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Lighting Candles
A man walks into a dark room with only one match. What does he light first, a birthday candle (one that would go on a cake but in this case isn't on one), a regular candle, or a bonfire? The match is lit.
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The birthday candle, because he can carry it to the regular candle, then light that, and then use both candles to light the bonfire!Hide Answer Show Answer
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i still don't see why he can't light the regular candle first...
me neither
me neither
ditto
I agree with you.
agreed
because if he lit the regular candle first the birthday one would fall over, he keeps holding the birthday candle. The regular candle has a stronger base and stays up by itself.
uhhh....okkkay
You never mentioned a base on the regular candle. Without one it too would easily fall over.
whateve
the birthday candle would be my last choice. it will burn out the quickest giving less time to light the bonfire. Light the normal candle first and carry it as you can then put down the match, next light the bonfire. you can then use either to light the birthday candle. I assume by the thinking that whoever set this is still quite young. good on you for submitting but think it through a litle more.
not a lot of substance to this one, sounds like it was thought up but not thoroughly. A little too many possibilities.
Where I come from, a bonfire is a pile of brush and logs that could boil half of Antarctica. Who has one of these in a room?
YOU'D LIGHT THE MATCH FIRST
Cliff: read...
"The match is lit."
"The match is lit."
I agree with Cliff. Shouldn't you light the match first? And (sorry,m I forget who) but whoever made a comment after Cliff, it never said the match was already lit. So, yeah... you would light the match first, but if you are oinly talking about the birthday candle, regualr candle, and bon fire, then it wouldn't matter. Do whatever order YOU feel best... I mean if the base isn't strong or will melt, then just move the candles farther apart. Yeah?
I agree with Cliff. Shouldn't you light the match first? And (sorry,m I forget who) but whoever made a comment after Cliff, it never said the match was already lit. So, yeah... you would light the match first, but if you are oinly talking about the birthday candle, regualr candle, and bon fire, then it wouldn't matter. Do whatever order YOU feel best... I mean if the base isn't strong or will melt, then just move the candles farther apart. Yeah?
When he walks into the darkroom, is the match lit? If yes, I agree with you on the answer. If not then the match must be lit first.
This is the teaser:
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A man walks into a dark room with only one match. What does he light first, a birthday candle (one that would go on a cake but in this case isn't on one), a regular candle, or a bonfire? **The match is lit.**"
I surrounded the words "the match is lit" with *s
"
A man walks into a dark room with only one match. What does he light first, a birthday candle (one that would go on a cake but in this case isn't on one), a regular candle, or a bonfire? **The match is lit.**"
I surrounded the words "the match is lit" with *s
If it's a dark room, wouldn't you light the first flammable thing you found?
Sorry but I am going to be totally honest here: this is a horrible, atrocious teaser. You could light any of them first, and light the others with that object.
This is like, someone read a bunch of situation-type teasers, and tried to copy one of the cliché forms, but forgot to put in the part where you have to think about anything, and gave a completely arbitrary answer when practically anything would be correct. Run-on sentence or not, I make a good point. ;)
How does this get accepted, while half of my teasers, which make perfect sense and which I spent hours on, get rejected???
This is like, someone read a bunch of situation-type teasers, and tried to copy one of the cliché forms, but forgot to put in the part where you have to think about anything, and gave a completely arbitrary answer when practically anything would be correct. Run-on sentence or not, I make a good point. ;)
How does this get accepted, while half of my teasers, which make perfect sense and which I spent hours on, get rejected???
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