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alien2
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Half a stick away from victory
« on: Jan 16th, 2017, 7:03am » |
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I broke a stick into two halves. Yet when I threw one half away, I did not have a half of the stick at all. How come?!
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dudiobugtron
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #1 on: Jan 25th, 2017, 5:19pm » |
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Because you threw the other half away too.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #2 on: Jan 25th, 2017, 10:09pm » |
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Nope. And yet, in a way, you are on the right track.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #3 on: Jan 26th, 2017, 5:54pm » |
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The second half was still attached to the first half.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #4 on: Jan 27th, 2017, 12:07am » |
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on Jan 26th, 2017, 5:54pm, dudiobugtron wrote:| The second half was still attached to the first half. |
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How is that humanly possible?
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dudiobugtron
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #5 on: Jan 27th, 2017, 12:29am » |
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on Jan 27th, 2017, 12:07am, alien2 wrote:
How is that humanly possible?
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Not humanly possible - but perhaps possible for a stick, depending on what sort of stick it is.
Try breaking a pizza in half, for example - and you'll see that the two halves are usually still attached. So perhaps it is a pizza stick, for eg.
Or perhaps it is some sort of fancy nightstick that turns into a nunchuk when you break it in half 
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #6 on: Jan 27th, 2017, 1:44am » |
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It is just a stick. And nothing hangs in this riddle. No offense to those with prostate problems.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #7 on: Jan 27th, 2017, 8:07pm » |
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I think it might have something to do with throwing a stick for a dog.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #8 on: Jan 27th, 2017, 10:38pm » |
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The only dog I love is Dylan Dog. So no.
If I hadn't omitted an important detail this riddle wouldn't be a riddle. You needn't conceive other things or beings in order to solve the riddle.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #9 on: Jan 28th, 2017, 1:13pm » |
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After you throw the other half away, the bit you have left is a whole stick, not half a stick. Sticks by nature are already just broken off bits of tree branches. Now you have a stick that is smaller, but still no less of a stick.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #10 on: Jan 28th, 2017, 1:57pm » |
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Not good enough. I think. Keep thinking like that for certain regarding the intended answer.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #11 on: Feb 11th, 2017, 10:11am » |
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on Jan 28th, 2017, 1:13pm, dudiobugtron wrote:| After you throw the other half away, the bit you have left is a whole stick, not half a stick. Sticks by nature are already just broken off bits of tree branches. Now you have a stick that is smaller, but still no less of a stick. |
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This is extremely close to the intended answer. I guess wording of the riddle is pretty clumsy. Sorry 'bout that. Perhaps I should've said: '...I did not have a half of A stick at all.' I dunno.
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Re: Half a stick away from victory
« Reply #12 on: Feb 25th, 2017, 12:21am » |
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The intended answer, which belongs to the badly worded riddle, is as follows. A stick I found is not THE stick, as it was broken before, it was broken twice. A/THE confuse the hell out of me.
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