr funny!!!
spoiled_rotten Mar 07, 2006	the squares comment threw me off. all well.
meonly Mar 07, 2006	i thought it was a chimney.
beaver Mar 07, 2006	I didn't have a clue but it was cute
choptlivva Mar 07, 2006	I loved this one!! I thought the answer fit perfectly.... a simple cylinder surrounded by a thousand squares... (some brands do say it right on the package!) No one said she used good judgement in where she decided to hide it!! Clever teaser!!! I do think it belongs in the Situations category though.
HibsMax Mar 07, 2006	The toilet paper we buy, normal roll size, has 1000 sheets / roll. Go here : http://www.scottbrand.com/us/ and check their products if you're still unsure.
patpat553 Mar 07, 2006	Maybe it was the mega roll from Charmin! I didn't see any spelling errors at all. Must of read it later on when it was corrected. Not a great teaser,but it was okay.
bootscooter58 Mar 08, 2006	Good morning all -- I loved this teaser. Very cute. It reminded me of when I helped clean out my grandmother's apartment after she passed. We found money and valuables in the strangest places. She seemed to hide things to keep them from the "bad guys" should they ever find a way in. Money in books, jewelry in the food pantry in the bottom of cereal boxes... things were everywhere. it makes this teaser very believeable. (is that spelled right???)
RRAMMOHAN Mar 08, 2006	A good teaser. There are a lot of possible answers, as earlier comments show. I too thought it could be a chandelier! Easy teasers there would be aplenty, but those which make you think of different answers are what we need to keep our brains active! I liked this one.
aangel42 Mar 11, 2006	Hahaha funny teaser Hard though I would've never gotten it I love those kind of teasers!!!
bluehawk Mar 12, 2006	Who would of "THUNK" it? Good teaser.
riddlelover Mar 13, 2006	Haha!!! That is so great! I had no idea Too good...she was a little evil...wasn't she? But funny...and clever. Shame she had to die.... Good riddle!
kauphi1976 Mar 07, 2007	come on guys . a TP ? would be nice to see some more nice meaningful puzzles.
cloughme Mar 07, 2007	Very Clever!!! But I think "Logic" is the wrong category.
OldChinaHand Mar 07, 2007	Ditto last year's comments. Still a nice teaser. Thanks.
OldChinaHand Mar 07, 2007	Ditto last year's comments. Still a nice teaser. Thanks.
puttumup Mar 07, 2007	that was a very nice teaser.. dont listen to all the negitive peeps out there..
lav4geniy Mar 07, 2007	Great teaser! I would have never thought of that!
bradon182001 Mar 07, 2007	Ditto OldChinaHand.
gaylewolf Mar 07, 2007	good teaser and a great laugh! Thanks!
sftball_rocks13 Mar 07, 2007	This is so cute I laughed when I read the answer I hate it when people critisize a perfectly good teaser, it always seems to happen It doesn't matter if you think your answer is better, the one on the teaser is never going to change
cassiemark Mar 07, 2007	I got it right away! Good one - really liked it.
phyllisa Mar 07, 2007	Cute one, I also thought of chandelier.
enjaytee Mar 07, 2007	I thought it was a baseball diamond inside a round arena filled with square seats? Why not?
udoboy Mar 07, 2007	Scott makes toilet paper with 1000 sheets.
patpat553 Mar 07, 2007	Hey how come there's another "patpat553 on here? I didn't write that comment????
Pizzazz2u Mar 07, 2007	A highly imaginative teaser! We do seem to be reaching out for some mighty peculiar answers for these teasers, but they are fun to figure out! WTG!
breathesunshine Mar 07, 2007	My daughter and I are still laughing! Good one!!!
speedqueenkmw Mar 07, 2007	I got it!! I don't get many.
lucagrella Mar 07, 2007	I guessed a kaleidoscope, but the real answer was more logical, realistic and fun.
MagicFingers Mar 07, 2007	I too had thought baseball diamond, it wasn't exact, but hey, thinking sometimes really hurts..
frozenrose_885 Mar 07, 2007	Interesting and very clever. I was hoping for a more interesting answer (since I, of course, couldn't figure it out) but still cool.
auntiesis Mar 07, 2007	I was way out in left field with my answer, but as they say, "You can't win them all. But I thought it was kinda cute. My grandkids will like it too. '
swimWBC Mar 07, 2007	wow. you guys need to stop caring so much. It was spelt wrong, the punctuation was incorrect, who puts a diamond in a roll of toilet paper? there aren't 1000 squares of toilet paper...etc. WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!it was a fun, quick, teaser. stop thinking so much.
saleprice Mar 07, 2007	I got it straight away, so that makes me happy good one!!
hersheyugget Mar 07, 2007	isn't it more of a trick? o well it was pretty good
jjdolphine Mar 07, 2007	Hahaha! That was a thinker! I don't know why, but when I heard Cylinderical (or however spelt), I thought of a pringles can, and I was thinking that it couldn't be something as silly as that. Guess I was proven worg! Loved it!
jjdolphine Mar 07, 2007	For those perfect people & spellers out there, sorry, I guess it was read the word cylinderical and wrong. My bad.
Harmony_Girl Mar 07, 2007	What a great teaser! Very hard, I never would have guessed it. Kudos to the author--keep on writing teasers!
Trishgal Mar 07, 2007	Very entertaining - all around well written and cute
LaMoV Mar 07, 2007	are you kidding me??? TOILET PAPER ROLL?? honestly... thats not even a riddle... thats just....bad. sorry. there are some really good ones and even some okay ones, but that was just whoa... totally scraping the barrel i'm afraid.. keep trying though. ps sorry if that was blunt.
Musikman212 Mar 07, 2007	Blunt? I would say more like downright rude. Cute teaser, but once I figured out that the diamond was in a roll of toilet paper, I couldn't find where the roll was hidden. Oh well, foiled again.
shecky444 Mar 07, 2007	What about a sugar canister? Would that not in a cylinder surrounded by squares? ( cubes really)
ViaTunisi Mar 07, 2007	Since a child found the diamond, the first thing I thought of was a kaleidescope. Toilet paper is pretty clever, though.
jamy400 Mar 07, 2007	Great one that was funny!!!
GobyDude Mar 07, 2007	Sorry but that is just not good. How can you guess TOILET PAPER????? I mean, even thinking logically that is jost stupid.
sumit Mar 08, 2007	i didn't like this one!!!
MelkorDCLXVI Mar 09, 2007	squares???
Qrystal Mar 12, 2007	I'm not usually too critical of teasers, especially since I haven't written my own, but I'm disappointed in this one because I consider myself very logical, and I couldn't find any way to use logic to find the answer, not even after seeing the answer. It wouldn't be Trick though, as someone else suggested, because Tricks usually have some explanation that isn't obvious until the answer is given. This doesn't even have that. Maybe this would go in 'Other'...
tintiniscool Aug 12, 2007	It's a situation teaser.... And it is so good! I love it!!!
petey127 Jan 07, 2008	Good teaser, i knew right away because Iv'e seen it before.
Malika123 Jan 09, 2009	Nice!
beyonce123 May 24, 2010	I read this teaser on this site when I first became a member. I hardly ever get any kind of teaser except trick right and I did get this. I absolutely love it. By far the best teaser on this site.