Lateral Thinking Game #2 - The Harder Ones !!

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:39 am

Rules:

Solve the Lateral Thinking Puzzle and then come up with another one

Please don't just google for the answer and post it !
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The Elder Twin
One day Bludall celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Stoday, celebrated his birthday.
How come?

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:36 pm

Not twins from the same pregnancy!

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:06 pm

Twins from same confinement, mother was not too posh to push either.

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:08 pm

Born in different time zones then!

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:10 pm

Need the complete answer

Wood Magnet · Post by **Wood Magnet** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:17 pm

Born on an aeroplane.

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:20 pm

You are both on the right line .... need a bit more to qualify as a "got it" though

Welsh Decorator · Post by **Welsh Decorator** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:21 pm

One was born in a leap year!

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:28 pm

Nope.

good guess, but would that make the ELDER one ever two years younger

Welsh Decorator · Post by **Welsh Decorator** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:34 pm

I would have thought that if one was born on say 28th, then the other was born the following month?

Stoday · Post by **Stoday** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:36 pm

S and B's mother was on a ship/plane and gave birth to Stoday on 1 March. Then the boat, which was travelling east, passed the international date line, so the date became 28th Feb when Bludall was born.

Now, in a leap year, Bludall celebrates her birthday on 28Feb but the older Stoday has to wait 2 days to 1 March for his birthday.

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:39 pm

you are very close...

The younger twin celebrated her birthday.... TWO days LATER, the ELDER twin celebrated his birthday.

We know time zones are involved, we know transportation is involved, we suspect Leap years come into it

in the words of Lloyds Grossman ... "Who has an answer to a riddle like this?"

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:44 pm

Stoday wrote:S and B's mother was on a ship/plane and gave birth to Stoday on 1 March. Then the boat, which was travelling east, passed the international date line, so the date became 28th Feb when Bludall was born.

Now, in a leap year, Bludall celebrates her birthday on 28Feb but the older Stoday has to wait 2 days to 1 March for his birthday.

Stoday has the answer - nearly!

doean't have to be the international date line, just any time zone and the first birth happening after midnight 1st March, 2nd Birth 28th Feb after transport crossed time zone (but travelling West, not East

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Stoday - need to come up with one now

Stoday · Post by **Stoday** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:45 pm

28th Bluds
1 day later = 29th
2 days later = 1 March, when it's the elder Stoday's birthday.

What's wrong with that?

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:51 pm

nothing!!! you were right -EXCEPT for the need to travel EAST across interational date line.

to go "back in time", you have to travel WEST!