Riddles~! Riddles~! Riddles~!

[zfatal]

Nupe. They have to go up to the highest point in order for the man to take the elevator down.  

[Kazenge]

He's too short to reach the 40th floor button.  

[zfatal]

Correct. He is a midget. Elevator buttons are arranged in numerical order from bottom to top.  

[Lightwater2520]

Correct zfatal, it is a clock repair kit. I agree the guy is too short to reach the 40th floor button.

"Melvin had been briefing the boss at a staff meeting since he arrived at the office, too busy, in fact, for even a cup of coffee. Worse than that, he'd skipped breakfast that morning because he got up late, got dressed in a hurry and sped off to the office in his '65 Mustang convertible. The top was up, of course, because it was cold. It was January. No wonder he felt hunger pangs since he got to work.

"When he finally finished his busy meeting, he glanced at his brand new digital wristwatch, which he got for Christmas. Yikes! No wonder I'm hungry. It's 12:01, lunch time. Melvin hurriedly donned his coat, hat and gloves and raced out the rear entrance of the building heading for the lunch counter across the street. He darted between traffic lanes and parked cars and almost fell into the doorway of the lunch counter. The door was locked. A sign hung inside the door, 'CLOSED, We Open at 11:00 A.M.'

"He rechecked his watch, which was working just fine, and realized why the lunch counter was closed." What did Melvin discover?  

[Kazenge]

His watch was an hour ahead due to daylight savings time. Either that or it was 12:01 AM :p.  

[Lightwater2520]

Kazenge

His watch was an hour ahead due to daylight savings time. Either that or it was 12:01 AM :p.

Nope, guess again.  

[Satoshi Masaru]

The store owner forgot to set HIS/HER time.  

[Satoshi Masaru]

By the way heres one that no one can solve:

There are 2 twins.
Twin #1 says Twin #2 is lying. Twin #2 says Twin #1 is telling the truth. Who's lying and who's telling the truth? If you did not understand it, think again.  

[zfatal]

Its a paradox.

If T1 is telling the truth, then that means that T2 is telling the truth. But T2 says that T1 is lying, so T1 must be. That means T2 actually IS telling a lie, which means that T1 is also lying. But this means that T2 ISN'T lying, which means that T1 IS telling the truth.

Its an impossible paradox. There is one solution - that the statements of both T1 and T2 don't apply to each other at the time. As if, T1 is accusing T2 of lying about SOMETHING ELSE, not about T1 telling the truth.

3nodding  

[Kazenge]

Mhmm.  

[Lightwater2520]

Satoshi Masaru

The store owner forgot to set HIS/HER time.

No, the store owner has the right time.

"Melvin had been briefing the boss at a staff meeting since he arrived at the office, too busy, in fact, for even a cup of coffee. Worse than that, he'd skipped breakfast that morning because he got up late, got dressed in a hurry and sped off to the office in his '65 Mustang convertible. The top was up, of course, because it was cold. It was January. No wonder he felt hunger pangs since he got to work.

"When he finally finished his busy meeting, he glanced at his brand new digital wristwatch, which he got for Christmas. Yikes! No wonder I'm hungry. It's 12:01, lunch time. Melvin hurriedly donned his coat, hat and gloves and raced out the rear entrance of the building heading for the lunch counter across the street. He darted between traffic lanes and parked cars and almost fell into the doorway of the lunch counter. The door was locked. A sign hung inside the door, 'CLOSED, We Open at 11:00 A.M.'

"He rechecked his watch, which was working just fine, and realized why the lunch counter was closed." What did Melvin discover?  

[Janelly49]

zfatal

Its a paradox.

If T1 is telling the truth, then that means that T2 is telling the truth. But T2 says that T1 is lying, so T1 must be. That means T2 actually IS telling a lie, which means that T1 is also lying. But this means that T2 ISN'T lying, which means that T1 IS telling the truth.

Its an impossible paradox. There is one solution - that the statements of both T1 and T2 don't apply to each other at the time. As if, T1 is accusing T2 of lying about SOMETHING ELSE, not about T1 telling the truth.

3nodding

Im confused.  

[Kazenge]

Ok... Ummm if his watch was on upside down it would read 10:21.  

[Lightwater2520]

Kazenge

Ok... Ummm if his watch was on upside down it would read 10:21.

Correct. It was upside down.

You've been invited to go on a camping trip in the woods with 30 of your closest buddies, and you've rented a cabin in the woods. You pile into your cars and drive to the cabin. The next morning, everyone gets up and decides that Cookie is going to make homemade pancakes for everyone, but he needs to add to the recipe exactly two gallons of water. So you are sent to the well to fetch two gallons of water with no measuring device. When you get to the well, you discover there are two jugs there. One says 13 gallons, and the other says seven gallons. And your job, if you choose to accept it, is to come back with exactly two gallons of water. How?