A doctor in Michigan has a sister who lives in California but the sister does not have any brother that lives in Michigan, how come??
:P

Three ants who never look back were going along a straight way .on the way front ant asserts that he is the greatest among them since other two are following him. Middle ant becomes angry on it and asserts he is the greatest since he has one body guard in front and another in the back. he is either way safe.the first feels the logic and aceepts what the second said. The last one sighs,and calmly says, hey fools why are u fighting to prove who is the greatest among you . Even if i apply yr own logic i am the greatest and there are other many more reasons to prove it . The other two ants ask how. The last ant says i have two ants(body guards) in the front and two in the back so i am the greatest simply using yr logic. Front and middle ants accept what last one said and continue the journey.

Now you tell how the Last ant managed to be the greatest!!!
If you know the answer then you are qualified to be a politician!
Try i t out!!

Is that has to do something with turning back Paradox?

Because the ants are never looking back so the first two ants were bluffed by the third one.Is that it?????huh paradox??

Swatantra, just look at the picture and try to understand the logic.

Paradox question tempted me to come to Sajha again!

The two other ants that are in the front don't know if there are more ants behind the third ant since they never look back. However, they do know that there are two ants (i.e. themselves) in front of the third aunt.

How's that, Paradox? Even if you give the credit of solving it, I am not going to make a politician, whatsoever. :) :D

"credit of solving it"
to be read as: credit FOR solving it.

Hahahaha...what a joke I am myself. So alll my life, I have been shelving books wrong way ( right to left and upside down, so all the front covers and free space on the shelve are on my left). I am a left handed and have OCD. Haha still laughing at myself.
How do right handed people shelve books? Starting from right end or left end of the shelve?

Okay, now I think I got Republican's rope riddle. This is how I'd do:

Say Rope A and B.

1. Double the rope A by joining the two opposite ends.

2. Quadruple the rope B by joining the two opposite ends, and repeating it.

3. Burn the rope A. After it completely burns up, 30 minutes has elapsed.

4. As soon as A finishes burning, burn the rope B. After it finishes burning, which takes 15 minutes, the total time will be 30 + 15 = 45 minutes.

:)

swatantratagaamy, how are you doing? So, you are really into solving the riddles, eh?

Oh, yeah, and did you get the cap joke? :P

Have fun! :D

*cap puzzle?

Killing times demic. Into solving riddle! not really, but this thread is pure one without bias, racism, politics, profanity and helps sharpen mind.
Cap puzzle, sounds logic but I am looking for volunteers to try it in real world.
I came same with rope puzzle but Republic is probably out there helping Bush.

If those Ants are not looking back, how the hell the first Ant knows there are two behind him and how does the second one know there is one behind him?
Or they are looking at the shinny, mirror like butt of an Ant ahead of them.

IDK, Swatantratagaamy! Ask Republican! He's the Man for that question anyway! :P

Good night! :)

Folding the rope is not the solution. Like it says in the question, the ropes aren't uniform, i.e. doesn't necessarily mean that it takes 30 mins to burn to the midpoint. OK, let's keep this simple.. how about if you can't even fold the rope at all?

Hi all,
The last ant is simply lying!! No one here seems qualified to be a politician.

Paradox, The last one is simply lying!! How is he sure that there are not any ants behind him?hehe

Republican, burn the short rope from both end, that is 30 min. Right after that, burn the long rope somewhere in the middle and two ends, it will divide the rope in two section and now we have four points that are burning. Finishing of the longest burning section of rope will mark 15 min. Is it how?
If not then, are those ropes bilaterally symetrical?

swatantra, very close, you got it mostly right.

burn two ends of rope A and one end of Rope B.

rope A will burn out in 30 mins.. and rope B will burn for 30 mins (30 mins left to go).

as soon as rope A burns out, light the other end of rope B.

rope B will burn out in 15 mins.

that's 45 mins.

Here's a good one:

Rambo and Shyambo are farmers who own a bunch of cows together. One day they decide to sell their cows and buy goats instead. They sell all their cows - each cow gets sold for an amount that is equal to the total number of cows they had,

i.e. price of a cow = number of cows they owned.

From the money they get, they buy goats - each goat costs 10 dollars. They have some money left over, not enough to buy another goat, so they buy one chicken with the rest of that money.

One day, they get into a fight and decide to split up. They divide the goats among themselves and find out that there is one goat left.

Rambo says to Shyambo - I'll take the last goat, you can have the chicken.

Shyambo says - No way! A chicken costs less than a goat!

Rambo says - I'll also give you one of my dogs and we will be even.

Shyambo agrees.

How much does a dog cost?

I tried few combinations of number and found that price of chicken can only be 6. This means price of dog is 2.
Just want to confirm my answer.

Dog=$2.00 or $4.00? I think it is $4.00
12 (goats)*$10=$120 for Rambo
11(goats)*$10+1 (chicken)*$6+1(dog)*$4=$120 for Shyambo