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wu :: forums    riddles    easy (Moderators: towr, Icarus, william wu, ThudnBlunder, Grimbal, Eigenray, SMQ)    Arab Sheikh Camels « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1 2 3  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: Arab Sheikh Camels  (Read 39191 times) johnP Guest Arab Sheikh Camels   « on: Jul 24th, 2002, 1:36am » Quote Modify Remove The wise man probably told them to switch camels. After all, the last camel will win the fortune for its OWNER, so if one brother finishes first with the camel he doesn't own, the camel he owns would have finished last. IP Logged paul pigg Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #1 on: Jul 24th, 2002, 3:31pm » Quote Modify Remove obviously.  it's one of those things where the wording of the riddle is the key.   --paul IP Logged The Steve Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #2 on: Jul 24th, 2002, 11:54pm » Quote Modify Remove The wise man tells them that he knows that in fact their rich relative is actually deeply in debt, and that the winner would inherit the huge debts. IP Logged Mixster Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #3 on: Jul 25th, 2002, 12:40am » Quote Modify Remove I like the first answer, but how about this one...   The person tells them that their father has already passed, and now it won't matter who finishes last (unless someone else verifies the results).  Thoughts?   -Mixster IP Logged Zachary Turner Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #4 on: Jul 26th, 2002, 12:06am » Quote Modify Remove He probably did not actually tell them to switch camels.  Because it said they immediately raced towards the finish line.  They didn't have time to switch camels.  What he probably told them is that were ALREADY riding the other brother's camel. IP Logged Daishi Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #5 on: Jul 27th, 2002, 12:41am » Quote Modify Remove But it specified that they lept on the camels (note that it doesn't say "their" camels) and raced to the finish line.   I'm pretty sure he told them to switch. IP Logged Scott Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #6 on: Jul 29th, 2002, 4:30pm » Quote Modify Remove Couldn't the wise man have said, "He who finishes last, finishes first."   I thought I have heard that somewhere before.  Therefore the one who would eventually finish last, will finish first. IP Logged Brion Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #7 on: Jul 30th, 2002, 2:49pm » Quote Modify Remove What if the wise man were to tell the sons that their father only used this race as a ploy to friviously spend all their inheritance?  Or that he only used this race as a diversionary tactic to give his inheritance to another?   Cheers!   Brion IP Logged Shaun Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #8 on: Jul 31st, 2002, 3:15pm » Quote Modify Remove The wise man tells the brothers to swap camels, this is the best answer so far.  However, once the first brother crosses the finish line, why would the second brother cross, effectively handing his brother the fortune?  If he wanted to be bitter about it, he'd send his brothers camel a hundred miles in the opposite direction. IP Logged Paul Slocum Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #9 on: Aug 1st, 2002, 3:26pm » Quote Modify Remove I think a wise man would tell them to agree to split the money before ending the race.  It seems like the best solution for everyone.     -Paul IP Logged bd Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #10 on: Aug 5th, 2002, 1:50am » Quote Modify Remove The wise man told them that they have already crossed the line....therefore the first one to go back over the line, is/was the last one to cross the line.   IP Logged Patrick Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #11 on: Aug 7th, 2002, 9:04am » Quote Modify Remove According to my eleven year old daugher, it was a rich old wise man and he told the brothers that he would give the one who's camel crossed the finish line first, twice as much as the father's fortune. IP Logged Mongolian_Beef Newbie     Posts: 11 Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #12 on: Aug 13th, 2002, 8:48pm » Quote Modify "QUICK! STEAL YOUR BROTHER'S CAMEL RIGHT NOW AND BEAT HIM TO THE FINISH LINE!" IP Logged Eric van Gyzen Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #13 on: Aug 23rd, 2002, 3:37pm » Quote Modify Remove on Jul 29th, 2002, 4:30pm, Scott wrote: Couldn't the wise man have said, "He who finishes last, finishes first."   I thought I have heard that somewhere before.  Therefore the one who would eventually finish last, will finish first.   "But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."  Matthew 19:30   Maybe the wise man was Jesus. IP Logged Jeremiah Smith Full Member Beep!     Posts: 172 Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #14 on: Aug 23rd, 2002, 9:46pm » Quote Modify Yeah. Jesus strikes me as the kind of guy who'd be good at riddles. IP Logged anon Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #15 on: Oct 19th, 2002, 6:55am » Quote Modify Remove "His two sons will ride their camels in a race, and whichever camel crosses the finish line last will win the fortune for its owner."   The wise old man just reminded them what the race was all about. That was, who's camel comes in last, WINS the fortune for its owner. Neither wanted their camels to get the fortune, so they raced towards the finish line.   It was a tricky test by their father. IP Logged TimMann Senior Riddler     Gender: Posts: 330 Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #16 on: Oct 19th, 2002, 4:36pm » Quote Modify Hmm, is anon assuming the camel gets to keep the fortune? I guess these are emancipated camels that own themselves.   IP Logged http://tim-mann.org/ tymalynj Newbie     Posts: 3 Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #17 on: Dec 9th, 2002, 6:12pm » Quote Modify It seems that the camel who crosses the finish line last still crosses last and still wins, according to the father. I would agree that the idea was that somehow the brothers rode the others camel over the finish line, therefore ensuring that his own camel was the last of the two to cross. IP Logged Some random dude Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #18 on: Dec 13th, 2002, 9:35pm » Quote Modify Remove If we assume that both brothers are equally obdurate in their desire, they will stay out in the desert until one of the camels dies.  As such, the that camel will never cross the finish line, and the living camel may only cross first, not last.  Therefore, if they want to wait until the bitter end, then neither will win the contest.   That might not spur them on to immediately gallop for the finish line, but it would at least make them have to agree to not let a camel die......   That's the best I can do outside of the 'camel swap' option. IP Logged Guest Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #19 on: Feb 8th, 2003, 8:12am » Quote Modify Remove The wise man tells them to witch Camels and whoever finishes first wins the money. IP Logged Guest Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #20 on: Feb 8th, 2003, 8:13am » Quote Modify Remove The wise man tells them to SWITCH Camels and whoever finishes first wins the money. IP Logged Derek Meadows Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #21 on: Feb 25th, 2003, 2:37pm » Quote Modify Remove There cannot be a LAST to finish if there is not a FIRST to finish. IP Logged bashar haddad Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #22 on: May 25th, 2003, 11:00pm » Quote Modify Remove Couldnt they have just ran backwords, and whoever finishes it backwords wins becuase the other finishes first. soprry sounds confusing. IP Logged smiley Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #23 on: Apr 19th, 2004, 2:50pm » Quote Modify Remove It seems to me that the father wanted the sons to learn to work together.  I think crossing the finish line at the same time, thereby in theory they would both get the inheritence (albeit split in half).   Just my thinking...     IP Logged gurl from the pacific Guest Re: Arab Sheikh Camels   « Reply #24 on: Sep 7th, 2004, 9:00pm » Quote Modify Remove He tells them something; then the brothers leap onto the camels and charge toward the finish line.         they either switched or leaped onto BOTH of the camels together because the passage doesnt say: the brothers leap onto THEIR camels, it says: the brothers  leap onto THE camels.   or he could have told them the camels water stores (in the humps)had run out and to be quick before they died. 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