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Madadian Kebab Flakes
Situation
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.Situation
Every morning when Mad Ade has some "KebabFlakes" (one of Madadia's best selling breakfast cereals), he puts a jug of chilli sauce, to pour on his kebabflakes, in the microwave (which is in working order) for exactly 84 seconds. Why?
Hint
Don't bother about getting mathematical, or too technical!Answer
When Mad Ade puts the jug into the microwave, the handle on the jug is pointing towards him. The microwave has a revolving plate on which the jug of chilli sauce is placed. After 84 seconds, Mad Ade knows, through experience, that the handle is again in its initial position, so he can take the cup out without burning his hands.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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the mind boggles!
I LIKE THIS 1 MADADE..... GREAT JOB
~~~Nice Job~~~
That is impossible to get right coz it might take 50 seconds, in another microwave, to turn the jug back to its original position.
I normally like your teasers Ade, but this one is just plain silly !!!!!!!!!!!
I normally like your teasers Ade, but this one is just plain silly !!!!!!!!!!!
Although you are right in what you say about different microwaves having different times, I think you missed the point Jucy-lu, this teaser is specifically about one particular mircowave, Mad Ade's. The point was that Mad Ade knew exactly how long the microwave took to revolve, thus using the information to his advantage.
my answer: mad-ade has an obsessive-compulsive disorder. he has to follow his exact routine every day, no matter how inane it may seem to the rest of us. take, for instance, his ritual of putting a jug of chili in the microwave for exactly 84 seconds every morning. he never even turns on the microwave (as it never indicated this in the teaser). he just anxiously wrings his hands together, staring at the chili through the glass, waiting for the 84 seconds to expire. once, he was 2 seconds late and it caused him to have a fit at work later, throwing kebabs at all his customers and calling them "people of the smily wheat". what does this tell us? that either mad-ade is truly mad, or that i, bluetwo, have way too much time on my hands. =)
Perhaps a combination of both?
I agree, I know a teacher who had OCD (she's dead) and her life was run on exact timing. I think she died of craziness
Mad-Aid meet potholder, potholder meet Mad-Aid. Now you can heat your chilli for the exact amount of time needed to heat it up and not worry about the location of the handle and if you are going to burn your hand. My work is done here.
I rather like this teaser. But I think you should have made it a bit more clear in the beginning, or in the hint, that this was mad-ade's microwave.
hey kebab flakes and chili sause.where can I get some???
So they only sell one kind of cereal in Madadia. Interesting place.
Jimbo it does say "one of Madadia's best selling" not the only. They also have Kebab, Crackle and slop, and Crunchy Kebab Quornflakes
The handle gets hot too! but good teaser
and see here i was thinking that the answer was "because that's how he likes to eat his breakfast" - silly me for coming up with an answer that straight forward
And that's not 'too technical' (as stated in the hint)?
his microwave is SLOW!!!!!!!!! mine only takes 10 secs per revolution
what if it just said 84 seconds on the box? DUH!
haha.. nice one. I do that exact thing with my microwave, so the puzzle was relatively easy. I'm still somewhat new to this site, but i'm realizing that if the puzzle is by "mad-ade" it will be a good one.
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