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Getting Wet
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Puzzle ID: #3431
Submitted By: emilymonkeymaia Corrected By: Winner4600
Submitted By: emilymonkeymaia Corrected By: Winner4600
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A man went into a bar and bet $20 to the person sitting next to him that he could dip part of his hand into a glass of water without his fingers getting wet. The man sitting next to him agreed. But yet the man who agreed lost, and the other man won. How?
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He dipped his thumb in.Hide Answer Show Answer
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crafty, must try this in a bar one day
Come on! I would like to hear your comments. If you like it, don't like it. Think it is to easy to hard! I would like to hear your feed back!
Isn't a thumb also a finger?
Maybe I do not know English (or biology)
Maybe I do not know English (or biology)
I don't know about the rest of you, but I was always taught that we had 10 fingers and 10 toes. The thumb is a finger in my book.
Sorry! If you though a finger was the same as a thumb this joke is not good for you! But, I always though that it was not part! Sorry about that!
Glass of water doesn't have to be full
I enjoyed it anyway!
i just tried it on my mom. someone remine me she owes me $1.00
Angie, your mom owes U a dollar.
Also, I thought he dipped in the back of his hand, or the glass of water wasn't full.
Also, I thought he dipped in the back of his hand, or the glass of water wasn't full.
I thought he was wearing rubber gloves.
I thought he was wearing rubber gloves, too.
rly cool!!! luved it!!! had me stumped
I thought he cut off his hand and stuck in the back that was attached to his wrist. Thats what I would have done...
It's easier to dip your palm in a full glass than the back of your hand... that was my vote
i went with the ambiguous his answer - Man A bets Man B that Man A can dip part of Man B's hand in the water without getting Man A's fingers wet....only because of the way it is phrased Man B doesn't realise that's what's happening.
i like the proper answer better though.
i like the proper answer better though.
I always learned a thumb was a finger, if it wasn't we would have 8 fingers?
your thumb might be a finger but has anyone ever called it a thumb finger. yet you have heard pointer or index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and pinkie finger. I'm not saying that we have 8 fingers, but sometimes i like to trick my friends by asking how many fingers they have.
Things, fumbers; good one!
When i want to feel smart i think that one. A retard would call that retarded
a thumb is still a finger!! DUH!
I thought that he dipped anoher part of his hand in...
This whole teaser is wrong!!! If the man agreed, then he thought that he COULD do it, so if they agreed neither of them could have won or lost. This teaser could have been written much simpler. . . How can you put part of your hand in a glass full of water and not get wet!!!
I thought he was wearing gloves too
Right I know how its weird that comse people don't consider the thumb a finger but I came up with a backup solution just in case:
Fill the glass completely full and make a fist. Gently place the back of your hand in the water.
Reyth
Fill the glass completely full and make a fist. Gently place the back of your hand in the water.
Reyth
I believe a thumb is considered a finger. How about the back of his hand?
hello TEN FINGERS Thumbs are types of fingers.
Or he could have been wearing gloves
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