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Public Bus
This trick seems a lot more impressive if spoken out loud.
A public bus starts in the morning with 5 people. It stops at the first stop and collects 3 people. It stops at the second stop and collects 2 more people. It stops at the third stop and collects 8 more people. It stops at the last stop and collects 2 more people. During the journey, no person has gone out of the bus. At the end, the bus driver looks back and sees 24 heads. How come?
A public bus starts in the morning with 5 people. It stops at the first stop and collects 3 people. It stops at the second stop and collects 2 more people. It stops at the third stop and collects 8 more people. It stops at the last stop and collects 2 more people. During the journey, no person has gone out of the bus. At the end, the bus driver looks back and sees 24 heads. How come?
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24 heads = 20 "four"headsThus, the bus driver sees 20 foreheads.
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if the bus started with 5 people on board, ie: 4 passengers and the driver, then a further 15 people get on, the driver could only able to see 19 fore heads, as he will not be able to see his own.
it was cute! mad-ade you should stop being so hard on everyone! every comment of yours i've seen is rude! and i think you should lighten up, have a little fun, go drinking...or something!
you should have said it only makes sence if spoken out loud, not impressive.
hey princess, exactly which bit of my comment did you find rude? I monly said the driver couldn't see the back of his own head, where is the rudeness in that?
mad-ade's right. you people are too sensitive. it would have made sense if he said there were 5 passengers rather than 5 people.
I thought one of the passengers had given birth to quadruplets on the bus!
Mad-ade, your comment wsa not rude, only truthful.
And some busses allow pets on. They have heads too!
And some busses allow pets on. They have heads too!
I understand the trick, but 24 heads and 20 foreheads doesn't really do anything.
mad-ade is always rude on every thing! this was 1 of his/her better 1's!
mad-ade is always critisizing other people's teasers. He thinx he's just the best because he's posted so many teasers.
ok ok ok people can't we all just be friends. there are a few things 1st and foremost you all have attitudes and are being rude when acting like you are in your comments. second made ade I am sorry you made a spelling mistake in one of your comments let me show you, Posted by mad-ade May 05, 2002
hey princess, exactly which bit of my comment did you find rude? I ["monly"] said the driver couldn't see the back of his own head, where is the rudeness in that?, I think you ment to say only, and another thing is that a persons forehead is on the front of their head and not the back. He could see his own fore head by looking in the rearview mirror. I do not mean to be cynical, but I am only stating the facts as I see them You all are welcome to your own views.
hey princess, exactly which bit of my comment did you find rude? I ["monly"] said the driver couldn't see the back of his own head, where is the rudeness in that?, I think you ment to say only, and another thing is that a persons forehead is on the front of their head and not the back. He could see his own fore head by looking in the rearview mirror. I do not mean to be cynical, but I am only stating the facts as I see them You all are welcome to your own views.
nicely said george, very logical
He didnt see 24 heads so why did you write that. I think this should only be a verbal teaser because it is stupid otherwise.
it was cute, yes, but hard to get when reading because four and fore are spelt differently,and therefore connote different meanings
george1978, do not be hypocritical. You ask mad-ade not to be rude and then are very rude to him. Spelling mistakes in posts are very unimportant unless there are so many of them you can't understand what the poster is saying. An inconsistency in the puzzle is worth pointing out. The puzzle is in the Trick section, meaning we're looking for a false assumption we're making based on the statements. One false assumption would be that 5 people does not include the driver. Thus, the fact that this is indeed a correct assumption and there is a different trick makes the puzzle confusing. mad-ade was just pointing that out. I don't think he sounded rude.
I actually pronounce it fohr-ed.. as in the same pronunciation as forest except forehead... so this teaser didn't really work for me.
A solution that doesn't rely on puns would be: He picked up four people between the third stop and the last stop. No one said there were only four stops.
I thought the same as quintopia.
I was thinking that some of the people were pregnant women.
They may well have been, but unless he had x-ray vision, he wouldn't have seen any more heads!
I thought there were four blind people on board with their guide dogs.
I thought there were four blind people on board with their guide dogs.
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